Yoda's near the middle...

[Pawige]

I know it's a rehash of an old idea, and I apologize for that, but it was too much fun to stop. Been working on this on and off for the past long time.



90 colors, I really wasted a lot, but I don't really mind and I'm too lazy to go through the trouble of cutting it down.

Again, see how many you can recognize! Again, if anyone gets them all I will be totally amazed!

Correct guesses so far: (as of reply 44)
[Keen, Cop, Red Shirt, Lara, Lara, Chaplin, McDonald, Moe, Larry, Curly, Phantom, Ursula,
Kate Archer, Vader, Stormtrooper, Fett, Gaston, Homer, Ivy, Manny, Xan, Chuck Norris, Grinch,
Wilco, Threepwood, Mario, Link, The Beast, Legoman, Freeman, Master Chief, Spidey, Spawn, Osama,
Snow White, Robin Hood, Rincewind, Luggage, Merlin, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Chun-Li, Bender, Shrek, Optimus, Kim Jong-Il,
Leeloo, Agent Scully, Purple and Green Tentacle, Jessica, Marvin, Yoda, My Avatar, No Face, Cosmo, Megaman, Moses,
Crab Zombie, Skeletor, Monroe, Gump, Terminator, Megaman X (Upgraded), Martian, Helsing, Duke, Elvis, Peach, Alyx,
Indy, Zealot, Dread Pirate Roberts, Mr. T, Twinsen, Leia, Hulk, Marvin, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Vrenna,
Jasmine, Raphael, Fife, Bloodrayne, Einstein, Depp Wonka, Mulan & Mushu, Lemming, Bride, Pillsbury Doughboy, Pink Panther, Mike,
Crusader, Jeannie, Robot from I Robot, Buzz, Hades, Samus, Necromancer, Kuzco, Holmes, Honest Abe, Jafar, Mask,]
All done, nice work!

And an update, I mostly tried to address the leaning issue:



Thanks for the crits!

[pixelblink]

I'm gonna take a crack at it:
Commander Keen, a cop, some dude, Lara Croft, Lara Croft again, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald McDonald, Moe, Curly, Larry, Phantom of the Opera, Ursula, Star Wars rebel, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Boba Fett, Flash Gordon, Homer Simpson, Poison Ivy, Grim Fandango, ? dude, random cowboy, The Grinch, some dude, some chick, Mario?, Link, Beastman?, lego guy, Gordon Freeman, Halo Guy, Spidey, Spawn, Terrorist, Snow White, Robin Hood, A wizard, treasure chest, Gandalf, Hunchback of Notre Dame, that chick from Notre Dame, street fighter chick, Bender, Shrek, Optimus Prime, Hilter, ?, ?, 2 tentacles from Day of the Tentacle, Jessica Rabbit?, Marvin the Paranoid Android, yoda, Duke Nukem?, that ghost thingy from Spirited Away, turtle from some game?, Mega Man, Moses, Crab Zombie, Skeletor, Marilyn Monroe, some geek,
.... okay, I'm tired of going through them all... someone else can finish.

All in all, a nice collection. Amazed how well you've put so much recognizable characteristics into such a small space. Bravo!

[Sohashu]

Commander Keen, a generic cop, Dunno, Lara Croft, Lara Croft, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald McDonald, 3 stooges, Phantom of the opera, Ursula,
Dunno, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Boba Fett, Gaston, Homer, Poison Ivy, dunno, Generic cowboy, Grinch,
Dunno, Dunno, Fire Mario, Link, the "Beast", Lego man, Looks like a rebel pilot, Master Chief, Spidey, one I recognise but can't put a finger on, Osama,
Snow White, Robin Hood, Dunno, dunno, Merlin, Hunchback, Esmeralda, Chun Li, Bender, Shrek, Optimus Prime, dunno,
Dunno next 2, tentacles, dunno, Marvin, Yoda, Your avatar?, No face, Dunno, Mega man, Moses,
Dunno, Hobgoblin or Dr. Doom, Marylin Monroe, a geek, Dunno, Mars Attacks alien?, Van Helsing, dunno, Elvis, Peach, dunno,
Indiana Jones, one I know but can't name, Zorro, Mr. T, .Takam's favourite character, Leia, Hulk, Marvin The Martian, dunno, dunno, Elite?
Aladdin person, Raphael, Hitler, dunno, Einstein, New Wonka, dunno, lemming, Kill Bill person, Pilsbury man, Pink Panther, Mike,
Dunno, dunno, Robocop, Buzz Lightyear, Hades, Samus, Dunno, Kusco, Sherlock Holmes, Top hat man, Sultan from Aladdin, The mask.

