I had never heard of him until last month when me and my friends watched Paprika and then Millennium Actress the day after that. He died a week later.

Haven't really done much pixel art in a while, so I started playing around with this. Didn't really plan any of it out, just kinda did it spontaneously. No real goal in mind (other than I wanted to do something without really 'mixing' colors, so to speak). I don't really have the most innate sense of composition, so any advice in that department (or any for that matter) would be appreciated. Also, I never owned a C64 or anything and am only really interested in it for aesthetic purposes, so if there are any spots where there are too many colors or something, lemme know, since I dunno how to check for that kinda thing automatically.

I think there's a reason you almost never see games with a direct overhead view. Not only does it make it a lot harder to convey depth, all of your characters are going to be completely unrecognizable. Like, I would have no idea what this is supposed to be if you didn't say. Not to mention, the animation jitters very oddly, which makes it hard to convince us he's supposed to be walking. It's not like the 2-D Zelda game overhead format is broke, so why fix it?