All posts tagged with "pixels"

Dredmor Expansion Preview Shots

November 15, 2011 by David Baumgart

While Dredmor patch 1.0.7 beta #3 runs through the thresher we figured you might like to see a bit of what we’ve been working on.

So for those who like digging too greedily and too deep into the Dungeons of Dredmor, here are a few early screenshots of the expansion (which-shall-not-have-its-name-revealed-just-yet). Note that these are early and in-development and all the usual disclaimering.

I heard you like rust. But what I mean to say is that there will be new dungeons to trawl full of new and more interesting dangers. And I probably owe Adrian Carmack another apology for all this.

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Dredmor 1.0.7 Preview Screenshot

October 25, 2011 by David Baumgart

Anyone remember Darklands? Great game. Anyway here's a shot of our new hero beating up a Blobby.

Apparently we like making a ton of work for ourselves. Lots of new stuff coming along in the next patch and the talented Mr. Chris Triolo is doing some lovely new sprites for us starting with our female hero up there. Methinks we’ll be seeing more from him in coming months.

Now back to the pixel-mines to hack new UI elements from the treacherous deeps.

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I’ll just leave this here.

October 13, 2011 by David Baumgart

What’s coming to Dredmor in the near future? I’ll leave the answer to that question to frivolous hearsay and idle speculation. (Please, if you so desire, commence!)

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Why Do a Job Once When You Can Do It Eight Times in Only Eight Times the Time?

October 4, 2010 by David Baumgart

Quiet? Only outwardly. Our Dear Leader saw fit to allow ye players to select your own resolution rather than be limited to a proper and traditional 800×600 screen. Oh, we have such things in store. You will be able to descend far deeper into the Dungeons of Dredmor than ever imagined previously!

Now come with me and perform a cheap analogue of descending into the dungeon by scrolling down past this large image which is a crop of the title screen painting, showing how I’m expanding it to fit higher resolutions!

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Pixelcraft: The Colors of Frogatto

July 29, 2010 by David Baumgart

For quite some time I’ve been intending to write about pixel art technique. Today I stumbled on a pixel-art platformer game called Frogatto & Friends which has inspired me to get on this because I was struck by the game’s lovely art. (I haven’t actually played the game yet, though it is available for free on PC/Mac/Linux, and the code, but not the assets, is open source.)

So let’s see if I can explain what’s going on with the pixels of Guido Bos and Richard Kettering (who it seems also lead the art for Battle For Wesnoth; neat).

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Against Pixel Art Formalism

July 15, 2010 by David Baumgart

[Begin faux-manifesto.]

Pixel art is for the pixels!

I don’t care for being formalistic about pixel art, of adhering to a limited palette or carefully anti-aliasing my lines by hand, of using all-or-nothing transparency (actually, I do the latter two more often than I’d like to admit). What matters is what I wish to do with the aesthetic of pixels – and what specifications I must meet for the graphics to work at all in the given platform. It is ridiculous to throw away perfectly good tools like brush effects, gradient tools, and overall image adjustments. Tedium is not artistically uplifting.

If the art is about pixels, it’s pixel art. It doesn’t matter how I make it.

I actually followed all the “rules” of pixel art to draw these. Oops. Then I used the adjust levels tool in Photoshop. Ha! I have overthrown the tyranny of aesthetic canon!

There! It’s not a manifesto unless you try to sound controversial in the first paragraph.

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Dungeon Creation and Beautification

July 8, 2010 by David Baumgart

With most of the foundational art assets completed I’m shifted my focus on Dredmor toward producing content for the game. In particular I’m polishing the dungeon tilesets and creating new dungeon objects (as the game items have actually been finished for a long, long time).

Tilesets

Let me take a moment to explain how Dredmor tilesets work (and used to work, and how they will work). Here’s a cut from the first dungeon’s tileset:

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