This game is bound to be excellent.

http://graememor.deviantart.com/#/d3dw9ny

If I can figure it out, I’d like to have them drooping slightly between the two devices, to get some curves in there and make it look a little more stylised.

If you get what I mean.

I also just wanted to say well done to everyone. I think all this work is amazing and inspiring stuff, and whatever happens, Gunpoint is going to look great! :)

http://graememor.deviantart.com/art/Gunpoint-player-run-204487237

Also animating in Photoshop is okay once you get your head around it.

I’ve been following your indie project since it was posted on Rock Paper Shotgun, it looks extremely fun and clearly you’re now spoilt for choice with art styles :)

I was wondering whether you’ve been considering music for your game. If you are I’d love to see if I could come up with anything good. Obviously it would be completely up to you whether or not you’d use it, I would merely be grateful for the challenge.

Some of my music is up @ http://www.clockworkpeanut.com/index.php/my-music/

I have delved into theme music in the past, but obviously none of the stuff there up on my website is of that nature.

Really can’t wait to play it if the game looks like either of those.

Any pixel editor will do for spriting, and if you’re not animating, even MSPaint isn’t half bad.

If anyone hass more interesting alternatives other than GraphicsGale/ProMotion, I’d happy to hear them.

And thanks to the people who liked my stuff! I have some difficulties with neutral, “realistic” settings and wanted to suggest another direction (think Peter Sellers in “The Party” meets Ghost Trick, but eh :)

These are some astonishing entries and I’m quite proud to be amongst them. I’ve been trying to get more work done on my take on office buildings and backgrounds, as these characters are simply to strong for me to compete against (My favourites are John’s and both Michael Hodkinson and Hussinger’s)
Unfortunately these backgrounds have been taking longer than expected. This due to deadlines, my internet at home having been disconnected for over a week and some other issues. But also that it’s really quite hard! I’ve really been struggling to get the Mirror -edgey feel coupled with a sort of dark and a bit dirty noir feeling.

Because I don’t want to delay further I’ll post my work in progress building. Although this one features purple, the buildings would all feature a different colour theme and would appear to be quite modern (It’s hard to come up with neat looking ‘modern’ architecture if you’re not an architect by the way o.o.) However, for all their fanciness, these buildings are dusty, dirty and rusty in the corners. They ought to make you feel unpleasant.

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~fabian1/beldak/random-office.png

I also wanted to keep a certain.. rough.. paintery style. However, it’s way overfeatured here.. as I didn’t get to much refining yet. Anyway, I hope you all like it! I’ll leave it at this for now and start a new building.. But I hope Tom can make a choice regarding my work with what I’ve posted thus far.

So of course I must complain and criticize the work I could never do.

Please keep the main character gender neutral. Or as long as its vague enough, doesn’t even need to be a proven human, just as long as its the shadowy figure.

Now for a horribly stupid idea you should ignore, what about changing art styles for different parts of the game. Perhaps even let the art get more complex as you get farther into the game. Nah, I’ll shut up now.

@Ezzer – Check out Graphics Gale (it has a free version which does most everything you need) and ProMotion. They are the 2 big names in pixel art.

The looseness of Beldak’s background helps to push out the foreground. I’d love to see some animated layers to the background (I think it’s called parallax) where the furthest buildings would seem to move more slowly into view than the close ones.

I can’t believe how Dan managed to shrink his character down and have it still extremely clear.

I’d vote for John too if only for the speed in which he can work at.

Could any of you incredibly talented artists let me know if there’s a decent spriting program floating around somewhere? I’m not really looking for anything too fancy, Something that’s basically MSPaint + transparency + layers + animation would be perfect.

I do love John Roberts and Beldaks attempts but I can’t help but think they might be at odds with the gameplay. Rewiring door switches so bads trap themselves in rooms is rather light hearted when compared to those 2 art styles.

I’d use John, he’s filled out the world you’ve made brilliantly.