Pale Feather Zen ΘΔ

640×400, 16 colors from a 12-bit color range, Australian winters are a farce. 💪🦊💦
I've posted a complete write-up + WIP shots for this piece on my site, here!

#furry #fussy #lollie #pixel art #pc-98 #pc98 #retro #DOS #art #artwork

@SusieDeltarune8/26/2023, 4:18 PM

whistles

that's a lot of bit depth

Lollie @Lollie8/27/2023, 7:07 AM

4096 colors to pick from! And would you believe, weirdly limiting. My color-picking process was basically akin to waving color swatches around until I found the closest matches to my actual desired colors, like this.

#css crimes #css animation

You must log in to comment.

in reply to @Lollie's post:

it's suzy @trashbang8/25/2023, 2:15 AM

holy shit lollie the attention to detail here is incredible

Lollie @Lollie8/25/2023, 2:44 AM

Thank you!! I was reffing real PC-98 screenshots and wanted to match their quality. NGL I cannot imagine how they managed to maintain this across an entire game lmao

videogames is one word @psilocervine8/25/2023, 4:43 AM

As somebody who periodically dips her toes into these limitations in the context of game dev: through a great deal of pain and suffering I can only imagine

Kewlio: I'll see you guys next time @KewlioMZX8/25/2023, 6:20 AM

That's 16 colours? Damn.

Leon ._.@leon8/25/2023, 6:24 AM

FWIW I'm pretty sure the PC98 could not actually animate a background texture behind sprites.

Lollie @Lollie8/25/2023, 9:35 AM

TBH this was one area that I didn't look closely into, so I'm not really surprised lol. At the very least, it definitely wouldn't have played smoothly - a simple 2-frame animation would've been more realistic, providing it worked at all.

Strawberry Fox @Strawberry-Fox8/25/2023, 10:14 AM

It's winter and I refuse to accept that it's hot so my stupid ass decided to continue wearing a jacket.

Misty @dog8/27/2023, 10:27 PM

Still can't get over how great this is. The little icons in the lower left corner might be my fave detail.

Maff @maff10/4/2023, 11:46 PM

i don’t know how i missed this but holy shit am i glad i caught it eventually. this is incredible work! genuinely didn’t notice it was only 16 colours until reading the description.

Vikxin @vikxin12/21/2023, 4:34 AM

I cross-posted this into a Discord where a friend is playing bad PC-98 VNs, saying it'd probably be preferable to Desire (1994)

Lollie @Lollie12/21/2023, 5:21 AM

Looking this up, I have now been inflicted with a desire to learn how the PC-98 original compares to its Sega Saturn port, or its 2017/19 remake, despite knowing literally nothing about it until this moment

Vikxin @vikxin12/21/2023, 5:48 AM

The Saturn version's added art is a completely different style. The character designs don't match at all. It's terrible.

vanilla @bitter--edge6/5/2024, 5:05 PM

super super cool!!