Oh The Pixels That Might Have Been

Haha, awesome!

You really should have gotten these into the game - much better graphics.

should put little pixel movies in as easter eggs

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I would love to  Unfortunately I've moved onto other projects. Perhaps I can jump back on around April 1-ish to slip something good in

Honestly it would probably have added a little something to the game that feels missing for me at least.

FE is a lot of fun but it can feel pretty detached from the player at times. You get all perked up with that initial, and very cool, scene when the Capital city flag is placed then things kinda just drop off - you're left entirely to your own devices and get a weird little scene(???) if you win. Things like this would be like an inside joke between the players and the devs, something to make you smile and remember the game when you finally get bored and walk away to do something else.

Assuming of course the name of the game is to promote brand loyalty to Stardock? Which I'm guessing is the case by all these Stardock-hosted ad assets AdBlock+ is cutting off at the knees on this and every other forum page =p

Oh cool. Sins could use some love too!

Love the game but my god it's so quiet in the dead of space.

Please no... let the pixels sleep in their earned rest. It's 2012.

Boogie, you're great at making retro art. I love it! Those shards look great, and you kept a great theme with the various styles (Ultima, Zelda, etc.).

Thanks for sharing!

Lord Reliant: +10 Karma for you!
Heavenfall: -50000 Karma..sorry

I enjoy pixelart ... one of the few things I found I can actually do, but I never stuck with it, unfortunately.

Chibiados: It's tons of fun...you should pick it back up! Though I'll admit theres little to no application for it in modern game development  Perhaps for making small icons, or determining the most important features that make a character read properly.

I was a Nintendo kid, so I love the stuff :) 

I love stuff like this- I'd love to see Stardock come out with a new sprite game.   Sprite art is still the best art.

Professional designers still spend a lot of time at the pixel level.  The reason projects take more time and money now is because there are more pixels.

The program I used to use to put together animated .GIFs, JASC's Animation Shop, no longer works on current versions of Windows unfortunately.

So when will the "Pixel Mod" art remake for Elemental be released? That could be awesome ... and also reduce the system requirements of the game!?

I had a talk with some of the modders and we are now all focusing our efforts on taking the game back 20 years in development.

Here is a prototype for a level 5 city with extra dragon recruitment and the Tower of Eregon built. Also the proximity to a magma river has obviously allowed the city to build a magma forge.

Love it, awesome.

I will be handling the quests. I hope you don't mind the princess actually being in another castle. She moves around alot.

Heavenfall: Don't knock it 'till you're pumping out assets in 1/100th the time as rigged and animated 3d models

Sean: lol 

A retro alternative to the cloth map?

I would play the hell out of FE running these graphics. Hmm, maybe a good idea for a map mod (zoomed out).

Sorry - your karma is in another thread.

Hehe, add a dungeon or trap that transports the player to a dream state or back to 1985 and they have to fight their way out of a pixilated world to 'wake up' or get back.  

Better yet, give the AI a new random spell! 

I'd have fun with it!

Touche

Thanks, but I haven't seen the karma yet.

I will give you +1, though!