That took a while.

[AlexHW]

the red guy on the lower left corner looks like a crusader from the crusader games.
some of these bring back memories..
very nice collection..

[Panda]

Really neat.
Most of them are recognizable straight away.
Using too many "really" but, I really like how you managed to pull all those details, (like that tiny Mushu, or Link's shield )
Is that guy next to Terminator, Forrest Gump?

Anyway, Good job on all.

edit:
- Guy next to mario = guybrush
- Next to Marvin (WB one) = Joker
- Next to the Joker = Harley Quinn
- Under Snow White = The woman from the 5th element

[HauntedArt]

Nostalgia attack! 

Mr. T and Leia are my favourites here, but lots of other good stuff here too.
Some few of them may need a bit more work (like the Beast, next to Link) but it's damn hard to get a good likeness when they are this small.

I'm gonna try to guess at some of those not guessed yet.
The guy to the right of the Grinch is Chuck Norris.
The one between Holmes and  Jafar is Abaraham Lincoln
The one between Helsing and Elvis is Duke Nukem (I'm surprised nobody go that one yet)
The one to left of Einstein is Bloodrayne.
The one left of Mr. T is Zorro.
And the one to the right of Indy is a protoss zealot.

There is a couple more I absolutely know I've seen somewhere before but I can't think of any names. My brain ain't working right.

[ejay]

I Love it! great job on all of these.

My guesses-  row,column
2,1 - NOLF girl Kate Archer
3,1 - Roger Wilco
3,2 - Guybrush threepwood?
4,3 - Discworld's Rincewood
4,4 - The luggage :-)
5,1 - Leeloo ,Fifth element
6,9 - Duke Nuke'm
6,12 - HalfLife2's Alyx Vance
7,3 - Zorro
9,10- Abe Lincoln

[Sohashu]

Commander Keen, a generic cop, Dunno, Lara Croft, Lara Croft, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald McDonald, 3 stooges, Phantom of the opera, Ursula,
Dunno, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Boba Fett, Gaston, Homer, Poison Ivy, dunno, Generic cowboy, Grinch,
Dunno, Dunno, Fire Mario, Link, the "Beast", Lego man, Looks like a rebel pilot, Master Chief, Spidey, one I recognise but can't put a finger on, Osama,
Snow White, Robin Hood, Rincewind?, luggage, Merlin, Hunchback, Esmeralda, Chun Li, Bender, Shrek, Optimus Prime, dunno,
Dunno next 2, tentacles, dunno, Marvin, Yoda, Your avatar?, No face, Dunno, Mega man, Moses,
Dunno, Hobgoblin or Dr. Doom, Marylin Monroe, a geek, Terminator, Mars Attacks alien, Van Helsing, dunno, Elvis, Peach, dunno,
Indiana Jones, one I know but can't name, "the dread Pirate Roberts" Westley, Mr. T, .Takam's favourite character, Leia, Hulk, Marvin The Martian, Joker, Harley Quinn, Predator
Aladdin person, Raphael, Nazi, dunno, Einstein, New Wonka, dunno, lemming, Kill Bill person, Pilsbury man, Pink Panther, Mike,
Dunno, dunno, Robocop, Buzz Lightyear, Hades, Samus, Dunno, Kusco, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper?, Sultan from Aladdin, The mask.

OK.  The sprites are excellent.  Forgot to mention that before.  I want to play this game

[pixelsforhire]

Lets see... a red shirt, the Predator, Megaman X, a Zealot, Zoro, Joker, Harley Quin, Barney Fife, Bloodrayne (now THAT'S an odd couple!), and honest Abe. Sorry if I reguessed, I'm going off the list of unguessed sprites on your post.

[Gunne]

so small and so many details, I can watch at this for hours

OK, I also gonna guess
The one before darthvader is a red rebel (or what's the name?)
The thing next to manny is someone of Unreal or halo, dunno really
Next to Robin Hood is Simon the Sorcerer
next to terminator is Megaman or something like that
Before Mr T is zorro
After Marvin comes Two-Face (or was its name Joker) and after him one of his crewmembers
Before Einstein is the girl from Bloodryan
Before Buzz is Robocop

and after Rapheal isn't that Naruto?

