original gameboy mockups

[Shifty McSly]

I began randomly doodling using only black, white and the greys in the ms paint default palette. Then I realised they are somewhat equivalent to the palette of an original gameboy, so I decided to do a couple of game mockups. Anyways, here are the results:


As is probably obvious, this would be some kind of adventure RPG, with a grizzled old battle veteran as the main character.

[ptoing]

Looks good, but the black selout is a bit harsh in some places. Also you have too many colours. The Gameboy only had 4 shades.

[Zach]

gameboy doesn't use a plain white color ramp it uses that one greenish tinted one

[Skull]

I love them. The portrait looks ace. The floor tiles also look quite good.

[Blick]

gameboy doesn't use a plain white color ramp it uses that one greenish tinted one

I thought it was just the screen that tinted it green.

The doublewide brick in the tiles may break up the grid when looking at it strictly horizontally or vertically, but it's really obvious and distracting (to me at least) when the pattern becomes most apparent diagonally. Adding some more objects and variation to the scene (pots, crates, cracks in a few bricks, discolered bricks et cetera) would really help tone that down.

[Andy Tran]

 Looks good. I got a tool on doing GBA sprites and tiles. It uses 4 colors yep. 

[Shifty McSly]

whoops, I didn't even notice that before, for some reason when I scaled the shots up by 2 in mspaint, it blended the colours slightly, I always thought it remained pixel-perfect. I'll try scaling them up in photoshop or something.

[Rox]

You know, we'll be fine if you don't scale them up at all. We can zoom in for ourselves.

[Shifty McSly]

Fair point, they look better at 2x tho.

[Andy Tran]

 I have a tool to make GBA sprites and tiles. It uses 4 colors. The key I've found to faking a GBA colorless palette is start with 4 colors. First color is white, the 2nd is light gray, 3rd dark gray, and 4th black. I hope that helps.