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Eery Platformer Mockup
Published: 2004-03-16 22:56:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 14534; Favourites: 132; Downloads: 3685
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[Looks like the latest version of dA broke this one. You could only see the full vew by clicking "Download". So I replaced the preview with the full view and it works again, but the preview is now resized and looks like crud. Oh well.]Actually started and finished this a few weeks back, but it just happens to fit this contest like a glove.
So, here it is, my take on a platformer in the style of Castlevania or perhaps Ghouls & Ghosts.320x200, 24 colours
Update: Thanks for all the comments thus far. I've taken some of your suggestions into account and updated the image: changed the score text back to my old font (the one I designed for the lives counter), added kill and loot counters beneath this, and reworked the player's mugshot. (the old version was pretty poor
)Further update: Now with added moon and water to spruce the background up a bit.
Last update ever (hopefully): Just can't seem to stop modifying this one, hehe. Made two bat sprites, and updated the background with zoggles' suggestion, plus more minor tweaks
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Comments: 58
Excellent scene so far, I love the textures, the shading and the objects and characters. I am reminded of Castlevania when I look at this piece.
I'm not really sure what you could do to make this better, as it's already very good and has a great chance of winning the contest. I guess some suggestions would be to create some sort of action in the scene by making the main character fight a monster, or jump over the gap there in the floor. The score in the upper right is kind of boring, so I might replace that with a few things such as amount of money ( like Zelda's or Mario's coin counter ) and maybe current weapon or something to that effect.
Otherwise it's great. The look and feel is exactly what I would expect from a pixel art video game.
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Great! I can see it now! 
I think it needs more bright colors (I know it's dark theme) since it looks like black BG on high contrast LCD monitors.
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Damn. :/ It seems to still be working for me, apart from the whole preview thing. I can't seem to get the hang of this dAv3 submission, no matter what I do there's always some problem with the previews/images.
Try checking again later, don't think there's much more I can do. :/
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ahahah this is adorable. go design Gameboy Advance games 
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reminds me of castlevania and harvest moon... put together.
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Nice! Very nice shading tech. and detail, would love to see a more elaborate backdrop though. 
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