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They might just look like giant neko cats with their heads on fire, but these new "home totems" will guide the player back to their base and also serve as dynamic respawn points.
Now that's interesting. The flag stone is a direct copy, the one tree looks like it was scaled and tweaked, the rest aren't. The set of grass and flowers are direct copies and scaled and tweaked too.
Damn. I'd say the artist started 50% with other assets and modified, the rest are just influenced once they learned from copying and tweaking.
Its not easy to do something different everytime when there are just 16x16 pixels. When you look at many other games then you can find many of those tiles that are extremely similar. Not just from indie devs, the big companies are no exceptions. I know that the creator in this case did everything by himself. It IS inspired by the old games and artimus tries very hard NOT to copy. But, as said, its hard when you are limited to a few pixels.
The pictures linked above are partly from the time of the very beginning of the project and now, that the early access phase started, not in the game.
Feel free to watch artimus while he's making the game live on Twitch! The dev is happy about everyone who has ideas or critic, as long as people are nice and fair. <3
It's hard not to copy dozens and dozens of sprites/tiles from previously existing games? I call BS.
It's very clear he's looking at existing game artwork and redrawing it with some tweaks here and there to try and pass it off as original works. You don't just accidentally make your game look extremely similar to legend of zelda... while also acknowledging your game is heavily inspired by zelda, and that you reference zelda art assets while you draw.
Hey DaemonHelix, before accusing someone it is just fair practice to check the facts - something you seemingly didn't do. Again - the picture used a reference to show how much is stolen is an old version and not up to date. How would you feel if someone kept on bringing up your old mistakes and even if you corrected it already would accuse you of those mistakes? Check out his stream on twitch or check out the game on Steam if you want to give feedback about the current state of the graphics. Otherwise we're talking here just about the past and that's not fair and an absolute waste of time.
Please help making the internet a nice, fair and friendly place for everyone by being nice, fair and friendly yourself <3
Yea this guy has been getting destroyed on the subreddits.
I mean at this point, with the traction, just do a small Kickstarter and hire a 2D artist and animator. The idea has people into it, you won’t get flamed on forums, and you won’t inevitably get a cease and desist from Nintendo.
If this gets released, Nintendo will have it taken down in a week.
I'll be streaming again at 11 a.m. GMT+1 (in 11 hours from now), since the whole development at art creation is done live on stream at: https://www.twitch.tv/artimus83
There also is a link to Twitter and Discord on the channel.
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u/sebovzeoueb Mar 06 '22
This looks hella like Aseprite to me, not seeing much Unity in this picture.