Was just messing around. I liked how the C64 pallette used grey and was interested to see if I could use grey similarly.

Here's what I mustered up


Crits are greatly welcomed.

For the past little while I've been coming up with some ideas for a game. I recently beat Metroid: Zero Mission and have also recently played a great game called Blaster Master which I had never played before. I love the way this game is set up though. So I decided to make a game similar to these. This is what I've come up with:



Currently I'm not sure what the story will be about but the Idea of the game is that you for what ever reason landed your ship the Coelacanth 01 on this planet which is inhabitable on the surface and you have to journey into temple like structures that take you into the world beneath the planets crust and gain information about the story or whatever. I want most of the areas to be incredibly fantastical and awe inspiring. I also love giant incredibly hideous monstrosity bosses like you usually see in shmup type games that instantly make you feel helpless, which I hope to incorporate some how. Also a boss that would be an homage to sinistar. The game will be similar to blaster master in the way that you get vehicles or robots which are more powerful than just the small human and sometimes have special powers but there are areas that only the human can reach. You would be starting off with the Exploration robot which lacks any real agility and would have to unlock the battle robot at a later time. Unlike Blaster Master the game will be all side scrolling. I may also have some shmup type levels though.

I've heard tell that Game Maker is being ported over to the Mac, I haven't used it before but I'm hoping its versatile enough for this project once they finish porting it since I have very little knowledge in any practical programming language.

I'm using the Amiga palette which at first glance I hated but once I started using it I love it. There are some colours I wish it had but I will just have to improvise. Limitations boost creative thinking.

Usually when I do art its just characters but lately I've been getting really interested in composition and how to make a complete picture that tells a story and generally feels good to look at.
Unfortunately while searching for information they generally all tell me the same things but rarely give me any examples. I know a lot of you guys here are knowledgeable in many techniques of art and know a lot of classic and iconic pieces so I was wondering if anyone has some outstanding example of great composition Modern or Classic. Possibly methods you use when creating a picture.

 I remember reading recently about Phi and the Rule of thirds some where here which I've used a couple times but haven't created anything I'm pleased with yet.

What can I say I've got some crazy megaman fever going on right now.  
I'm currently trying to beat mm8 and having a hell of a time with wily. In my free time I've come up with this!

200 tris, 2 128x128 textures and has an interchangable gun arm which I haven't textured yet. I was trying to go for DS specs but I kind of just came up with my own limitations as I don;t know the DS specs.



C&C welcome.

He started out looking like this: