Vagabond
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My new project is a side scroller in a dark fantasy setting.
I'm programming from essentially scratch, so I'm way too busy to try making nice graphics for it.
Because it's a dark fantasy, graphics should use dark colors and highlights should be weak and shadows should be heavy.
As a side scroller, it will be needing something to fill the background. The project is designed for 320x480/480x320 devices, so the backdrop should be 320x320 (I use the extra 160 pixels for something else). The backdrop is just what we see behind the area where the playing actually happens. It's pretty much just to keep the screen from being mostly blank.
Ground will be tiled, but not like tibia. Since it's a sidescroller, you'll be viewing it from the side, so it won't be a perfect square. Ground will be 32x16 pixels in a 32x32 pixel sprite, and try to keep in mind that it isn't being viewed from above.
Rendering characters and baddies will use a sprite sheet method (examples).
Basically, every frame of every action they can perform will be in this one file, instead of separated like in Tibia. For now, I'd be happy with walking and standing still.
Each frame of the sprite sheet is 64x64 pixels. The character does not need to fill this entire space, the purpose for this is just to give plenty of room to work with. Standing still, the character should be vertically centered around the 32nd pixel.
I'm not too sure how I want the equipment menu and stuff like that to look yet, so I'll update this topic on those later.
For more about this project: http://otland.net/f253/my-new-project-dark-fantasy-side-scroller-86357/
I'm programming from essentially scratch, so I'm way too busy to try making nice graphics for it.
Because it's a dark fantasy, graphics should use dark colors and highlights should be weak and shadows should be heavy.
As a side scroller, it will be needing something to fill the background. The project is designed for 320x480/480x320 devices, so the backdrop should be 320x320 (I use the extra 160 pixels for something else). The backdrop is just what we see behind the area where the playing actually happens. It's pretty much just to keep the screen from being mostly blank.
Ground will be tiled, but not like tibia. Since it's a sidescroller, you'll be viewing it from the side, so it won't be a perfect square. Ground will be 32x16 pixels in a 32x32 pixel sprite, and try to keep in mind that it isn't being viewed from above.
Rendering characters and baddies will use a sprite sheet method (examples).
Basically, every frame of every action they can perform will be in this one file, instead of separated like in Tibia. For now, I'd be happy with walking and standing still.
Each frame of the sprite sheet is 64x64 pixels. The character does not need to fill this entire space, the purpose for this is just to give plenty of room to work with. Standing still, the character should be vertically centered around the 32nd pixel.
I'm not too sure how I want the equipment menu and stuff like that to look yet, so I'll update this topic on those later.
For more about this project: http://otland.net/f253/my-new-project-dark-fantasy-side-scroller-86357/
