Way of the Hunter

red moon

red moon

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Dirk, Please do post when you are ready to share the fox and other animals!

Also, thank you for the compliment for the grounds, I am trying to find a good balance in that regard...sometimes less is more!

It can easier on the eyes at least.
 
red moon

red moon

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I am doing some testing now for village areas of the game and what the spirit world may look like....this will surely change once I get further along but it will help me start constructing the areas at least!
 

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vasge_

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Really digging the sprite work for this one, these colors kinda remind me of Master System games
 
red moon

red moon

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vasge_ said:
Really digging the sprite work for this one, these colors kinda remind me of Master System games
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Thank you, I am interesting in seeing how much it changes for the test area in editor. And I was looking at the master system palette, it is quite different!
I do like that NES games have a distinct look however because of the palette limitations!
 
Dirk

Dirk

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The night screens look really nice. I love purple and the ghostly blue reminds of the ghosts in Monkey Island 1, a game I associate a lot of nostalgia with.
 
red moon

red moon

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Thank you Dirk! I too love Monkey Island and the colors used... I just watched a GDC talk a couple months ago that had the Monkey Island pixel artist talking about the color and sprite limitations, it was pretty amazing!
 
red moon

red moon

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I'm in the process of testing out some "points of interest" in the screens. Some of these would be tiles (health/score) for meat and bones. Other things would be hazards or ambiance like butterflies and bee hives. I am also going to have healing plants but need to work out what their mechanic is in the game. My original thought was they were a requirement entering the spirit world or healing the sick.
In addition, I want to have burning sections of terrain, collapsed passages and flooded sections as well. Those are a bit far off in terms of setting them up and making sense of them. The fire is easy enough as a static enemy, the others will require some thought and planning.

And the green ball is meant to be a ghost light sprite that floats around...
 

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PasseGaming

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There was a kickstarter a few years back for a game based on wilderness survival. I backed it but it's been painfully slow with updates. This type of game is right up my alley.
 
Jonny

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This is looking really great. I like that you've gone with a realistic art style. A lot of NES games are cartoon type graphics. Nothing wrong with that but it's refreshing to see something like this.
 
Basty

Basty

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Sprite work most certainly looks outstanding.
You really got 3 colors only per sprite down very well.

Now if you want to go for something even more amazing, NES does allow overlapping 3 more colors but it will be at expense of objects available on screen.

Anyways, from what I can see thus far, I am very excited to see where this project goes.
 
Jonny

Jonny

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Basty said:
Sprite work most certainly looks outstanding.
You really got 3 colors only per sprite down very well.

Now if you want to go for something even more amazing, NES does allow overlapping 3 more colors but it will be at expense of objects available on screen.

Anyways, from what I can see thus far, I am very excited to see where this project goes.
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I agree. It would benefit maybe more than other games from some extra colours. Sadly, from what I can gather, sprite layering is quite advanced. You could get creative with your palettes though and change the palette on different sprites of the object.
 
RAY CASTELLO

RAY CASTELLO

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red moon said:
I did a couple more tests this evening, I am going to tackle the ground areas later or keep them more simplified like these river and meadow segments. I will need to scale down certain enemies for sure, the wolf is massive!
I'll already reduced the fish and rabbit seen here in these test screens.
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Amazing project. Demo rom download?
 
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