Tuesday, 29 March 2011

How I did the graphics.

A few people asked me how I did the graphics in my last video.

It's actually quite simple, First I took a screenshot from my tilemap from the running game and pasted it to photoshop. It looked like this:
When I had this in photoshop I just drew my graphics on top of this. I used only 4 colours so it didn't take that long. I mostly did it just for the test, how it would look like instead of just repeating tile patterns. When I finished it was like this:
I was quite happy with it, but I still thought I could add one more layer below, so I drew separate layer with the stuff that goes below:
then I simply rendered these pictures over or below my charater in the game and that's it :-) simple and it does look like something I'm after.. It will need some fine tuning and adding more details later but for now I'm quite happy with the outcome.
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54 comments:

  1. Thomas Magnussen29 March 2011 at 12:46

    Ah, genious!

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  2. Do it yourself Gadgets29 March 2011 at 13:29

    nice map!goodowork!

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  3. Underground Music29 March 2011 at 13:40

    really impressed with the graphics work actually, looks really nice texture

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  4. Megan Hansen29 March 2011 at 13:49

    that looks really good, especially for a first draft!

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  5. Anonymous29 March 2011 at 13:53

    not bad mate

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  6. cool_cicler29 March 2011 at 14:02

    Thanks for teaching it... looks impressive!

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  7. oops.i.pood29 March 2011 at 14:28

    you sir, are very talented.

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  8. Dazza29 March 2011 at 16:15

    lookin good dude!

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  9. Jblogger29 March 2011 at 17:23

    sweet!

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  10. BP29 March 2011 at 18:34

    Holy.. I love these graphics man! That's a really darn good job you did there!

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  11. Clueless Dolphin29 March 2011 at 18:55

    Very awesome, interested in getting into coding

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  12. Whereas29 March 2011 at 19:06

    niiiiiiiiccce

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  13. doomsday29 March 2011 at 19:07

    Obviously you know what you are doing! Sweet!

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  14. Bulwyf29 March 2011 at 19:10

    a friend of mine once started a remake of Super mario Land (gameboy) .. but gave up half way.

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  15. Fix PC Games Admin29 March 2011 at 19:15

    wow that's fantastic really unusual +followed

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  16. Rank29 March 2011 at 19:42

    good to get to look at this step of you programing your game.

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  17. Clint Mullins29 March 2011 at 19:43

    sick dude.

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  18. E.29 March 2011 at 19:43

    Nice drawings. i like it :)

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  19. Wilco29 March 2011 at 19:45

    woot nice

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  20. Flames29 March 2011 at 20:08

    Nice method.

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  21. 29 March 2011 at 20:27

    That makes me really wish I knew how to do all that kind of stuff.

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  22. Unknown29 March 2011 at 20:42

    i used http://www.mapeditor.org/ to make my tilesets maybe you wanna check it out

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  23. Leestander29 March 2011 at 21:00

    How long does it take to make a litle game? are their like programs that you can just drag and drop ?

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  24. Jesper29 March 2011 at 21:03

    really nice man!

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  25. cool_cicler29 March 2011 at 22:06

    nice bro

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  26. Moobeat29 March 2011 at 22:26

    i was wondering how you did that

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  27. Adam29 March 2011 at 22:34

    I'm really enjoying watching this develop! Keep up the good work!

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  28. EmoGoth29 March 2011 at 22:45

    That is an awesome solution. I'm looking forward to seeing more!

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  29. Sacrilicious29 March 2011 at 22:59

    Impressive

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  30. Killerko29 March 2011 at 23:05

    @mac-and-me that tile editor looks interesting, I was thinking about doing my own but I still don't have any support for reading my maps from files, all my maps are currently hardcoded as 2d arrays

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  31. Unknown29 March 2011 at 23:38

    Wow this is really cool, great job!

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  32. Roygbiv29 March 2011 at 23:53

    really good. must take a lot of talent and patience for this. As for my blog and the picture, I've had that saved for quite some time. I take a look around as to where I found it and get back to you if i do find it :)

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  33. iJamie30 March 2011 at 06:28

    yeah i can use paint :)

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  34. TheOneGuy30 March 2011 at 06:39

    really good (: followed

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  35. Wumbo30 March 2011 at 08:59

    This is just absolutely amazing. About how long did it take you to do this?

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  36. Triper30 March 2011 at 10:19

    it looks like painting in 'paint' but the finall effect is great. Look post below. You are doing great job my friend, keep it going, it's helpfull.

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  37. Unknown30 March 2011 at 10:27

    Iv always dream't about creating my own game, im so jelly!

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  38. Skeith30 March 2011 at 12:13

    ^same!

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  39. Anonymous30 March 2011 at 16:35

    wow cool nice

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  40. Erik30 March 2011 at 18:27

    awesome :) I always think about learning to make a game, but I never had the patience for it!

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  41. Stromatose30 March 2011 at 18:48

    very cool stuff man. this makes me want to attempt doing the same actually

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  42. Bummerman30 March 2011 at 19:18

    Damn! It's really coming together :) NICE

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  43. Cory30 March 2011 at 19:58

    pretty impressive and an easy way to set up a nice looking game!

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  44. Muzzy31 March 2011 at 01:40

    Thats soo cool :D good work on the game :)

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  45. Killerko31 March 2011 at 02:49

    just to answer some of your question:

    it took about one evening + the next day I finised it + adding some minor changes later

    stay away from paint! that's evil lol
    but yes I tried to get quite simple retro look.

    as for drag and drop programs to create games I think there is something like game maker but I've never tried it myself.

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  46. Löwenpick31 March 2011 at 13:23

    Pretty impressive. Also, Cave Story for the win!

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  47. Patres31 March 2011 at 14:43

    That's quite ingenious!
    I tried the game (which you all just lost) and I didn't get what to do with the creatures :P

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  48. Danny Murphy31 March 2011 at 17:16

    Impressive stuff buddy, keep it up

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  49. Killerko1 April 2011 at 02:48

    @Patres haha didn't really think that somebody will actually download it and try xD but you can either let them be and ignore them as they don't harm you or you can kill them all if you wish :D up to you.. but there is not much content in that build anyway... I was just testing stuff.

    Lot of stuff that I would like to add but the question is if I will be able to implement it as I have problems with everything :)

    anyway thanks for giving this a try <3

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  50. Sean1 April 2011 at 03:58

    You are incredible. Seriously. I tip my hat to you and I can't wait for the day your game goes live. I will pay you good money for it.

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  51. Anonymous1 April 2011 at 05:50

    "I just drew"... How do you just draw something like that? God, I have to struggle to even draw a stick figure lol

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  52. Benji4 April 2011 at 16:26

    Wow these mess with my head, make my eyes go all weird nice though :)

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  53. Anna-Nelsey4 April 2011 at 18:25

    VERY cool!

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  54. LunaSihne11 April 2011 at 01:24

    They look good.

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