(07-16-2015, 10:24 PM)DragonDePlatino Wrote: If you want to go for "historical accuracy", a game like Wreck-it Ralph probably would have run off of it's own hardware in an arcade cabinet. Unlike games for the Sega Genesis or NES, your palette and sprite limitations varied from game to game. So really, you've got a lot of artistic freedom in that department. I would recommend limiting yourself to about 4 colors + transparency if you want to retain the retro feel, though.
There's my idea for a Berzerk-style Ralph. When you boil down a character to a single color like that, you want to focus on having strong, recognizable shapes. For Ralph that would be his shaggy hair, T-shaped head and huge arms.
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DePlatino I'm going to level with you but that is a fantastic sprite. It even incorporates the no neck thing Herman's sprite has. May I humbly use that as a starting point? I do better work with a reference in the first place.
n the arcade board discussion they would of most likely been built with those colors in mind like you say but like a console they would have been limited to the pallet the board was designed for. So like with Pacman we have Neff visit he has purple skin. As far as I've seen after looking at the ripped sprites from Pacman here on SR Purple was not present. I think that pallet aren't necessarily followed for game jumps.
On the Berzerk front it would be on color but What color is dependent on who the sprite is.
Just my thoughts on your point. Heck to go back to it for a second I believe Berzerk didn't have proper color depth like Pacman does. From what I have read and remember the game was programed as a B&W system like Pong was but they realized a b&w game in 1980 would never be popular so they added a ovelay that makes the color to the monitor. I could be wrong but it would explain why the bots and Evil Otto are not color set.
But yeah a six color setup is sensible for 8-bit era sprites except in real odd cases. Seeing as I know Bowser in Pacman will be at least that many maybe mor but never go overboard with it like you say to give it that retro feeling.