Graphics Exercise

Mason • 2015-10-27*2015-10-27 18:59* •

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Graphics Exercise

by Mason

Cart #15928 | 2015-10-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

This is a small graphics exercise & de-facto walking simulator.

it features:
-Nice isometric tiles.
-Simple collisions.
-Color cycling & Day/Night palette.
-Looping map
-Some other things

I wasn't smart enough to figure out:
-Dynamic z-ordering
-Level compression

Also, the "music" was made in a previous version,
so some of the patterns do not loop as originally intended.

Legal Boilerplate:

matt • 2015-10-27*2015-10-27 20:18*

TRIPPY!

electricgryphon • 2015-10-28*2015-10-28 10:05*

Oh please please make this into a proper surreal game!

Pizza • 2015-10-28*2015-10-28 11:52*

Like one of the pictures my dad used to draw in the 70s.

gentle_creature • 2015-10-28*2015-10-28 20:16*

that teleporting effect is super neat!

cauli • 2015-10-29*2015-10-29 11:20*

Wow I want this map as a poster

kittenm4ster • 2015-10-31*2015-10-31 02:40*

this is amazing

glorkbot • 2015-11-04*2015-11-04 17:23*

I love this so much! Great job. It's a work of art.

Neko250 • 2015-11-04*2015-11-04 17:39*

Reminds me of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film.
I love it.

Connorses • 2015-11-12*2015-11-12 00:03*

Ohhh this is fantastic.

Connorses • 2015-11-12*2015-11-12 17:52*

FYI I modded this to make it into a Picoware-Inc. Micro-game for that collab project, as a sort of homage. It's on pico-8.Slack.com in #collab

I love the art style here, it's pretty surreal and I haven't seen a single other pico-8 game that looks quite like this. It's given me a lot of cool ideas art-wise. Even simply swapping the transparent color to allow pure black in sprites significantly changes the feel of it, for example.