A new game, developed in part by WarHampster Studios!

I'm currently part of a team that's working on a commercial iPhone RPG. I've been kind of boxed out of the design process by the programming lead, and (in my opinion anyway) the game's design and story are really nothing special. Its basically your generic role-playing dungeon-hacking level-upping western RPG, the only thing that is possibly interesting is the minimalistic and decidedly "feel good" art style. That's where I came in - I've been tasked with creating all the game's tiles. These tiles were originally designed by one Silverwind, for his game Quest of Magic - a mac only dungeon-hack RPG. His tiles were a bit unpolished and too retro-looking, so I've gone through and remade all of his work, and created original tiles of my own. The team working on this RPG is basically just me (art), Silver (original art, design), and Gandolf (programming and design), plus a few people doing maps.

Gandolf is not exactly the artist type (he probably wouldn't mind if all of the game's graphics were ASCII), and Silverwind is just about the nicest person on the internet - neither of them would offer me any criticism even if my art was complete garbage. I'm sticking with the project because I think my name on a published game would be awesome and helpful in the future, and I want my art to be good for that reason.

I'm not ready to go to a real spriting forum with my work, so I'm putting these up on the WHMT. I need honest opinions, PLEASE rip me apart of they really suck.



Quality is likely a bit distorted by the image upload.

I believe in game references to forum members are in order.

Possible if I upgrade my mac's OS so I can actually run the iPhone SDK, as I do have full access to the source.

More importantly, how are the graphics?

owns any of my work.
It has a nice cartoony feel... which is good.
uhh good job? lol

Brilliant, cartoony is part of what we're going for.

Thanks, I just needed a review by people who aren't involved with the project... we've been staring at various revisions of these tiles for hours.

I gota say im more a fan of the hand drawn cartoony but so far so good, and if yah need a tester im in!


/ btw posted from my iphone

I'm really proud of that dirt

So when can we loyal WHMT'ers expect a beta?

Well it's an iPhone game... I guess we could release a beta but you would have to download the SDK and run it with the iPhone simulator.

Here's what is done in the game so far:

- Map loading, movement, and collision
- Basic NPC and enemy AI
- Melee fighting
- Spell effect framework (I did an awesome lightning beam effect)
- Saving and loading

Right now our programmer is working on ranged fighting with spells and bows. Today he accidentally poured hot oil on his hand () so there won't be any coding progress for like a week.

well give me a boink if yah need testing =)

Another preview, the character was neither designed nor created by me.

may i suggest that you have some type of customizable character? gender/clothes/armor/weaps/ and so on.?

You'll be able to collect items and stuff, of course.

We have a build running on an actual iPhone!

do we as your loyal minions get nay first glimpses or freebee screenshots?

What about sounds? Anyone doing those yet?

Well we're set for music, but no one has really thought about sound effects yet... want to help out?

Sushi schrieb:

do we as your loyal minions get nay first glimpses or freebee screenshots?

Of course, I'm going to be doing some work on the graphics tonight so I might be able to update you.

WarHampster schrieb:

want to help out?

Sure, just tell me the specifics (Like the min/max byte size, If you want it to be 8-16 bit, and the like)

Awesome, I'll ask the programmer and get back to you in a PM.

How's this?

It's awesome! What did you make it in?

I'll show it to everyone on the team and get back to you.

I didn't make that, I found it in a keygen.

Something I could do, however, would be to make my own version just like it. Different instrumentation of course.

i can do evil boss voices =) im good at sounding evil

btw macs you still have the dink forums? =o

Sushi schrieb:

macs you still have the dink forums? =o

Yeah it's still up somehow, you can still access it with your old username and password. But no one's there, I'm using it for file hosting for now.

Rickenbacker schrieb:

I didn't make that, I found it in a keygen.

Something I could do, however, would be to make my own version just like it. Different instrumentation of course.

Oh... well obviously we can't include anything that isn't original work. It would be great if you could make your own version, if possible have it be even more retro sounding.

you mena like poly sounds? hmm i guess that rules out that ol garage band song i made...