Castle Paradox

Mariel · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 78 Location: In your dreams

Hi guys! My brothers and I are working on a game and I'm doing graphics for it. At first we figured we'd do a bird's eye view game, similar to normal OHRRPGCE games, but somewhere along the way it became a platform jumper. Now they want to do 3/4 view 2d character sprites instead, but I don't have as much experience with games like that. Can anyone suggest some good games that use this graphic view that I could look at for references?
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Ravenshade · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 50

...3/4 view, you mean half the face and the side... many platform games afford 1/2 view. (sonic the hedgehog, super mario brothers) especially the sequels to the games. But I can't think of one that aims to come down from the top.

Besides that's stretching into the realms of 3D. There were a few sonic the hedgehog games that did operate in this method while somehow still remaining 2d. It's usually strategy games that have a 3/4 view.

Do you have any diagrams of what you mean by 3/4 just so we're on the right page.
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G-Wreck · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:14 am Post subject:

I'm not completely sure what you mean by 3/4 graphics either, but maybe these will help you find what you're looking for?

Bell of Chaos by James Paige:
http://www.castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=1000

Tim-Tim the Mighty Gnome by Spoonweaver:
http://www.castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=944

Trailblazers by Retrogamer:
http://www.castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=283

Light Fight by Spoonweaver:
http://www.castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=957

If nothing else, these are good example of sidescrollers for the OHR, so you can use them as a source of research for your own game.

Just be sure to ask the authors' permissions first if you choose to use anything directly from their games.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:03 am Post subject:

So you want to use the same sprites, but to transiotion between top-down RPG map view to side-view 2D sidescroller, right?

I think that if you draw sprites that look good for a side-scroller, they will naturally look good in top-down view too.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Probably not 3/4 sprites, but these are sprites turned at an angle as applied to isometric/almost isometric tiles.

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Mariel · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 78 Location: In your dreams

We're not doing the top down view any more, sorry for the confusion. It's all platforms now. (Which is annoying, 'cuz I had several sprites for the other one already.)

After a lot of experimenting, I've come up with a little 3/4 sprite to show what I mean. Right now I'm working on coming up with movements for this little guy so I can use him as a skeleton for all the characters.

(Here's hoping the .Gif works, I've never made one before)

www.gifninja.com

I just don't want that walk-like-an-egyptian paper doll look that you see in the old school platformers--not that there's anything wrong with those, they were my bread and butter growing up--but that's not the style we're going for right now.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762