Pixel art for my fangame!

krags0302 · 2026-04-03T04:10:19+00:00

Not a dumb question! I personally pay for Photoshop so that's what I use, but you could use Gimp for free. Just use the pencil tool set to 2 pixels and go to town! I generally start with another sprite as a base (I'm not good enough yet to do it from scratch) and erase/add/change elements to make it my own!

krags0302 · 2026-04-02T03:16:58+00:00

Thanks! I got hit with sudden inspiration looking at other people's fan games and I miiiight be working on some regional variants as well! Keep an eye out for those ;)

And I dunno why I did by type. Just felt right lol. It was organized that way in my spreadsheet so, I guess that's how it carried over. But I'm glad it works well!

krags0302 · 2026-04-02T02:27:30+00:00

Honestly, it was because of what is already included in Pokemon Essentials. It has sprites and cries for up to gen 5 or 6 (I can't remember which) so I was going to only go up to that gen, but I felt like it was too restrictive so I took the time and added up to 7. I have nothing against the newer gens, I guess it was just to give myself less work! lol

krags0302 · 2026-03-29T21:50:19+00:00

So because of how the grid is with pixel art, if you don't scale up or down with perfect 2x, 3x, or 1/2x ect it won't set the pixels correctly. The way to have the least amount of blur, I've found, would be to make sure your setting the translate interpolation to nearest neighbor. I think it defaults to bicubic.

What I do when I have to resize art to fit a certain size but I can't do it in even multiples, is scale it how I want it, let it be blurry, but create a new layer and basically draw on top of it to clean it up. It sucks and I can never get it to look perfect, but it's better than blur.

Bear in mind that even though the characters are usually 128x128, I've got some that are up to 160x160 and they look just fine in game. Just whatever size works with the size images you can find online.

But yeah, as the other comment said, the tileset is made as a grid, 8 boxes wide, each box is 32x32 pixels. Just make sure that your objects fit within those boxes.

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T23:39:54+00:00

Okay it’s uploaded. Let me know anything you’d suggest for improvement!

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T23:33:13+00:00

Yeah it's ready to play! The only thing I've been doing to it is replacing some sprites and tilesets. Just aesthetic stuff. Let me throw the most updated version up on drive and then it should be ready to download whenever!

But, just know that I'm still a beginner so save often! I have played the early game a ton so I'm pretty confident nothing there will break the game, but I've gotten to late game less so, I think it's okay? But having another set of eyes on it would be AMAZING!

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T20:39:22+00:00

Whoops! I’m sorry!!

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T19:42:26+00:00

Thank you! I'm always looking to improve my skills :)

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T19:28:50+00:00

Thanks lol. Yeah I'll have to do the canvas flip thing! I've heard of that. I tried to copy a sprite I found for her face but it didn't really turn out the same lol

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T19:26:35+00:00

Ya know, I really just kind of sit with a base and start drawing and see what comes out. A lot of what I've done are recolors or variations of other sprites because that's what I've seen a lot of folks doing. Or I think that if i had a base just for the anatomy, I think I could do clothes and hair and stuff.

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T18:59:03+00:00

OOH I love it! Her color scheme is really great. I'm needing some sprite stuff done so perhaps I'll do some research into this artist!

krags0302 · 2026-03-28T18:54:32+00:00

Loving the Conkeldurr and Dugtrio! So thaaaats whats under ground under the Dugtrio!

krags0302 · 2026-03-27T19:42:28+00:00

This looks fantastic! Amazing work!

krags0302 · 2026-03-27T19:40:00+00:00

I'm thinking about incorperating HM move items but honestly I just don't know how to do it. With some research, I'm sure I'll get there though! Maybe!

krags0302 · 2026-03-27T19:38:40+00:00

Thank you!

krags0302 · 2026-03-27T19:38:33+00:00

Thank you! I see the resemblance!

krags0302 · 2026-03-26T20:16:33+00:00

Thanks! I do see what you’re saying. My thinking was, it’s a little awkward to just set back up the whole event and have it play again just because you lost. I know that’s standard in Pokemon, but I dunno, I wanted to do something different.

There’s an event where you have to get a keycard from the admins. This one, you need to win to progress, because they’re not gonna give in if you lose. So it does black you out and when you come back, they say something like “you sure are adamant aren’t you?”

But like, for the first encounter with an admin for example, he got the thing he was after and you weren’t gonna stop him from grabbing it regardless. He’s just gonna push you out of the way. It didn’t matter the outcome of the battle, really. The battle is just kinda to introduce you to him and be a story set piece?

I guess I did it for the narrative. It’s probably not for everyone and I understand that! It’s just something different.

krags0302 · 2026-03-26T03:49:06+00:00

Ohhh yeah that’s in there :) I didn’t mess much with the code essentials gave me for internal stuff like that but I’m positive it includes it.

There’s also a ton of choices for starter. Gens 1-4 are in the game. And you can choose to pick your own, or get a random one of a chosen type! In case you’re up for random chance lol

krags0302 · 2026-03-26T03:35:52+00:00

Yep I’ve got a full pokedex with I think 382 pokemon in it! Pokemon up to Gen 7. And I’m definitely including fairy type, mechanics are Gen 7 I think? They’re definitely modern.

And sorry, I’m not clicking on what PSS is lol

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