The GBC had no backlight, but two votes against now; I think I'd better mess around with the palette afterall. (Still interested in others' opinions on the brightness (and on the tiles ))

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Faceless: My main complaint, if I may offer it, is that it's WAAAY TOO BRIGHT. Even on my monitor, which is far too dark, it still burns my eyes. Not necessarily saturation, just... it's all really... bright! Aside from that, it looks good, though it's hard to critique because of it. The only other thing I can really point out is the shoreline-- looks to be just straight and diagonal lines. Might look better if it looked more natural.

I don't mean to disregard your comments, but I'm really not seeing the burning retina thing... I asked a few other people for their opinions, and they agree with me.
Does anyone else here think a palette adjustment is necessary?

As for the shore line... you're absolutely right, it was a last minute inclusion because with only the tiles I had, the Mockup looked even more boring than it does now...
I'll probably update this with a house or something, and some reworked shoreline.

I was inspired to pick up the mouse again, and to actually sprite something by Schu and Darion's submissions.
So here's mine:


It's a little barren, and parts - like the hearts - don't really fit, but I think it's not a bad effort for the first pixels I've pushed since Panda_guy and I did a collab resulting in a cockroach. Perhaps he can remind me when that was.

All counted there's 9 colours I believe, 8x8 Grid.