atari2600land's Blog - Need a good artist

RSS Bot · April 8, 2018

I'd like to have a future game look really good. In order for that to happen, I need to have someone with good drawing skills. Which is not me. So I'm asking for good help. If you want to help, here's what I want. I want a calm, meadow-like scene with mountains in the background. And now, the details:

- the image must be 256 pixels by 192 pixels. Keep in mind that the extreme bottom and top of the image probably won't show up on the screen.
- the image must have no more than 15 colors in it.
- the image's left and right edge must match as close as possible. This image will be scrolling horizontally, like in a classic platformer game or something.
- the image must have no more than about 75 or so different 8x8 pixel blocks.

So anyway, that's what I want. This is for a Game Gear game I want to make. And I would like it to look as good as possible, better than my three previous attempts (Mr. Ultra, Mr. Ultra 2, and Oranges.) This is for a game that isn't going to be Mr. Ultra 3. I want to make a completely different game. Here's a little test image I drew that's currently in the game as a placeholder.

Also, I started working on the game just yesterday. I had tons of trouble just trying to get a 16x16 sprite to show up properly, and the four-digit score I'm using has 5 digits in it. (Don't ask. I don't know why.) But I got rid of a flash of garbage just by turning off the display during the less than a second time it takes to grab the bg image and put it on the screen. I would love for this to be my best Game Gear game ever, so help is really appreciated.

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