I didn´t mean to suggest to leave the sprite completely static at times, but rather to have one (or more) idle animations that are a bit more expressive. It might not fit with the style of game you want to make, but I think that at the size and resolution you mentioned, a lot of movement would look good. I.e. go crazy a bit.

haha neat. how on earth did you come up with Almdudler? I didn´t think anyone outside of Austria knew about it. As far as crits go, I think it could do with  a broader palette range, some highlights would probably look good.

glad i could help. present stuff... nothing I could show, as far as pixels go. I currently work designing arcade machines, so that´s the number one time drain at the moment. In addition to that I was involved in a fantacrap movie production for the last 10 months or so (pretty much moving into post-production now) - a lot of fun and extremely interesting (not to mention my newfound respect for movies). But again, nothing pixeled.

The only pet project I have at the moment is a feasibility study for a 2d-fighting game, mortal kombat style. We´re not sure whether we can pull it off with the time budget we have, so there´s no info yet. So far we´ve filmed about 50 minutes worth of source material in a studio which we´re gonna play with over the next few weeks. Then, if we see that the effort of cleaning up the animations is manageable we´ll start for real.

Zombieness will come back eventually, I´m sure. I´m not quite ready to give up on the little buggers just yet. But unitl (and including) the last zombie game every private project was a learn-as-you-go thing, where we´d explore every avenue and try everything that struck us as interesting. Means that you learn a lot, but the overall effort explodes.
So if I ever revive the zombies it´d be in a more streamlined form, not quite as art-intensive.

ehm. sorry about that. It was the whole picture not matching the text thing that threw me off.

habbo hotel?