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Looks like a great start. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

 

You may want to consider a 160B sprite with 12 colors, if you feel you can use all that palette. It's actually a fair bit less CPU intensive, and it uses the same ROM if you actually are using 2x 160A sprites for each frame.

 

I love the "to heck with planning" approach. See how the game wants you to design it.

Hm, that's an idea, although the more colors I use on the hero, the fewer I have left to use on the actual map. I guess so long as I try to limit myself to 2 palettes worth of colors on the hero it'll still keep some colors available for other things. I'll tinker with it while I continue to draw up random sprites and tiles tonight.

You might want to overlay the eyes & mouth on top of the the body sprite - then you can animate them independently.

 

See http://atariage.com/forums/topic/221754-differences-between-atari-2600-and-atari-7800-sprite-colors/#entry2925976 for some details on sprite bit to color mappings for the various modes.

I keep forgetting the editor likes to merge text after a link with the link. Here's what it was supposed to say:

 

See http://atariage.com/forums/topic/221754-differences-between-atari-2600-and-atari-7800-sprite-colors/?do=findComment&comment=2925976

for some details on sprite bit to color mappings for the various modes.