Quest to the deep

Pixel art. About videogame Ariel - The Little Mermaid. For 8 bit system Sega Master System.

But this is my fantasy. Quest to the deep. Its own creatures are living in the ocean. Not only fish, but a mermaids also. Fantasy. This is also arcade. About underwater world it can be. If to make this game. By the way, not so many games are about underwater something.

Crystals were lost in underwater fantasy kingdom. Crystals make ocean to be calm. Because of crystals are lost, at the surface of the ocean storms are starting, big storms. Underwater hurricanes are start to happen. It is very necessary to keep oceans in balance using magic at the planet-ocean. And control the weather. This is a job for underwater creatures. Calm ocean - is a good place for everybody. And stormy - is full of danger.

Crystals were stolen by evil sorcerer. And he disappeared somewhere. And you go for a quest to deep of oceans, in search of crystals of calm. Sorcerer droped them in a different corners of the ocean. And they need to be back to their place.

GreenBall

Pixel art about videogame Av Soccer for Nes 8 bit.

So, I first time, draw a football! And even more - 8 bit! So fun! So, I don’t know, a lot about how to play it. Imagine to myself, that you need to run after the ball. And hit the gates. But, of course, there are more rules. But, if it is about 8 bit, then it can be that simple. 

Simple football, even more, football arcade. This is pixel art and so sport fantasy for summer day. Sport, of course, is valuable thing. So it is good to pay attention to this thing. For example, as idea for computer game.

And also exists American football. So, you can even fight there. As idea. Dynamic goes higher. But, this is only picture to football game theme.

Spec: future, raises from a shadow

This is pixel art, inspired by screenshot from videogame Last Action Hero for Nes. And also I was influenced by style of games for Atari 2600-5200-7800. But this is again my own author’s pixel art work. Fantasy about them for my game! 

Also it can be added to source of inspiration Double Dragon for system Nes. And Robocop. And also different VHS cassettes with fantastic action movies. But let’s stop with sources. What it is all about, this game can be?

You are secret agent. Just like agent 007. You are intrude inside secret factory of corporation MegaInst. At the factory, there are chemical and computer development. This is a huge city. Also existed a secret base on the Moon. And the main factory, the place you have to start, to explore and investigate what is going on here. What it is about this MegaInst is trying to do? It builds robots, mutants and has its own army of mercenaries.

Space Master 2000

This is pixel art, made with inspiration about videogame Space Invaders 91 for Sega MegaDrive.

One day, of course, it will be a bright future. It will begin a space discovery. Of another planets and another worlds. Tv serial Star Trek will be a reality. And, today, you can be motivated, playing some arcade shooters about space. Like, Space Invaders for Sega.

But, this is again, my drawing, my variation. Let it be somewhere like a clone. But, anyway, it is all done my own vision. I, by the way, have a plan, to make all this games by all my pictures, that I draw. Most of drawing is example of rather simple videogames. Rather. But, it is also need to be done. Don’t have enough skills, work capability. Sometimes motivation. 

But, anyway, this art illustrates already example of graphic design. And you can count on some gameplay process by this picture. All of this you can see by drawing.

So, Space Master 2000. Iron mechanoids fly to the orbit of planet Earth. They swim in space, like small ships in ocean. They are already here.

Tank field

Here we have pixel art about idea for a game. This time experiment. I all the time doing something about space invaders. And what if to move it to earth? And yesterday it was - 22 June. Day of second world war. So I decided to make idea, which can show this theme.  But first, I wanted as a space invaders. Science fiction, more main theme for me. 

So, this is all is on earth. This is some tanks in main idea. They are moving, slower, faster, it depends. They shoot very different - tank gun, machinegun. There are crosses like X, that can stop tank, like walls. 

You are in the down of screen. And here we have elements of realism. For me it is not casual thing. Tank gun you need to load. And there are limits of tank gun bullets in tank. Let’s say 10. After it goes reload process for some time. Also tank has several modes. Mode to move, to rotate tower, mode to shoot. Last mode has parameters like distance of shooting and angle. But in a simple way. Experimental idea.

I have no idea about how it all works, even in a simple way. But it is not very difficult to implement this in simple way, than it can be done. Anyway, it can be arcade type like space invaders. But with some no typical aspects. Will it be so interesting? Who knows! Here we can have dynamical reload, you need to aim. Tank move not so fast, tower rotating not so fast. And everybody in on a game field. Each with its own parameters - speed movement, shooting.

