HM-style pixel art Options

[Nurse Fin]

Well, I'm no expert spriter or anything, but it's kind of fun (yet tedious... go figure). I know a lot of people have attempted to make their own HM games with little luck. I'm only really able to program stuff like a cooking system, advanced social system, calendar, mining system... but the actual farming has me stuck. Oh well. :P At least I can make graphics, too. If I ever get around to making a full working test bed I might want to make a fan game with original characters (not ToT/AP chars, I just used them for testing purposes) and stuff like that. :D Maybe... someday.

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I've only made a few floor and wall tiles so far, no furniture or anything, and I've only finished a standard female walking template. But I made all this in about 6 hours, which isn't too bad :D

[Nurse Fin]

Oops, double post... there hasn't been much activity in here.

Anyway, I'm home now, and work will start to return to its normal pace... still making tons of tweaks to the core database (I had some more ideas pop into my head while I was away). So now I have to go and completely rewrite the recipe lists again, hurray :P My friend and I were talking about ideas as far as subplot/storyline kinds of things, and we got on to the subject of Katamari Damacy and now we kind of want to do something with stars and constellations, but more than just the crappy old collection quests. That will probably take a lot of planning before we come up with anything workable (and will prolly need some help...).

One more character to introduce; Sylvie. Kind of lame that I had to change her color scheme last minute, but it seems like Marvelous just HAD to release a character for the new HM game that looked waaaaay too much like mine, leaving me no choice. Darn, because I agonized over her character design the most so far... right when I thought I had everything good to go (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) ;

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She kind of looks like Saint-Juste from Brother Dear Brother now, even moreso in her fall/winter design.

I have 3 more characters' designs finalized (as in drawn out on paper) now, but it's such a big hassle to make the big fancy promotional artwork for them, I may skip ahead and start working on their in-game graphics first.


I think I'm finally starting to reach a conclusion for the main characters' base design. Maybe. Perhaps. I'm probably going to end up cheating and using my Fashion Mode game for inspiration.