SMB: Raiders of the Painting Realms, The "gnome 2.0" game| Help Needed!

After a long time of developing the engine named "gnome 2.0", it took me even longer to get an idea what to do with that engine.
But now I have finally the direction I want to go.

Super Mario Bros. Raiders of the Painting Realms
I don't want to spill it yet, but I can tell you that the "Bros" in the title has some significance to it.
Yes that's right! LUIGI will be playable! It will not be 2P mode however. The engine is simply not designed for 2P simultanously. You can however simulate a 2P turn-based game if you wish. But more about Mario and Luigi's gameplay when the time comes.

The title also tells you that the game involves Paintings!
Calm down! This is not some kind of SM64 rip-off. You will enter paintings but you will do this not only in Peach's Castle but also in five other worlds that will not yet be revealed.
Also I'd like to point out how this is not some kind of "collect 1000 stuffs in each level to proceed" game but will have some more depth behind it.

If you want to have a taste how the engine is like, you can go to my sig and click the link to "gnome 2.0" and download the engine demo.
I'm sorry but that's about all that's revealed about the actual game for now.




However there IS a reason why I am posting so early!
I think I need help.
Competition for a "job" in my "team"
If you are a good pixel artist, I would appreciate your help. I don't take everyone though!
If you are bored enough to help me out, just look at the various screens you can see in the gnome topic mentioned above to get a glimpse of how the graphics look like.
The idea is you >>> create a basic grassland background that fits well on a 320x240 screen<<< (a real background, NOT a tileset or anything!) and I will choose the best BG and let the creator go on board to make more backgrounds and probably other graphical things.

Note: If I'm not satisfied with any background submitted, it could also happen that I don't take anyone and instead try to finish by myself.
I know how busy everyone is and therefore I'd also understand if nobody is volunteering.

However the winner (if there even is one) gets an interesting prize: He or she will get more information about the game than all the others because obviously the person must know what they are working for.

I will not promise you more, though. I really want someone to help who is not about "I want to be in the credits" or anything. If you have enough time and are reliable, please enter, if you would enter just for the attention, then let it be, seriously.

Deadline: August 4, 2008!

Thanks in advance for everyone who bothers even though there's nothing to make sure you'll get repayed.

OHHHhhh yeaaah great to see this thing up and on its feet!


Good luck, and hope it gets completed soon!!

This sounds awesome.

Can't wait, hopefully someone will rise to help you soon!

This game is going to look Great!

Guinea: I added that image into my sig

Reminds me of that one castlevania game, hope a video of this will be out soon.

wow unexpected

One thing. This is going to be great. A game by G Worx + A game made with gnome 2.0 = awesomeness.

Hope to get more info soon. And of course the release XD

Guinea, Are you going to do a "Create your own level" topic of this game?

Finally, this is going to be awesomeness in its pure form.

EDIT:Is this for the NCFC?

This post has been edited by Boomb on Jul 21 2008, 12:30 PM

I can't promise anything... But I'm not denying it either. The truth is I don't know it yet.
What I can say though is, that it would be a lot harder with this than it was with SMBDDX because of Mario and Luigi's moves so you'd have to be able to testplay the levels and this is probably pointing towards no CYOLE for this one.


Everyone else: Thanks for the encouraging posts! I hope to give you new information sooner than later, hopefully also some real screenshots, not that engine-test stuff.

And yes, this will be shown on this year's NCFC, hopefully in Demo status!

Yay! I can't wait!

I'll try making a background.

Cool! I hope it turns out well!

Hm, when's the deadline for the background?

As soon as I started to make my own backgrounds, I won't accept any others unless they follow my style.
That means I have no official deadline, just note how I want to present the game for the NCFC which takes place in October and that means I should know who supports me within the next weeks.

I'll be abroad starting this saturday (the 26th) and will be back 10 days later. I think if somebody has given me a decent taste of their skills by this day, it's early enough. After I come back I want to engage fully into the game, so if you want to be taken serious, I'd love to see your entry by this day: 4th of August. So yea, this is the deadline!

It's August 4th and there's apparantly no backgrounds been handed in...
I think that means I'll have a lot of work this summer =(

Here's my background.

Edit: Damn, I'm late.

This post has been edited by Funky on Aug 5 2008, 04:37 PM

I think we have a winner O_o"

I added you on MSN... so if you have time tomorrow, we'll talk.

HOLY SMOKES! O_o