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The legs and arms need to move too. Try making the arm swinging back shorter and also darker to emulate foreshortening, and the arm swinging forward a bit longer and more in front. Same concept with the legs.

Might also be worth trying some head-bobbing

Those big adorable bobble-heads would probably bob very nicely :)

I revisited my sprite template, added some vertical movement, and changed the feet a bit.

I could still probably stand to do some tweaking to the arms.

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...spake The Lord Thy God.

No, I don't know what (if anything) these will be used for. I'm trying to get better at pixel art and develop a system for churning it out so no future projects have to look like LQ.

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Arms (usually) swing forward and backwards OPPOSITE to the motion of the legs in the regular gait of a normal human walk.
Note, everybody. *cough* *coughing because the sprites that come with the engine have the arms and legs swinging on the same side in the same direction at the same time which is frankly appalling and inexcusable but they're cute so I'm conflicted*

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Been working on adding a bunch of new stuff to my set of 8-bit graphics. 20 more enemy sprites, 25 new weapons, 35 more attack animations -- and that's just the new additions that are done. I'm working on more hero and walkabout sprites now (16 more hero sprite sets have already been finished, so it's mostly walkabouts for some of the new enemies that I'll need to add in before I can post the updated file.)

Here's a preview of some of the new hero sprites... playable monsters! (also included: elves, dwarves, and fat traveling merchant guys with silly hats.)

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FYS:AHS -- Swapping out some step-on NPCs for zones + each step script
Puckamon -- Not until the reserve party is expanded.[/size]

Those sprites look great and have a lot of character. I need to see them doing the thriller dance.

Here is a crone I made recently:

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Wonderful! I'm looking forward to using the elves and dwarves and stuff especially.

How much effort did I waste by doing werewolf and raccoon guy hero sprites on my own?

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A new jungle tileset for the village in my current game project.






Any ideas what to add the village to make it look more inhabited?
I've never been anywhere near a jungle, that maked designing it a bit of guessing around.

Usually they have some stuff outside the huts, like spears and gathering bowls. Depends on what stuff they don't need inside their huts. That, and they usually have a dirt ground area, something about either bugs or fast growing vegetation I think.

Try adding something(s) communal that people are using together. Maybe they're tanning hides, or crafting weapons, or tending a fire/cooking. Things for NPCs to do instead of just hanging around. People rarely just hang out and do nothing.

(Looks great though!)

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Thanks for your great ides!
That's really helpful to improve the map.


Here is the improved version of the map:

A statue for revovering the heros.


The village with NPCs and tools.


The garden with fern to hide monsters/battles.

I.. uh.. Return?

It's been a while.

Also; the above is entirely created using the stock OHRRPGCE palette.

@marionline:
I never noticed your updated maps, somehow! They look really good. The village definitely looks more populated and lively. The level of detail and diversity among the graphics and objects makes it much more interesting to look at and (I'm sure) more interesting to explore. I like the statue particularly. You might consider making it stand out even more since it appears to be an important game object. If it recovers heroes, then there's clearly some significant narrative and mechanic purpose to it. The cups(?) around it are a nice touch, but I'd go even further. Make unique trees around it, a water feature, markings on the ground, I don't know. Tell the player explicitly through the presentation that THIS THING IS IMPORTANT. Make it the center of an entire shrine or temple or something. It looks super cool; you should give it more recognition to support that.

@thespazztikone:
I didn't piece together that you'd made that using Neo's palette. That's really impressive! I always love seeing how uniquely that palette can be used. There are a lot of great artists here who definitely make effective use of it like this. The hue shift of the purple shade you used for the shadow color is real nice, but I like the stark primary colors as well. Usually you hear the advice that using fully saturated colors is bad practice, but it' obviously a stylistic choice here, and I don't question it.

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Still practicing, to be honest...but I'm definitely improving!! This art is from my current project. I had to start it over from scratch...because I didn't follow any of the warnings to back up my work...and my previous laptop died. :/ At least now I'll be more careful, right?