Game mock-up graphics and ideas

Dream of Omnimaga · December 12, 2015, 09:24:36 AM

The second sprite is a standalone wing, right? Or is it a fish?

JWinslow23 · December 13, 2015, 04:11:16 AM

Quote from: alexgt on December 12, 2015, 05:55:52 AM
What is the second sprite?

A fish. I'd make it a collectible for points.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 12, 2015, 09:24:36 AM
The second sprite is a standalone wing, right? Or is it a fish?

What kind of a wing has eyes?

...hey...speaking of fish and eyes...what do you call a fish with no eyes? Answer below.

As well, here is a gif of a Scratch project (unshared, and unplanned to be in the contest, don't worry) I am working on to plan out my game. I've added random obstacles in the form of mines, the same kinds from the animation in the CW promo video. This minus the background is also how far I've come along on-calc (except I've implemented collisions on-calc).

JWinslow23 · December 24, 2015, 08:03:52 PM

An idea for a Santa Tracker

Graphics designing is kinda fun

If only I could do this, my brother would love me forever

Dream of Omnimaga · December 24, 2015, 08:34:02 PM

This had to be done @JWinslow23

Joking aside, that looks cool. It seems a bit too large for the calc resolution, but you could do it for any platform.

JWinslow23 · December 24, 2015, 08:44:28 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2015, 08:34:02 PM
This had to be done @JWinslow23

Joking aside, that looks cool. It seems a bit too large for the calc resolution, but you could do it for any platform.

Shoot, I made that sleigh sloppily. You really had to do that to your walrii?

And thanks. My entire point of doing that was to envision it for the calc platform. It would look awesome! Plus, some Santa-believers (or people who want to humor the people who DO believe in Santa) could show this off to others, and they'd be pretty freaking stunned. You know exactly where Santa is and what he's doing...but it's on a calculator!

Dream of Omnimaga · December 24, 2015, 08:48:02 PM

Indeed I had to do it, thanks to our modified Rule 34

As for Santa believing I feel it's more to entertain kids and make them behave during holidays. Over here we were sometimes told that if we misbehaved during holidays, then Santa would not bring us gifts. Also there was always one family member wearing a Santa Claus costume during CHristmas eve and he was in charge of giving presents. It would definitively be a cool Christmas game, though

JWinslow23 · December 24, 2015, 08:51:02 PM

Of course. However, there are still some adults (and even high-schoolers) that still believe in Santa. I know I did until I lost a tooth but didn't have it by night time to put under my pillow. I was wondering how those $20s got under my pillow without me noticing

So it'd be a nice "utility" for them, like NORAD's or Google's Santa trackers. Even though it's ~~not real~~ unable to be scientifically explained

Dream of Omnimaga · December 25, 2015, 03:13:45 AM

Wait really? I would have thought this is a kids thing. But again perhaps some people are really convinced that he lives on the North Pole or something.

Yuki · December 25, 2015, 05:49:55 AM

B-b-but I believe in Santa D:

Dream of Omnimaga · March 17, 2016, 07:11:48 AM

This is a mockup of what could a CE Textlib RPG could probably look like if it had actual sprites:

I bet it would be slow-ish, though. The floor would be a plain color and some sprites would be re-used with different color palettes (for example, sprite 10 and 11 are sprite 1, while sprite 8 is sprite 7), palette that would be defined when entering the dungeon, for both wall tiles. The character would be shorter and its bottom not chopped off, hence why the legs are so long, but its surrounding color would basically be the floor color and its legs would be blue when underwater.

I wonder if such graphics (aside from the colors) would be feasible on the Atari 2600, or even using bAtari Basic? Or what about the Intellivision?

EDIT: Here's another version.

Dudeman313 · March 17, 2016, 11:06:10 AM

Wow! It's awesome!
That's pretty cool.

*Dudeman313 mumbles something about Dark Link Quest

Dream of Omnimaga · March 17, 2016, 04:38:47 PM

Thanks. I really need to try implementing this into a test map engine.

Dudeman313 · March 17, 2016, 10:37:29 PM

Maybe that could be one of the contest challenges: to implement this stuff into Illusiat or some other basic game you made...maybe even RQ.....

Dream of Omnimaga · March 18, 2016, 12:21:45 AM

A CE Textlib challenge could be cool, although the audience might not be big since not many people know how to use the library.

Dudeman313 · March 18, 2016, 01:11:54 PM

I did not consider that. That's true, though.