BURNINGTYGER'S PROFILE

author=yuna21

Doing some pixel based parallaxes for VXAce to go with the rest of my pixel resources.

author=Seeric
I wanted to make some enemy sprites for VX Ace, but I am absolutely atrocious at understanding shading and pretty bad at drawing in general, so for the last two days I decided to start with something simple while still creating some challenge for myself by making a small 'Retro Pack' limited to the NES palette and general sprite color limitations. I also decided that sticking to smaller canvases would be a good place to start, so even the biggest enemy of the lot initially fit inside a 40x40 pixel canvas and I simply resized them for VX Ace (Pyxel Edit is a wonderful program and made this extremely easy to do without any undesired effects).

A lot of the enemies in this pack have both a standard and a 'Classic' version and (in most cases) this just means that the Classic version has absolutely no black in the actual sprite because it's intended to be used with a pure black background to fill in the gaps like in many actual NES games. I also wanted to try to go with a 'modern setting' feel and a 'cute but weird/gross' look for the enemies in part because I simply really like that setting and style and in part because I've been very nostalgic for the Mother series lately.

At any rate, enough rambling, here's some pictures of the enemies in this "Retro Battler Pack":

This is Mr Happy (left) and Mr Them (right) and I think of them as the two big boss characters of the pack; Mr Happy may or may not be very happy depending on how you look at things.

Here are the Droplet enemies, the mandatory slimes of the pack. From left to right they are Rat Droplet, two slightly different versions of Sand Droplet, and Gum Droplet.

The Barricade Demon was the first one I made and is the only enemy with a color swap for its Classic version since all the black parts on the normal version would simply blend into the background otherwise; I think of it as a miniboss.

The upper enemy here is a Window Fang while the bottom left enemy is a Perfect Pawn with two fairly different takes on its Broken Pawn form to the right of it.

Finally, in the center there is the three-headed miniboss (boss? strong enemy?) Tickerus and to either side of it are the normal and Classic versions of the Ticker enemy to more clearly show the differences between the two. There's also a Wall Flower hanging out on the cave wall in the background; the three flowers in the center serve as eyes and a mouth, but I wanted it to be ambiguous as to which is which.


So, that's all the stuff I've made so far. There are 12 enemies total in the pack (21 total if you include Classics and Alternates) and they are far from the best things submitted to this event, but I'm actually really happy with how they turned out overall just because I normally get frustrated when trying to draw something and these turned out to at least be tolerable enough that I wouldn't mind using them in an actual game.

Lastly, I've already included a Read Me with licensing details in the pack, but if anyone for some reason actually wants to use these (both non-commercially and commercially) or otherwise modify or distribute them you are free to do so as long as you (to quote the license) "give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made".

author=BizarreMonkey
I apologize for any pain this may cause.

Just two optional tier 5 bosses.

author=Liberty
...why poisonous water? And why green stumps and moss/grass spots? There's more likely to be grass tile at the edge of the water, tapering to dirt then to sand instead of just straight sand. No-one would live around water that didn't support life around it. You should probably look up some images of oasis so that you get a better idea of what they actually look like.
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