Description

The resource creation event you've all been waiting for (again)!

Kids Design The Darndest Things 2
Make monster graphics from my 5 year old's designs



At the end of 2016 I held an impromptu event for you to create monster sprites and/or game art based on my then-7-year-old's crayon artwork. This time, I want you to make monster sprites and/or game art (battle sprites, concept art, facesets, charsets, ...whatever you want!) based on my 5-year-old's artwork.




In this short event we will:
  • Create pixel art version of these monster designs for use in RPG Maker
  • Come up with descriptions and movesets for these monsters
  • Submit them all to this event page
  • Vote on our favourite entries
  • Pick an overall fan-favourite entry


I will post the 11 designs below. The submission deadline is January 25th31st.

Submit your entries using the toolbar in the upper right, and then make a post showing them off in the comments below!



If you submit at least one monster, you will be deemed a participant and receive a Big Pig achievement worth 5ms. If you submit at least six monsters, you will receive an additional Spikey achievement worth 10ms. Participants who submit an entry for all eleven monsters will receive an additional Megalord achievement worth 15ms. That's 30ms in total!

The fan-favourite (as determined by voting after the event) will win the Chompy achievement worth 20ms.



Big Pig

"A very big blue pig with ice powers."


Brownguy

"He is small. He likes to break things."


Roar Dragon

"He has a super big roar! (the large R is his roar). He likes to eat ghosts and people."


Robit

"He got spikes on his head. He's very strong."


Spikey

"He is covered in super-spikey fur."


Monstery

"He flies and bites people."


Ymunwv

"He's got a really very long body."


Chompy

"He is superduper tall and he likes to chomp with his teeth."


Sunmagic

"He is a sun that uses magic spells. He has angry guys that help him."


Wiggleyarm

"He has long arms that grab you."


Megalord

"He is the boss monster. He is superduper strong! The strongest."


Submissions are due by end of day January 31st (UTC)
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Introducing some bonus artwork to this event! If you submit at least one bonus monster, you will receive a Wormy achievement worth 5ms.

Snowman


Oo-oh


TT and TtT


Fireblock


Rounder


Wormy


Submissions are due by end of day January 31st (UTC)
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At the end of this event, the event page voting will open from January 26th until January 31st. This will be used to vote for our overall favourite submission! The artist will receive the Chompy achievement.

Also, starting on the 26th, I will create voting topics in the forums so that we can vote on each monsters' fan-favourite entry. There are no rewards for these voting rounds beyond self-satisfaction. I will update this section with links to the voting topics.


Unleash your inner-5-year-old and make some monsters!

Details

  • 01/11/2018 11:00 AM
  • 01/31/2018 11:59 PM
  • 02/07/2018 11:59 PM

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Participants Entries
kentona
Dyluck
Healy
LockeZ
TheNecromancer
Bart_Sol
Rose_Guardian
Seiromem
Gourd_Clae
unity
pianotm
RedMask
riderx40
chenbaiwan
Cap_H
Fflo
zDS
suzy_cheesedreams
Frogge
Gredge109
aquatorrent
Muffle
mirin
PsiSteve
plum_child
ModeGone

Posts

RedMask, those sprites look really cool. I mean, everyone's stuff looks cool (particularly Gredge's Ymunwv, who is so cool he DGAF apparently), but I just really like the 3D effect of your sprites. They remind me of characters from PS2 games like Klonoa 2.




author=suzy_cheesedreams
RedMask, those sprites look really cool. I mean, everyone's stuff looks cool (particularly Gredge's Ymunwv, who is so cool he DGAF apparently), but I just really like the 3D effect of your sprites. They remind me of characters from PS2 games like Klonoa 2.





They kinda remind me of the SNES mario rpg, which is a good thing in my book.
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375


He's a big pig

you can be a big pig too
author=suzy_cheesedreams
RedMask, those sprites look really cool. I mean, everyone's stuff looks cool (particularly Gredge's Ymunwv, who is so cool he DGAF apparently), but I just really like the 3D effect of your sprites. They remind me of characters from PS2 games like Klonoa 2.

author=PsiSteve
They kinda remind me of the SNES mario rpg, which is a good thing in my book.

Thanks :D
I really appreciate the compliments. I'm still pretty new to this 3D stuff so I'm glad you two like them.

I look forward to seeing your Darndest Things monster designs as well Suzy!

And PsiSteve, great job being the first person to tackle the MegaLord character.
He's definitely a challenging one to interpret and I think you did a fantastic job! I think if I were to compare your art style to another game, it reminds me of EarthBound.
Blobofgoo
Legs are a burden. Return to snek.
2751
Can I get some clarification? One part says make sprites and/or game art (including concept art) while another part says pixel art and to be used in RPG maker. My best medium is probably drawing traditionally and then scanning it, and I'm wondering if that or maybe some variation/modification of that suffices.
@Rose oh my GOD I love those legs Megalord has!!
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32388
Battler


Concept Art
Wigglyarms is ready for battle. I think I made him too tiny.
author=Blobofgoo
Can I get some clarification? One part says make sprites and/or game art (including concept art) while another part says pixel art and to be used in RPG maker. My best medium is probably drawing traditionally and then scanning it, and I'm wondering if that or maybe some variation/modification of that suffices.

The point is to have some fun reimagining my son's drawings. Nothing more than that, really.
@plum Your style is so smooth! That's a really good take on Wigglearm!
@piano AHHH, it's got that happy pig face that pigs make - I love it!
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
My Robit is 16-bit so like Healy's sprite it's pretty small. Here's an enlarged version for easy viewing.



Pianotm: Check the artifacts around the edges. They're very visible on the outer space background. I don't think that battler is actually usable in a game without cleaning that up.
I have created Sunmagic and his team of angry guys! For ease of use, I've separated them out into different battlers; here's an example of how they look in-game:
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32388
Is that better, LockeZ?
Every RPG needs it's pallet swap monsters lol

Here are the Fire and Ice Spirits Monstery and Monffery



PS. Should I also submit Monffery?

@Seiromem - I noticed you haven't technically submitted your image yet. To do so you must click the submit button on the top of the page. Also, nice Lion King reference ;3

@Plum_child - Eye like it :3

@LockeZ - I like what you did with his arms :)

@Healy - That's a good idea separating them into different characters!

2ndPS. Maybe I should have called him Monflury :3
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
author=pianotm
Is that better, LockeZ?

Looks good now IMO!
@Red I think that's my favorite of yours! I really wasn;t sure what to do with that monster but you really made it work.

@LockeZ It looks like an enemy you'd fight in a dump. That's a compliment I promise! XD The arms are cool~

I tried my hand at Megalord! I was a bit thrown off by the dugtrio tumor at first but then I figured the faces were minions and the "bumps" were horns. I took a similar route as rose actually!

Here:
Fflo
Be careful ! I'm French
3650

Here's a bad piggy for the event.
Yeah, it's not as awesome as the others.

(Btw, are the red things its eyes ? I used the heart-shaped thing on the drawing as its nose but it may be its eyes too...)