I’d like to say a big thank you to the r/pixelart and entire community for taking part! This has been one of my favourite subs for a long time and I’m so excited I get to support you all on such a cool project.

I can’t wait to see what you talented folk come up with!

I personally would enjoy seeing and perhaps purchasing a classic turn-based RPG with companions/followers and pure you-go-I-go combat like in Earthbound or Pokemon. There’s not all that many of that kind of game coming out now, and there’s still lots of things that can be done with it.

I’m going to put my other thoughts in replies to myself so the topics can be separated.

Edit: This means I vote for “Battle RPG” just so that’s clear.

A collectible card game would be the best one to collaborate with, an entry is simply a single-frame sprite, that of which would be the easiest.

A parodius clone (horizontal scrolling space shooter) with random generated levels.

Advantages:

• no need for storytelling, which would give "post production" a heap of work and a huge imprint on the project
• no need for elaborate and complex animations - a shooting and bursting animation for small enemies and bosses moving by having separate parts that move around instead of frame animations
• Parodius throws anything at you as enemies, penguins, teapots, you name it. You can pixel it, it can be an enemy
• it hasn't been done in a while, the genre is underrepresented. There isn't currently a game of the genre trending, so not taking away the spotlight from anyone or the other way around
• with the bulk of these games being popular in the 1990s, a combination with procedural maps has never been done at all, but if it works for Diablo, it should work with horizontal scrolling shooters
• The Reddit mascot fits in perfectly with the theme and can go on the cover

well, if that would be solely up to me I would went with some "friendsim", cause of my strong suit - portraits (lol), but if we talking about the most common and easy-to-submit game - the card game would be my choice, can be dnd related as well. some random rolls would never hurt anybody, and if anything - would add more replayable factor to it. some cards are for a story (to show where it's all going), some for action, some little portraits if we felling fancy about bringing the choice of characters to the player, hm. anyway, I'm in whatever it goes, it sounds fun c:

Consider, a turn based, boss-gauntlet RPG. Something akin go Epic Battle Fantasy in gameplay, with a robust enough API of actions and modular programming, adding new "stage," as it were, can be done via a plaintext file just listing what abilities the added enemy has access to. The interface could be card-style in the vein of Hearthstone meaning art submissions as simple as new card art, but can also encompass small animations, background environment art, battle/skill effects, etc. Not to mention that the card-style format is both a regular known boundary of what can fit, while still operating as pretty much free space that can be filled in mostly any artistic style.

The core units being represented in card format also make it extremely easy to integrate art credit within the game itself, instead of being restricted to only the list of contributors in the credits document - which no one will read. This has the benefit of making it so contributors can be instantly identified and associated with their specific art, something that might be difficult if the documentation falls into disrepair for any reason and might just be obscure for the average player.

This project seems very very fun. I'm not really a pixel art artist, bu rather enjoyer, and I'm really interested in the next steps that the subreddit will take towards this goal, especially for the coding/software development part of it, as it's my field.

You guys all rock hard, I love the art that everyone shares here.

My vote is for battle RPG. I’d love to do some tile sets and maybe some monster sprites, even tho it isn’t my strong suit

I just wanna be a Npc lol that's all I need in life

I feel like the card game could be really good, it would allow artists to get really creative and do what they want. I'm thinking like the card game "Muffin Time" Where all the cards do different things.

Rpg is probably the easiest to do as a collaboration, I'm thinking a TCG might be a little much since it automatically requires the extra work of number balancing and abilities, etc. But could be neat if pulled off correctly, so that's my second.

Maybe a simple rouge-like with loot drops that are all the creations with random based loot drops

I will absolutely help with this project as well

I have a good bit of pixel art experience, don't mind my last two posts to this sub as I was just practicing animation not the art style but the rest of my work I submitted is how I am

Maybe a time warp bullet hell game? One time period medieval, one modern and one futuristic and that would cover mostly all peoples genre that they like to create. Basically start from medieval and work your way up to future

Im a little late but what about a shopkeeper game? The base code shouldn't be too complicated and we could make the stuff that needs to be sold e.g armor, a magic staff, a taxidermied cow, with a lot of artistic freedom with what's being sold and how it looks.

