Mastodawn

Ben Chandler 3d ago

I made these sprites and environments for a game I was working on with my wife for last year's DOS game jam. It was inspired by 70s speculative art and early Silmarils games. Unfortunately, I was rather too overambitious to get it done in time. We decided against releasing it unfinished, but it was such a cool idea we hope to pick it up again someday. It looks even better in action!

#gameDev #GameArt #retroGaming #pixelArt #fantasy #MastoArt

Ben Chandler 3d ago

@wrnyfyr There are far, far too few games that aspire to the beauty and strangeness of Silmarils titles. This looks wonderful.

@ThreeOhFour yeah I know right, what hidden gems. Targhan looks so incredible, especially for 1988!

@ThreeOhFour and Metal Mutant is aesthetically peak

Ben Chandler 3d ago

@wrnyfyr Yes, I feel like these (and a lot of Silmarils stuff in general) come from a particular time where machines like the Amiga and Atari ST gave artists a chance to really push their craft in the medium, before they were reigned in by constraints of set genres and best practices about UI. I love big, decorative interfaces, and I love games the commit to their aesthetic all the way.

Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛3d ago

@wrnyfyr I had already finished the game back then!

I guess StarBlade was an inspiration too? (I haven't played it)

@Gamrok yes that was the other one, though we never got very far. Sure was pretty though!

Mikael Myyrä 3d ago

@wrnyfyr That’s a lot of detail for a game jam 👀 Very pretty, I hope you get to make something out of it eventually

@molentum yeah... pretty sure that is what my wife said at the time 😅 thanks, and I hope so too!

@wrnyfyr beautiful and unusual palette!

Anders Stenberg 3d ago

@wrnyfyr Looks great! I haven't played a lot of Silmarils games apart from a tiny bit of Ishar, and Transarctica which I played quite a bit. Never finished it but it was wonderfully strange.

Gabriele Svelto 3d ago

@wrnyfyr what an interesting idea to get inspiration from Silmarils games! Those had a very peculiar aesthetic that was quite unlike anything else at the time.

@wrnyfyr That would be in my wishlist immediately

@wrnyfyr pretty

Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛3d ago

@wrnyfyr I immediately thought of the Silmaril games before reading your post. Nice!

Woozle Hypertwin 1d ago

@wrnyfyr These remind me of Roger Dean's work. ^.^