Red angel

Pixel art for today. Based on videogame Baryon for system MS DOS. This is shooter top down.

So I suggest you to look at my picture. That I make based on some screenshot. It is also arcade, shooter. In grey colors. So, like space base, moon, at earth some bases. Everything is in grey colors. And your character – red plane – red angel. It is burning everything like hurricane. I get understanding, that in shooter there is required dynamic. So as for me I am with a slow mind. And when I do programming, than I also like slow. In order to see everything ok, that is going on a screen.

But for good real action there is required speed and dynamic. That’s why you control red angel, and it can shoot with rockets with both side, and each side with two rockets. So pretty deadly mechanism. So, let it be a secret who is red angel. Some mystery and atmosphere. So it is, of course, about science and technology, there is no place for mystics here. Red Angel – it is you, by the way. Secret mission let it be.

All of these, with music like good synthpop. Dynamic and atmosphere. Synthesizers. But, also, that pulse mode is like rock music. For example, like Toxxify – Cyborg Chase. So, synthpop is also point of motivation for all of these shooters. So, also take a point, that you have megabombs in the left down corner. So it will be super strike. In order to have half of screen in burning flames. So, yes, lots of flames and burns. It is very required part. Grey background and light colors of red angel and lots of bright burnings.

I think, that with such fire power as Red Angel, you have nothing to fear. This is like tv-series from 80s – air wolf. But another way. Or like Knight Rider with its super advanced car. By the way, megabombs, I get from videogame Raptor Call of Shadows! Raptor is a cool game for MS DOS! I and my bro likes to play Raptor in MS DOS system. It is pity, that there is no next games in Raptor. For example 10-20 videogames the same style of actions. Theme is flying out!

Grey pseudo realism everything is under. Like base or surface like moon. Let it be everything in a near future. So it is first. And Soviet Union will exist. This is second. So, I also remember a videogame for NES – Mig 29 Soviet Fighter. I was also very excited, because of mainly it were games about different – F16,F18,F22,F117. But I am far from this theme. But about videogames, I was impressed about how many they are!

And story will be like action future format. So I liked a lot to fly in F22 – Lighting 2. Firm MicroProse from 90s by the way makes lots of them – simulations F16-F18. And later it become a NovaLogic to makes same style of games. So I am having installed for old PC – F22 Lighting 3. But I have never played it yet. So I support idea of this kind of games. In format of shooter or simulation.

So I get in memories. About action and shooters, simulations. And I wanted to tell about my picture, and what the way I try to see my game!

Eighties Wide Screen Racing

Pixel art for today. Based on screenshot from videogame Knight Rider Special. For system Turbo Grafx. This is like some racing videogame with elements of action.

I have made this style of drawing by myself. And I want to tell about it. About idea, that is connected with drawing.  Just now it is only a drawing. This is racing about eighties. Style of eighties. Of course, it is also about a music of eighties – it is Lian Ross, Fancy, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi. And retrowave music, Johnny Ola, Nothern Lights, Night Habit, and many many others. Retrowave, there are lots of  them. Music – is going very good to describe a style. So music- is very important. Game is in genre of racing.  City racing, just like street racing. Night and day. This is 8 bit need for speed in my version. So, you are in a city, and it is a city traffic. Casual drivers. Casual drivers, they ride by theirs own way, while you are in a racing. So, be careful!

One more theme – wide screen picture format. I mean, this black lines top and down. For style. Just like widescreens movies of old times. So, I have seen these in a movies. This is element for style. So in terms of wide screen I mean only these black lines.

I think, that racing will be around the world. This is like globalization, internationalism. Racing will be in Japan, America, Europe, Soviet Union. So this is my 80s. Personally, I am very upset about collapse of Soviet Union. Eighties- it is also unique car style. And some cities, village landscape, nature, big cities.

So we have here a stylization for eighties here. So pink or dark blue texts. Of course, at now, I am not a master of programming, in order to give everything that I draw on format of videogames. But I wish that I will make this jump in intelligence, at one time, someday. Someday this will happen. So just now, I stay more as a drawing. 

