Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Tade0 68 days ago
I also tried getting into pixel art, thinking "there's a finite number of pixels - surely I can arrive at something visually appealing via trial and error".

Nope. Turns out it's a whole field of study and an artform in its own right.

If you're making a top-down perspective game, I wholeheartedly recommend Liberated Pixel Cup assets, especially the character generator:

https://liberatedpixelcup.github.io/Universal-LPC-Spriteshee...

There's a crazy number of configuration options and you can create all kinds of humanoid characters out of it.