rudyardKipling I use a combo of the Construct Classic and Construct 2 graphics editing tool. CC has a color replacement feature I heavily use which C2 does not - Consistent colors on sprites are good! For larger graphics I hand draw everything. Scan, bring it into photoshop and touch it up - pixel art is also resized in photoshop and "save as web" using png at 4,8 or 16 colors depending on what I'm doing.

Logos and fonts are usually ported over from Indesign/Illustrator to photoshop and resized accordingly.

Really looking forward to seeing this one progress!! Outstanding art too!!

Eisenhans LOL! We'll take that as a compliment! Happy to hear you like it!

Demo is just a little over a week away. Just bug fixes and art work left to do. Just did a new logo/title screen. Going to do the options menu to select easy, normal, hard and epic. I think I still haven't done the Bat enemy for stage 2 yet either :)

If anyone knows someone who is extremely talented in the area of Famitracker, PM me. My musician has dropped off the face of the earth...

BluePhaze - I grabbed a tutorial off of here that had wall sliding in it and then built it after reading that. It's a complete mess and still buggy against walls but once I have it tightened up I'll do a capx of wall jumping sure :)

This is the tutorial I based it off of.

scirra.com/forum/wall-jump-megamanx-style-example_topic64626.html

It didn't work for me quite this way though, too many other things to take into account (like the way I handle my controls).

Insanity's Blade Beta - Stage 1 Play through. (Youtube destroyed the flicker on the boss by cutting frame rate, sorry!)

[TUBE]http://youtu.be/DkZSIINzDxo[/TUBE]

Now this I really like!! Might get some use out of my Wii U yet ;)

— Thanks! We're working hard on it... when we have time haha! I agree with your suggestion as well. I just lazied out on the with the flicker. I can redo the pallet over in Construct Classic (I use the graphic editor there because it lets me swap colors).

The boss actually flashes at 120fps to simulate more than 3 colors (makes it look more like 5 or 6) So I can just change one frame to be all red - no big deal. Thanks for the suggestion, it will be done!

BluePhaze Thanks! Yeah... my art will always be influenced by the games that caused my unhealthy obsession haha! Capcom's early days probably make up 80% of my love of video games. Along with Data East and Konami.

Dave Hailwood Thanks! I was going for a Strider/Megaman/Batman/Ninja Gaiden thing. Although I've never been a fan of Megaman, I liked the way it played. The wall jump and slide added a whole new dynamic to the game that made it more fun and caused me to totally redesign the 2nd stage, not to mention add to the first and third!

I had an Amiga 500 as well, but no monitor alas. Nor the program you're talking about. I had to enjoy it in black and white on my tv as I picked it up as it was at a yard sale long ago. Shoot em up construction kit was limited to vertical scrolling and did *all* of the hard work for you. I made some extremely disturbing games but nothing worth noting. I had a lot of practice with the sprite editor in GK's Game Maker on c64 and Koala Paint on c64. So pixel art has been in me for a long long time haha!

The comic was partially redrawn and published online. I was a student when I did the actual comics so I had no money to publish. I completely finished 2 issues. The third appears to be inked and unlettered/colored. The forth and fifth are sketches, rough covers and pages of plot breakdowns. For the game, the story has been revamped.

We're going to do a few more videos before the demo is released.

One that shows all of the stages of the demo, and maybe one that has clips of the later levels. I've actually finished the maps for stage 4 and 5 for the most part, just void of enemies while we finish up the demo stages.

Thanks for the kind words all! I'm looking forward to some serious creative critiquing/suggestions once the demo is out!!

robin Sommer Thanks! Having way too much fun building this game!

***Video Update in original post***

[TUBE]http://youtu.be/DkZSIINzDxo[/TUBE]

rogueNoodle Thanks! Just drawing up background art for stage 5!

***updated first post with title of game and facebook link***

***more images from the game and original art - click like guys ;)***

TELLES0808 Regardless of who did the gfx still a great job. Tyrian was one of the first games I remember getting for the pc that actually had smooth scrolling. It was just epic!! It set a new standard for pc games - at least for 2d games!

Wow! That's the stuff!! Outstanding pixel art!!

rogueNoodle - Thanks! The PixellateMask effect is what I use. The sprite is set to 320x240, the same size as my window. Placed on the top most layer and the effect parameter is set to 1. I don't think the color of the sprite or anything matters as it's a mask. Everything below that layer will have the same pixel size. That's it :)

I think the only hitch is that it has to be in full screen in a browser to look correct. But everything looks off to me when the browser window isn't set to full screen anyway.