Motorcycle Sport

Pixel  art for today based on videogame Gp Rider for Sega Game Gear. It is such portable console from Sega, with power like 8 bit console like Sega Master System , NES. Game itself – it is sport arcade racing. About motorcycle sportsman. Short – racing game about motorcycle.

And this is my drawing. Also, about motorcycle, racing. This is first time, for me to show drawing of such complex thing like motorcycle and a racer. So, it is achievement! So, little wrong curve about circling the road. But, for fast drawing – it is ok, as a demonstration. It is cool to circle the road better for next time. So, just, more time to put into it.

And, so it is racing, time attack. Speed gives score. So, while you are racing fast – you receive more scores, racing with lower speed  - gives less score. This is that, like score speed is transmitting into scores. Racing about checkpoints, as you reach it – you give amount of time. So, also such a simple visual. Track and background. 

Mountain and forest racing competition 90

Pixel art for today, based on Zero 4 Champ for system Super Nintendo. This is youth generation racing, or competition, where you are going on a straight road, as fast as you can.  At the speed of changing transmission. As I understand. I have never played it. But I look at this title for a long time, with a point of view, about it has a cool screenshots. Beautiful screenshots. It was a desire to make something like this.

Let’s return to my drawing. This is one more racing arcade game. By the way, yesterday, I was playing Sega MegaDrive, at the videogame Lotus 2. So, it is something like this, I will make as a game, if I start to make this game. So, right now, it is only a drawing.  Bright day, mountain road. We are riding to the mountains. So track to mountain. Weather is fine. And you are in your car.

So, I need to add some interesting features. Because of, there a lots of racing games. And, even, I have made lots of pixel art about racing. So, let it be about theme about mountains road. And mountains racing. So special competition.

Also, it will be a forest roads. Mountain and forest as main landscapes in this title. Just like a long road to the village. Nature! Cool! And let, it be in 90s! At the car just like some that period of time.

So, just breathe clearest air with mountains air and go fast to finish line!

Police investigation – park and forest

Pixel art for today based on videogame Police Quest 2 for system MS DOS. It is a quest and adventure. It is rather popular game for first half of 90s. It is a time of quests from Sierra. It is Police Quest, Space Quest, Kings Quest.

And this is my pixel art. Here we have a scene in style of videogame Police Quest. It is made in graphic style of first half of 90s. Several colors. Not so many as today. But also interesting.

This is only a drawing. And some ideas about videogame.  What kind of game can it be. I suggest to make a investigation also. In quests, it is very complicated, it is about search items, talk with people.  So it is like this, but more simple. And some little element of action. You are also a policeman, and you are making some investigation.  And a little of shooting for you also. And at first – you are walking here and there, looking at things, collecting items. Items – gives you understanding about what is going on. A little talking – and you have a clear picture. So you have find bandits. And it is start a shooting.

So task is done. And with such sequence all the gameplay. Mainly –like a quest. So very retro one. Small amount of items. Few characters. And several this kind of tasks to solve.

Mainly, all the actions will take place in several places. Several scenes of the city, police station. And main zone – forest, park. Big forest and park. It will have a lake, forest, grass. Bright sun. Good weather. And you are walking the locations. Talking with characters, trying to get what is going on. And searching the items, which can help you understand the situation.

Game will be with a patterns of Police Quest. But a little another way, my way. Sometimes with a jokes. Sometimes like a parody, sometimes just another way. So it can be my own clone. So, at start you search for a lost dog in a park, or something simple. Very fast for solve. Than it goes investigation of something more complex. And with elements of action and shooting. So investigation process in consist of simple things and shooting. So, for example, everything is connected with car thief. At the park. And the game goes on. About a car case, walking the park, about gunplay. So it is right now a picture and fantasy for it.

Fly in space

Pixel art for today. Based on videogame Gyruss for system Nes. This is someway 8 bit shooter.

