It's been a busy time for Pixel Pirate. Did a trade show, with a playable demo! Full write up about that here.

Working on lots of new things, and finally getting the pixel art 3D look done.



Heres an early video of the gameplay, from early May.

It's just a medium take it or leave it.

these are really nice. My only comment is that the powerups look similar to each other at a glance

Thanks, I agree the shark should have his own deal.

some humble townsfolk

from what I've seen only some objects like logo and anchor r done using those tools where as most of the items and sprites r raw pixel art.
I could be wrong though.

Ah actually the logo is all freehand... well, with the help of illustrator, did a write up of how on the TIG thread if interested.

If i understand well.. you're using unity and make some objects with illustrator / cinema 4d to make animation for complex objects ?
I'm just lost about how you make all  sprites for the complete animation : do you print the screen for each frame as guide to draws each frame ?

i'm using unity too and photoshop for animation, and this method could save me lot of time ^^ like make coin spin around

Graphism are really good, it's just a shame you only use few colors.. inn for exemple could really smash our head with more than 4 colours (just my opinion  )

btw i'm a fan of this project 

Thanks!

For the frames, it depends on the 3D software (photoshop can also do it!) but in my case, I just selected the frame and made Cinema4D render that to a PNG without transparency. Then I put each frame into photoshop, cropped an area for the character and animated.