Sprite Competition #162, Boss Minions

First off, congrats to Des, ClownMan and the others for their great entries in the other competition. :D


For this competition, the idea is to create smaller enemy versions/minions of existing bosses. Like how Petey Piranha is a bossified Piranha Plant and how Lord Crump commands the X-Nauts, but the other way around. The catch is, you can't sprite an enemy that already exists. Here are the rules and restrictions:

• You will be spriting an enemy that is either a smaller version of a boss or a closely related minion of one .
• The enemy can not already be from a game.
• You cannot sprite smaller versions of bosses that are modified enemies to begin with. No Mini-Peteys or the like.
• I want to see a full sprite sheet in your entry. Animations are fine, as long as you provide a sheet to go with it.
• These are normal enemies, so I can't imagine a need for the sprite to exceed 64x64 pixels.
• No more than 15 colors per sprite, not including transparency.
• The sheet should have all the necessary poses to be usable in a
  mario fangame. Styles that primarily use static poses don't count.
• You are allowed to include a sprite of the original boss in your sheet for reference if you wish. The boss's sprite doesn't need to follow the size or palette limits, but don't go crazy with the colors.
• Sorry, the bosses from Super Smash Bros. Brawl do not count, either, as they are not true Mario characters.
• Mini-bosses do count since the category is rather fuzzy as long as the boss isn't just "a really strong normal enemy".

The competition will end next Friday, on May 15th. Good luck!

This post has been edited by Peardian on May 9 2009, 12:38 AM

Mini Bouldergeists? Oh yeah.

I might passed on this one..

I'll have to give this a shot.

Dang, was hoping for another single enemy comp. These competitions where people can do basically anything makes it hard to compare sprites.

This will be fun.
Now who to sprite?
Oh, yes... I think they haven't ever had a mini version of them...
can we use the pallets of the boss so the it fits the game?

This post has been edited by Buggo on May 6 2009, 07:51 PM

**** yeah seaking

this compo will be hit and miss with me. i wish luck to you all.

So long as it has less than 15 colours, yes.



Also, YES, Pear! This is awesome, I'm in.

Sounds interesting. I can't wait to see what people come up with. I'll enter.

Yeah but it also adds a creative element to it.

This is a very interesting idea, finally.

I might even come up with something here.

Question:
With Petey Piranha, he had his own species for minions. Like in other bosses in SMS, he had those jellyfish-like creatures [Swoopin' Stu] who came out of the muk. Could we do those?

This post has been edited by Gameboy on May 7 2009, 05:40 AM

I call Tatanga. He's the only boss I could find that didn't already have a smaller version.

Anyways, I may make something for fun, idk.

Entering, now that I have 5 top five badges I need to try to get silvers.

Also @ SGG: he means like petey had his own minions, but werent mini versions of him, can we do the same for our chosen boss.

IDK though I might be wrong.

This post has been edited by Joe Inky on May 7 2009, 10:16 AM

@Gameboy: By closely related, I meant minions that are mini/weaker versions of the boss, like the examples I gave. Other enemies might be the boss's minions, but they're not really related except by affiliation. If I allowed non-related minions... well, that would open up for almost every enemy in all the games, wouldn't it? :P

can we come up with more than one minion aswell?

Of course. As long as they each meet the requirements, it's fine.

WIP Shadow Queen minion