Just over a year ago I was contacted to work on a NES game for a pitch to Nintendo, using the Splatoon IP. Sadly this game never made it to the full commision but we did have a working prototype that was demoed to the Splatoon team.

Initially the idea was to layer sprites so we could get more colours per character but the workflow was just too intense, what looks good in theory doesn't always make for the smartest route in a production pipeline. The idea of the game was to shoot ink on all the grey surfaces and colour them.

Finally I can start to talk about this project and show some graphics from it. I took reference from the Splatoon artbook, the game on the WiiU, and some Amiibos we had.

All of the following graphics are formatted to work an actual NES with colour and memory restrictions, animations were done in Aseprite, tile maps in NESscreen Tool.

Inkling:
fall


shoot


idle


jump


run


transform


Squid:

fall


idle


jump


walk



Level:


tilemap:

I only gone dun and released a new pixelart game! 



Available for New 3DS, Wii U & Steam.

Just spreading the good news, let me know what you think!  NintendoLife gave it a 9 out of 10 

Pirate Pop Plus

http://store.steampowered.com/app/487350 <- steam link

Have been working on some animations, fixed NES palette.



Any comments welcome as always.

I'm just getting started on this, following this as a guide http://noelberry.ca/nes on hardware limitations, and going for some extended features with MMC5 chip (making 16,384 different tiles available per screen rather than only 256, and allowing each individual 8x8-pixel background tile to have its own color assignment instead of being restricted to one color set per 2x2 tile group)

The waves infront of the posts here are sprites.

The only unfaithful constraint is that I can't pull tiles from rom and colour them on the fly, so tilesheets will probably be larger with duplicates to emulate palette shifting.

Here's a shot of the game running, some videos here: http://hawkenking.tumblr.com/




(the green waves in this sheet is just for reference in the editor, those are swapped out)

The pirate sprite uses 2 palettes which probably isn't going to leave much variation for other sprites.

Any feedback or complains about me not being pure enough are gladly received!