Everybody moves. Everybody is shooting. Everybody with its own speed. Game field here like Desert Strike. So, big battlefield, this is not 1 screen. So, it can be a game like Desert Strike. Some kind interesting thing!

But, in case of Desert Strike videogame style, it will be a better graphics. And for Atari 7800 style 8 bit style, than it can be like this. So we have two ideas here. It is Desert Strike and space invaders. First is on big field, and second on simple way on 1 screen. But most simple way is to do atari 7800 8 bit style 1 screen shooting game. Pretty arcade.

Invaders from ocean

Pixel art about Space Invaders. I watched screenshot from videogame for MS DOS  - Space Commanders.

Everybody already have a habbit that Space Invaders are from space. And now from ocean. Most of planet is small explored ocean. And who know what is in there, in depth. So, from there are going crabs and sea bugs. They are huge. They can shoot with plasma clot. And you are on a ship with a big gun. And mainly it is all like you know. But there is some game moment - That all these bugs can fight in melee and can bite or smash with claws. And you will not be destroyed immediately, as they reach you. You can continue give a force feedback. You have lots of life. And enemies are pretty resilient. And all this is going on water.

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Friends in PC

This is pixel art, drawn with impressions from screenshot from Space Invaders Extreme. It is everything funny and colorful there.

Your space friends have come! And it is starting a celebration! Meet them! Everything is bright! If to make this game - than you need to shoot blocks also. So, here we have aliens and blocks. It can be, also a system of bonuses, like a chain can be implemented. But it is when I start to make it. Just now, it is only a fantasy in format of pixel art drawing. Again about theme of Space Invaders.

Also, graphics like MS DOS. Retro nostalgia art.

Galaxsidiks

Pixel art. About screenshot from videogame for system MS DOS with title Galactic Battle. This is game type of Space Invaders.

My art I called galaxsidiks. Robo army of space mosquitoes are going near to frontier of solar system. Bloodsucking creatures of space sсale. This is a serious threat for all hot blooded species. Mosquitoes are not so primitive. They have a whole systems about transformation of blood. At the conquered planets. And they need all the time a new sources of blood. This gave them a motivation for technological process. This is, of course, exotic case. But one time in a million attempts it can happen anything. And this way this space thereat was created.

Invasion begins! Mosquitoes bites with a cosmic scale! This is insects attack! And you cannot to brush aside. It is starting galaxsidiks! Hunt for mosquitos!

This time I decided to train in drawing characters.

This drawing is made in style of sprites from Streets of Rage 1 for Sega Master System. It is Axel Stone, the character which I take as a basic. I never played in Streets of Rage for myself.

And this is my character, which I draw for training.

nice stuff, I like it

Lunar Cargo

Pixel art about screenshot from Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator. Videogame for Apple 2.

And this is my drawing. My idea. Inspired by screenshot. At scale of Star Trek I will not look. Let’s, say, it can be this kind of game. If to do.

There is some solar system. With some planets. And lots of moons. Let’s say 1 planet, 30 moons. Different asteroids as a small thing.

And you just take at one base a cargo. And transport it to another base. Space truck. You have laser and shields. So this expect some shooting for fun. You need to shoot at Space pirates and to make your way through asteroids with shooting them.

This is like arcade game with some reference to simulator. Parameters are count in percents. And game is about making score. This means - destroyed asteroid - gain score, kill space pirate - gain score, moved a cargo to destination - gain lots of scores again.

Adventure in front line of time

Pixel art drawing. About Digital Devil Monogatari - Megami Tensei II for NES.

Here we have my drawing. This is my view of a game. This is looks like role playing. Maybe, turn based like roguelike. It will be much easier.

You are searcher of adventures. And you are exploring labyrinth at the edge of time. It is a whole dimension with a network of labyrinths in style of castles and corridors. It is like retro role playing. For example, Diablo, Ultima, Wizardry, Might and Magic.

Edge of time is attraction point for adventurers. Its secrets and treasures. But it is a very dangerous place. It has lots of monsters. And lots of strange. Anomalies. It is very easy to get lost in labyrinth of time fortress.

