GB Pixel Art Jam 2023 Submission

My submission to the GB Pixel Art Jam 2023

Theme: “An Awesome Discovery”

Once I read the theme I thought in an idea: What if the characters of a Game Boy game realized they were in a game? Wouldn’t that be an awesome discovery? At least for them… ha ha ha.

I originally thought in iconic characters such as Kirby, Mario, Link to see the “other” side of the screen and realizing they were being watched through a window (the GB screen).

I started to sketch many ideas by hand, and I soon realized I really didn’t have any experience in doing isometric views for any games (although I have always loved how those look).

Instead of using Nintendo characters, I decided to explore how “Glory Hunters” (my own game) would look in a game with a different perspective and making one of the NPCs watch the other side of the Game Boy to get surprised by it.

For the reaction of this NPC I decided to use the iconic emotion sprite that comes with GB studio as a little reference to the engine itself.

What I ended up doing was a diorama of a scene within my own game.

I really liked this opportunity to join a JAM in which with little time you could have a break from whatever you are doing to create an image for the stuff you love: Game Boy and GB Studio.

I only used Aseprite to create this image, and some of the sprites I already made for my own game (main character, two mobs, the back of the NPC and a squirrel).

The rest were adapted (not greatly) to be seen in an isometric view (trees, bushes, fence), and others were created from scratch (open treasure chest, house, meteorite, clouds etc.).