Put Here Graphics That Have Nowhere Else To Go

Ast A. Moore · Post by **Ast A. Moore** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:41 pm

RMartins wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:31 pm
Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 2:36 pm Awww. I thought you were working on porting Warcraft to the Spectrum.
If you can pull that off, I'll stand up and applaud for a full minute

Oh, sure. No problem. Someone else well have to do the funny voices, though. You know, “Zug, zug,” “Dabu,” and “Lok’tar.”

RMartins · Post by **RMartins** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:06 pm

Ersh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:30 pm
RMartins wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 2:01 pm ...But with a little more emphase on the ship battles, and a bit less of sword fighting (or at least improve the sword fighting).
I like the idea of having the focus on ship battles, they were always my favourite part. Are there any existing Spectrum games that features bird's eye realtime ship-to-ship combat in any form?

That I know of, no.
But after a quick search I found "Ships", but it's turn based.

Ersh · Post by **Ersh** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:26 pm

RMartins wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:06 pm That I know of, no.
But after a quick search I found "Ships", but it's turn based.

But not real-time... there's the incentive then, definitely an idea worth exploring.

Joefish · Post by **Joefish** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:31 pm

Overboard on the Playstation was quite fun, but there you have the same problem as converting something like Gunsmoke - three separate fire buttons for the forward, port and starboard cannons.

Ersh · Post by **Ersh** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:15 pm

Forgot about Overboard, had it on a demo disc, remember playing that a lot.
The c64 version of Sid Meier's Pirates! only used one fire button, only to fire broadside though, left/right to steer and up/down for the sail. It worked great.

I'm sure one could design something more 'dynamic' around that and maybe even using the keyboard for less 'active' actions.

redballoon · Post by **redballoon** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:40 pm

Here's an old sprite sheet with various characters and their 4 frames of animation for 8 directions...phew. I think I originally produced these for a Jonathan Cauldwell game a long time ago but nothing ever came of it.

Oh, and Hutch the Rabbit on the previous page? At one point when the game was switched from an isometric viewpoint to side-on, I produced these tileable grass/rock platforms.

Ast A. Moore · Post by **Ast A. Moore** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:50 pm

redballoon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:40 pm Here's an old sprite sheet with various characters and their 4 frames of animation for 8 directions..[/img]

Holy crap! These are excellent!

redballoon · Post by **redballoon** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:27 pm

Thanks, man!
They remain unused after all this time, though I could use them as a 16x16px character template for top-down 3/4 view games, I suppose.

dfzx · Post by **dfzx** » Tue May 01, 2018 9:00 am

Just to clarify: the graphics people are posting here are.. what? Public domain? Free for anyone to use in any future projects?

Some of this stuff is excellent and as someone with no artistic ability whatsoever I can see myself wanting to use it (although I'm not sure what for yet).

Ralf · Post by **Ralf** » Tue May 01, 2018 10:08 am

Some sprites from a game port that will never happen

The original game is Electro Body/ Electroman - a Polish platform game from early 90s. Rather simple and perfectly suited for Spectrum but after a thought not interesting enough to work more on it:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/electroman

Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Tue May 01, 2018 2:10 pm

dfzx wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 9:00 amJust to clarify: the graphics people are posting here are.. what? Public domain? Free for anyone to use in any future projects?

Neither. If you are interested in using anything, contact the author directly to discuss it. All authors are right here!

Ast A. Moore · Post by **Ast A. Moore** » Tue May 01, 2018 2:16 pm

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 2:10 pm
dfzx wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 9:00 amJust to clarify: the graphics people are posting here are.. what? Public domain? Free for anyone to use in any future projects?
Neither. If you are interested in using anything, contact the author directly to discuss it. All authors are right here!

Yup.

Sokurah · Post by **Sokurah** » Tue May 01, 2018 2:48 pm

redballoon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:27 pm Thanks, man!
They remain unused after all this time, though I could use them as a 16x16px character template for top-down 3/4 view games, I suppose.

Adorbs!

redballoon · Post by **redballoon** » Tue May 01, 2018 5:35 pm

dfzx wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 9:00 am Just to clarify: the graphics people are posting here are.. what? Public domain? Free for anyone to use in any future projects?

Some of this stuff is excellent and as someone with no artistic ability whatsoever I can see myself wanting to use it (although I'm not sure what for yet).

What Einar said.

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 2:10 pm Neither. If you are interested in using anything, contact the author directly to discuss it. All authors are right here!

redballoon · Post by **redballoon** » Tue May 01, 2018 5:45 pm

I could probably post this in here, too, lolzers.

The 1st section of Level 1, Double Dragon 128k.

redballoon · Post by **redballoon** » Fri May 04, 2018 9:31 pm

Found another lot of all unused graphics. This time from a shmup.

The mountains could really do with a bit of tidying up - they're completely tileable with each other -but I'm pretty pleased with the small amount of enemy spaceships produced, including the hero spaceship. I think the hero spaceship was the basis for the main spaceship in Vallation and 1 of the enemies had a brief time in Vallation before being replaced by the sprites that were eventually used. As a side note, I produced a lot more Vallation enemy spacecraft and only a small selection appeared in the final game.

The single building in the above spritesheet was also due to appear in Vallation 128K but....didn't!

Ast A. Moore · Post by **Ast A. Moore** » Fri May 04, 2018 10:01 pm

I love the mountains the way they are. Pretty neat!

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Sat May 05, 2018 9:57 am

I'm drooling over those sprites, worthy of Armalyte except the bottom right which, while still good, is erring on cartoony.

How much tidying up have the mountains already had? They are clearly not a straight jpg conversion.

redballoon · Post by **redballoon** » Sat May 05, 2018 5:30 pm

Yeah, I agree about that one. I recommend designing and pixeling 16x16px sprites. It can be very therapeutic especially when you leave them for a bit then go back.

I dunno, these days I think i’d remove a lot of it the individual pixels and remove done of the clusters of pixels to give more contrast. There are areas I might alter slightly.

RMartins · Post by **RMartins** » Sat May 05, 2018 9:21 pm

Just to add some more stuff, to keep the ball rolling.

Here is a screen that I started about 2 years ago, that I have not finished yet.

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Sat May 05, 2018 9:40 pm

RMartins wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 9:21 pm Here is a screen that I started about 2 years ago, that I have not finished to yet.

A white cross on a small black square? Not your finest Rui, I have to be brutally honest :-p

RMartins · Post by **RMartins** » Sat May 05, 2018 10:10 pm

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 9:40 pm
RMartins wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 9:21 pm Here is a screen that I started about 2 years ago, that I have not finished to yet.
A white cross on a small black square? Not your finest Rui, I have to be brutally honest :-p

What ?

LOL

P.S.
Can't you see the Picture ?

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Sat May 05, 2018 10:51 pm

RMartins wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 10:10 pm P.S.
Can't you see the Picture ?

Nope, it was originally blocked, but I gave an exception and I still can't see it

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Sat May 05, 2018 10:56 pm

Different device - I can see it. Weird!

Good dev screen, very moustache heavy Indiana

RMartins · Post by **RMartins** » Sat May 05, 2018 11:04 pm

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 10:56 pm Different device - I can see it. Weird!

Good dev screen, very moustache heavy Indiana

Yep, I remember that it was either too thick, or too thin.
The pixels were not helping out here

I believe this was my reference image

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