--edit, no it isn't Naruta haha , it's a german soldier

[Wayuki]

Second row, 9th character is Xan (boss from Unreal Tournament).

Great sprites, btw! 

[Willows]

6th row, second one in looks a lot like a Zealot from starcraft.

Other than that, I know no unknown.

[Evil-Ville]

The last one on the seventh row is Nick Vrenna from Abuse?

[Player1]

On the fourth row are Rinsewind and The Luggage, of course. And first on third row - Wilco and Gybrash?
After elvis and peach - Alyx. After Indy - Zealot from StarCraft. After Samus - looks like Necromanser in Diablo II

[Turbo]

So easily recognizable with so few pixels. You have a way with colors

I find the poses of the shooting people odd, they're leaning forward too much it seems.

Third guy from the top looks like a Star Trek (new generation) character, though the guns aren't held with two hands so it may not be it.

[Lackey]

The one beside Megaman is definately Cosmo ('s Cosmic Adventure).  Quite a few shareware references, I see

[ep]

Wow, just, Wow.  That is awesome they are mostly recognizable without having to over exaggerate features, not that you would have had the space for it.  Of them all favorite is Optimus, but I agree that the shooting people all seem like they are bracing for a huge recoil.

[Larwick]

These are a mighty achievement. Great work. 

[Nix]

can u post your rincewind run animation. i adore it

[Pawige]

Okay, so I'm designing the game they're going to be used in now. Think of a cross between Worms, Unreal Tournament and Lemmings. Before the level starts you'd buy yourself an army of these guys. After it starts you could deploy whoever you need whenever you need them. You can set them to do simple tasks like Defend the Base, Attack the Enemy, Take the Flag. They could be sent in in groups or one at a time. You'd also be able to control one at a time directly with the keyboard, if you controlled a character from a group, everyone from that group would try to emulate what you do.

Each character would have their own specific uses:

Lincoln would have an oratory skill that would power up all friendlies on the map.
Rincewind would be very fast, and always followed closely by the luggage, an extremely deadly mêlée fighter.
Stormtroopers would just be armed meatshields, spraying blaster bolts pell-mell, willy-nilly.
Vader would be a powerful but slow character, tough as well as difficult to hit, and deadly in close quarters.
Cosmo would able to use his suction cup hands to climb to places other characters can't get to.
Lemmings could use their umbrellas to jump off very high places, as well as build walls and stairs wherever you command.
Necromancer would raise the dead as moderately powerful skeletons.
Merlin would have a variety of offensive and defensive spells.
Elvis could use his music to start everyone in a certain radius dancing.
Moses could call down lightning to kill the enemies, or manna to heal friendlies.
Jessica rabbit, Monroe, and Esmeralda could seduce enemy characters into switching teams, with various other stats.
Gump would just wander around the map, activating random events.
Holmes would examine corpses of enemies and inform everyone of weaknesses, improving damage against that type.
Doughboy would be able to take massive amounts of damage.
I think we all know what Chuck Norris would do.

This would be a crazy amount of work and I'd probably need a lot of help, especially programming-wise, but I really really like the idea so far. 

[Xion]

I think a pillar of fire would be better than lightning for Moses.

I think we all know what Chuck Norris would do.

O' yeah.
Wonderful game idea and graphics. I look forward to playing it.
What game is Rincewind from?

[Indigo]

is last row, third over, Robocop maybe?  (i have a Robocop bobble-head sitting on top of my computer )

EDIT:
oh and is fourth row, lasts character, Green Lantern?

EDIT 2:
OH DUH! its IRobot, not Robocop.  the red glow in the chest finally hit me.

EDIT 3:
OH OH OH!  last row, second character is Genie from "I dream of Genie" 

[Hero]

....where are the power rangers?

[AdamAtomic]

Is the green guy Kim Jong Il?  Awesome stuff btw, very inspirational!

[dyuaru]

Looking great so far. I'm interested in seeing how this game plays out. It'd be fun to see more artists adding to this and creating a huge list of available characters to use 

[Indigo]

sorry to say, but that robot clearly isn't Sonny.  Sonny's chest doesn't turn red in the movie.  Thats what distinguishes him from the rest of the baddie robots if i'm not mistaken.

[Pawige]

Whoops, that was retarded on my part. Fixed. If anyone wants to have a go at making some in the same style, feel free!

