Spectral Paws 89 (20M)

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20m, he/him, Autistic Atheist, Pro-Choice, Straight Ally To LGBTQ+ Community / Free Palestine, Ukraine, Congo and Sudan / Pixel Lover, Aspiring Game Dev into 2D Platformers / Love Thy Neighbor / 🚫 AI, NFT, etc. All views my own!

(My 3x5 characters for my potential future Pico-8 games.) Characters currently included: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Hey! Reminder: Eskimo is a slur. It means “snow eaters” in Cree and is a slur against Inuit. Also don’t use “eskimo kisses”—it’s called Kunik. It’s a greeting mostly used by family. Kunik was how I’d greet my mom and grandmother as a small child.
Mario, Luigi and 3 Shellcreepers (not Koopa Troopas) in Phase 1 of the original arcade version of Mario Bros.
A custom sprite I made in Piskel of Small Mario idling. I plan to make a whole sprite sheet to submit to TSR (The Spriters' Resource).
A WIP humanoid base with its arms at rest that I plan to use for both male and female characters. I aim only for readability and believability.
A dagger I made in Freeform with squares. This dagger has a golden cross-guard and pommel, a brown handle and a white blade. (I love the shape of this specific type of dagger’s blade—it’s like a very thin, upside-down kite, if that makes any sense?)
My OC; “Mama” Roxie, wearing green boots with red socks, blue pants with her favorite orange shirt—which has a yellow heart on it—and purple digitless gloves on her 4-digit paws. Her expression is that of a gentle smile facing the viewer(s), and her legs are close together with her forepaws stretched out.
My palette example (WIP) for Spectral 16, my own custom palette which I have refined a lot over a year. It measures 464x120, and possesses three game scenes. From left to right: - Rosewood Castle’s main hall, with King Rosario in front the rightmost torch. It is dark outside the castle and in the halls. - My fursona is jumping over a pit with a purple slime in front of it during a sunny morning. - The X-85 star fighter and 2 Drones are shooting lasers ahead of them and missiles that are heading for an enemy tank in the Dusty Landscape.
My fursona—a bipedal white domestic canine with brown eyes wearing blue pants, a green shirt and brown (I used orange—I only had a 9-color palette) shoes.
My OC, “Mama” Roxie! She’s a 37-year-old domestic canine with white fur and black ears, black pupils, and a black, bristly tail. Roxie’s main outfit is a pair of green boots, red socks, blue pants, an orange T-shirt with a yellow heart on it, and purple digit-less gloves.
Here is my OC, Newman. He is walking along a series of gray tiles under the stars and a full moon. In the upper left corner is a healthbar with red tile-esque segments, and an empty item box.
My sona is wearing a green shirt, blue pants and brown shoes with tinted soles. He is standing with a confident expression as his black tail wags.
Colonizer Jesus was/did: White, Christian, Patriotic, did justice through retribution, died for your sins, sends sinners to hell, silent in the face of oppression, condemned sinners, endorsed church and state,
My “Spectral 16” palette example that I made in Piskel, inspired by the Pico-8 and MSX palettes. The example features three 128x120 game mockups to the right of the palette logo, which features the colors’ hex codes and a color map beneath it. Mockup 1: The scene takes place in the darkened halls of Rosewood Castle. The doors and windows are closed, and the only lighting at this moment are two torches illuminating the royal red carpet and its golden trim. Mockup 2: My sona is jumping over a pit about to land on a long patch of grass with a coin just above it, some flowers on it and a purple slime in front of him during a cloudless day. There are some mountains in the distance. There are also some flowers behind him. Mockup 3: A white, slender spaceship with a blue cockpit, gray engine and muzzle alongside 2 fighter pods all fire powerful lasers in the starry expanse of outer space. At the bottom of this scene is a HUD reading: 1-034100 (A score of 34,100 points), Ships-02 (3 lives left), Stage 2-1. To the right of the score and lives are some indicators, indicating how many more upgrades to the ship's pods and weapons can be acquired.
Countess Dracula is the 800-year-old queen of the night, mistress of darkness, and owner of the ethereal castle, Castle Ethera, where she lives with her son Adrian and his 5 sisters, her assistant Spectra (a phantomesque Death) Her abilities include super strength, speed, agility, endurance, enhanced hearing, night vision, hypnosis, teleportation, dark magic, shapeshifting, and the ability to control the weather to a considerable, yet slight extent. Her only weaknesses are silver, garlic (allergies), sanctified objects*, light magic and oak stakes. She can only be killed by first driving an oak stake through her heart, then cutting off her head, and lastly burning her body. She is very cordial to her staff, subjects, guests and relatives. She was once a mortal cursed by a vengeful and corrupt priest during her burial. Her favorite book is "Dracula," and she wears a black suit with a white undershirt and two gold buttons, black shoes, and a navy-blue cape with red lining.
The penultimate version of my palette example for Spectral 16. The far left section contains the hex codes for each color, the palette logo and a color map. To its right are 3 game mockups, each with a 128x120 resolution. Each one demonstrates the palette’s versatility. Mockup 1: Steelheart Dame Steelheart raises her shield to block a fireball cast from an evil mage in a purple robe. Behind her is a gravestone, and in front of her is a bush. It is a dark night. Mockup 2: Super Canine An anthropomorphic domestic canine (my sona) in a green shirt, blue pants and brown shoes jumps over a pit on a sunny day. In front of him is a flower, a gold coin and a purple slime. Mockup 3: Star Fighter A white and blue spaceship titled the X-85 soars across space firing a laser alongside two white pods that are firing light beams. Beneath the scene is a HUD that displays the following stats: 1-034100, Ships-02, Weapon Level (WPN) 2/3, Pods 3/3, Stage 2-1
A knight helmet.
The indexes for the whole Pico-8 palette. Includes color names and hex codes.
Here is my OC, Newman. He is walking along a series of gray tiles under the stars and a full moon. In the upper left corner is a healthbar with red tile-esque segments, and an empty item box.
The palette logo, hex codes, and color maps are over to the left, while the scenario is over to the right. In this picture, we can see a valley with 2 mountains and a far-away and below pool of water. In this valley is my sona standing in front of three gold coins and a strawberry bush which is just above some spikes, while my OC Rockie can be seen shooting his rifle at a purple vampire bat whilst on a bridge. Above my characters are some hud elements: an almost-full healthbar and a coin counter reading 0247.
My wife, Roxie! She’s wearing her one-piece swimsuit. The swimsuit is orange with a golden heart on it. Her swimsuit (as does the rest of Roxie’s wardrobe) has a hole for her bristly, black tail. Roxie’s swimsuit also has a magnetic flap for her to flip open when she has to “go potty.”
Spectral 16 (v1). This version has a dark green and does not have a chartreuse (lime green).
The source of all this.
A 20 being displayed on Google’s roll dice function.