Fun sprite work this week, crammed between meetings and feedback on first very rough full playthrough. Woohoo have a great weekend all! 
Design
Some concept work on group of enemies called the Elgon, for Indie game Mecromage.
Twitch emoticons I’ve been working on today to submit to Kripp. Any feedback is appreciated. Continue Reading
This is a map screen I’ve been drafting up for a 2d platforming game. There are a lot of constraints to ensure the process is efficient to quickly develop more for different levels, and to ensure that we keep it as light as possible on the coding end as well. This is definitely a draft that I can see going in and adding some small effects to keep it feeling dynamic.
Art by Joshua Keyes – Characters and scene inspired by Castlevania, owned by Konami.
I decided it might be fun to submit a piece for Jazza’s Contest of the Month: New Resolution. The goal was to take a scene from a game that was made for a 1990 or prior machine and redraw it in a higher resolution. *placed 2nd – Runner up in open category*
I created this image for a very special Youtube friend of mine. She runs a fun channel that focus on gaming with her co host Misha the hamster. Check her youtube channel for lots of fun and suspense!
I tackled what I thought was going to be a much more simple task. Taking a Starcraft 1 arbiter and making a Twitch icon out of it for a well known Starcraft 2 player. Being that the Starcraft assets where already quite small, I assumed that resizing it a little smaller wouldn’t be to bad an approach.
To be honest it wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t satisfied with the muddy result, so I decided to do a rough redraw of the image to simplify it a bit, This was it stand out a bit more when sized down.
As a final pass I tried a Chibi version of the unit. I find that doing chibi versions of characters and objects forces you to bring out the most important design choices that make the subject identifiable. The result I felt comes across fairly well, but using it is a matter of taste. Using Chibi assets in any design will push it toward a bit more of a cute esthetic.
