Mock 80X60 resolution, palette, screen filters

[Lachie Dazdarian]

I'm planning to attempt a mini space adventure game in mock 80x60 resolution and I could use a recommendation with what palette I should take a crack with.

Really still not sure about the style. Maybe less colors is even better?

Do you have a favorite 2, 3 or 4-bit color palette?

Very rough mock up to give you the idea of perspective and size relationships:

[blumunkee]

There are a couple of good threads here on Pixelation:

Choosing colors and palettes
Arne's generic 16 color palette

Arne's palette is a particularly good starting point. I'd say start with that and tweak the palette entries to your liking.

[r1k]

theres also dawnbringers palette:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12795&KW=

heres a large collection of 16 color palettes from the pixeljoint competition
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10946

heres palettes of old computer systems
http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/wiki/PaletteRepository

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Thanks! These are great links. I think I'm gonna try C64 palette first just to see where it is leading me.

Experimenting time!

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Some first test:



I've chosen C64 palette. Would anyone be so kind to give me pointers on my first attempts? How would you manage in this ultra low res? What would you try?

Thanks!

[CharlesGabriel]

Don't mean to self-plug here but if you need / are interested in some color palettes check out this blog post:

http://cgartsenal.blogspot.com/2010/08/color-palettes_31.html

[Lachie Dazdarian]

I think I'm gonna try with the 64 colors palette, at least for my first project in this mock resolution.

Anyway, I'm testing (programming) screen filters for this project. I will definitely make few available in the game, classic enlarge being one of them for sure.

I would appreciate your commends and feedback on them. As well as suggestions for new ones.

Thanks!

Filters preview (update, 15.07.):


Title screen in one of the filters:

[BladeJunker]

I like the subtle scanlines and grid filter options but the hard black lines don't look great with low resolution graphics. The circular pixel look is kind of neat, maybe a more soft subtle version of that would be good.

[Danik]

You could make a pixel bevel effect like in this game by deepnight: http://blog.deepnight.net/2011/12/last-breath.html

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Thanks! That was a great tip.

Already implemented!