I like to think in terms of the number of pixels on a HD screen. With screen size, you need to think about the device your game will be played on. I made sure to look at both Gameboy Advance as well as the classic Gameboy. I didn’t quite use the same sizes as Pokemon on Gameboy, but there was definitely inspiration. Again, looking at Gameboy references was very helpful to compare the character to the environment, his size against a tree, for example.

Look at references for the environment too. They key is they are “references” to get inspired by – not outright copying their designs.Īnd don’t just look at references for characters.

Below is the final product in-game.Ī lot of great, classic animators used references, as I talk about in my article, “ The Visual Design of Puzzledorf“. The 3 blue characters are early concepts for Puzzledorf’shero, although 1 is unfinished. The graphics of my game Puzzledorf were partly inspired by the block pushing puzzles from the early Gameboy Pokemon games, so I used old Pokemon sprites for inspiration, as well as top-down sprites from random RPG games I liked the look of. And don’t forget that part of creating a particular feeling is using the right colour palette, of which I have some you can use here. Are you hoping to catch the feeling of a SNES game? Or SEGA Mega Drive? Look at games from those systems. Is there a particular game, or genre, you want to emulate the look of? Do some google searches, look at other games. It just takes some work on your side to do it.The first thing you should do, if you’re not sure about sprite sizes, is find references from other games. You can make an RPGMaker MV game look exactly like the older versions of RPGMaker. Older versions are built around different ratios, sometimes with the characters being a different ratio than the floors/walls/etc. RPGMaker VX and VX Ace is built around 32x32. You'll also have to adjust the art to fit as well. Increase the size of the tiles, fewer will fit on the screen. So if you do things to increase or decrease the size of the tiles, you'll need to keep that in mind. This is adjustable, but you will need to use a plugin to do it. The RPGMaker MV software also uses 48x48 for each tile. Or you could make it 5760x3840 and they'll be 480x480. So you could make it 12x8 pixels and you sprites will be a single pixel. The RPGMaker MV software looks at whatever image you throw at it and divides it up in to 12x8. The size of the spritesheets made by the generator are 48x48 size tiles, for a total size of 576 pixels across, 384 pixels down. The MV Sprite Sheet is a 12 across 8 down per tile ratio, with one character taking up 3 across, 4 down.

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