Okay, as per usual, I've been procrastinating on starting a new topic due to a rather distinct lack of inspiration. I'm always flattered when someone chooses my work over all the other great and worthy entries, but it does mean that I'm shouldering the responsibility of thinking up a topic, typing it out eventually, and ultimately judging the subsequent competition. I'd almost rather leave it to one of the other winners, that way I could enter again (since really, the most fun part is actually making the sprites). But enough rambling from me, I have a sprite jam to host, and it's already late.
Anyway, this week's jam's theme is:
Rethinking styleWhat would
The Curse of Monkey Island have been like if guybrush was still done in the same style as
Secret of..., or
LeChuck's Revenge? What would
The Longest Journey have been like in EGA? What I'd like you to do is
take an existing game character and re-think them in a different graphical style (Preferably a commercial game, but independent is fine, if you provide a link to a screenshot displaying the original graphical style). To provide an example, some people have recreated the original
Maniac Mansion characters in a vaguely
Day of the Tentacle style, on a (now locked, consequentially)
thread in the Critic's Lounge. This is an example of what I'm thinking of. By no means am I going to say you should be doing anything in any specific style - I'm even going to say that if someone thinks they want to do Sam & Max as a realistic Dog & Rabbit, instead of the Purcell style, that's their prerogative. So
both graphical and/or stylistic re-imaginings are welcome - I'll leave that decision up to you, I just want to see characters
as they could have been in another graphical style.
As far as technical limits go, I don't want to put too many limits on what you can do, but I do want you to
stay within the limits of the graphical style you choose. Which means that if you're doing an EGA style character, I want to see a sprite that would've fit in a standard resolution for the era. Use common sense.
Good luck, my children.
Go, and play!
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