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Out of Ammo! !Limit and Oni

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:06:19 +0000

OoA! Dang haven't made an update on that in quite a while, but apparently it's cause we didn't have a programmer to begin with. Changing all of OoA's perspective and style of how it's going to be played out a little more. So expect it to be something big :D

!Limit a game i've worked on with solgryn, it's been a year now i believe might be more, but i guess it's time to revive it, i thought it had a lot of potential, and i have all the pixel art for it (again). Now the question is should i port it to byond and find a programmer or stick with flash... here is a demo for !Limit http://www.mediafire.com/?sc2o95ocwzy3des

You guys can try it, i've made half a background for it and more monsters. I've had so many ideas and now i forgot them :(

arrows for movement, z for jump, x for attack, 1-2-3 for weapon change 1 = sword 2 = hammer 3 = something....forgot

blue stones and red are gravity flippers.

Oni... Oh Oni... No updates much about it from me, upd4t3 might have more.

Art that doesn't match due to poor color choice and wrong perspective.

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:50:33 +0000

Most games on byond are very dull in the art section, why? Plenty of reason why but it's mainly because the artist doesn't spend time organizing his/her color palette. This is a huge issue with current games, i'm seeing a trend going on where people gradient and abuse 600 colors(that's right i said it 600.) If you spend time organizing or using a universal palette for all objects then everything would be consisted, you could actually start from there and due some hue shifting and add color to each environment(just remember to sort your colors still.) You know why NEStalgia's art seemed very well put together??? Cause they're(or he) is basing all of his color choices on one palette ( http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/images/e/ e8/Palette_NTSC.png )

Most "artist" on here use a color ramp that isn't extravagant enough. For example the color i would also use as a shadow is purple, transitioning from any color to purple is perfectly fine, as long as it isn't too saturated or contrast.

Perspective is another issue, pictures are references not something you should copy exactly, you're suppose to use your imagination and draw the top or the side you're wanting for. Some people say "it's a fake" perspective for buildings to be straight down, it's not it's the depth of how we see, the shadows below can be hard to tell that times so it can make that obscure look, some building aren't straight at all, the camera might actually be at the wrong spot. So no it's perfectly fine if you let the building go all the way straight, just remember to add depth and it should be a'ok.

http://www.byond.com/members/PixelArt/forum?id=5264&view=0 < PEOPLE READ THIS! Amonr is one of the people that understands perspective.
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/ index.php?topic=9431.msg105128#msg105128 << More about perspective and how to address it, different types like i said.

If you wanna follow examples of people using great colors, i would say Zane, mdnight, Takoyo, upd4t3, bakasensei, pandora, tor crowley, gensho, themonkeydidit, hulio, xyberman... Ect god damnit thats a lot of people.

PEACE THATS MY RAMBLE!

PS. it's late at night and i'm talking gibberish.

Portal is free on steam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:30:41 +0000

The title says it all :D

Wanderlust rebirth

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:51:24 +0000

The game is finally in open beta, i played it when it was a demo, and it was FUN. You can play with 3 other friends or by yourself, it's worth playing. Now go check it out. Naoooooooo!!!

http://www.wanderlustgame.com/

Words on the block about Terraria

Thu, 26 May 2011 07:54:35 +0000

It seems like a minecraft 2d!!! time to go play.

9.99$ on steam. WITH EPIC BATTLES !!!

Back into pixel art

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:54:53 +0000

Hmm, i'll be coming back rusty, i guess i'm been procrastinating on pixel art. Welp here's a piece i just recently did about 20 mins ago. I'll be working on NO and OoA again, so expect work from those two games now.

C&C rip apart my work.

Platformer sprite. I'll fix up the legs and post up the run animation later.

Updated

Run

I'll put up a GIF

And i'll add more later on.

PS i went nuts with colors, so expect me to reduce color later.

Yo! Back with membership all thanks to USSJ4 Cat

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:53:15 +0000

Woo, I'm a member again. Once again thank you USSJ4 Cat, really grateful for this.

I think this time i'll actually use this blog to post stuff, it can be from art to how my life is going. Planning on moving, and working on OoA!

Currently i'm working on a game called OoA!(Out of Ammo!) The game is Action RPG, the theme is zombies. Check out Doobly-Doo Production for the updates of OoA! I think we'll have another blog post soon. The image in my display is gonna be a boss or a mini boss(cliche rip off of tank/hulk), consider that a teaser for you guys for now. So i've been thinking what will i do in the future when i've finish the art for OoA! is that i'll work on a sidescroller game or something with Upd4t3.

I'm currently also available for hire as a freelance pixel artist, if you prefer me just post in the side blog comments or down below, here are some doodles if you want to know what my style or technique looks like http://www.byond.com/members/PixelArt/forum?id=14879&view=1 or go check out Doobly-doo Productions of my work.

We'll discuss payment when i talk to you on Msn or so.

I should really stop posting late nights now.

Mes's WIP

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:15 +0000

Stuff i'll most likely update slowly.

Months ago work, i wanna polish it ;D

Mock up of a game i thought up. most likely gonna finish up the tiles. Thinking about shrinking it all. (The blue blob to the right is miguels, too lazy to take it off currently so credits to him on that one.)

Playing around colors, and perspective of the face on this one.

Making a game for this one, gotta get in contact with solgryn again. If you guys wanna test the game i'll upload it, if you request that is. Note to self, fix the tiling to 16x16.

Doodle, seemed interesting so i'll update it with some thought i gotta come up with.

Working on AA. currently failing :D

Currently working on this mostly for my cops n robber game.

I have more work, but don't wanna put those up, because i most likely won't work on them. Gonna go back and work on some old crap :D

Mugshot

Wed, 19 May 2010 14:04:14 +0000

Crappy mugshot, been updating it slowly. Currently working on hair and eyes.

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Need help

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:04:23 +0000

Well i need some crits, and help certain points such as the torso, legs, arms.