Sprite Jam May 17-23: Dwarves

Krysis · Sun 21/05/2006 20:00:37

Grump, the one-armed dwarf! I love the colors!

EDIT: Vict0r, don't be a racist. Dwarfs are people too and have feelings, so stop making fun of their skin colour.

vict0r · Sun 21/05/2006 22:32:33

He seems abit cold somehow.

voh · Mon 22/05/2006 01:23:30

Quote from: Privateer Puddin' on Sat 20/05/2006 17:14:48
Sigh. Not again.

I concur. And I certainly didn't expect it from the guy who's setting up a new AGS resources site :o

Play_Pretend · Mon 22/05/2006 05:45:40

3x

It's Femli, the interior mine decorator! He's the ga- er, happiest dwarf around! Time to lighten up that drab ol' cave!

I...I'm really just lost without my precious vector graphics, and this is my first sprite attempt. Please be gentle.

jasonjkay · Mon 22/05/2006 12:30:16

Ok im sorry, i did use that picture as reference. I should probebly be disqualified.

gameboy · Mon 22/05/2006 18:21:38

Great entries, I like this topic.

Clip · Mon 22/05/2006 18:28:16

2x

He is a dancing dwarf from Latvia. Hes name is Ramsaljus and he doesn't do anything exept dancing.

Klaus · Tue 23/05/2006 20:15:19

Wow that's a really big number of entries and all so nice. How can I decide who's to win?
So first of all many thanks to all participants for these creative sprites.

ProgZmax: An old school adventure character - just like in the good old days

KristjanMan: A very good start for a whole game based on "Eragon"

Privateer Puddin': I hope she didn't use her leg for some cooking experiments

vict0r: A hard working guy. Be "careful with that axe, Eugene"

sir_gibberishbuloght: Muscles and cool equipment - what a combination

S-Made: Small and angry. This actually IS a dwarf

Mad: Grams Digwinkle might be ~~old~~ experienced, but your sprite is in good conditions

Saberteeth: In his red suit he does not need to care about blood

yodaman11111: Good to see people also remember the classic dwarf with cap and beard

Rap4Life42o: I wonder if a girl would want him to spin straw into gold at all. So a sword's the better choice

El_Drey: He is taking good care of his beard. That's what dwarves should do

jasonjkay: Nice sprite but - as we now know - not original

MashPotato: His clothes look pretty clean for a hard day's battle

Pablo: A salesman? I guess he'd be luckier if he got a job in a mine

Krysis: I also like this red/green combination you used

Strange Visitor: Surely he's doing a good job as a decorator

Clip: He looks a little pale but I like the colours

As almost every entry's worth to win I started to search "real" dwarves among the entries: Do I see the character as a dwarf or just as a smallsized human, a troll, a gnome or an orc? It's not about the absolute size or skin colour, it's more about physical proportions. So in the end I came up with the sprites from vict0r, buloght, S-Made, yodaman11111, MashPotato, Krysis and Clip.

These are my favourites for a dwarven adventure

Now to reduce this selection just one more time I went for creativity, style and design. This was really hard to decide and I changed position 3 a number of times. And it was also difficult to define place 2 and 1... But here's my final list:

3rd: The Bronze Flower Dwarf for beautiful pixels goes to MashPotato!

2nd: The Silver Lantern Dwarf for shiny ideas goes to sir_gibberishbuloght!

1st: The Gold Mining Dwarf for great work goes to Krysis!

Congratulations to the winners and again many thanks for this nice competition.

MashPotato · Tue 23/05/2006 20:23:57

Cool trophy, thanks Klaus ^_^. And congrats Krysis!

Krysis · Tue 23/05/2006 20:31:47

Thank you, I love all the other ones. Great trophy. I'm startin the next one as soon as I think of a good theme.

The Last To Know · Tue 23/05/2006 21:28:54

Congratulations to Krysis! Great sprites everyone.