Author Topic: [REDUCED RES] RetroChunky (Read 14872 times)

Shockwave · « **on:** July 30, 2008 »

The people who commented that this challenge was difficult were right.
I tried for a few nights and binned a couple of attempts, I'll stop here for now as I have to dedicate some more time to forum maintanence.

Anyway, here's a start to the challenge, no doubt it will be beaten comprehensively but it was fun

Light sourced vectors.
Animated mathematical background texture.
Copperbars.
Sine Scroller.

All on screen at once drawn using 160 X 120 pixels and with only 4 colours on screen.

Code, font : Me.
Music: Rob hubbard.
Tools: PTC Ext (Rbz), Tinysid (stormbringer).

Software rendering

Hope you like it a bit!

rain_storm · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2008 »

Cool this has given me some ideas, a good start to the compo. The music suits the low res theme. Didnt realise the pixels would be so big at 160*120.

Shockwave · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2008 »

If you want to use dithering to make a lot of colours 160 X 120 mostly rules it out, the comp allows hi res stuff too though as long as you only use 4 colours

Using both criterea well will be very difficult I suspect.

benny! · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2008 »

Awesome first entry.

Really transport you back to the old days. Look spectrum
stylish somehow. Really good work, Shocky - and so fast!

Rbz · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2008 »

Very nice first entry

This compo will be hard

ninogenio · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2008 »

i really like that!

its very stylish and as benny said it does have an old spectrum feel to it.anywho very very nice!

AnimalMother · « **Reply #6 on:** July 31, 2008 »

Hardcore Pixel Madness

Good work!

Shockwave · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2008 »

Thanks for the nice comments!

Great to come back from work and see people like it!

gooner · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2008 »

Good work Shockie my sort of colours.
Definitely reminds me of some of the graphics used on the Spectrum

Jim · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2008 »

Apart from the dreaded spinning cube, this is very good indeed. Very clear and easy to see. A lot of dithering fx end up looking like digital soup.

Jim

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2008 »

I really think you have done a nice jopb working within such restrictions. Great style and interesting colors.

Xalthorn · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2008 »

Ooh, nice choice of colours, I had to count them to check there were only four

hellfire · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2008 »

I totally dig the scroller and the cube and a very good choice of colours.
The overlapping rasters tend to produce rather confusing bit-structures, though. Maybe those would work better in a smaller window - or my screen is just too big

Hotshot · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2008 »

very good but it not easy challange!
good luck to everyone who take the challange

Shockwave · « **Reply #14 on:** August 01, 2008 »

Thanks for the nice comments

Hopefully I'll get the time to have another go at this before the deadline!

Clyde · « **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2008 »

Welldone that man

Ghost^BHT · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2008 »

looks cool on my 24" screen

old school to the max

Xalthorn · « **Reply #17 on:** August 04, 2008 »

Quote from: Ghost^BHT on August 04, 2008

looks cool on my 24" screen
old school to the max

24", wow that has got to be some *major* blocks going on

Jim · « **Reply #18 on:** August 04, 2008 »

Same here. I just have to stand back a bit

Optimus · « **Reply #19 on:** August 05, 2008 »

I really like this.

Author Topic: [REDUCED RES] RetroChunky (Read 14872 times)

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