Secondary projects at the stage of sprites, ideas from screenshots

So, I often, like to learn about game screenshots from different old games. So, I watching all the time game screenshots from systems like MS DOS, Nes 8 bit, Sega 16 bit, Sega Master System, computers of 80s –Spectrum, Commodore, and I often get the idea something like this by myself. With such kind of graphics and idea. So, I regularly make drawing in style of pixel art in style of screenshots, I watched. But, I make a decision to move forward in idea of making lots of games in simple way from lots of screenshots, I like from retro games. To make it step by step and simple way. This is very valuable. So, I show what I have in secondary process. So like fun process I am making step forward. So today all these things are in a way of drawing and I am starting to make sprites to games itself.

Shooter type Baltron, sidescroll view

So, I have already finished sprites for some ideas. So, first idea, that I was interesting in, it was game Baltron for Nes 8 bit. It is simple shooter. With rather simple graphics and not with very big diversity. You are flying and shooting the identical by visual enemies. At the bottom there is surface of a planet. It is in main idea with the identical enemies and surface, with not big diversity. So, this way I get this game. So, I have finished drawing sprites for this kind of game. Plot is not done yet. Only sprites are completed for this game. By fun I can add more sprites. 

 Shooter type Volguard PC 6001, sidescroll view

One more interesting title, that I found for myself – it is Volguard for system PC 6001. It is hard to say for myself, what is it PC 6001 as a system, no idea. But game is about spaceship. Again everything is simple. And it has interesting color palette. At the bottom everything is yellow and up is blue. Like CGA graphics. Several colors. And rather bright. So it is interesting. And I have started to draw by myself the same kind of sprites. It is only a beginning of process for this game. So I try to learn the way it is made in original title. And I give myself a try to make my own drawing the same style, like a clone.

Sport theme, runner with obstacles

One more interesting moment. This is game about sport. Or the way I get it. CGA graphics. Only few colors. White, purple, something like blue or green. In my case, I am doing a sprite of skier. This can be a game about skier, which jumps through holes and jumping from hills of snow. Today, modern way, this is called like game about running process, runner. This  game is planned about sport theme. So, I start with a skier. Now in a simple way. Game is like retro, as everything I am doing. Right now, it is a process of making animation for skier.

Shooter top down, with music plot

One more theme, that I start to develop is a top down shooter. Like Ikari Warriors. Or well known to everybody Contra, but with top down point of view. Interesting, that I get this game from a music theme. With a photo of NOFX music band. And some prototype of Duke Nukem. So it was a start point. Sp, I try to keep music aspect, but in idea it will be a shooter. Plot, maybe, will be about music theme. So it will be so square style graphics. Like games for Atari 2600-7800 consoles or like this. So this will be more simple.

And in terms of this idea, this will be a first game with top down shooter. Simple and a probe. In terms of graphics, and gameplay. In plan there is idea to pay attention to them of Afghanistan, in terms of future games like shooter with top down view. So new graphics, new gameplay. Ikari Warriors- Vietnam. And here next is Afghanistan. But this certain game about white human is a shooter in city about music in terms of story.

Result

So here you can ask a question. What the way to make all these small games? For interesting, personal interest. So, for example, doing sprites I can train drawing. When it comes about programming, it will be more complicated, of course. So, that’s why, it is announced as a small games, in order to have a chance to make them complete and to release.

Wind of sorcery

Pixel art about videogame rings of medusa 2 for system amiga. This is some role playing game, about dungeons and turn based movement in labyrinths.

But this is my variation. Retro. Big pixelization. Big pixels, valuable part for graphic style. Maybe, it is even in direction of bard’s tale, or something like Commodore 64 or some 8 bit computer of 80s. If they can run something similar.

It is turn based game about dungeons. And walking the labyrinths. At the right it is a map of opened labyrinth. With pictograms of different colors. Enemies and treasures are shown there. And some valuable elements. At the bottom there is compass and buttons for movement. And also you have four  heroes with life bar and magic strength. I don’t draw a portraits now. And at the left you can see a screen about what you see. First person view. Here we have field and sky.

This is fantasy turn based role playing game. Personally, I am fan of Might and Magic 6. And I also watched a lot Might and Magic 3 Isles of Terra. Also add point of interest to the Conan the Barbarian stories. Black magic, ancient world, goblins and orcs. Horsemans from kingdoms, wild barbarians, warlocks, necromants. And I will not add elves. And gnomes.

Game is like walking the labyrinths. 4 heroes. Simple role playing system. Atack with cold weapon, like sword or axe. Atack with magic, with use of selected spell. Menu. All these elements are required. And it will be also a story screens. Story with fantasy type.