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[Quarry]

From what I've seen, 80% percent of the Europeans who apologise for their English at the end of their posts have already typed a post that's more coherent and well-structured than native speakers. I think non-natives end up working harder trying to learn English and put more care into communicating with it, so they end making fewer mistakes. Although C1 is most certainly not the average level of English, especially talking about gaming stuff :D

BUT!

This is a pixel art thread, post your pixel art!

[Schoq]

Also it actually helps when you learned a language formally from the start rather than by aping your environment as a baby to only later get a grip of standardized rules and structure!

Some old thing so I'm posting mockups in the mockups thread:

[chriswearly]

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I'm usually a big critic of how well someone's monospace fonts are (at least in my head) but looking at yours, really nice job! Good style, consistency; and creativity in the dual-letter filled blocks!

[krostif]

BUT!

This is a pixel art thread, post your pixel art!

My bad ! You're right !

So here is what I've done for a project that has never been completed :



The characters with some basic background stuff:



The main interest on this are the characters : The project is about a french TV show named Kaamelott (About king Arthur's legend) And the goal here was to find the good likeness with the actors of the show... Of course it won't tell you anything if you don't know the show (And you obviously don't) but likeness  apart, it was a good exercise to practice pixelising for game characters. I think I should post photos of the actors now !!! I come back...

[Schoq]

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I'm usually a big critic of how well someone's monospace fonts are (at least in my head) but looking at yours, really nice job! Good style, consistency; and creativity in the dual-letter filled blocks!

Thanks. I used to find making 8*8 fonts meditational so I spent a lot of time with it!
Since you are a connoisseur, I'm submitting these for critique as well (also very old)

[Quarry]

Damn... Crisp, clear and very legible!

[chriswearly]

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I'm usually a big critic of how well someone's monospace fonts are (at least in my head) but looking at yours, really nice job! Good style, consistency; and creativity in the dual-letter filled blocks!

Thanks. I used to find making 8*8 fonts meditational so I spent a lot of time with it!
Since you are a connoisseur, I'm submitting these for critique as well (also very old)
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Wow, yet again, awesome! Interesting that you had the first column and row of each tile in the left image be the blank ones. I usually start my letters at 1x1 and have the separation be formed on the right and bottom of each tile.

And cool digital-esque numbering in the second image. Though, by your own rule of thumb, the "7" is rendered wrong. The top-left green pixel should instead be the dark blue. The 7 on the right is the correct one here:
Also pertaining to the right image, though this may be intentional, the capital B and F letters, both 6-wide, are centered differently within their tiles. The B rests against the left edge, while the F is properly centered in the 8x8 tile. Though again, that may be on purpose, but just a curious observation. (Told you I was a stickler.)

Oh one last thing. If an 8x8 grid were overlayed on the second piece, I'm pretty sure most tile groups would be out of line, horizontally speaking. Not 24 from the left wall. Not 8 or 16 between numbers and text. At this point I'm being a little uptight, but that's the last thing I'll comment on

Again though, the letter forming is ace, and you are quite creative with how and what you decide to make with the limited space. Do hope to see more work from you, and maybe I'll post a few of my monospace pieces (largely not 8x8), at least once I'm actually satisfied with them

[chriswearly]

BUT!

This is a pixel art thread, post your pixel art!

Er, *cough*, this isn't exactly THE pixel thread XD

[krostif]

Er, *cough*, this isn't exactly THE pixel thread XD

Yes I see it's not the right place to post this kind of stuff !...

I've just realized what "mockups" means, sorry :/

See : Dammages of the non-native C1 english !!!

See you guys, I search for the right thread right now

But good job anyway Chris... And I particularly appreciate happymonster's mockups. I love this level of abstraction. Even if it's quite limited

[chriswearly]

Er, *cough*, this isn't exactly THE pixel thread XD

Yes I see it's not the right place to post this kind of stuff !...

I've just realized what "mockups" means, sorry :/

See : Dammages of the non-native C1 english !!!

See you guys, I search for the right thread right now

But good job anyway Chris... And I particularly appreciate happymonster's mockups. I love this level of abstraction. Even if it's quite limited

No no, you're fine
I was joking with Quarry, because they apparently forgot which thread they were in. You can keep posting here if you like. However, if you want specific feedback on pixel art, then there is a thread for that as well: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=167.30400

[krostif]

Yes I found it. Thank you Chris, I'll continue over there
o/

[Schoq]

And cool digital-esque numbering in the second image. Though, by your own rule of thumb, the "7" is rendered wrong. The top-left green pixel should instead be the dark blue. The 7 on the right is the correct one here:
Also pertaining to the right image, though this may be intentional, the capital B and F letters, both 6-wide, are centered differently within their tiles. The B rests against the left edge, while the F is properly centered in the 8x8 tile. Though again, that may be on purpose, but just a curious observation. (Told you I was a stickler.)

That's an amazing catch! Probably a combination of sloppiness and being rushed.
As for the F. I can only guess at this point, it was a while ago and I don't remember my thought process. Probably I felt like the gap to the next letter most of the time felt too big because of that lower right void, which B doesn't suffer from.
And indeed the digit positioning breaks the 8*8 grid. Thanks to their repetitive nature though this doesn't bump up the tile count much at all, even though it's an ugly solution (also not completely sure local panning like that isn't possible on the NES with some trickery)

I have a piece in the same line I'll be able to show off hopefully later this month. Thank you so much for your comments!

Edit: Actually since we're on fonts and this is the mockups thread:

more old stuff (lol typo)
(excuse the weird layout. I see I ended up modifying it in use somewhat too)

wanted/wanting to use this for an actual game idea but it's never gonna happen

[Quarry]

FOOOOONTS

[supajackle]

oh man i didnt know there was a mockups thread. so much great stuff in here

heres a harvest moon + monster rancher game i would like to get around to makin sometime

[MekaSkull]

Early mockup for a prototype we're working on. It's a 4 player competitive multiplayer hacking game. You hack terminals to enter cyberspace with your alter ego:

[gaarlicbread]

Mockup variant number 4:

I really like this style. I prefer variants 3 & 4, with color. It almost feels pre-pixel art in that the colors are so solid -- but nicer than EGA in that the colors work together well 

I almost want to build a random RPG with this tileset. It reminds me a little of this old old software called Adventure Construction Kit.

[happymonster]

Cheers!

If you want to use the tiles I don't mind.

Mockup 5:

• Tried to keep all walk-able tiles using very light colours (perhaps too light, but the background is close to white as it is).
• Removed perspective where I can. (Can't get the open chest right yet without it)
• Added new tiles: keys, doors, lava, slime, shield pendants, crate, four teleporters.
• Changed some old ones to make them cleaner, trying to find a balance between symbolic and realistic while keeping everything clean.. I don't want the tiles to be totally symbolic though.
• Tweaked colours a bit.

[happymonster]

Mockup 6: Tried using 10x10 sized tiles instead of 9x9. This gives me more space to work with and lets me do easier patterns, but it also looks a different style than the old version. Not sure which I like best..

[BBreakfast]

in the final map version there won't be any repeat house styles and there will be crates, stairs, cliffs, barrels, etc to use to get on top of the buildings. lots more work to do!

[mgelon]

https://www.facebook.com/michael.gelon/videos/10207791143276901/?pnref=story
Here's something I've put hundreds of hours into.  Sorry for taking you off the site, but check this 1-min animation out!  Full 3d animation and sound design.

What type of game do you think this could be?