AuthorTopic: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest  (Read 180201 times)

Offline Kasumi

  • 0010
  • *
  • Posts: 275
  • Karma: +1/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #30 on: April 04, 2016, 12:43:36 am
Eight separate palettes. Four for sprites, four for the background.

Four three color palettes for the background, + one color that can be used anywhere. In Castlevania's case, one of the four background palettes is used for the HUD.

Four three colors palettes for sprites + transparency that can be used anywhere.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2016, 12:52:47 am by Kasumi »
I make actual NES games. Thus, I'm the unofficial forum dealer of too much information about the NES

Offline Pix.Ed.

  • 0001
  • *
  • Posts: 2
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #31 on: April 04, 2016, 03:58:44 am
Awesome. Thanks Kasumi for the clarification and quick response. Much appreciated.

Offline inkajoo

  • 0001
  • *
  • Posts: 7
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #32 on: April 04, 2016, 07:38:51 pm
This is actually my first post here ... so, hi :)

The proper way to make NES-true mockups is a nifty little program called NES Screen Tool.  http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/802/

It enforces all of the NES's limitations with the added bonus of exporting data that can be used by an actual NES ROM.

You may still want to start in Photoshop or your favorite editor - as the editing capabilities are limited - and then import them into NESST.

Offline Prism

  • 0001
  • *
  • Posts: 51
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #33 on: April 06, 2016, 06:34:37 pm
Hello! First post in the forum, I hope I'm not breaking any rules.

Phoenix849 brought this challenge to my attention, so I decided to take part in it by remaking Dracula's room. Here it is (without sprites and with sprites):



I tried to keep the overall idea of the original intact (coffin in the center, pillars by the sides) but I went a bit crazy. Here is the tileset.:



I managed to save 13 tiles, and if I sacrifice one of the floor brick tiles, I get one more :P

Also, thanks to Phoenix849's input, I also fixed some issues that had escaped me. So, kudos to him there.

EDIT: OK so I went back for those tiles. Turns out I saved three more. At this rate I'll end up saving enough tiles to rebuild the entire scene starting from the staircase ;D


Stellar! You got nicely creative with the room composition. Love the coffin in the center, the inclusion of the organ and angled windows, et cetera.

Offline TOMOYA

  • 0001
  • *
  • Posts: 6
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #34 on: April 16, 2016, 07:30:31 am
Hello! Another new user here! Have been interested on joining Pixelation for a while and this challenge was exactly the motivation I was looking for, so I took the chance to take part on it.
Here is my take on the castle's gardens at the start of the game. Took big liberties with it and reimagined a lot of stuff, having a more dark and realistic look in mind, but still keeping the picture recognizable. Hope my work is good enought, since everyone has done amazing stuff so far.

WITH SPRITES


WITHOUT SPRITES


TILES AND PALETTES



Used a total of 125 tiles. There probably are a few tiles that could be reused here and there to get more free space (specially since I totally forgot about the castle at the end of this screen), but I wanted to post this already or I will keep working on it forever.
As an aditional challenge, I used only 3 palettes on the background itself, and saved the last one just for the UI.
I went a little bit crazier with the sprites. Changed everything in the way the torches work, the base is now made out of backgrounds tiles, and only the fire is made out of sprites. I use the same 6 sprite tiles the original torch used, but in a total different way to get a 4 frame animation cycle instead of 2, like the original one has.
Didn't change Simon's sprite, but maybe, I'll get to work on him someday, since I had a lot of fun getting creative with this game I like so much.

Offline Cherno

  • 0010
  • *
  • Posts: 122
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #35 on: April 16, 2016, 10:26:51 am
Absolutely beautiful, especialy the flame animation and the light on the statue. I also like how the scene gets progressively darker in the background, just like it should.

Offline Arne

  • 0010
  • *
  • Posts: 431
  • Karma: +1/-0
  • Panties.
    • View Profile
    • AndroidArts

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #36 on: April 19, 2016, 04:22:58 pm
I ended up with a noisy turd.

Reasons:
I wanted a different brick size for the background (smaller to suggest distance), but this added extra noise. Could probably throw in more blank/flat tiles.

I didn't want to do leaf blobs for the plants, so I started dithering, thinking it might work on a TV.

Tried to keep the tile count and 4*4 layouts somewhat low, but sort of creeped away doing a few decorative tiles.

Tried to keep the original 3 palettes to the end, but had to lighten the sky to reduce noise and replace GUI palette red with brown as I used that for the lit ground tiles.



*Edited in some more flats. Plant dither still a mess.
« Last Edit: April 22, 2016, 10:52:51 pm by Arne »

Offline mobichan

  • 0001
  • *
  • Posts: 35
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • View Profile
    • Pixel Licker

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #37 on: April 22, 2016, 03:36:16 pm
I've been lurking in here for a while now and man are these impressive.  Sorry to nitpick, but I just wanted to point out to Phoenix that the castle gate/entrance can be jumped past to reveal a hidden item.  So you need to continue the floor past the entrance instead of stopping it at a bush wall.

Offline moket

  • 0001
  • *
  • Posts: 52
  • Karma: +1/-0
    • View Profile
    • human hacks

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #38 on: April 24, 2016, 08:37:05 pm
Inspiring thread  :y:

Gave a try at it, the lack of a saturated bright red in the NTSC palette makes it quite hard.
Went a bit overboard with the tile count...can't draw stairs and props anymore.


« Last Edit: April 24, 2016, 09:49:13 pm by moket »

Offline Probo

  • 0010
  • *
  • Posts: 317
  • Karma: +1/-0
    • View Profile

Re: Commercial Critique Challenge - Tilevania: pixel's quest

Reply #39 on: April 24, 2016, 10:17:47 pm
Wow some great edits in here. that ntsc palette that kasumi provided really lends itself to some grungy, dark visuals. I love that shit. However one of my favourite things about the pal nes I grew up with is bright, weird and sometimes garish palettes so I leant into that :D

I chose Death's level, looked like it could do with a lick of paint:



I had a go at the existing metasprites in the room too, trying to stick to their existing real estate in terms of 8x8 or 8x16 sprites.

I wanted to keep the HUD palette the same as its iconic to me, but I also used the HUD palette on the fire in the top left, which I assume could be animated by switching out tiles? maybe not in the cv1 engine? Kasumi help me XD. in a perfect world it'd be whippable too, like a candle.

enjoyed making the upgrade 'III' in the HUD a bit more readable, after so many years playing this game haha

I haven't checked for errors or tile count :S