Here is what I came up with for the scenery color palette. Opinions? I don't know if I used too much or too little. For the green I went for a jade type of color and I tried to have a LOT of colors for the basic buildings (the brick on the left). The right will be most of the colors that pop on signs and for lighting.

If the players are moving up and down the screen similar to a brawler, then add some shadows 

Hey guys. Haven't been here for a while and I am happy to say that I now have some time to work on some games

So my friends and I were talking about what type of game we wanted to work on and we came to the decision we would make an NES quality cyberpunk game. (NES being the resolution). It would be very reminiscent of the original legend of zelda as far as character size goes.

The reason we decided on this sort of size is so that we could max out on story, level design, and the types of things I really enjoy about games and that I want to include. In past projects where I used this NES scale I also used the NES color palette, which probably won't work too well. So I need a color palette that would work in this cyberpunk underground type of world.

Also, we plan on throwing lighting effects ontop of the game to give it more ambiance and to transform the NES style a bit.

Here is some colors I found while looking at a couple hundred different cyber punk photos, some pixel some not. I want to get a wide range of colors so that different areas can have different "feels" color wise so that the player can have a better sense of what the world's structure is.



Any tips for me? Know any palettes that would work well for this?

Thanks as always guys.

Thank you for the feedback guys. I will definitely work on it a bit today and update you all in a few hours.

Meat : I am kinda unsure what you are visioning here. I don't know how to make it "wrap" the orb without it looking somewhat unnatural. Any references that could help me understand?

Curly : Any ideas on how to clean up the ball a bit? I will put some more time into it and add a few more shades if needed.

wzl : Definitely going to mess with the contrast a bit, I noticed the problem when it was put on a darker background and the colors of the cloak no longer popped as much as it did on my white editing background. As far as the color of the health goes, it was actually going to be completely black until I talked to my co-dev and told him some color would be needed. We are trying to break a convention of "health" and instead give our main character a sort of "power" remaining. Our game has a design where everything is dead, and the living are the enemy, so health would be something the enemy would have. I completely agree though that it would look better with red. You are so right about the scythe now that I look at it, definitely going to change that.

Also, what should I do with the other hand? I was wanting to have it on the other side of the orb but it would make it look to stretched out. I think that putting it on top of the orb next to the head would make it look as if he is climbing out from it.

Thanks again for the advice guys, I will update you all on the progress.