CONCEPT ART TOPIC, Goals: Checkpoints, Goals

What about a guardian made of vine covered stone. It starts out like steps leading up to a question mark block. When you hit it, instead something coming out, the earth shakes, then mario flys off and the boss comes out of the staircase. He may jump and create an earthquake. He can take a swing with eitehr hand at you, or he can slam with both hands. If he hits the ground, he falls down and becomes a platform you can jump on/over. You have to try and hit the question mark block again to damage him, by getting him to slam while underneath it. Then you jump on him and hit it. After you hit it so many times, a golden shroom pops out and the path out is opened up.

I won't try to draw it, but maybe someone can from what I have there.

This post has been edited by Doomlord250 on Mar 21 2009, 07:23 AM

That sounds like a really neat idea, but what about more of a totem pole theme? The heads could shift around, and the top head could show you what attack it's going to do next. A standard Thwomp head at the top would mean it would slam down on you, a Bowser head would mean it would breath fire at you. As well as these attacks he could also smash at you with his fists and stomp the ground to make debris fall from the top of the screen.

Here's a picture of what I mean:


The bottom drawing is what he'd look like as steps. The two horizontal Thwomp heads would act like platforms onto the vertical Bowser head.

This post has been edited by Frogjester on Mar 21 2009, 05:01 PM

Actually, I've decided to recycle an old boss design I made a year or two ago for the piranahcite battle.

Here's a little idea I had

This is a pretty cool idea; That "psycho" look you gave it should be in the game, so it stands out from the other bullet bills.

Cool idea, Spritantium.

Do we already have a Bullet Bill sprite?

I just assumed that if we had some that they would look like ordinary bullet bills.

But they don't HAVE to, of course.

What about exploding ? blocks?

We already have a design for one. Its a page or two back.


I should sprite it soon actually.

Unless I'm mistaken, nope

Guess I'll make one then

K, my desing for the guardian is proving to be a pain to sprite, so draw up some ideas.

It needs to be:
-Big
-living (so no rock creatures)
-Have arms

And thats about it. It also needs to have somewhere for the Piranhacite to latch onto, which shouldn't be a problem as long as it isn't covered in spikes or something.

Forest

Sasquatch

Thing

That doesn't really look like a Mario enemy

Figured we could just throw some goofy stuff out into the open.

I thought of that big snow chick from Mario & Luigi while drawing it, if that accounts for anything. :V

If you gave it some kind of club and a less generic body, it might look better

Yeah just threw that out there, don't care to toy with it much, honestly.

Do with it what you will.

This post has been edited by Hatman on Mar 25 2009, 07:38 PM

Don't worry Hatman, that gave me an idea. Whether or not I'll be able to pull it off remains to be seen.

Hahaha

Hatman the idea mailman strikes again.