So… after trying to create Danny close to the doodle style I ran into a few problems. First.. the other parts of the game art are much closer to games like “The Chaos Engine” or JRPGs. Second, creating a character in 32 x 32 pixels is really, really hard. I took a look at the character sprites in Chaos Engine and have to admit (again) that the artist did some big magic 🙂

I then checked for some tutorials on pixel art character creation and found a few useful guides. After following one guide my first JRPG-style character base was complete. It looks quite similar to the one in the tutorial , but I guess that happens when you follow a guide on how to do something.

One more thing I decided was to scale up the image size to make it a bit easier to create details on the characters.

I finally started working at the text logo and should not think about the other letters – finishing this one first will be a nice little goal.

And done! Some more letters to go, anti aliasing the black outlines and the logo will be done 🙂

My idea today was to start with the logo text of the (planned) game. Simple line art was already finished so I could start using colors. After some time I got to the point where I checked google images for old demoscene logos to find out how things could be done look in the end.

One hour later I came to the conclusion that it was too ambitious to go with the logo first and I switched to a simple shape. I wanted to have a thick black outline and no black lines inside the object, tried a few color sets. Much more time later than I was hoping to invest I got something done which was Ok (I think). Not perfect, but pretty nice for the moment.

Edit: updated the picture using transparencies for outer anti aliasing.