Then we vote as a community or something for which ones should be the most expensive/rare/hard to get. It could be pretty funny to have the best item in the game be a dandelion valued at 10,000,000

Shopkeeper looks nice. Something like "Infinity SHOP "for all your needs""

Some kinda rpg where there’s tons of weapons, I just wanna make weapons

Was a decision made regarding the collective outcome here?

Also I’d be interested in helping out with audio. If there’s a need for foley or dialogue hmu. Unfortunately, music isn’t really in my wheelhouse.

To take into account what was presented in the post I'd say an rpg with a character going through different dimension could be cool. Like a character going through different dream world and have to explore each dream to find a specific thing (object or person) to go to the other. Just throwing the idea I don't think I could participate, I barely begun my pixel art journey a few days ago and have a sparse coding knowledge.

A kind of turn based rpg, but with the twist being each battle has a different style for the enemies and they get progressively more numerous and stronger until your team looses. It would grant pixel artists the freedom to draw in their style without clashing with each other

A side scroller about a town destroyed by a flood due to the ocean itself being pissed at humanity

The card game idea would be really cool, card game ideas aren't as abundant as the rpg in my personal opinion

A pokemon like RPG with collectible monsters. Each artist makes a monster.

The gameplay could be similar to Hearthstone Mercenaries or Arcanium

I definitively want to help!! How can i do it?

Sounds neat, I'm not interested in working kn it but I kinda wanna see how it turns out.

Do you guys have an idea for what game engine you would be using for each game type? Like would you be using some game making tool kit like RPG Maker for an example or would it be something made from scratch essentially?

I think and RPG adventure or especially the Battle RPG could have the widest appeal to different artists' design specialties. What I mean is that people who like making weapons or armor could help work on items, people who like designing characters, monsters or animals could work on enemies (with just stat changes so it wouldn't be a burden on coders) and people who like designing worlds and such could design playable areas.

My vote personally is for the Battle RPG as again, it covers a lot of ground for what artists could make.

Edit: Also it's probably one of the easier of the ideas to implement and make feel like a nicely competent game with the least effort but I'm not a coder so I don't know.

A card game could also appeal to a lot of artist but it would probably be hard to settle on a core gameplay rules as I imagine everyone would have their own grandiose ideas of what the card game should play like.

I'm so in

I'm in

Since this is for Brainstorming i have an idea.

What about a game where the main character starts of small and weak. However, while fighting you punch of some pixels from the enemy and add them to you, slowly increasing your size and damage. When you get hurt its the other way around. I think this would also be easily expandable because once you've built a system that removes some Pixels from the enemy it basically doesn't matter what the enemies sprite is.

P.S. I think this would work beautifully with slimes. Not only because it makes sense for them to grow and shrink but also because almost every new pixelartist seems to draw a slime as one of their earliest works.

I feel like a card game would be easy as far as collaboration goes, just have an overall voted on card design and people can just draw whatever they want within the frames

Hi I can provide free music I composed for the project !

I'm late to the party but in case it still counts I vote for tactical rpg

i'd love to see some kind of tactical arena / rpg.

pick 3-4 characters at the start from a pool of ~20, in a classic fight game screen, and have a few rounds of combats against some bad guys

i would vote for a post-apocalyptic fantasy style. everyone loves some cool cyberpunk vibes with robots and lasers, but fantasy also allows for a mix of Mages, Warriors, and all the variety of creatures from the genres, so artists from different styles could submit characters and monsters ideas, from Street Samurai Gnomes to big shiny cats with guns

good luck with the proyect, it sounds beautiful :)

I really love this concept: it could be fun for exchanging advices and methods and for working on a bigger project

Anyway, I think that "RPG adventure" and "Battle RPG" are pretty good ideas because they are good opportunities for beginners for working on coding and assets more easily.

I have also other ideas to submit:

1. per example, we can make a Yume Nikki-like game (we don't need to make battles and the main objective may be exploring different maps and finding effects; the core of this kind of game is the storytelling inside the maps, the events and the effects itself) -it can be a fun way to make a patchwork of everyone's artworks. Speaking of this idea, I remind of a Yume Nikki fangame named "Yume 2kki" (prononced "Yume NIkki") and it is a fan project of multiple artists
2. for "Friendsim" idea, we can blend it with "Battle RPG" for making a sort of Battle RPG à la Undertale/Deltarune in which player must find the correct combinaison of actions for making friends/ennemies; the main problem stills the coding: it will be difficult to code a complex system like Undertale

Perhaps a visual, 2D choose your own adventure? We could limit the adventure in the beginning but this format allows for infinite expansion paths depending on how big this gets. Plus with this format we can incorporate a lot of niches and styles.

