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[Deon]

Greetings. Encouraged by Head's awesome DWARFED I slowly learn to code in BYOND and make my own little game.

It's going to be an old good post-apocalyptic RPG, in the theme of Wasteland. I remember when I was a kid and played that game, I always wanted to play it with my friends... Now I will try to make it.


Anyway, I have some job done and I slowly work on the environment, but the pixel art drawing really slows me down (although it's a fun thing).

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Different shades are there because of the lighting system.

If you want and can contribute a pixelart in the same style related to post-apocalyptic America (anything: car tires, bottles, lemonade machines, broken robot parts) I would really love you to post it in this thread.

Common tiles are 32x32.

[Bluerobin]

Hmm, looks cool. I'm gonna do a couple, but how should I do a transparent background? I haven't really done anything for a BYOND game (or... much else for that matter) before.

[Deon]

You can do a white background, I think I will change little details anyway (to make things to fit on tables, in cupboards etc.) so background cropping is not a problem for me.

[Bluerobin]

Alright, sounds good.

Edit: K, here's a few I did quickly to get into it.

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A bottle (I drew it sitting on the table, so hopefully it's the right beer-bottle-ish size)
A tire (not sure on the size for this one, but it was the first I did, so I just kind of went with it)
The same tire, but much worse for the wear

Hope you can use those, I'm gonna do a couple more and call it a night I think.

Edit2: Quick question though. In your picture up there are the tiles supposed to be 32x32? I copied and opened the picture for reference and it didn't occur to me until just now that they were considerably larger than that when I opened the picture.

[Deon]

I would suggest to draw objects like bottles etc. bigger if you mean them as usable items and not parts of the landscape. I don't want people to endure pixel-hunting . A good example for a bottle-size would be 3/4 of that lamp on the top screenie.

Tires look awesome, thank you very much.

Meanwhile I drew a TV.



Right now it toggles between on/off (black screen/animated white noise) but I will use it to broadcast news on different channels (weather, leader of town etc.) in a distant future (by showing different of many drawn animations based on global world variables).

P.S. Also a good trick to make objects easy-to-spot is to make them brighter and use a dark outline of 1 pixel.

[Deon]

I've used them both for garbage. Awesome, thank you.

[Bluerobin]

Alright, sounds good. I'll make a bigger bottle. If you can use the first one for landscape stuff (in cabinets or on counters/tables) go for it. Here's a drink machine... it turned out happier than I meant it to, but there's a ruined one too that might work.

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...post since I started posting. Ooooh, they actually look good in use. Cool!

[Deon]

I already raepd your bottle (making it bigger and adding a sticker and a bottlecap).



If you don't like me modifying your sprites tell me and I'll stop.

Awesome machine. Mind if I make it less saturated though, to go with the brown-ish theme of the world?

[Bluerobin]

Heck no I don't mind. I'm just playing around with this and having fun, so go ahead and do whatever you want with them. Here's another bottle too:

[Deon]

More bottles -> more drinks.

And what is a bad world without good strong drinks? Men have to drink something to make them happier .

[Bluerobin]

Haha yup. Aaaand... the same bottle, slightly better:

[Deon]

Thanks. Your help is VERY appreciated. It may seem to be just a few sprites, but it actually saved me enough time to code in some more stuff like opening/closing of closets (and to smoke and drink a coffee ).

[Bluerobin]

Haha no problem. I have some more trash, this time paper:

[Deon]

I've made your machine just a bit less saturated and it fits great.

Also I've made a cola version:



Those red/orange/green variations strangely good fit to Cola/Fanta/Sprite colors .

Oh man, if only you could make a jukebox, I could make it to play songs from L4D2 then... Ah well, I am not in a position to make requests .

[Bluerobin]

Haha ok, I'll do that for my last of the night. I have some trashcans for now: