I was thinking about just using the free sprites that you can easily obtain on the web but then thought with so many Devs using the same sprites it can make a game look so samey.
Does this effect how many people will play a game ? I’m not too sure but I have in the past not bothered to play or download a game as it looks the same as a hundred others.
This is a quick screenshot of my first hand drawn room. I admit I got the inspiration from the Dark Dome games that I have played lately but I am quite pleased that it doesn’t’ look too awful
Hi bonzillesmobilegames, I’m not familiar with that game you mentioned, but your room looks great.
One suggestion is because your floor is visible, to also have the tops of furniture visible. For example, have the top of the chest of drawers visible like this.
Got a fair bit done so far I decided to add each room on a separate scene as the navigation was a nightmare to get working I think it might have been that some game areas were -1280 -722
Cool project… but are you aware that graphics is no more a pain in the a** for adventure developers?
I took your image, I added my prompt, I feeded Copilot (=ChatGPT4), et voila
My prompt:
Redesign this room in a cartoon style. On the back wall to the left, include a window barred with various planks. In the center, place a closed door, and on the right, depict a piece of furniture with three drawers. The room should be viewed in perspective with a single vanishing point at the center. Add some additional details throughout the space such as a plant, a painting, and a rug.
About sprites: although there is not (yet) an AI trained on spritesheets (hence you get totally useless results), I found interesting projects which help building custom sprites:
I played a bit with the character of your video to get a first, raw sprite; then I “reprocessed” it through ChatGPT, getting a cartoon-style high definition sprite (prompt: “Recreate the character in the image in a cartoon style, with a completely white background, in a high-definition spritesheet style.” )
I fed it into Animated Drawings, then I realized that I had to modify it a bit, to make right foot exactly perpendicular to leg, to avoid weird animation
Final result:
It is not directly usable because it’s an MP4 video and the character does not remain static in the center of the frame, but I am working to a “MP4-to-spritesheet converter” (see github, cannot post further links now)
Unfortunately as a new user of the forum I am not allowed to post the images of all intermediate steps, but you got the point…
