The New Gamebuino Meta Mockups Thread

While rocking the EGA palette... I might as well do Thexder.

Hey, don't forget to make a "mockup" creation with the tag #assets so your superb pixel art doesn't get lost!

Some background for those who didn't have an IBM PC :) What's the EGA palette?

EGA Pallete for The IBM PC

Basicly a color pallete of 2nd generation of IBM’s graphics cards

Here's a quick mockup for a classic match-3 game with a medieval theme. 

This is actually adapted from an image I did many years ago for a game project on the Atari Lynx... turns out the display specs are very close (160x102 for the Lynx, 160x128 for the Meta, both in 16 colours).

3 good epic games alot of works on them. Nice done. Seems very good.

Hello there everyone,

I just did a mockup for a platform game :)

Looks nice! I like the clean style.

As this uses less than 16 colours, any reason you're using the 80x64 resolution instead of 160x128? I see Drakker did the same. Or am I missing something about the high res mode? 

We prefer to use half-resolution for several reasons: 

• for the games to look more retro
• for faster performances and smaller memory footprint
• because the screen is small, so it forces you to draw big stuff for better readability
• because it's closer to the Gamebuino Classic. Half res is 80x64, the Classic was 84x48

Just made an 80x64 build of my work-in-progress space shooter Defend Pluto to see how it would pan out, I'm liking the 5:4 aspect ratio!

Thanks :D

Yes, I used DawnBringer's 16 color palette. I went for 80x64 to make it extra retro and I wanted to see how much I could do with the lowest resolution :) It's based on something I made in the past:

I actually like the new low res look more :)

Agreed, the lower resolution has more "charm".

I concur, I like the lower resolution one better too.

I do prefer the low resolution version a lot, too. After all a bit of constraint isn't bad after all :P

Glad you like it and I totally agree :D I'll probably start putting together the tileset and other graphics already so I can start programming the game right away when I receive my Gamebuino META :D

Some random mockups I did :

1 : Zelda like game (160x128)

2 : Tiny RPG (80x64)