2 voices into that jazz! Hopefully we will be able to use 3 or 4 on our hardware. I experienced this game on an intellivision when I was an egg, later on the coco II...never saw the real arcade.
Still toying with those mockups. I'm thinking of changing the palette every level and have 3 colors that can be swapped to whatever seems the most useful for that level. I swapped yellow, purple and light green for a mid-tone gray, darker red and darker blue. Both greens were combined into a mid-tone green that would work for eventual vegetation. Also, the hero is now wearing a blue overcoat.
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interesting how it has progressed but the more detail the background makes it harder to see the foreground characters, i think you might need to go with some kind of black or white outline
Yeah, I'm kind of thinking that too, but I'll wait until I see how it looks on actual hardware before tweaking the palette. That and sprites movement might help too.
I'll let you guess what this one is. It uses a custom palette as all the brown and tan shades are useless for this game.
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Edit: could not leave it alone... replaced the boring bonus bar with an oil lamp that will get brighter and brighter the closer you get to the next bonus wildcard gem.