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[Ataraxic]

Hello everyone.

I'm making an RPG similar to the early Final Fantasy games. Think FFIV. Is there any particular size for the screen I should use? Will any arbitrary value work fine?

I'm going to be making my own art and could use some dimensions to work with.

[baconman]

Look up "Antifarea" on OpenGameArt.org - there's some excellent 16-bit RPG sprites and outlines there to build from; and it seems like 16 x 18 px per frame is a good standard to go with. Looks mostly to me like the upper half is all head, and the lower half is all body.

[Ataraxic]

Those are some perfect examples, thank you. 16x18 it is.

For the total screen I'm not quite sure. The world will consist of a grid, each space the size of a sprite. If each sprite is 16x18, then the screen size should be multiples of that.

I think Final Fantasy had a 15x13 grid. So the width would be 240 and height 234. Obviously I would scale it to make it bigger, but that's the ratio.

Those numbers are so close together I might as well just make the screen a square and compensate the vertical height with empty space.

[SundownKid]

Hmm, I didn't realize the grid squares were uneven in those games. In RPG Maker, they are all 32x32 so, for my game, we just went with 16x16 blown up sprites. I figure, you might as well go with an equal-sized square, unless there's something I'm missing...