And this is my drawing. Flying fly. Lots of them. They are flying in space. Flies are making space travels. And this is simple space shooter. Level of Atari 2600 or better – Nes level. One way is clear, it is early and 8 bit in style.

You are here, you are a fly. And other flies, your enemies. And also, there are ruins – white particles. It is a mass of space metal and trash. It is what is remained after some space structures. Somebody made them in the past. It is obstacles, you need to fly them from a side. And also exists dark yellow things – it is space obstacles. Just like crests for tank. But in space. It is also obstacles. Other space flies are flying at you. You are shooting at them. You have two sides shooting, here. But shooting for a big distance is not at once. This is feature. Length of shooting you will rise. And loose. You have 10 lives and game is about scores

And, of course, it is a big space question. All of these space ruins and flies, that can fly in space. Lots of mysterious things are ahead!

Exploration of Orion

Pixel art for today. Based on space theme in style of Master of Orion. Master of Orion – space strategy for MS DOS.

And this is my drawing. So, it is also a theme of turn based strategy like Heroes of Might And Magic, Kings Bounty, but in space. Something is taken from Star Trek. Drawing shows you some global map for adventures of your space ship. You see some parameters. At the bottom – it is speed and your weapons. Weapons are – laser, torpedoes, and bombs. Let it work like scissors, stone and paper. At the top – collected resources. It is technology, it you can exchange for upgrades. Cargo – exchange for credits, and team – it is influence on speed of taking decisions on your ship. Speed of how fast can you make a decision.

At the left it is interesting colored scale. At the bottom – health, at the middle – dark matter, at the top – energy. Energy is going down according your movements, like fuel. You need to search all the space for tanks with fuel. It is element of arcade. And in the middle – dark matter, it is requires for some super actions. Like magic in medieval games. Dark matter – for fast moves or something else.

 At the right – it is information window. And at the map – there are different objects. Objects with 1 point – it is background stars, for beauty. All other objects – for interactions. At the top – blue – sausages of Ufo, they are aggressive aliens. Nobody seen them, but theirs ufo sausages are interfering everybody around.

Two red objects – this is some stones, asteroids. Small planetoids. You can visit them. It can be point of interest or nothing at all. You can find some useful settlement with something interesting, they can give you a quest, or just find a wasteland something interesting. Or it can be a simple stone, that just fly in space.

And this way also other objects. I don’t have full ideas. I don’t make all the objects descriptions yet.

Game can be like simple, something in between strategy like Master of Orion and with some arcades and simple points. About space.

Jackdaw

Pixel art for today based on Super Space Invaders. It is space Invaders for 8 bit system Sega Master System.

And this is my drawing. Also a shooter, clone of space invaders. I think, it can be mix of ideas. So, like usual space shooter, and space invaders. So, somewhere you are flying forward, and some places you are stop.

At the right, in the middle – shield, power, and lives. So, colored indicator, in a future style.

New command initiative

Pixel art for today based on V for Victory. It is wargame for system MS DOS. Looks like, it were several game campaigns. With similar graphics. I recognize this game by graphics. And interface. It is turn based game based on second world war. Where player control the armies. In the screenshot, that I have, it was something about 1941 and a desert landscape.

And this is my drawing about same theme. But by myself. Here we have also a wargame. But it is mine. With schematic armies. I don’t know what kind of armies it should be. So, right now, like a main idea, a schematic. Machinegun set, it is such a defense. Crests – defense from tanks. Pack of machine gunners, and just a pack. And some technique. Like light and medium. I don’t still finish the idea about certain theme.  More like, close to conditional wargame with no details. Maybe to make it as a first world war, or more like, take a second world war. Or even just a certain battle. Or maybe make it just simple, and play like a schematic war with no historic details. So it can be lots of scenarios.

I can remember 90s and it was the same in 80s, it was a firm SSI. Strategic simulations Initiative. Something like this. Wargames a lots of them. And role playing games. It was a series of generals. Panzer General, Fantasy General. So it was lots of generals, you know. By the way, wargame, is interesting theme. But I have never played them. I have in GOG Fantasy generals, and I like this title. 

