Looks really good and interesting gameplay. Very polished! 
I voted for it!

But I feel like the pirate theme is quite weak in the level design and items that appear.
No ships, sea, tropical island in the background? No naval themes like anchors or designs from old ships.
No treasure chests, parrots, rum, swords or skulls?

The main menu looks quite piratey though!

Thanks!

Yes, was quite a challenge to get this coded in 7 days so was focussing more on gameplay than item styling, but very good point. Given more time the backgrounds and items would have more piratical-polish!

92 x 92 = 8,464

8,464 x 6 = 50,784

50,784 / 8 = 6,348

6,348 / 100 = 63.48

$63.48 each

 

But seriously, just estimate the amount of hours you think each one takes. To estimate your hourly rate, most freelancer / designer manuals say that you should imagine your ideal yearly salary, and divide it thusly:

yearly / 52 / 5 / 8 = hourly

So if you want to be on $60k, your hourly fee is $28.84.

Then times that by the work and round up to nearest whole number. There is your project fee.

If you think it's going to take 3 hours per piece, and there are 6 of them, your project fee is $520

The contrast on the city game seems a bit high. The characters seem to get lost in it. Seems like the orange in the floors is the main culprit, it's a bit too high contrast with the pure white.

The assets look pretty good though, so you can just tweak the palette. You're using NES palette IIRC, right? If you post your palette, I'll have a go at an edit.

We've scrapped the town view point for now. Everything is now side-on, much easier on the eye.



(palette is NES PAL - as opposed to NTSC btw)

Thanks again for all the great comments, really helps fuel the passion for this project. I'll be showing the game again publicly on July 11th, lots of new things.

We have an NPC system, here they are