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Arguably, there are a few details that will almost inevitably be similar when spriting in a similar style—you can’t really avoid the square crotch without making one leg fatter than the other or otherwise drawing a triangular-looking crotch. But combined with the head shape, arm shape, pocket details, and tight, pants-like shorts, the resemblance is definitely uncanny.

It’s fine to draw inspiration from a reference, so long as you add enough of your originality in as many ways possible to make the final product your own work. Just know that there’s often thin line between inspiration and consistency, and straight up theft.

Then that sprite must of ripped off MOTHER 4 style, as MOTHER 4’s style and sprites are much larger and different than MOTHER 3 game sprites. MOTHER 4’s style and sprites were made for one game and one game alone, it’s own game.

Id recommend working from scratch as Ryu pointed out it’s more than just head that is the same. It’s arm, pocket detail and the pants.

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I’ll direct straight to Work for Hire pm according to forum guidelines.

MinawaKitten:

What am I looking at? I mean it in the most serious way. I genuinely have no idea what I’m looking at.

I am terrified. Like legit terrified.

I really liked the style of the Old-RPGs they we’re soo simple but rather fun!

He could’ve sworn that he mowed his half of the lawn yesterday. Last week. Five months ago.

If you’d like, maybe you could lend him a hand? He’d really appreciate that.

I joined this forum years ago, yet never managed to post anything interesting. So here it is, a short demo video of the Earthbound game engine I wrote (mostly) from scratch on GameMaker Studio for personal use. Clearly, there still are some bugs here and there, but I’ve fixed most of them already.
I plan to make a full game with it someday, hopefully! That’d be it. Yea.
(Hope you don’t mind the 21 day bump)

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I joined this forum years ago, yet never managed to post anything interesting. So here it is, a short demo video of the Earthbound game engine I wrote (mostly) from scratch on GameMaker Studio for personal use. Clearly, there still are some bugs here and there, but I’ve fixed most of them already.
I plan to make a full game with it someday, hopefully! That’d be it. Yea.
(Hope you don’t mind the 21 day bump)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv9wpwR27T8

Wait you can do that in just game maker?

At first I thought that engine was a Earthbound romhack, it looks great!

Anyway, I’m working on a joke Earthbound fan game that I won’t talk too much about, but I made a video on it.
There’s also swearing? So if you have a problem with swearing don’t click it.
Anyway, here it is

I have decided to post my precursor to a project in here while I play with different game engines:
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Earthbound: Pokey’s Side of the Story

Purpose:
• To explore Pokey’s character as it relates to events in Earthbound and Mother 3

Synopsis
• Pokey was generally portrayed as an individual who was not too likeable. Throughout Earthbound he taunted and mocked Ness and eventually gained enough resolve to fight Ness. However in Mother 3, we find Pokey has collected certain objects of nostalgia which implies that there is a deeper side to Pokey than originally represented.

Features
• To be determined

Content:
• Core movement and screen transition functionality has been implemented
• Collision set up in the Minch house
• Preliminary speech functionality implemented

Production stage:
• Game engine selection – Currently, I am weighing the pros and cons between several different engines between ease of learning and functionality. The three engines I am looking at are Unity, Game Maker and Construct 2. Unity is likely the most difficult to learn even with basic Java programming knowledge. Unity has many prewritten functions that make the development easier, but it takes time to learn which are useful and how to properly call them. Construct 2 is easier by far, and such the demo is made in Construct 2. There appears to be limitations in its core scripting mechanics; however, convoluted workarounds may be created. I have no experience in Game Maker but I will try the free version to see if it is useable.

Challenges:
• Learning graphics engine structure – Construct 2 has its event sheets structured slightly differently from what I would expect in a normal programming language
• Structuring functions – i.e. Move all text/speech to separate functions? Move screen transitions to separate functions?

Production tasks:
• Outline story up to daytime
• Code demo up to daytime in all three engines to see which is most appropriate

Demo notes and TODOs:
• Created in Construct 2
• Find curtain textures for the Minch’s house
• Find meteor sprites
• Block off collision on Onett night map
• Pokey’s sprite has only four directions to the walk while the engine supports eight directions: create other four directions
• Fade in/out not yet coded
• Cut out backgrounds to allow for overlapping when sprite travels behind objects (sofa, bed, cliff, tree, etc.): alternatively, find set sprites
• Add music
• Fix layering for Pokey
• Beautify text boxes

major wips of the title screen for a project

not sure which text size is the best tho

opinions?

i made these tilesets with my hands over the course of like 4 hours and it took an hour to even get a fuctional journal to work in rpg maker 2003 but i --ing did it

but this is only the beginning of my suffering. …

i have to make more tile sets and format a lot of character sprites. . .

that aside khrystie’s pallete needs a lot of work, it looked fine w/o background but now thats a different story

Joel mentioned my game last stream he did. Needless to say I am hype…

Huzzah! Looks much better!

And yeah, making custom tilesets can be a pain. Glad you were able to find what you needed!

It’s them
Also I’ve finally got the final list of dateable characters for the game.

Some of my previous and actual work.

Some models of houses, a drugstore and the rooms of the Thower bros.

Each drugstore will have the trademark “D&S”

Rooms:

I wanted to represent the atmosphere of Earthbound in each map as well as the entire game.

So I tried out the free version of game maker studio.

Here’s the first blog update for daybreak
http://pk-101.tumblr.com/post/142488266301/update-1-misc-work

Hi! I’m working (with a couple other people) on a game, and I think it’s really cool and want to talk about it………
……..buuuuuuuut also I’m super bad at talking to strangers or people in general, so for now here’s some gifs bye

Well I’m the programmer/person-who-vaguely-understands-the-engine. The team is pretty much just “Roach”, who I guess I’d call… the Lead Artist?, his friend “Everdredd”, a uhh… “Design Consultant?”, since sometimes “Ideas Guy” has….. connotations….. They’ve also commissioned another artist for odds and ends. And there’s me. We also had someone who was going to do music, but I’m not sure if he’s still… going to do the music. Collaborative projects… you know how it goes…

We’ve been developing it in the Godot Engine. I like it. It’s comparable to, or at least often compared to Unity, only it’s free. I mean, I know Unity’s kinda free, but it’s more free. “Open Source” free. It’s the first thing I’ve actually worked with, so I can’t personally compare it to anything else, but…… I guess… um… well I suppose the point I’m trying to get across is “I like it”.

I was considering making a topic about it, I just need to read The Requirements more in depth and write up a complying post.

An NPC I made that I’m super proud of!

I’ve picked up the Godot engine and I’m really having fun with it! I’m making more progress on a game than I’ve made in a long time.

@Punkkitt

This looks so cute!

I think you would have a better result if you shrink the buildings, reducing the spaces only with bricks.

Tuckie is doing amazing work! He also went to my high school, and is really awesome IRL. All the high fives!

Don’t you just HATE it when your cat runs off of a cliff and starts floating? I know I do.