Looks pretty sweet so far,  what's the bird, argentavis?

As for environments, I always love rainforests, I dunno why, and if he's traveling around in time, an ice age stage would be awesome. Also, an australian type plains/desert would be cool, there's tons of awesome australian animals.

Does he only attack with a stick? This'll be quite the conquest. He could attack by like... throwing rocks or something.. or rocks tied to sticks...Stick on fire? I was going to have tamed animals in mine, since I think that would be the only way to stand a chance against prehistoric beasts, I mean there are still animals today that are too big to stand a chance against, even with a a sword or a bow, so prehistoric weapons will be tough. I think prehistoric humans also hunted in groups, which is how they took down things like mammoths. Maybe you could have a system where you craft your own weapon?

Sorry, I really got no crits on the pixelling, it looks great so far =]. Some cameo animals in the backgrounds would be pretty sweet.

Edited by skeddles - 31 January 2012 at 6:09am

Yeah I see what they mean with the ground in the first one, I don't think you should ditch it though, I think it you added more depth variation, so it's not like a solid cube, and more rocky, as well as some vegitation, like small pieces of grass, small plants, roots, flowers then it would look really good.

As for water, how about ambulocetus? Early eocene I believe. And I'm sure there some crocodile relative around too.

Titanboa would be a cool enemy too, I think they're post-dino.

I like the net idea, and it could be a fun thing to have to collect the parts to make weapons. I'm sure the feathers of that bird would be nice for arrows.


Edited by skeddles - 31 January 2012 at 8:06am

I kinda wish the first scene wasn't going to go for a prehistoric look.  It is pretty beautiful in its own style and time period.  It's so calming and smooth..

All suggestions taken on board :D

@jal: conifers came about ~2 million years before humans. I know what you're talking about with the ferns and stuff, but that's more 65 million BC. The tiny amount of time we've been on the planet is weird to think about. In my mind the stereotypical "caveman" environment is sparse-ish tundra, though a rainforest will most likely be another screen. I have uglied up the mountains some, they were unrealistic anyway - individual peaks rather than a chain.

@skeddles: good compromise, I'll add some non-interactive platforms in the foreground to break it up.

@yrizoud: that's the sort of environment I'm going for in the first shot.


An edit, blued the trees, edited mountains, added snowy layer - gonna add some blue grass tufts in there.

Perspective problems: in the shoreline; in the platform top (esp obvious with the mammoth on). Quick edits, not pretending to be good tiles!


In a more general way, I'm not sure the angle of view on the landscape is appropriate to a platformer. The platform here is strongly perceived as the top of a high wall, not the half-abstract kind of playable foreground usually associated with games.

I don't feel like I found the correct words to describe this :S

See, sometimes you just need someone to say "that makes literally no sense"



It would be heartbreaking to have to flatten the landscape though. Curvature of the Earth is a thing, right? :(

still alive

dpixel: those trees look real nice :) An intermediate layer doesn't fix the perspective problem either though, I'll just leave it for the moment I think. I did fix the grass up some.

Thinking strata for the desert shot. I managed to flatten that whole screen last update




Edited by Jeremy - 07 February 2012 at 10:15pm

The collectables are flint.

I think it's a bit elongated for a mammoth - looks more like a mastodon.

Done a bit more over the past few days, first panel is some kind of title screen.


40 colours at this point.


Edited by Jeremy - 16 April 2012 at 4:17am

swamp+title screen

I agree, especially the third screen is lovely.
Lookig forward for more!