Hey! Quick edit, there is some sloppy placement in mine but the idea was to clean up and give the pixels a little more room to breathe! It's very easy to get carried away with shading, but when sprites are this tiny you can actually describe form better with shapes than you can with shade. Pay attention to the pixel clusters rather than trying to smooth every line. Use shadow along the edges minimally, and when you do, block out large areas.

Oh my god, I love what you did with the hat! I'll definitely take that to the next version

To me it feels like the ground is floating in the air. It feels disconnected from the lava and the ground doesn't look attached to anything right now. Am I the only one who gets this feeling?

I really love your latest graphics, just need some attachment of the ground into the lava. I think the outline colour on the bottom side is actually doing too much to separate it from the lava. Perhaps a more dark reddish instead of dark greyish?

Right now this is what I imagine it to be (kinda):


Here's some really sloppy edits:

Kinda waterish shadow:


With yellow lines which you already use on the spikey thingies which lie in the lava. Why not use that on the ground aswell?:

Here's some tiles, and also usage of backgrounds and background objects (clouds & sun)
Hopefully I can get this scrolling in the engine later. Now time to draw an enemy (which isn't a robot!!)
Here's some plant enemy.


New video of what it looks like ingame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOndN-byXs

Looks great! But the gun of the dwarf is pointed in the wrong direction. It's like he's aiming into the sky now.
The feet indicate he's facing straight down. So the gun should be pointing straight down aswell.

Is he looking southwest, or simply south? I guess the guns direction would be excusable if he was looking southwest.

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