Kind of messed around with values some.  Made the coaster darker.  The fading into the distance just wasn't reading much at all, so I redrew that.  I love that spiral, so I don't really want to see it go away.

Something about having a purple character on a purple background is still not working too great, but I couldn't decide on a good solution that wouldn't be a drastic recoloring of everything.  And then it wouldn't really be a reflection of the vision that your trying to make.  But it's already got complimentary (Purple vs yellow) and all that red, so I think you can get away with adding another color to your palette as well.  Maybe green.  A lot of ways to do it, but I think keeping to a defined color scheme will help keep you organized.  Especially when adding in new pieces to it.

*Rises from the crypt*
I picked the project back up for a bit and tried to tackle that cliff problem.


I keep having the hardest time balancing out the geometric nature of tiling and also trying to make this look organic.  Might try for some unique object (large roots and trees) to try and break it up some more.


Finally settled on a design for the Wolf King.


The Firemancer, who appears later.

I started planning and making notes, so the game now has a basic outline.  It's also a nice way to keep track of all the things I have to draw since some of the areas are going to be very visually different from each other. 

   •   Wolf King and the wolf shrine
   •   Introducing the nature of your curse and meeting the dangers of the woods.

   •   Snake Ruins
   •   Search for clues to the Snakemancer’s spells.

   •   Burning Forest and the troubles of the Firemancer
   •   The Firemancer is burning the forest in an attempt to remove the cursed sigels.

   •   Phantom Lake Cliff
   •   Crossing the uncrossable

   •   Reflections of the Crystal Forest
   •   The Mirror Mancer, and just who is behind the cursed sigels?

   •   Ancient Forest of the Fauns
   •   Discover more in the oldest lands of the endless forest.

   •   Mountain of the Bear people
   •   The land of forever winter and the child of songs

   •   Necromancer/Dead Forest
   •   A glimpse of the end, and the finality of the truth.

The Wolf King and the Snake Ruins are basically the same area, so there's about seven different areas to go through.  So many drawings to do.

Further progress.

Adding a little swish into the cape really brought a lot of life into it.  That was some fantastic advice.

I'm still trying to pick apart ||||'s edit, cause it looks really good, but I don't want to just copy it without understanding it.

My initial observation is that your title image has very 3D letters, but flat as a pancake boards.  Seeing the sides of the boards would really sell the whole image better I think.
Since you already have them rounded, I'd do the left and right sides, as if the boards were curved instead of flat.  But seeing any edge to suggest perspective would be good.

I'm slowly but surely trying to animate the main character sprites for my silly game art project Snake Curses.  http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=15803.msg148151#msg148151
But since I am not an animator of any sort, I thought the animations could use their own special attention here.

My gut says something is off, but I don't where or how things got off pace.
Still a lot of stray pixels blinking on and off, but I want to be sure I have the movement spot on before doing hours of cleanup.