Of course, all of us have, at some point in our lives, been noobs. I want to see how far people have come. Do any of you pixel-senseis have early works that you might have been proud of at the time but look back at like "man, that sucks." Or alternately, stuff that you're not even proud of at all, but still have lying around for whatever reason. I know I would find it encouraging to see how far people have come, and I'm sure there are probably some others out there as well that would too.
What's YOUR pixel story? I think it'd be inspiring to see the kind of progress people can make when they work at something
I started when I was around 12, making sprites for a Hypercard game my friends and I were making at school. 32x32, 2 colors. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot by having to deal with such strict limitations. Shortly after Jr. Hugh though, I stopped. I restarted about a month ago (20 years later!) after having promised some friends on another board I'd make them a set of smileys.
I wish I could post those old sprites from the 90s, but I honestly don't know if hypercard still exists, much less where that old floppy disk with the game on it went to. This was the first work I declared "finished" from about 6 weeks ago:
, and yeah, I can spot the inexperience (although I'm still fond of a couple of those). Not trying to pretend like I'm all good now or anything, but I'm better than I was.
But I'm most curious about those of you who have been at this for YEARS. How much has your stuff changed?