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[KarenB]

Hi everyone,

So, I recreated the Test Drive scene from How To Train Your Dragon in a pixel/retro game kind of style, and I'd love to show it to you guys. I'm not really sure what to call it - a demake? In any case, the scene is awesome and after I found a 8-bit remake of the score from the scene I just had to make it. It comes complete with pixelated graphics and flashing sprites when taking a hit.

Here's the video:





On my blog you can find the sprites and graphics created for the project:

http://fivehoursleep.blogspot.com/

Feel free to tell me what you think.

[SundownKid]

Oh hey! I know you! 

Anyway, I thought that the execution was good and sprites are well done, however, the blur on those zoomed in sprites takes away from the 8-bit effect. Optimally, all the sprites would be drawn to scale rather than zooming into them, because the resulting aliasing makes them look strange.

[J. R. Hill]

Agreed, also the mixed pixel sizes are kind of distracting, although the execution is pretty good.

[GrumpyGiant]

I like it!

But it needs more parallax scrolling.
MOAR PARALLAX.
The ocean is the perfect opportunity to scroll each scanline at a different speed.

See Shadow Of The Beast for reference.

[KarenB]

Thanks for the feedback, guys!

Kayamon, awesome link! I'll definitely be using this as ref for future projects. :D