You didn't hear it from me but....secret walls 🤫

Yeah it's wild how they finally did a frontlight(?)/001 for the SP, then the beautiful 101 screen, but then with the original DS went back to something more akin to the 001! Wild.

Still, shoddy light beats no light at all any day!

Yeah! I was like, damn, I really used to live like this? Will say though, as much as I love the pocket the dmg speakers ohhhhhhhhh.

I'm always reminded how much pokemon was lightning in a bottle for the dmg, slow paced, low action, long rpg. Avoids ghosting and utilises the battery life!

Yeah the contrast dial finding that mythical sweet spot... one day I'll get there! The legends have to be true!

I have a half joke/half truth where my ideal gameboy would be dmg shell/size, and a pocket screen. My own little franken-boy haha.

Can not undersell the difference an original dmg game boy screen is compared to the pocket, ohhhhhhhhhh~~~

Screens aside, really is a cool thing to see an example of an all black background, devs avoided it (for a multitude of reasons!).

I find it fun to sing it to the theme of Big O.

Like.... Big THREE, Big THREE, BIG THREE, BIG SIX!

It does tend to make it sound like you're now 3336 years old but that can be a positive in some aspect. Happy Birthday!

I found out they call it a Metroidbrainia because Metroid has mother BRAIN. It's cool there's so much to learn everyday!

Yeah truly not the best, though preservation in any form is at least something!

Would it also happen to be on this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx5M...

I can't remember if it was one of the designers of pokemon or just people pointing it out but truly so much of an artists personality and choice is over what pose they decide for their pokemon sprite when it's 2D.

When it's 3D it's pretty much, having to just stand there. Idle.

There's a real fun aspect to pixel art that I have to assume has been talked about but the notion that a lot of pixel art is abstract art to imply much more than what's possible.

But on the other side is pixel art that is 100% what you see is what is intended. It's pretty fascinating.

Phew! Found it, it was this one! I think it would have interesting seeing actually how the new condensed map actually would be framed within the actual resolution. enhousestudios.tumblr.com/post/1407034...

Also of course when you have a 160x144 view port, that's quite a lot of space to traverse!

I remember reading an article about cutting out "dead" space in Pokemon towns and the results created kind of, super condensed layouts that whilst easier to traverse ended up losing a lot of breathing space.

Entire raw sprite sheet be here!
www.patreon.com/posts/castle...

I always love the GBA (and DS) gave pixel artists a safe haven to continue the craft. Feels like a bunch of snes devs got to still carry on their skills!

Doesn't surprise me, Snailburts the first animal orb buddy you get if memory serves, and just has a cute ._. face.

Here's a link to the portraits!
www.patreon.com/posts/castle...

Oh yeah I'll be posting the portraits tomorrow, so if people want to use them they are more than welcome to =].

The fantastic Jumper cover by the one and only @spagdev.bsky.social !