06-16-2009, 03:43 PM
Alright, I hate being the voice of reason here.
Tailikku (I'm gonna call you Tail from now on) what you have here is a short list of characters you want sprites for, which you didn't really explain what you wanted. I mean, there's a classic experiment in junior art classes that has everybody draw a few shapes on a piece of paper. Then after a short list of items, the teacher has everybody show their work. And it never fails, everybody's got something different.
That illustrates that without enough information, you won't get what you want. For example, what if I did a sheet of a sprite for Horned King and delivered a sheet for Sauron from the Lord of the Rings in a Castlevania style while Devicho came in and make a sheet for Malificent in Mario and Luigi style? They don't match, and that makes your game look ugly because we couldn't know.
The next matter is that you should do some research. Engines for games aren't as simply as dropping in sprites and making up levels, for example is Game Maker. In Game Maker you can get all sorts of engines and prefab templates, making it really easy to deliver games with nice quality. But mixing engines doesn't work, just because they're platformer engines doesn't mean they'll mesh. It's no different that putting Mortal Kombat and River City Ransom together, sure they're both fighters, but graphics and controls are different, and the variables wouldn't sync up either. So I highly suggest, as a game dev myself, work with one engine, and practice until you know what you're doing.
That way, you know what to really ask for.
Tailikku (I'm gonna call you Tail from now on) what you have here is a short list of characters you want sprites for, which you didn't really explain what you wanted. I mean, there's a classic experiment in junior art classes that has everybody draw a few shapes on a piece of paper. Then after a short list of items, the teacher has everybody show their work. And it never fails, everybody's got something different.
That illustrates that without enough information, you won't get what you want. For example, what if I did a sheet of a sprite for Horned King and delivered a sheet for Sauron from the Lord of the Rings in a Castlevania style while Devicho came in and make a sheet for Malificent in Mario and Luigi style? They don't match, and that makes your game look ugly because we couldn't know.
The next matter is that you should do some research. Engines for games aren't as simply as dropping in sprites and making up levels, for example is Game Maker. In Game Maker you can get all sorts of engines and prefab templates, making it really easy to deliver games with nice quality. But mixing engines doesn't work, just because they're platformer engines doesn't mean they'll mesh. It's no different that putting Mortal Kombat and River City Ransom together, sure they're both fighters, but graphics and controls are different, and the variables wouldn't sync up either. So I highly suggest, as a game dev myself, work with one engine, and practice until you know what you're doing.
That way, you know what to really ask for.