[Rynen10K]

Awesome!

I've only seen Guybrush use a gun once, though... wouldn't he be a swordsman (Insult Swordfighting and all?).

[Pawige]

Have a closer look at Guybrush's "gun." He's been known to improvise with whatever objects are at hand.

[Rynen10K]

Have a closer look at Guybrush's "gun." He's been known to improvise with whatever objects are at hand.

D'oh!
I see it now! I glanced at it too quickly the first time... Cleversaurus!

[Joseph]

looks awesome, but Hades's fire hair is blue, not red, right?

[Sohashu]

@Joseph - yes.  But when he is angry it turns red. 

[Joseph]

aw, I remember now.  hm, I guess it doesnt matter unless you change the current ones hair blue, and draw another kind of leaning over in an angry pose with larger red hair, that would be cool.

[Gunne]

sorry to say, but that robot clearly isn't Sonny.  Sonny's chest doesn't turn red in the movie.  Thats what distinguishes him from the rest of the baddie robots if i'm not mistaken.

You're right, sonny's chest had blue light

[ter-o]

5th row 2nd one is obviously Gillian Anderson

And above Moses.. well.. that's a tricky one. I'd go for.. err...Fidel Castro? Where's the beard tho nah.. I give up.
But I hope the first one was correct!

[Helm]

Don't attempt to make that game. Even if you find a coder insane enough to code all the different behaviours, min-maxing and balancing the game would be impossible. I can think of simple brute-force (100 stormtroopers) breakage for starters.

[Nix]

i think a rincewind and luggage sidescrolling game would be fun. and would have a delightful pallette.

and ther was so many characters in the diskworld books and games that the possibilities for level sare endless.

[Xion]

Don't attempt to make that game. Even if you find a coder insane enough to code all the different behaviours, min-maxing and balancing the game would be impossible. I can think of simple brute-force (100 stormtroopers) breakage for starters.

They could be priced, or set into categories (Heavy, light, ranged, special...?) so you would only be able to have so many chars from each category.

[Helm]

Any wargamer knows that balance is the absolutely most difficult thing to have in these games, and if every piece has special abilities, the game gets broken tens of different ways. The brute force thing isn't the only one.

[Pawige]

Helm, you make a good point, I figured that a balance could be worked out, but that's easier said than done. I'll try to think up something a bit more workable. Any ideas are welcome!

Good one Ter-o, it's Agent Scully, and there's only one left now! Fidel Castro is the closest guess so far, but not it.

As for Hades' hair, I originally was going to make it blue, but liked the look of the red hair a bit better. I should've made him angrier looking. 

[Indigo]

hitler?

[Rawsushi]

Kim Jong-il?

[Pawige]

Congratulations! He was a tricky one.

[AdamAtomic]

Not that tricky, I already guessed him up in post 24

[Pawige]

Oh snap! I totally missed it. My mistake! 

[ter-o]

Pawige: I really must say that this piece of yours is truly hypnotizing. I've watched it multiple times and never grew tired of it. Awesome work! I love you

[Rox]

omg yes! I love this as much as I loved the old one! Let's see how bad I am at recognizing things.. heh... I'm not even gonna bother typing them up, there are so many ones I can't place...

[Sohashu]

Awesome!  So it was "The dread Pirate Roberts".  Also, Kim jong il was one I could recognise but not from where.  Excellent details, and I would much look forward to being optimus and smashing things. 

[Souly]

Commander Keen, A cop, Star trek guy, Lara Craft x2, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald McDonald, Moe, Curly, Larry, Phantom o.t.o,  Ursula, Rebel, Darth Vader, Storm Trooper, Boba Fett, Flash Gordan, Homer, Poison Ivory, Grim Fandango, No clue, Cowboy, Grinch, Dunno x2, Mario, Link, Beauty and the BEAST, Lego Man, Gordan Freeman, Master Chief, Spider-Man, Spawn, Osama, Snow White, Robin Hood, Wizard, Luggage, Merlin, Quazy Modo, Gypsy lady, Chun Li, Bender, Shrek, Optimus Prime, Kim Jong-il, No clue x2, 2 tentacles, Jessica Rabbit, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Yoda, Your avatar, No face, Lizard (Can't remember his name), Mega-man, Moses, Crab Zombie, Skeletor, Marilyn Monroe, Geek, Terminator, Mega-man Zero, Mars Attacks!, Van Helsing, Duke Nukem, Elvis, Princess Peach, No clue, Indiana Jones, No idea, Zorro, Mr.T, .TakaM's Character, Princess Leia, The Hulk, Marvin the Martian, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Elite, Gypsy again, Raphael, Nazi, No clue, Einstein, Willy Wonka, Mulan, Lemming, Kill Bill, Pop-in Fresh, Pink Panther, Mike Wazowski, Dunno x 3, Buzz, Hades, Samus, Necromancer (Diablo 2?), The emperors new groove, Sherlock, Lincoln, Jafar, The Mask

That's all I could do on my own.

