another - small image dump.

[baccaman21]

Along similar lines to pawiges thread... (I've actually moved this from there for reasons of bad form... so oops... and soz)

...some bonus pickups from a game I made in the early 90's called "Sgt Seymour: Robotcop"



some of these are rather english in their origins - like the road signs for instance, or the sweets/candy... it was a good excercise in using 16 colors... that's for everything...!

Enjoy...

[Lick]

It's clear that you made those back in the 90's, hehe. Not to sound offending, but critic would be the strange shading (pillow-ish) and the werid highlights on some pieces. Perhaps a good exercise to edit them into the new millenium?

[Matriax]

For made in 90's the looks is very good, and after view the works of baccaman i sure he can increase the quality of this 

[baccaman21]

For made in 90's the looks is very good, and after view the works of baccaman i sure he can increase the quality of this 

thanks... I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not - I guess it is

It's clear that you made those back in the 90's, hehe. Not to sound offending, but critic would be the strange shading (pillow-ish) and the werid highlights on some pieces. Perhaps a good exercise to edit them into the new millenium?

Hey no offense taken... - I think the thing you gotta bear in mind is that we had 16 colors to make the entire game sprites in (can't remember about the bg's - someone remind me of the amiga pallette limitations please)... if I were to edit them for 'the new millenium' i'd probably go for mulitple 16 colour pallettes as we have the option for that these days, or alternatively knock the whole lot into 256 colors. but then... where's the challenge in that?... and besides - I'm not going to... so ner!

You guys have it sooo easy these days... what I'd have given for 256 colors and or mulitple sprite pallettes... cool graphic editors... the INTERNET with forums to chat about your work with peers... would have made life sooo much easier. I reckon I should set you a challenge to have a go at some real limited pallette stuff... say like we had on the spectrum... 2 colors only per 8x8 pixel square... with a choice of 8 colors... like say some old loading screens or summat... yum! (now I AM sounding old!) lol

(pretty shit by todays standards...addmittedly but hey... 2 colors per character square!)
(I just did the logo on this one - the main image was a chap called Chris Graham - lord alone knows what he's upto now?)

As far as 'pillow shading' is concerend... well that term never existed in my day (god I sound old) lol... but you're right I suppose... again, in my defense, this was made in super quick turnaround - where we'd be bashing games out rapidly, 2 months... maybe 3... whilst also working on mulitiple projects across mulitple platforms. Hey ho.

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now where did I put me pipe and slippers... ?

[Kennethfejer]

what? no marmite bonus pickup 
looks great, 16 colors is pretty impressive for all those items.

the spectrum stuff looks really good as well, specially with all those limitations.
...to be honest, i think developing for the GBA, can be quite difficult at times, but then again.. im probably just spolied working on javagames, where colorcount doesn't really matter.

[Nix]

could you post your pallate please

[Sdw]

(can't remember about the bg's - someone remind me of the amiga pallette limitations please)...

Amigas (or atleast the good old pre-AGA OCS/ECS Amigas like A500) had 32 color palette (64 if you ran in halfbrite mode, or two separate 16-color palette if you ran dual-playfield). I can't recall how hardware sprites worked, I think you had only 8 or 16 colors, but they were not used all that much, most objects in games were BOBs (Blitter Objects) where you actually wrote data to the same bitplanes as the background is. Anway, so for most games you had a 32 color palette, shared between background and movable objects.

[baccaman21]

(can't remember about the bg's - someone remind me of the amiga pallette limitations please)...

Amigas (or atleast the good old pre-AGA OCS/ECS Amigas like A500) had 32 color palette (64 if you ran in halfbrite mode, or two separate 16-color palette if you ran dual-playfield). I can't recall how hardware sprites worked, I think you had only 8 or 16 colors, but they were not used all that much, most objects in games were BOBs (Blitter Objects) where you actually wrote data to the same bitplanes as the background is. Anway, so for most games you had a 32 color palette, shared between background and movable objects.

ah ha... thnx for that... I knew it was something along those lines... ta !

could you post your pallate please

I've added it to the image in the original post...

what? no marmite bonus pickup 
looks great, 16 colors is pretty impressive for all those items.

the spectrum stuff looks really good as well, specially with all those limitations.
...to be honest, i think developing for the GBA, can be quite difficult at times, but then again.. im probably just spolied working on javagames, where colorcount doesn't really matter.

No sooner said than done kenneth... (added to original post (see above))

Cheers for the compliment on the old speccy art... may I return that compliment by commenting on your work - superb stuff I may say... love the kid icarus stuff, (one of the guys at my last place did a DS kid icarus design that really rather nice...)  was gonna get in touch with glu at some point soon about freelance work - but it seems I've just landed a new role (today in fact) having been out of work for 5 months... Very pleased... on next gen console... looks like I'm gonna have to dust down my 3D overalls... boooo hisss... which also means I'm gonna be frequenting this place a little less often... shame, just as I was starting to get the feel of the place.

[Nix]

make tutorials!!!! lol. i like the sign posts best

[reydragk]

One thing I think a lot of the guys on this forum seem to forget is that the reason the sprites are pillowshaded is because in an actual game it'd greatly increase the number of sprites required to keep a consistent lightsource, from a production standpoint pillowshading makes a lot more sense...