I want to try making something with a bleak atmosphere of age and ruin. Not sure I can personally achieve that in the limitations but that's my basic direction to aim art/music in. I've stuck to a greyscale palette (with minor tinting) mainly because my first Game Boy was a Game Boy Pocket, so this is more how I remember these games :)

Partial test map as seen in mapping utility (Mappy). I'm sticking to 8x8 tiles.

Panning around the loaded map in unity play-test mode.

This is the first time I've really had a stab at making anything in Unity. I've spent most of my time so far most likely re-inventing the wheel by putting together a tilemap script (and pixelling/fiddling with LSDj), but I'm hopeful for some semblance of gameplay by the deadline. Next steps in rough order of priority:

• Enemy sprite(s)
• Actual enemies with collisions
• Attacks and animations
• Map collision
• Finish a map
• GUI stuff- health etc.
• Music and SFX (trying out LSDj, some progress here already), maybe a title screen.
• Extra maps, story elements

That definitely brings across the image of a broken ruin. Not just the grainy and irregular tiles but their placement too.

@metalman42 thanks, I'll keep trying to bring that out in tiles/maps :)

Progress:

• Updated player sprite, added extra frames and attack animations
• Made an enemy sprite
• Skipped ahead to making a quickie title screen based on this enemy

Updated player spritesheet

Enemy spritesheet

Crude title screen. "Amidst Ruins" is now my title I guess :p

Now I need to get a better understanding of how to apply Unity's animation tools to this particular set up.