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Yay Free Sprites!

Posted by MindChamber - March 12th, 2014


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                 So in honor of being one year closer to that inevitable handshake with our friend Mr. Reaper, I am uploading free to use (public domain) sprites over at opengameart.org  Why wait till we are completely dead to give away our treasures anyway? Youre dead. You can't enjoy the satifaction you get from generousity when you're in the etherealm. So I say birthdays should be for gift giving! Anyways..

                These are the sprites from the old Pixel Puncher Prototype that Tom and I started about a decade ago. Tom was gracious enough to let his creations run free ,so I took a day or two to convert them into png files. I exported them at twice the size just in case anyone needed them bigger. If you dont though, its easy enough to simply run them through photoshop . We both put a lot of love and thought into these sprites so hopefully there will be some appreciative coders out there that will put them into some sweet projects or demos. Heres a longer demo of some of the levels and animation

 

 

If you have an NG supporter badge you can actually try the unfinished demo yourself here

 

                                     There's some pixel art in the video that was placeholder art and will not be part of the download. Its pretty obvious but I thought I'd mention it. While the video just show combat, and a few juggles. I believe Tom wanted a Metroidvania type game where you explored and unlocked more attacks and abilities. Ram (the main player) aquires "Chronic's" run ability which  is shown early on.

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Each level would have been a parody of known game characters. The first world based, on Sonic, second Mario and so on.

I also wanted more puzzle elements that involved carefully timing your air combos and grabs. Back then there wasnt any game ideas like it, so it was hard to get a grasp of how we wanted it to play. Fast foward to today, and  games like "Guacamole" and "DustForce" I believe totally captures what we wanted this game to be. You know what they say, hind sight , 20/20 etc.  A shout out to LDUK whos Robotniks Revenge just hit all the right notes for me. It was cool yet oddly bittersweet , which fit the vid. Also I just want to say thanks again, to everyone thats ever dug my stuff and shot me a kind text. It really does mean alot. And thanks Tom for letting our babies fly :3 I have to get up in 4 hours... gnight  


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Happy Birthday! The drawings, animation, and game play all looks awesome. It's sad that you guys didn't see the project to completion.

thanks man, much appreciated

happy birthday, man!

lovin' them sprites too.

good looks man

Happy Birthday old bean! Things get better with age!

thanks gramps, hope to see you again at pico day

Happy Birthday hope it was great. Also LOVED the looks of this game I hope it gets completed some day :)

:)...

The game looks great, and I dig the sprites! So sad it was scrapped. Also Happy Birthday!

me too :c

but thanks!!

I know how it feels when everyone thinks your abandoned project looks dope as shit- but whatever this looks fucking bad as hell!!!
Awesome art and animation man, and pretty cool design direction. Yeah I can totally see Guacamelee in this, and yes DustForce is straight-up amazing. I played so much of it, but feel like I can only do about half the levels. Have you played a lot of that?

Did these number sprites go over to Castle Crashers, or the other way around?

Oh and happy birthday also :D

Hey man, i plan to donate to jet getters!...the jet designs are phat. those numbers were borrowed from castlecrashers, but this game came first...ive played a bit of dustforce,but its hard.. having those puzzles wouldve been a break from the brawling aspects of this game ,also allowing you to combo your ways into areas you normally couldnt get to...it wouldve been neat...:\

I'll be there, and with a few extra bells on! There's a children's hospital I wanna donate some cash to, and it's probably time to get rid of my crappy long hair.... so I thought about a charity head shaving at Pico Day? Still working the details, and will ask Tom once I get enough of the knots untangled. Lol knots...

It would make more sense for the Sonic parody to be on 'speed' or 'cocaine'.

Too bad this project got scrapped. It looked hella fun!

Red Baron's still going on right?

Yah that does make sense..but then we couldnt use "Chronic" lol....
Im always down for red baron2, but thats up to Evan,and hes super busy. Hopefully we can find the time.

I remember Tom telling me about this game ages ago... nice to see some of what could have been in action. Nice work! Any chance you guys could post a playable demo of that Sonic-inspired level from the video here on NG? Either way, it's really cool of you to share all the art assets so hopefully somebody can make good use of them.

Also, Happy Barfday!

Thanks! That sonic level is in the demo, but I think you either have to avoid activating the midboss fight, or the midboss needs to have health (he cant die atm)..but I'll ask tom

Man, I remember hearing about this a long time ago and then I forgot all about it. Seeing the video you put together made me want to play it real badly though D: It looks super fun, and sort of nostalgic since it looks all old school NG like, but hell, I respect that you would scrap it instead of doing a rushed and unfinished job. Best of luck to you on future projects though, Chamber <3

Hopefully other coders out there will find a good home for these. and thanks. looking forward to getting back into art again soon

Good seeing you again, and trying that cinnamon laced beer-mix... I could get addicted to something like that! It was an epic party! Just sucks the only posted picture of me, has me thumbing my nose at the artworks :P It's okay, I got plenty non-intentional photo bombs waiting to be uploaded...

Same here,always have great talks with you.youre an interesting guy with alot of great stories. You should definitely consider writing that memoir man, id read it..
And yah that "angrybomb" mix really messed me up, hopefully i didnt make too much of a fool of myself.

Nah broseph, you've got coolness to spare! Besides I'm mostly Polish, so that custom boilermaker you threw my way, didn't dent me or yourself too badly. We need to cut loose once a year.. know what I mean? Glad my anecdotes were entertaining :)

Vicarious DOES need to write a book. I'm making EJR take me to eat Mexican food, you coming???

hellz to da yah!

Not even a single drug reference in them character designs, fair does.

Jose! please Join the Madness Project Nexus 2 Project!
its a big game! to be on steam too! it would be a legendary way to introduce more people to the madness combat series. and with your help and your talent. the game would be more than a success!

thanks for the kind words! lets hope make it past their Base goals!.

Woah really!? so you doo have plans! well.
WE'll make that happen. and you wait. IT will!

Sweet! I've only been learning to program since the start of the year. I've only release 2 very simple games so far, but I do make a lot of test games in-between projects and sometimes it's a hassle have to make the art for such tests. These will come in handy for such things and who knows - I might just be able to incorporate them into a game in the future. Thank you :)

That is so cool looking.

That green Sonic drawing looks familiar, was that the Sonic from the Sonic the Hedgehog collection?

Its Chronic I made it for a game a long time ago

The way Ram moves (especially attacks) seems very familiar... did this game influence Newgrounds Rumble? A few of the attacks and stuff look like Alloy's

It's possible some of Rams attacks influenced what I did with rumble..that and street fighter 3

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