Ew, that latest mockup is so low-contrast. Darken up that bg. The door's detail level and general caliber blows away the tiles. Looks like different artists did them.

Haha yeah it was done REALLY quickly so I could jump in and learn game maker. I'm learning everything atm still struggling with the pixel art.
I'm working on replacing this tile set (amongst other things) but my skills r so bad that its taking me ages and I'm not happy do far...
Game maker coming along nicely though I don't know how many of u artists r coders too or what systems u use but would be interested to find out...

Nice start :-)

Not that I have any experience with animation but you def need to lean him forward a bit for the first punch by at least just sliding the torso over and lean his weight a little onto his front leg making his rear leg stretched out a touch.
Maybe play around with bringing the head down a touch at the same time and then look at changing the angle of it to face more towards the camera and tilted to the side for effect.

With the second punch, he should really lean into it with all his weight on front leg and back leg stretched out.
His head should be faced a bit away from the camera there and again angled a bit.

Maybe check out some reference for how boxers or kickboxers do it and just do the key frames in their extremities before worrying too much about all the frames in between, then add those later once you are happy rather than going frame by frame.
Alot of classic games get away with just a couple of frames for fast punches anyway so you can just go back and add as many as you think you need...

I like your style nice work.
Game made me lol too :-)

IThanks appreciate the comments agree with everything. Really helps me with direction to improve. Already aware of sone points just wish I had more time ie. Quit my job lol!
Probably won't waste time with main character right now as my friend going to help me with sketches for animations as well as design some orcs and skeletons and stuff and his drawing skills r kick ass so I cant wait to colour and pixelize.
Main character redesign will probably be a pretty bland costume initially (but less condom-headed) and then do a stack of modifications for all the diff weapons and apparel.

Great door! The animation is smooth. I don't see any needs for more frames.

However I think the shadow could be improved. The part that is near the hinges should stay in the light. The shadow should appear gradually from the handle first and on to the hinges. This should give it more depth.

Thanks yeah you're right, that shadow never sat quite right with me either so basically I think the angle needs to increase of just staying in arch shape.
I'll fix that when I get time.