The only logical conclusion to this is a 16 bit indie game as a tribute. This is just so good.
"It's a website video game!"
Someone get on it! These sprites are up for grabs, though. . . w/out some amount of animation, not sure what they could really be used for.
@DoomPickle said:
This is bloody awesome! Reminds me of LucasArts in all the best ways.
I love old adventure games. Wondering if the new ones being made at Double Fine will live up to my memories of the classics. I replayed Monkey Island when they were re-released with updated visuals and they didn't really hold up as well as I thought they would. I mean, I liked em, but it was more because I remembered playing em more than from just playing em.
@ChadMasterFlash said:
So my background is not the greatest thing ever. So thanks!
Yay! I think. ..
@Old_Corncob said:
Jeff is too small, he is at least 1.5 times bigger in real life.
Maybe. . . I actually think Brad is a bit too small. Every time I add someone, I do another pass on everyone else. Eventually I'll have to rehit the main crew.
@djhicks1 said:
Wow, that filedropper.com is some bullshit.
Did something crazy happen? Sorry, it's just the easiest one I could find to use. If you've got a better one I can try, I'll use that for the next upload -_-;;
@Voxel said:
This is just fantastic. Well done!
@Sergotron said:
These are amazing.
Thanks guys =)
I'm takin a trip, so I'll be back next week to add the hopefully few missing ppl. . . At that point, I can start making actual ground instead of just a gross gradient. I really don't like the gradient because it's a quick fix, but it's a quick fix, so I'm using it now till I finalize positions =P Thanks for sticking w/me through this mess!
These are totally stellar. Nice job, duder! As long as you're digging into more obscure connections to Giant Bomb, I would recommend old interns or Ana Hurka-Robles, the old video producer at Tested. She made it on camera now and then. Man, that Brad one...that is just beautiful. That makes me happy. Well done.
I will be, once it's done -_-;; Until then, I'm sorta embarrassed by it and it's ridiculously unfinished state.
@hwy_61 said:
Using Rorie as my icon. Thanks!
Good deal. I've made some changes to him recently that aren't reflected in that sprite just yet, hopefully you'll transition over once I get around to making another set of individual packs =P
@artofwar420 said:
Best thing EVER! Just keeps getting better and better. This is my wallpaper.
WOOOOOO!!!
@DEFE said:
These are totally stellar. Nice job, duder! As long as you're digging into more obscure connections to Giant Bomb, I would recommend old interns or Ana Hurka-Robles, the old video producer at Tested. She made it on camera now and then. Man, that Brad one...that is just beautiful. That makes me happy. Well done.
Hmm. . . I'll consider it. Though it'd help that consideration greatly if you could hunt down any references to her and link em to me here as I'm a bit swamped with everything else so I don't think I can go hunting her down myself =)
@Demoskinos said:
Darth Whitta is amazing. Glorious! Glorious I tell you!
Haha, he's had some changes as well. Hopefully for the better once you see it -_-;; I just started watching/listening to some of the tested stuff and it's pretty good. I miss those guys.
@Tireyo643 said:
XD Awesome.
ur awesome!
@m2cks said:
Oh Lawd, pixelated Safety Dance Brad is the best thing ever.
He's too smaaaaaaallll!!!!!!
@SmasheControllers said:
Who's space ship guy? John Carmack
@Tomzombie said:
Is john carmack the guy on the rocket?
@StarvingGamer said:
Is that John Carmack?
Yes. But he's rough and I sorta just threw him in before leaving for my trip. I have to fix him and the rocket up quite a bit. So far, I think his hair is way too long. . . beyond that, the rocket is REALLY rough =\
@TheSouthernDandy said:
This continues to be the best thing in Giant Bomb.
If so, only because it's made up of Giant Bomb itself =P
@RenegadeSaint said:
These are so amazing and spot-on that I was able to guess most of them without reading the labels. Just really fantastic work.
Yay~ Figuring it out is sorta half the fun. . . maybe I'll put out a sort of, puzzle type thing once it's actually legit finished. Ala "Who's That Pokemon!?"
@49th said:
What did you make these with?
Photoshop and a Cintiq. The Cintiq is overkill but it's what I've got so imma use it =P
I've already Klepeck'ed it up on my previous GB pixel art thing =P I don't think I can really throw spotlights and madness at him just yet. . . though, who knows. Maybe. . . In what other ways can I more Klepeck him? I'm always open to suggestions and edits =) Just look at prior saftey brad brad. =)
@Fobwashed: If you haven't listened to the Octoberkast you really should get in on that. If you want to watch it all you can find those videos here....
Truly, so awesome! Thanks for including me! I will now spend my free time practicing my chin-jutting so that one day I will look as badass as my pixelated self.
This is truly amazing, and inspiring to be the Giant Bomb video game that everyone has always ever clamored for. Great job, and keep up the great work.