Junior golf

Pixel art for today based on videogame Naxat Open for PC Engine. This is golf simulator. Pretty unusual kind of sport game. Maybe, even, few people played in it. And here we have – virtual golf. So you can try it out.

And this is my drawing. Also a golf. I even don’t know how to play it. So, that’s why, it will be maximum easy. It is power of impact. And a direction. Two parameters. So I need to add these in elements of interface. And to make a map of navigation.

Racing Dream X16

Pixel art for today based on videogame Moto Roader for system TurboGrafx 16. It is top down racing game.

And this is my drawing. About the same theme. By the way, add to racing top down game. It can be a simple of GTA1. So, it is some territory. Like a city area. And you can drive there with your car. Doing something. Or racing top down. With our ways, 8 bit road.

About theme with top down racing idea it is clear for everybody. Casual racing. From start to finish. Or like racing with circles. You need to road to finish. So, after - goes next race. And so on.

And about GTA1 type of game. It is a city. And you can go with your two legs in there. You can seat in a car. All is top down. And, you solve some tasks. More often, they are connected with cars. There are other citizens. They are walking the city. And they drive their cars. So, there are city traffic. And you need to solve tasks. By storyline. To get into the car and drive to some other point at the map. Get of car and push the button. I see it this way. GTA1 it is about car thief. This is not about my game. I am not a fan of bandits. Just simple arcade. 

Local Racing Super 70

 Pixel art for today based on videogame ESPN SpeedWorld for system Super Nintendo. This is a racing game.

And this is my drawing about theme. This will be a circle kind of racing. With a cars category muscle cars.   This kind. Top at the right. Here we have speed. Manual shifting. Engine rotation speed. And some overheat. I need better to know about parameters. In details – I don’t know how automobiles works. But you need to check all the time these parameters. It is something like Nascar spirit racing. But with less cars on the road.  And I am sure that ESPN SpeedWorld – it is some racing competition. It will be interesting to know about this ESPN.

So, I never was doing some drawing about 8 bit or 16 bits or MS DOS Nascar racing. So it is also an interesting theme.

Saying simple. So I try to show you a certain kind some racing competition with a certain cars. With parameters while you are racing. Just like keep eye on rpm. And some more. It can be some local racings.

So, I need to dig some data. And I suggest muscle cars of 70s. And circle racing. I need to read about 70s cars and suggest some symbols of the age. But sounds interesting! 

Tardyon in Orion

Pixel art for today based on videogame Galactic Battle for system MS DOS. This is a game genre like Space Invaders.

And this is my drawing the same theme. At the real point, this game already was in my inspiration videogame. But here we are again. I use here CGA NTSC palette. And there is a reason why I take this title again. This is some time a celebration. Celebration of Space Invaders!

It is about the event, that I made my own game engine, well I call it a game engine, which in theory helps me to do lots of games! But it is only in theory. For real way, it does not help a lot, but makes a process faster. And it was a long long time, since I wanted to do a lots lots of clones of Space Invaders. This is my dream.

So maybe a can do a series of Space Invaders. This is thing that I wanted so long time! So this is why it is a celebration!

This drawing is made in CGA color scheme. And about aliens. Ufo and so on. Maybe I can invent some features, in idea to make it differ from typical game. And in any other way, it is a very retro game. It can be. Right now it is a drawing. 

Jugular Cube

Pixel art for today. This time I don’t remember I game of inspiration. Because of it is some old drawing. And I finished it today. It was undone.

This is should be some logic game about cubes and colors. I even don’t know how to play it. If to make this game. Maybe, even arcade. In idea to have a simpler gameplay. Someway to collect cubes, maybe like this. This is only a drawing. And as idea it was taken some game from MS DOS era.

Meteor wave

Pixel art for today based on videogame Dead Moon for system TurboGrafx16. It is a game in genre of shooter, 2d action, shmup, shoot them all. Game from 1991. And it is pretty good about shooting.

