Bepo The Moth Pixel Art brief

pico8

The idea is to spruce up a little game I made for a gamejam. You can play the game here:
Bepo the moth by wesen3000

The game has been made in PICO–8 Fantasy Console, which is a great little system to make games, along with sprites and maps. I can arrange to buy you a license so that you can try out your art in game, as part of the arrangement.

The idea is that a little boy has to bring his moth to the light by turning lamps on and off. The sprites are all 8x8, in 16 colors:

Here are some animations:

Here is the complete current sprite sheet:

I like highly stylized pixel art, but you don’t need to use it as a guideline necessarily.

First project

I would like the following as a first step:

• better tiles for glass / windows
  
• better tiles for a cave environment (needs to include ice tiles) - from 16 up to 32 8x8 sprites, let your imagination run wild, I only have walls at the moment.
• tiles for a forest environment, again 16 to 32 8x8 sprites.

Please provide a reference tiled level as well. I liked to use Pyxel Edit: pixel art and tileset creation tool (if you have a license) or Tiled Map Editor | A flexible level editor

Remember that the idea is of bringing a moth to the light, so that everything has to be “dark”. The limited palette makes it an interesting challenge for sure.

Future steps

If things work out well, there is more work: parallax backgrounds, title screen, animations, more level styles, cut scenes.