Hunting down a T-rex might require some powerfull hardware.

Yeah, the slayer is a slayer, but I made him mostly for fun. He will not appear in the game. The base, blond dwarf will be the character, the player will equip him with weapons / armours, the sprite will just be covered by those elements.

Thanks for the comments ! It's really funny to make something that small look alive.

Love your colour choices, so far it looks awesome. Sorry I lack a few words to express what I feel. Well, you rock.

So, it's been a while. But i've been mainly making code for my game. Actually, it's not totally true, I remade all of the dwarf sprite, to a maximum 15 pixel height. :






I've also made a few artworks, mainly to let my brain breathe a bit.



Yes, I'll put dinosaurs in my game. IT'S MY GAME, I DO WHAT I WANT, AHAHaha.... I feel like a small kid. I can make it myself? Ok, so I'll poor everything I love inside, even if it makes no sense whatsoever. Exactly what I'm doing. Feels good.

Comments, criticisms welcome.

EDIT : a very early screen shot can give a small idea of what I'm trying to create. also, cute little heaths. <3

Hello everyone !

First of all, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm 28, French and an hobbyist artist. I've stalked the forum for quite a while, and i feel like participating could be a good thing. I'm currently working on a game project, using game maker. It's a platformer / RPG / roguelike / dungeon crawler, the line is still very blurry between those elements, I'm working on the engine for now. I started this project by making some pixel dwarves, and I felt the urge to see them running around, that's how i started. The animations of the dwarf is the very first piece of pixel art I made, he's currently very bland, carrying no item and is dressed poorly. I made him as a place holder and a base for the upcoming classes I plan to make, so refining it could be a good idea before making a sprite that will be in the game "for real".

As you can see, the images are quite small, giving a retro feeling I was looking for. It's also faster to make stuff, witch is one of my top priority : if I want something to be finished, I can't spend 10 hours on an idle animation, or 3 hours on a stone texture. I have a full time job and do it as a personal project. I want a lot of enemies, a lot of textures and furnitures, a lot of unique stuff. Pixel art was THE way to go.

This topic will be edited with new elements as I make them. Comments, criticism, advices are welcome.

A few concepts arts.






Yes, I like beards, beer and bears. And dinosaurs.

Dwarf animations :










I might make the dwarf one or two pixels taller (and larger), because right now he's just a little bit taller than the blocks of my levels, which makes it no-so obvious that he can't go inside 1 bloc high tunnels. Where goblins can go, because they're really small. It would make the dwarf a bit bigger, larger.
Done.

Goblin's animations :
       


He's quite nervous.

As you can see I've tried to work wit very limited palette, I want the result to be clean, smooth, quite minimalistic. I spend a lot of time right now on codding, so i won't have a lot of new stuff to show in a near future, but I'll post a few screenshots when i will have enough textures to show something.

Thanks for reading !

skaz


Bonus : Very early screenshot.



[EDIT] : new stuff in, old stuff out.