Hi-res sprites over Low-res bgs

[The Suitor]

What do you think? Would it be a bad idea and look weird? Or, would it be interesting?

[GreenBoy]

I think it would look wierd.  But then again its diffinatly worth a go.  Try makin a bg in 300 x 240 then double its size in gimp or photoshop then try a hi-rez sprite on top.

Though I do think that it would look better the other way around with higher rez bgs with lo-rez sprites on top.  For some reason I think "the Dig" might of done something like that.  Though I'm almost certainly wrong.

[Babar]

BaRoN's game "Charlie Foxtrot & The Galaxy of Tomorrow" did this, and I think he new MAGS game also uses the same technique. Lots of people commented on it, and said it wasn't a good idea, but while playing the game, the effect seemed to come off okay.

[Radiant]

You can pretty much find this out by taking any game that runs in 320x200 and has scaling enabled; run it in 640x400 and the sprites will have a higher resolution than the background.

This tends to look better than running it in 320x200.

[vertigoaddict]

I'm doing something like this, and it didn't turn out that bad. Just have fun with experimenting.

[Ali]

As long as it's consistent in its inconsistency, that could be interesting. The inconsistencies in Charlie Foxtrot niggled me a little. For Nelly Cootalot I used characters and backgrounds in entirely different styles, and I liked how that worked. I guess resolution is part of an images style.

I agree with GreenBoy however, that low-res sprites on h-res backgrounds might be more fun.