Hello everyone!
I am a self proclaimed indie video game developer who ran into a problem... I can code quite well but I am very bad at pixel art. So I went on a quest online to find a forum that may be able to help me better my pixel art abilities. That is how I ended up here.
My games aesthetic is inspired by games such as Grain War(unreleased)
http://www.indiedb.com/games/grain-war and Hyper Light Drifter(unreleased?)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifterI adore the way the pixels are placed so perfectly that it looks crisp. It just looks good to me.
My game is a shooter/beat em up game. Something I came across by accident is instead of using an 8 directional sprite I can make a 4 directional sprite which moves diagonally and it(IMO) looks more natural when moving in 8 directions. I think Nuclear throne used this approach.
Here is what I have so far. I have not really decided on what the head will look like for the character however I can tell you it wont be solid sky blue.
Tree sprite. I have no idea how to approach the leaves =\
character. I want to get rid of the cape but when I do I always end up with a strange looking character... I will make an attempt later and post it so you can see. for now this is what the character looks like.
This is my first real attempt at pixel art. Please hit me with what you got! I wont be offended I just want to get better so I can finish my game!
ps. forgot the gun shadow ^ haha!