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[Captain Mayday]

The game first came out here.

[ductape]

not exactly true, just go back and read the first page of this thread. At any rate, a lot of us have been through many of the changes and growth of the game. At one time I even accused Magellan of secretly being Toady and that prospector was the secret month end project.

[Captain Mayday]

I stand corrected, clearly I misremembered. Either way, yes, Magellan is quite active here. And his game rocks. 

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Don't know if anyone has mentioned it but when you
die by your own plasma trail when fighting pirates it
records it as having been blasted into atoms by pirates.

[magellan]

   Don't know if anyone has mentioned it but when you
die by your own plasma trail when fighting pirates it
records it as having been blasted into atoms by pirates.

The "Got blasted to atoms by pirates"-bit is for the eulegy.
What really happened is what they laugh about later at the dinner.

... guess I could exactify that message a little.

Anyway:
If any of you are interested in ancient history:
This was the first place Prospector got mentioned in public:
http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php?t=813

[BigD145]

   Don't know if anyone has mentioned it but when you
die by your own plasma trail when fighting pirates it
records it as having been blasted into atoms by pirates.

The winners/survivors are typically the history makers. The Truth doesn't matter.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   But I want it to record that I was stupid enough to
backup into my own plasma trail!

[Deon]

Magellan is a really nice guy. He chats with me, helps with spriting info and he is so quick to respond .

Really, people, do not let this thread to sink again.

This is a current work on terrain. I know that the sprites are quite basic, but I wanted it to blend together, and with such low amount of colors it's a very hard task.

Here we are in a fern forest, near a small geyser.



Also note that it would look 10 times better if the tiles were not deformed . The deformation removes a lot of details.

[Deon]

Here's how it will look without the deformation:
 

[Asra]

Looking good. Are these tiles already available on 1.17?

[Deon]

No, it's the work in progress, so it will take me at least a few days to do it. I underestimated the amount of tiles .


I've finished all creatures though, so it's just the terrain and items now. Ships are almost done too.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Definitely nice, don't worry about a low number of
colors, as long as you use them well then its fine. Take
a look at the grass in this picture from Secret of Mana 3:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The grass looks awesome yet if you look closer:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You notice it only uses 3 colors. I have the game and
did not notice this. It took this and this page from a
pixel art tutorial to find it out.

[Deon]

You can also have manually arranged tiles here, and tile transitions: somethings I cannot have, also this grass would look like a tree on 24x24 sprite . So many limitations.

And yeah, this tutorial is one of the first I've ever read.

Anyway, I've done about 1/7 of all land tiles. Yay me .

[BishopX]

Deon you rock!

Prospector is seriously pushing the amount of information that can be contained in Ascii.

[Deon]

Yeah, in this game some misunderstanding can lead to a quick death .

I've started to work on the station facilities. Here's the personnel office:


Also here's an abandoned mining town near mountains and forests. I dislike how shrubland looks, it looks like green boulders rather than bushes, so I will redraw it: