more final fantasy one inspired sprites.
working with NES colours and the black background that was the style of the original game.
3 colours per sprites except for the boss at the top who has one colour swapped for a 4th on two tiles.
Probably aiming for about 3 to 4 palette swaps of the same sprite per character.
most design elements for the characters I'm pretty happy with but crits are always welcome, mostly looking for opinions on which palettes to choose for my 3 to 4 picks.
Also I'll post the wips here until i feel my bad-guy team is complete.
I have names for all of them if anyone is curious, lol.


Edited by Randommonkies - 19 April 2009 at 8:35pm

Hot job. Really nessy.

i love the final fantasy series, and i love these sir. great jorb!

That would be the "edited the witch" bit - the less shaded one being the before and the shaded being the edited, im sure.


anyway, these are looking pretty sweet :D


Edited by Zeratanus - 15 April 2009 at 10:32am

Purple....its a good colour ¬_¬
I love the fire eater class that you just introduced, but the wizard stands out as my favourite thus far.

Intrigued and can't wait to see more.

when the heart is broke the witch was before edit and when its mended its after edit

added the stalker and imp classes, as you can tell on the sheet at the top I haven't decided on the colours yet, but that's only a matter of time

Hey... Are you gonna use these sprites somewhere? Or just for the heck of it ( heck of it= pratice)
They´re verrrrrry good.. There´s a spriter, creating a game, called paradise blue, his demo also uses many custom sprites in NES limitations, though i like your better.

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I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but if these sprites would be at all useable, they'd probably have black included in them, making it 4 colors, since, black is included. I'm no expert but most NES sprites I've seen only had 2 'colors' + black + transparency. Yours have 3 'colors', so they slightly deviate from the NES feeling, but despite that, and I might be wrong about it, too, they're really, very, great. 

But, yeah. It's easier to be amazing with less restrictions.




Edited by Dr D - 23 April 2009 at 12:41pm

Dr. D: actually if you look at the characters in the game, all but 3 of the enemies have at least 3 colours, not including black.

thats true for all the enemies (like the ones I'm doing above) but they actually did it for the overworld sprites as well. The overworld sprites having 3 colours and black.
(see below)
I've been looking at a couple other games to answer this question and i think you can use up to 3 colours, 1 permanent colour , (say black) and then transparency, I'm kinda new to the technical side of this so i may be wrong, but i've noticed a lot of characters with three colours, black outline and transparency. For example: Koopas from Mario 3, unless they are using some technical trick.

speaking of overworld, I will post my own version soon!

finally, managed to post some overworld. Juts a doodle/idea for a forest maze area. the centre will have a castle or giant tree, leaning towards castle though.
I've been meaning to post more frequently but i've been moving and working a lot :(

I've also done the map on the 'town'  level. I'll post some more later, I even have some villager sprites that can walk around.
My overworld map is breaking more from the FF style. I have my forest like those in Chrono Trigger, as in impassable save for the tunnels, and i have to say my recent wii download of star tropics has had some inspiration for the map as well.
more to come!

Woweee!! You should definitely post some of your work at the forum link I'm about to send you... I'll put in a good word and maybe get you set up with the programmer to see if he can use your stuff!! It's awesome!

To clarify, the NES can do 4 colors per tile. A tile is 8x8. So if you see a sprite with more than 4 colors including transparency, its probably bigger than a tile.

Like with Megaman, his armor is 3 colors and transparency, but his face is a different tile.

And those sprites look really good, btw.