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Commercial Critique - Pokemon Red/Blue

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Ryumaru:
Attention all pokemon masters! This time around we'll be taking a look at the games that started a cultural sensation that remains popular and is even releasing a 6th generation later this year!

Game: Pokemon (red and blue version)
Platform: Gameboy
Developer: Gamefreak
Publisher: Nintendo

Pokemon is an rpg that is the hallmark of many a childhood; exhibiting charming but less than optimized graphics on the gameboy handheld system. With a resolution as tiny as 160x144 and only 4 shades to use ( note: the gameboy color hardware allowed for injecting some palettes into the original greyscale pieces) concerns of readability and priority are of chief concern. What it lacks in masterful pixel work it makes up for by excelling in these categories. But is there a reason we can't have our pokecake and eat it too?




You can use the visual boy advance for emulation of this game ( on mac I prefer kiGB) and there's plenty of videos and such spread across the internets, it IS pokemon afterall! Better yet, whip out your old gameboy, find some AA's and annoy your parents by turning up the evolution music at the dinner table.

Crow:
Ahem.

--- Quote from: Crow on May 22, 2013, 10:35:37 pm ---Idea: if you want to do activities, throw me a PM. If they're good/acceptable, you can do them. Not too many at once, so I'll regulate them. I'm assuming that's okay with the other members of the staff. If there's anything wrong with that, tell me please. I'd really like to see some activity in the activity forum though ;D

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Still, I approve, and will move this to the right forum. It'd be great if you could create a banner I can put up at the top right, as usual. Banner size is 150x65.

Edit: Just saw this is supposed to be a draft instead? Moved back, changed title. Tell me once you're ready to pull this through, alright?

Helm:
This also needs all the pokemens in a sprite sheet. I know... boring work, but important. So anyone can pick one and remake it as they wish.

Also, do you want people to follow the actual original specs?

Crow:
Spriters Resource offers a sheet with all of them here. Behinds here.

Seiseki:

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The pixels are off in this one.
(I hate it when photoshop does this)

Is the PKMN shortening due to the original being in japanese, and the whole translated word not fitting in?
Also, I hadn't noticed before that the foremost sprites are at a lower resolution. It's a cheap way to make them feel closer though.

The 4 color limitation, is that only per sprite?

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