Truly, so awesome! Thanks for including me! I will now spend my free time practicing my chin-jutting so that one day I will look as badass as my pixelated self.
I can never thank you enough for defeating that wizard, but this can be a start =)
Is this the only thing she's been in? I've never seen this before but if the other stuff she's involved with is nearly as awesome, my head might explode. What was her position at Whisky? And where'd she get those badass glasses?!
@hankrazorbeard: @wrecks: @Dylabaloo: Mucho thanko!
@heatDrive88 said:
This is truly amazing, and inspiring to be the Giant Bomb video game that everyone has always ever clamored for. Great job, and keep up the great work.
Will do, and wouldn't that be great? -_-;;
@dennisthemennis said:
This is amazing. I could guess almost all of them right away. You've really captured their looks, and all with tiny pixels to boot. Well done.
My only suggestion (not sure if someone has suggested it already) is to make patrick into hotdog-suit patrick:
It's been suggested and I may do a variant on it. . . Maybe =P I've kept some of the older clothing versions so there might be variants. We'll see if hot dog makes it in -_-;;
@Fobwashed: Ana appeared in several old Tested videos, and was a regular on their podcast. She also appeared in the first Big Live Live Show Live. I don't believe she was around for the second.
@Fobwashed: I guess I didn't answer all your questions. She was a video producer, usually working on Tested. She was always very entertaining, and I suspect she made the glasses to some extent.
@Fobwashed: Oh and I forgot to mention, Ed Boon would probably be pretty good, even if it's Ed just in a Scorpion uniform.
Hmmm. . . .
@Foggen said:
@Fobwashed: I guess I didn't answer all your questions. She was a video producer, usually working on Tested. She was always very entertaining, and I suspect she made the glasses to some extent.
I'll take it into consideration =) Thanks for lookin up the info for me. Most likely if I do, she'll be in her getup from that youtube vid
I'm mostly satisfied with these. I'll prolly end up making some changes to Carmack later on tho. Not entirely happy w/the rocket or his face. . . . . I guess I might try throwing on a giant VR helmet on him or something. Dunno.
Yeah, I think this needs some Kessler and Steve... maybe have them running away from something that isn't scary as an homage to their video series they did for Giant Bomb, "The Fear Gauntlet".
That's pretty much the reference pic I used for Carmack. I get what you're saying and believe me, I tried giving him a softer chin but it quickly devolved into him lookin like he has some kinda disintegrating jaw disorder. I'll give it another try sometime before I'm done. . . I think I may just need to restructure his entire head but it might be necessary.
@nyv: YW =)
@Dagbiker said:
Where the hell is Kessler?
@dudeglove said:
Putting the interns in would take you down a dark path.
A dark path indeed. I may change my mind, or maybe just add Kessler since he was sorta more active in the community (due to the fact that I actually know and have seen him) but I feel like I've already got a full plate as it is doin what I'm doin. We'll see. As for Dan, I think pretty much at this point anyone who's been touched by Giant Bomb whether via a podcast or quicklook or interview is someone I'll consider but the real cutoff is whether or not they're known enough in our community and whether they've got anything distinctive enough about them to be recognizable in a small pixel format. Apart from the main crew (who'll be known by anyone frequenting the site). So far, I'm down to add people even I don't really know as long as whoever is calling out for them can provide something I can work with.
@oldjack327 said:
Yeah, I think this needs some Kessler and Steve... maybe have them running away from something that isn't scary as an homage to their video series they did for Giant Bomb, "The Fear Gauntlet".
It'd be sorta too difficult and more work than it's worth to have the two of em split off from everyone else runnin from something scary -_-;; Aside from the Fear Gauntlet, I'm not really sure what I'd put them in as neither. I don't really remember Steve too well aside from being "internet Steve" reading questions from the chat and umm. . . I dunno. I never really watched many of those fear gauntlet episodes because I felt the games they were playing weren't really scary -______- Gimme a cool theme and I'll try to see if I can fit em in =)
@Parsnip: You're beautiful you sexy sexy terrorist man.
@NAQ said:
Muir's unibrow, caveman look bugs me so much. + am I crazy or wasn't he blond?
And I totally thought the baby carriage was like a lawnmower or a grill at first. :p
You should add that sherlock holmes 7 story guy.
I think the brow you're referring to is a badly done set of glasses rims -_-;; I'll keep that in mind and see if I can touch it up some. Not entirely too sure what I can do about the baby carriage but I haven't really touched on it since I put it in. When I thought about the carriage, I initially thought about having the baby a bit more visible (the other option was to have Vinny skiing w/the baby on his back) but I never got back around to it. As for the sherlock holmes guy. . . . man, you can play as the fucking DOG! I dunno. I think it's telling that we both know him as the Sherlock Holmes guy and not his name. . . which eludes me at the moment, but he told one hell of a story. Three supermen flew down from the sky, landed, looked around, left 6 footprints, then flew back off. Obvious.
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