The window light shows bending of light as it passes through certain mediums, and the back wall gets to benefit from the greens and oranges as well (not to mention the whole room is sorta highlighted with that dank green).Īnd uh. the green and orange hues really mix in outside light into the shop. There's a really great usage of colors next to the entrance of the shop. well, the entire Dragon, because damn, when I saw that thing animated. Note its decomposed internal organs, so skillfully placed. Yellow, tan, and white highlights used appropriately. Note the dark blues used to balance out the rest of the piece. Its hue-rotating colors add subtle nuances to the character. The main sprite crams in a HELL of a lot of detail. The usage of color conservation + the feelings the recycled "musty" yellows generate = 0WN4G3! And skeletons are definitely better than any plain ol' marble, grass, dirt, run-of-the-mill platform. The ground has got to be one of the best platformer platforms I've ever seen. The fire highlights to the mouth of the flame thing is cool, too. However, despite repeating so much, DC still manages to EFFECTIVELY eliminate the grid. It repeats frequently, especially on the leftmost bricks. I would point out the texture of the concrete wall. Other than that, it uses most of your standard pixel techniques to create some sort of. So insane, in fact, it deserves its own paragraph.)
I'm not quite so fond of the game itself (I think the concept is extremely unpolished and rather bland), but these stills vedsten posted really shows the overall quality of the art in the game throughout. I would have loved to kick it off with some critique but as you can see I'm already running a little late, expect my opinionated perspective soon though :p Some screens I grabbed of the early game for examination are here. I started a bit of a study on this game a while ago that I left unfinished. The ROM of this game is available for download in quite a few places. Screenshots of this game are available at different review sites and whatnot, but perhaps the best way to get them is to grab them yourself. Set in a gritty theme and style similar, although superior in execution, to other Capcom platformers at the time, is this game a shining example of what some consider to be a golden age in gaming, or a mere iteration in Capcom's Generic Occult-Fantasy Platformer Machine?
For better or worse, few people have a neutral opinion of this game's graphics.
We then discuss the pixel art as a group, analyzing and dissecting techniques that work for the art, and techniques that don't, in order to learn and grow and all that warm fuzzy stuff.
For those new to commercial critiques, this is an activity where the community selects something, usually a game, containing interesting examples of pixel art.
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