Crimson Twilight Sprites

Not a 'release' as such, but the other day and on a few forums, Moloch posted some sprite sheets containing various monsters and non-playable characters from 'Crimson Twilight', an RPG for the C64 that is currently being produced by Arkanix Labs.  Since I pixelled the majority of the sprites (save 3 or 4), it would seem to be appropriate to post them here too.

Please note, these images intentionally have scanlines, CRT blurring and JPG 'artifacts' in them.  As Moloch explained in his forum post...

"In the past we posted clean images - no artifacting, scanlines, etc. Well that all changed last summer when I discovered someone in one of those gamemaker forums posting the sprite images as his own creations and offering them to others in their games."

Here are the monsters that you encounter during the game.  They are single C64 multicolour sprites with a hires overlay for extra definition.  Click image below to enlarge...

And here are some the non-playable characters that you encounter during the game.  Again, single C64 multicolour sprites with a hires overlay for extra definition.  Click image below to enlarge...

A V1 preview for 'Crimson Twilight', which also contains some of my background graphics, player sprites and character portraits can be downloaded from CSDB here...

Space Intro (Front End Demo)

Hot on the heels of last months blog about Monolith, comes an even older demo from 2001, again produced by 'FunkScientist Productions' and is called 'Space Intro' according to my archives, although on CSDb it seems to be uploaded as 'Front End Demo', the file name on the disk image.

If I remember correctly, around 1999 MTR1975 had asked on the old Lemon64 discussion board if someone was interested in pixelling some graphics for a game/demo and as I was getting into C64 again over the previous couple of years, I jumped at the chance.

After initial contact by email (and breaks of a few months between emails), I gathered that MTR wanted to make a game, possibly in the style of 'Asteroids'.  I ended up pixelling the spinning ship and a few other sprites (explosion, power-up, etc) and a couple of simple space backgrounds to get things going.  The idea seemed to die a death, until MTR surface again with this intro to the game (hence 'Space Intro').  The game was never made.

The intro can be downloaded from CSDb here.  However, this seems to be a slightly 'modified' version by the uploader with the disk name changed to 'G-Force'.  I'm not sure where the uploader got this demo since I'm not sure it was actually ever released as such.  The version on CSDb was only uploaded in 2013.

However, my original disk image called 'INTRO.D64' containing the demo with the name 'Front End Demo' with original disk name "CSS  CSS  CSS  CSS", along with the ship sprite, the unused space background image and an unused FunkScientist Productions logo in bitmap form (red and grey) can be downloaded directly here...