For example you decide to explore the woods and you find a UFO which zaps you into space so now all the artist who specialize in space/spacecraft related things can show off their niche. Or you could choose to hike and natural landscape artists can really shine here. Style formats also work here too.

So with the alien example you could do a top down style when exploring the woods. When you approach the UFO it can change to a brief animation in first person perspective of the glowing UFO with two text options of "leave" or "explore UFO". a side scrolling platform in the mothership fighting aliens as you try to find the main controls.

We can start with a few short story branches and as the community submits more we can create more branches.

I'm not too sure how coding would work with incorporating various 2d gaming formats so this could be too complex but I do think the general idea of a choose your own adventure in any format creates the most diversity for ideas and also allows this project to be added on infinitely.

An adventure RPG would allow people to contribute art, etc. for separate worlds, characters, buildings etc. and could be a bit easier in terms of collaboration. It also could work with the turn based battle or the more indepth character interactions.

With the 'minimal development' are you thinking overall or just a very easy and intuitive way for non-programmers to contribute game content? I think it would be great to separate game content from code however I feel that it would be nice to have some level of flexibility in development. Web is a great idea as the game will be able to run on essentially any device without funky cross-platform nuances.

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I prefer the tactical character arena, as I really like that style of game and I think that allows for a lot of cool characters and scenery. But second place is definitely the battle RPG, mainly for the same reasons as the former. Whatever is chosen, there should be lots of equipment and customization, since people here really like making art for weapons and such.

I think a monster tamer battle rpg style game like pokemon could be a great way to get a lot of people involved? A game like that having a huge amount of varied creatures would be awesome I think. Plus theres loads of other places artists of a huge variation in skill level can get involved other than sprites, maps, backgrounds, down to smaller things like skill icons etc.

I think monster sanctuary is a great game in the genre to take inspiration from.

me suggest card game. consider like gba duel masters and ygo games. its should be easy and artist would shamelessly showcase their talent.

Space RPG.

How about a point & click adventure game?

Could we combine the rpg adventure with turn based battle? I love a good turn based rpg and I think the fantasy setting is broad enough to feature a lot of art from this sub. Also sign me up ! I'd love to enlist.

I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE PLAYER / NPC SPRITES FOR THAT GAME AS A SIDE PROJECT FOR FREE !!!

i dont want anything from you i just want to help with creation of that game.

this seemse awesome!

I'm in

I would love to write some code for the game, I can't draw in any format but I can program...

This sounds so cool~ can I still join?

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Will artists be compensated if their work is used, or is it all "prizes for a few best artists"?

I think that a tactical character arena would be very cool. I only started my pixel art journey recently but I would like to contribute.

An RPG would definitely give the opportunity to show off a lot of varied character designs and art, which would be cool. I'm not a pixel artist, but if you guys need music for your game, I could compose. Also feel free to use any of my music on my channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1bstjSd28) , Could be useful for an RPG type game

I can do art, and if or rather when I have the time their animations. also my vote is on the RPG.

I would go for the side shooting scroller. I would participate and help with concept art after I master my own art as a beginner but it sounds really good.

I think card based games might be the best idea. As the whole event will be artist focused it gives more freedom for the submissions. And also this might be one of the easiest game to develop compared to other options.

What engine would it be in? Will we be roping in other subreddits like programmers or is this all gonna be done within this subreddit? I’m an unreal 4 developer as are my friends so I’d be biased in that regard if this ever comes to a vote.

Throwing my hat in the ring for a fun not to serious card game so everyone can contribute a card to the game and show off their pixel prowess.

Battle RPG with Reddit avatars where you go to different subreddits/worlds to battle viruses or hackers that would try to take control of these worlds and they could all be part of a team of which you defeat the boss at the end of the game

You could collect new weapons and armour of course.

Basically a Reddit Battle RPG

Audio Engineer/Sound designer here!!!! I'd love to help make this with everyone!!!!