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How I failed to make a game: Raycasting on the GBA

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133 points mcejp | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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nsxwolf ◴[17 Oct 24 17:24 UTC] No.41871643[source]▶
It's funny to me when people apologize for not being artists when they've produced actually nice looking art. It's like a host saying "excuse the mess" when entering their nearly immaculate home.

I wish I had kept some of my game development experiments because then I could show you what actual bad art looks like!

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mcejp ◴[17 Oct 24 17:38 UTC] No.41871785[source]▶
I should have included a disclaimer -- I agree that textures and sprites are excellent, but they come from asset packs (for this same reason I cannot redistribute them in the source release). Only the crossbow placeholder is self-made.

I don't have any issue with paid asset packs, I would gladly build the entire game with third-party art, but there is only so much of it in the necessary style, resolution and quality.

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1. qludes ◴[18 Oct 24 10:35 UTC] No.41878056[source]▶
It might look much better if you picked a palette with a mood (https://lospec.com/palette-list). The resolution mismatch between the foreground crossbow and the sprites and background textures could be made less apparent too by reducing the resolution. For the monster sprites there's always scaling and palette flips. But yeah, with those sprites (and sound) defining the game's identity it's a bottomless pit.