I realized that I have an extra color for the bg for the cemetery. Since I need as much gradient as possible on the borders, and I need both brown and green to make trees and bushes (more on that soon) I went with something inbetween: lasereyes_field_cemetery2.png Edit: I think this is going along n...

As a guy who hates body hair, I've always wanted an easy way to get rid of it, then a few years ago I found out about at-home laser/IPL devices. So my wish came true. Edit: Maybe this thing could kill mosquitoes? I once had an ant crawl on my arm and accidentally zapped it, but I'm not sure what kil...

I'm just about done with this valley tileset. lasereyes_field_valley_mockup.png Though this cliff border uses more tiles than the wall border, it shares tiles with the inside walls. Edit: Woohoo! This tileset will work nicely as a palette swap for a haunted night valley stage: boundaryvalleynight.pn...

I'm just chiming in to attest to za909's talent. Here are some samples of his work:

https://youtu.be/Oqd8LyIc8dA
https://youtu.be/KKSTsHi975o

I can't find any Nova the Squirrel playlists or videos without ads.

Edit: Didn't see that Nova the Squirrel link.

I didn't like the way the vertical border didn't match the horizontal border (and pretty much all the corners), so here's an update (right side): What do you think?

Edit: Maybe I should get rid of the second-to-last column of brown pixels?

calima wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:02 am That looks very Simpsons for some reason.

Pokun wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 11:06 amMost emulators comes with many different palettes based on the results of real TV-sets. Mesen comes with quite a few, and you can download more. Of course you may also want to test on real hardware.

Okay, I'll check Mesen out.

Here's a mockup of a dug out valley border:

Omg I'm so stupid. I'm so stupid! I thought about how the laser would obstruct the bots' bodies when they're looking down: bgtest_terrain.png Everyone's distinct laser color would differentiate each bot and player! On team battles, I can just make teammates share the same color laser (friendly fire...

I decided to make my Flybot's saucer base spin: bot_saucer.gif So far this is the only animated idle sprite. The different feet are well distinguishable, but the helmets with just a few pixels' difference would not be. I was thinking of having both different helmets and different legs (and even have...

Very excellent! I'm a huge fan of the minotaur. :D Oh yeah, that's what they're called! I was searching 'demon bull' when trying to find reference images. :lol: The four CPU dudes look like hard to tell apart when in action, their colors are too close. If it matters that is, the player may not care...

I decided to see what characters I could make with the sprite palette I had: https://forums.nesdev.org/download/file.php?id=22679 Here's what I came up with: characters.png Some characters use two subpalettes, and some use one, but none use more than that. Best of all, I didn't even use the third su...

Won't this effect ever have to overlap walls, lasers an other things also using the background? I imagine it working like Bomberman, where the explosion is raycasted and just simply stops when it encounters something it can't eliminate. Yes, I pretty much just based all my bomb ideas off Bomberman....

I didn't like how the bomb explosion looked, so I redid it: Old - 48 tiles: https://forums.nesdev.org/download/file.php?id=22752 New - 23 tiles (including bomb): bomb.gif This is supposed to use bg tiles, it switches from the first subpalette (gray) to the second (red), then back to the first: https...

Next step is to reintroduce the laser for my new setup: Using background tiles for the laser poses a small issue when the laser collides with blocks: lasereyes_laser0.png The laser can't overlap, so it has to just stop where it meets a wall. So what I've decided to do was add an animated 'spark' or ...

Not a big update, but I finally implemented the current player sprites and blocks into GMStudio (everything before was either GM5.0 or mockups). https://i.imgur.com/Vghvol0.png Here's a little interactive test demo I set up: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OIf66R-9_vPaXLXmWfDl7cnyiQ_z2diM/view?usp=...