Comments on: Pixel Art

By: karl

karl — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:18:56 +0000

I haven’t given it too much thought, Jaycee, but I’m imagining something kind of like a cross between Phantom Hourglass and Nintendogs. (???)

By: Jaycee

Jaycee — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:31:43 +0000

Just being curious… What would you say are the basic pillars of a ACC DS game?

(Right now, because it’s late, I’m only seeing some kind of platformer with some kind of relevant “friendship” mechanic, laden with poignant cut-scenes.)

Jaycee

By: Taffer

Taffer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:10:21 +0000

IIRC the DS has 16-bit graphics in at least one of its screen modes, so you’re still right karl. ;-)

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:38:50 +0000

I used to do pixel art for mobile phone games (sorry, that’s cell phones to everyone else), you could get a pretty good game written and drawn in J2ME (cut back version of Java) and have a downloadable games lots of folks could play.

By: Slipstream

Slipstream — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:22:40 +0000

There are plenty of games from the Super NES (Chrono Trigger) AND Nintendo 64 (Super Mario 64) days that are ported to the DS. It can handle any backwards implementation as well. Quite versatile little machine for what it can do.

By: karl

karl — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:11:40 +0000

Good point, Chris. I stand ashamed…

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:06:55 +0000

You might have a bit of trouble writing a 16-bit game for the 32-bit Nintendo DS :) I guess you could switch the CPU to thumb mode and have the majority of game code in 16-bit…

By: Will

Will — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:04:26 +0000

Ooooh! Ooooh! In the game you just kinda wander around aimlessly until it starts raining. Then you lose control of CC while he runs around the area randomly and into trees/bushes/rivers/etc. And if we’re going for an RPG style game, there will be random encounters with bear traps that CC smacks around until they break!

…ok yeah, I got nothin’. I’m tired and thought it sounded funny :)