Sprite competition #161, Bouldergeist

Please limit yourself to that and don't complain to everyone who disagrees.

I, and many others, believe it's a sprite. Play Metal Slug.

also this is pretty big for a sprite mario game wise

http://spriters-resource.com/snes/smariorpg/exor.png

and no i dont do this deliberately, i just aim too big :\

I've played Metal Slug, the sprites are great, and so are the animated pixel art bosses. This is a sprite competition though, so the latter doesn't seem fitting.

Also that Exor sheet, i'd not say it's a sprite either as it's pre-rendered. What'd stop me making something in 3D and rendering it out and calling it a sprite if that was the case?

ok next time someone makes a contest just please make a damn size restriction so i can avoid this garbage

>and so are the animated pixel art bosses.

So if it's animated and made of pixels, it's a sprite. Unless it's animated pixel art.

Right.

In the time period where your standard for "Mario sprites" comes from, the screen resolution of the NES and SNES is 256x224.

My monitor's resolution is 1680x1050.

As screens get bigger and resolutions get sharper, sprites inevitably get bigger. This isn't 1990. Big sprites are okay.

This post has been edited by Bacteriophage on Apr 21 2009, 11:10 PM

Des, I like your sprite, but it doesn't in the least resemble Metal Slug style. It looks like a pumped up Disgaea sprite or something idk.

for a forum of people who can barely sprite, you people are bigger nazis than pixelation about this ****

@shawn lol

@des Great sprite it'd be cool if you added some little animations and such, it kinda reminds me of noitu love 2's style. It'd be neat to see a mario game in that style.

yeah, i just used the pallette tbh metal slug was only going to my arguement for the size

so it really has no true game style, unless you count its disgaeaness

True story. I'd like to see bigger sprites making more appearances in these competitions. There's a lot more you can do with them, I'm tired of the same old microscopic graphics that are pretty much useless for a PC game without resizing.

BaB I am pretty sure his point was that some games, like Metal Slug, have xbox hueg bosses that animate rather fluidly

it doesn't have to be a specific style just


**** some games have huge sprites okay >:||||

if a sprite isn't breaking the rules, there's no reason to complain
if you want some crazy rules, win the competition, you can make your own
but the rules are whatever are in the first post, so stop crying and trying to force what you think the sprites should be on people

It' good. It counts.

There, you happpy now?
You want proof? watch the video again. Do you see how small mario is?


Mario might even be smaller than the lowest horizontal line. The thing is, Bouldergeist is actually huge, just Des was the only person to make him.

I"m even gonna remake mine after looking at this.

shawn ilu

ilu2 omega baby

yeh huh uh....

I think im gonna drop out now...

des that is beautiful.
and i can definitely see it being used in a game.

yeah my fault really

im in the process of metal slug stylin it now

Guy's just because des posted a really good entry (:3) doesnt mean that he is going to win, if you people spent half the time you spent crying about it on spriting, and had some faith in your own ability, then you could come up with something that looks just as good.

On the other hand mine sucks.

I mirrored the hand because im too tired to make another one, and if youre thinking its meant to be in mario and luigi style because of the AA, its not, it just looks alot better like that.

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