And here you see my pixel art about this theme. In 2132 year, a meteor was hit the Earth. With unusual properties. It became a source of new energy. Using it, it become possible to build a new techniques. But a year after, aliens came to solar system to get this source of energy. Source of energy – it is extremely valuable thing in space. And birds of prey are right here. Scientists predicts in a 10 year a big wave of meteors in solar system. No one will hit the Earth, but they fly through solar system. Or hit other planets. Mars, Venus, Moon.

And first aliens intruders ships are already here. So, with other meteors to come, aliens will come too. 

X technology aliens

Pixel art for today based on videogame Xevious for system Atari 7800. It is well known title during the 8 bit era. It is a shmup game, so you fly and shoot.

And here we have my drawing about the same theme. So what kind of game it can be if I make it. First, you see, that game field is much bigger. And lots of objects at the screen and how far you can see. It is a feature.

Also I can suggest some simple science fiction story. About self developing aliens. So some base are landing at the earth. And they start to self developing. And build their ships. So this is only mechanical and technological kind of aliens. They have landed and start their building programs. And you cannot to speak with them, you cannot do them anything. And they are building theirs stations and also a war machines. And using it they start to defend their ground. So this is a problem.

By the way, Atari 7800 – it is a game system from 80s. It was released in 1986. So it is also a retro game, if you dong get it. I am about retro theme direction all the time.

Radioactive Burner

Pixel art for today based on videogame Battle Ace for videogame system TurboGrafx16. It is at the same time both simulation and arcade. In 8 bit decade it was ok thing. Game just like After Burner and Top Gun.

And this is my pixel art about the same theme. It is also arcade shooter about same theme. It is some sci fi avenger. And I suggest some sci fi plot. In a future, at planet Earth was a turning moment. It was appeared some electric dark clouds. High density and dark. And with electrical dangerous clouds.  And higher – radiation fields. So that’s why it was created new aircrafts. And you fly in this way. And you are part of a future conflict.

Aircrafts uses radioactive elements of power. And clouds are dirty with radiation. Welcome to the world of future! Radiation – it is a big power and a curse.

Electric clouds makes a damage to aircrafts. When you run into them. And they makes navigation more hard. Magnetic Earth field also changed. All modern aircrafts are equipped with atomic rockets of small power. And machineguns has also radiation bullets.

You are radioactive soldier. And a pilot. And you are playing in radioactive conflicts of future. So you need to count radiation that you have already got.

As idea I have remembered some songs by Black Sabbath. Like Into the void. And something else. Or front cover from one album – Never Say Die. 

Gates to planet ocean

Pixel art for today based on videogame SideWinder for NES. It is a such of a kind 8 bit shooter. It is one more ok arcade for 8 bit format.

And here we have my pixel art. About same theme. It is about what I can do. So we have also simple 8 bit arcade. With simple decoration and colors. And I suggest science fiction theme.

Here we have a water planet. With lots of small stones islands. Lots of big stones. Planet is covered by ocean, but it is not deep. And lots of stones are here. Small stones areas. Ocean is not deep, about 1 meter or 2 meter in depth.

Planet is in influence zone of alien civilization. And they don’t expect you here. And from portals aliens space ships has arrived. And they automatically start to push humans station from this planet. Without any talks.

How much was explorers to surprised? At first, they were lucky to find planet ocean, not deep ocean, and lots of stones. This is rare luck.

And even more surprise about to appearance of aliens from portals. And they don’t speak and don’t have talks. And they immediately to go for active war actions.

They - aliens, have a interesting space ships of yellow color. It is another technological base. Nobody knows what they use to fly. And they shoot with energy. So, right now, having technology of move by portal, this aliens can go to Earth in a few seconds. And it is required to stop them. Until contact will begins.

I am a fan of Star Gate, it is such science fiction tv series. About sand and flying pyramids. So it is also a part of idea. And idea of gates – using them you can travel to distant places in space. Anywhere where they setup, you can go, using a combination, just like a telephone number.