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TaviTurnip — Fighting is Pixels
Published: 2012-08-13 16:28:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 2175; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 43
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This... this did not come out well, and what you see here is a product of roughly eight different compromises that changed this from looking horrible to looking acceptably low-quality. This includes the lack of real texturing, the continued lack of any shading at all whatsoever, a slightly cluttered interface, and that stupid tree >_> I hate trees. I will always hate trees.On the positive side? After over an hour of tinkering with both palettes and objects, I managed to make everything stand out properly. When you're creating this sort of thing (or, of course, an actual game), one of your most primary objectives is to make sure you can see everything against everything else. Objects at the front should not blend with the background. Characters? You should always always be able to see your character! And the background and foreground should not look the same or else your sense of depth is going to be sort of messed up. Even if there's still no texturing to be found here, at least everything is clearly visible.
... So yeah, probably the weakest one I've done so far, except for the one with Twilight, because that was super dull and boring >.>
I'm not being hard on myself. I just had a greater vision in my mind than what came out on the canvas, you know? I still think it looks okay. It just sucks a bit~
Oh, is anyone sick of that font yet? I should draw a new one
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It's not you--it's that fighting games were terrible on Game Boy for all the reasons you stated above: Lack of contrast, and screen size too small to include overlays and still have decent-sized characters. For instance, did you ever play Mortal Kombat on Game Boy? It was painful. . . bad summer band camp memories.
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Beast Wars on the Game Boy Color is pretty good.
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Power Quest was a GB fighter and would easily compete with any modern day fighter if not for its utter simplicity. It's a game any fighting game enthusiast should play... like forever. Everything about it was right.
Mortal Kombat GB, on the other hand, was sort of giggleworthy. Nothing about it was very good. The controls weren't even very responsive to input from the player.
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& don't forget about Street Fighter 2 & Killer Instinct on gameboy, they both didn't have all the characters, & it didn't even look good.
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I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be, at least better than what I could do.
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I just have certain expectations of myself, is all. Thanks, though~
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Understandably, I guess most of us feel this way sometimes.
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Are you sure you didn't use brush tool? I can see that the outlines have a very faint variation of color, and next to borders too.
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I'm afraid you must be seeing things. I just double checked the image and there are only four colours there, like there are supposed to be.
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Maybe there is some problem with the program I used it to edit and added colours lowering quality?
*Checking*
Yes, it did. Sorry, you're right!
Anyway, interested in my edit?
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If you really want. I appreciate the help, of course, but I'm just not really one to go back and edit things once they're up. And I haven't been in the mood to learn something new/old lately, really.
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*shrug* Whatever you decide
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You could use some antialias here and there, and using some of the bg colors would fix those treelines. If you care enough, reply me and I'll send you an edit.
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Why can't this be a thing?! It NEEDS to be a thing!!
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This is really awesome!
My hat is off to you, good sir, for all the awesome art you have done
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A good sir, am I? I suppose I can live with that just this once
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Perhaps you set your own bar too high for your imagination? Or you need to reign in your imagination, either or. It's another piece of art that makes me increasingly frustrated that these games don't exist, you are indeed a cruel individual, constantly toying with us, for shame!
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Noooo I'm not cruel
Anyways, it's not so much that I set my own bar so high, as much as that the bar has sort of been set for me already. I'm... as much as I always go "oh this sucks oh this sucks", I'm a pretty darn good artist >_>; So it makes me feel a little iffy when I can't do something that anyone else at my level would consider "easy" and I'm like "no this is super annoying I don't know how it works" and stuff.
I've been doing this for ten years. I feel that I should be able to do textures and simple backgrounds by now, or at least pretend I can :C
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I suppose there will always be times when you suddenly struggle to do something as you envision. Unfortunately I'm not much of a visual artist myself so I can't give you words of advice, but I can tell you that you're pretty much the only artist I've follwed that does Pixel art, and I've never liked Pixel art before. So you must be doing something right if you're attracting followers that don't necessarily enjoy your style of art. And you said it yourself, you're a pretty good artist, you've had the experience to call yourself that. You just can't do everything right all the time is all, and really, no one can.
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I guess so... it's okay, though. It's just not very fun sometimes to struggle on something you should be capable of >.> That'll make anyone, regardless of skill or profession, a bit upset sometimes.
Also, I'm sort of amused and in a weird way happy that you're not super into pixel art... primarily because I'm not either xD Weird, right? I don't like pixel art that much. But everybody else in the world seems to think it's the coolest thing ever. I'm just so used to absolutely everybody really loving it.
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I know what you mean, it's not exactly the same but it can be incredibly frustrating when you know you can write for extended periods of time and then you find that you can't get a single word out. And then when you finally do you don't think it's flowing correctly so you scrap it and start all over again.
Pixel art has just never really attracted me to it, but I suppose that's because there's never been anybody that good at it in my opinion. I don't actively seek it out either, but yours is good, and I think you like it a little more than you say because you keep doing it, haha.
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I do it because it's all I know how to do xP Seriously, that's the only reason. Although right now I'm trying to write two stories and constantly coming up to "why won't this flow correctly sdgkjdbsg" and "why is this idea stupid that doesn't help the story at all" and it's the most annoying thing.
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can you make on of my oc Firma fighting someone? (and have firma to used her growth so she's bit larger than her oponent)
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I don't really usually accept requests, I'm afraid :c I'm sorry.
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well, i just can't keep my eyes from Pinkie's face on the top right corner... it looks so AWESOME...
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oh it's about go down...
PINKIE PIE STYLE!
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Well, those poses and headshots totally aren't at all familiar! :ohyou:
I do think it looks alright, though! A bit too empty looking in the far back (though I like how you did that one shrub), and a little awkward in the front, ahead of Pinkie and Dash, but yeah. As you said, some more texturing would have helped. But it is still a neat looking end result. :P
Also, the random "PONY" in the middle of the HUD amuses me for some reason. (I vote you make a new font next time, too. It's also good practice!)
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Familiar? Whatever are you talking about, dear heart~
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