OCEAN'S PROFILE

Everyone of any skill level welcome! This is a place to practice your pixels/spriting and try out a new thing each week.

There may be different suggestions each week and possible extra challenges as well depending on how everyone's feeling. Most importantly, let's have fun!

12/20 week suggestion:
- Pixel a slime monster!
12/30 week suggestion:
- at least 3 Tavern assets: any size (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 24x32, 16x32, 96x48, for example). These can be things from drinks, to plates, to tables, to food, all up to you!
1/7 week suggestion:
- A lizard sprite (enemy or overworld sprite) that is no more than 64x64 in size!
1/14 suggestion:
- Pixel tree tile, no size limit. Can be multiple tiles big as needed.
1/21 suggestion:
- Robot
1/30 suggestion:
Money/Coins! You can make any number of them (and it's fine to do one) but size constraint either 16x16, 24x24 or 32x32!
2/11 suggestion:
Ghost!
2/27 suggestion:
sadcats!
3/13 suggestion:
A crate tile! no minimum size, maximum size of 64x64


Also feel free to put suggestions for next week Pixel club ideas as well!

List:
- Amysaurus:
- Antilurker77:
- Aquatorrent:
- caz:
- coelocanth:
- El_WaKa
- Flamethrower:
- Illy:
- Justashydoge:
- lavendersiren:
- Oceans Dream:
- Orochii:
- RamZ:
- Red_Nova:
- retroexcellent:
- Sgt M:
- TheGiantHand:
- unity:



Feel free to start whenever you want, until the next suggestion at 12/27!

Rules are simple. Add onto the picture 'quilt' by pixelling on one of the panels. If we run out of room, just expand the canvas size! Just make sure it fits the quilt dimensions.
Reserve your quilt piece in advance, and make sure to wait for someone to finish theirs if it is next to yours and reserved earlier so we don't have some messed up borders. You can make whatever you want, just make sure you have it flow and match the border of the images around yours.

Note- It's for fun, so feel free to try it out even if you don't think you are a good at pixel art!

I'll start things off.



Complete


Save your additions as a PNG file, NOT jpg.
A1 - Nessiah (Done)
A2 - Xion Steel (Done)
A3 - NewBlack (Done)
A4 - Miracle (Done)
A5 - Caz (Done)

B1 - Rhyme (Done)
B2 -Ocean (Done)
B3 - LockeZ (Done)
B4 - Ocean (Done)
B5 - Indrah (Done)

C1 - Happy (Done)
C2 - alterego (Done)
C3 -itrombe (Done)
C4 - K-hos (Done)
C5 - UPRC (Done)

D1 -MrChearlie (Done)
D2 - Zeuzio (Done)
D3 - Gourd_Clae (Done)
D4 - MrChearlie (Done)
D5 - AlterEgo (Done)

E1 - Dudesoft (Done)
E2 - LockeZ (Done)
E3 - Liberty (Done)
E4 - Evil Eagles (Done)
E5 - Charles Gabriel (Done)

http://pc.rpgsite.net/news/1147-get-recettear-for-only-5-dollars

Just announcing the steam sale they have on this. I'm unsure how long it's going to go for but it's $5 right now. I thought it was a nice and fun game with the primary thing being that you're an item salesperson. You do have an action RPG part but your character isn't the one doing the fighting. You just hire someone to do that for you and you control them for that point.

http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com/2011/05/recettear-item-shops-tale-demo-pc.html
This was my playthrough of it.

So I've been told that most of my graphics are bright and cheery, and that I need more variety. This was mainly due to that I mostly make graphics for my own games, which are bright and cheery. Or I've worked for some other games where I generally had to also do a bright and cheery style. But regardless, variety would be a good thing and I could use the practice!

You can post a screenshot of your game, and I'll try to make my own interpretation mockup of it. It can be a menu system too if you'd like or battle perhaps. If possible try to say a little bit about your screen so I don't just see a screen with Rudra sprites and background and wonder what you were going for, setting/character wise.

I think I'm gonna limit myself to 12 screens, so one per person. I would like to use these for portfolio/practice purposes but I will state where the screen came from and link to the game. Just don't rush me, I have other things to do as well! They will be 320x240 likely. I hope to see some interesting screens, so I'd like to see what comes of it!

Completed list:
-Joseph Seraph
http://i51.tinypic.com/2uf7oy0.png

Ocean version

-Dudesoft


Ocean version

-ChaosProductions


Ocean version

-Fallen-Griever



To do List:
-Narcodis
-Feldschlacht IV
-Lennon
-Ginseng_Tea
-Jude
-Kentona
-Clest
-Tardis

Not like this is a really new trend that no one has noticed, but I was playing Fable 3 and got me to thinking more about this and how it applies to RPGs. Granted, that one is more an action RPG, but getting rid of the HUD seems to be something more developers are interested in nowadays, especially for immersions sake.

What do you think about this move? For those of you who haven't played Fable 3: Instead of a menu, it has a sanctuary where you can go in the dressing room to pick out your clothes, in the armory to pick out your weapons, and stuff like that. Or instead of HP, like most FPS games nowadays, it has no health display and the screen gets greyer and a red tint when you're low on health (and it allows you to use a potion if you're low on health).

Not saying you should be doing this or that this is the future of all games, just wanted to discuss the general topic, and I gotta run so I'll be back to this later. Not sure if that's the right topic title for this but I think you get the idea.