[eobet]

Ooh, looks like the sprites from the old SSI goldbox series of AD&D games.

And now I see the post about making a game out of them! Will be very interesting to see, absolutely lovely quality on the animation as well.

Is Rincewind looking back, though? Granted, always flees from danger, but isn't his philosophy to always look forward so you don't hit your head on a branch? Still a fun sprite, though I'd like to see a bit more "panic", or urgency, in the stride... if that's possible.

[Player1]

Okay, so I'm designing the game they're going to be used in now. Think of a cross between Worms, Unreal Tournament and Lemmings. Before the level starts you'd buy yourself an army of these guys. After it starts you could deploy whoever you need whenever you need them. You can set them to do simple tasks like Defend the Base, Attack the Enemy, Take the Flag. They could be sent in in groups or one at a time. You'd also be able to control one at a time directly with the keyboard, if you controlled a character from a group, everyone from that group would try to emulate what you do.

Btw, here I found a flash movie, that looks very like the game idea you described http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/316045

[Helm]

Interesting carnage notwithstanding, I don't see that having anything in common with that design.

[Player1]

Probably we percieved Pawige's idea different. When I read his post I imagined lots of little people running around on platforms mostly by themselves, killing each other. And that's basically what we see on that swf, but with bigger people and no way to control them.

[Xion]

I thought a bit more like lemmings with AI.
How about a paper-scissors style thing, where certain things are more expensive/harder to get, but beat other weaker things. They can only beat so many before they themselves are beaten.
...? Did I understand the concept right?

[D39]

Okay, so I'm designing the game they're going to be used in now....

Wow thats pretty unique , sounds fun!  I hope you get the help you need to get this thing rolling.

[Ryona]

Okay, so I'm designing the game they're going to be used in now. Think of a cross between Worms, Unreal Tournament and Lemmings. Before the level starts you'd buy yourself an army of these guys. After it starts you could deploy whoever you need whenever you need them. You can set them to do simple tasks like Defend the Base, Attack the Enemy, Take the Flag. They could be sent in in groups or one at a time. You'd also be able to control one at a time directly with the keyboard, if you controlled a character from a group, everyone from that group would try to emulate what you do.

Each character would have their own specific uses:

Lincoln would have an oratory skill that would power up all friendlies on the map.
Rincewind would be very fast, and always followed closely by the luggage, an extremely deadly mêlée fighter.
Stormtroopers would just be armed meatshields, spraying blaster bolts pell-mell, willy-nilly.
Vader would be a powerful but slow character, tough as well as difficult to hit, and deadly in close quarters.
Cosmo would able to use his suction cup hands to climb to places other characters can't get to.
Lemmings could use their umbrellas to jump off very high places, as well as build walls and stairs wherever you command.
Necromancer would raise the dead as moderately powerful skeletons.
Merlin would have a variety of offensive and defensive spells.
Elvis could use his music to start everyone in a certain radius dancing.
Moses could call down lightning to kill the enemies, or manna to heal friendlies.
Jessica rabbit, Monroe, and Esmeralda could seduce enemy characters into switching teams, with various other stats.
Gump would just wander around the map, activating random events.
Holmes would examine corpses of enemies and inform everyone of weaknesses, improving damage against that type.
Doughboy would be able to take massive amounts of damage.
I think we all know what Chuck Norris would do.

This would be a crazy amount of work and I'd probably need a lot of help, especially programming-wise, but I really really like the idea so far. 

I love your ideas!! This would be such a kickass game! I can't wait to see what ideas you have for the rest of the characters!

Oh, and your sprites look awesome! So well designed for such small sprites. I love 'em. 

[Silver]

I really like these Charecters!
what I like more is how you made them look so familiar to what they are!
I would like to see some more animation

[Aleiav]

I think Medusa would be an interesting addition to the game.