They look great! Can't wait to see them in the game

Hi josepharaoh99, I did make that character sprite

Thanks for the kind words!

I'm making a template for people to be able to select a character's hat, hair, skin colour, clothes and eyes. You can see where I'm at here: http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/im-ma … e-guidance

I'd love to know what everyone thinks!

Based loosely on MomokaHirami's template

My pleasure!

The Master (for the Dojo of the Five Elements)

Here's the faces of some of our trainers, to show the range of skin and hair tones our default palette supports:

I'm going to make a conscious effort to represent a greater variety of skin tones in the trainer sprites that I make.

Here's a couple of sprites where I used the skin colour palette of a different sprite. I think they look pretty solid:

Here's a number of skin tone options.

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Quick idea - for dialog, what if we added an option to put a face sprite on the dialog box to help show who's talking? Just an idea...

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I've grabbed four more sprites from OGA, which helps fill out our trainers:

That leaves just one more trainer that's necessary for the plot! (The Shaft Boss)

(...)That leaves just one more trainer that's necessary for the plot! (The Shaft Boss)

Any ideas/suggestions on the design?

Yeah!

So Shaft is a mining company, so something to do with mining - a miner, a geologist, an operator of heavy machinery, a surveyor, etc. Alternatively, it could be someone who is clearly in management and out-of-place on an actual work site - like someone in a suit uncomfortably wearing a hard hat (or holding it, trying to avoid putting it on, etc.).

There's also more male Bosses than female so far, so a female Boss could be good - but there's no fixed requirement for that.

Here's the miners that the Shaft Boss will be in charge of:

Please do - that looks great! Thanks tamashi

https://imgur.com/HLAjcwk.png

Here she is again!

I was asking about the personality thing because it influences the character design. To me, she is...
- ... a hard worker (probably even a bit of a workaholic)
- ... honest with herself
- ... appreciated
- ... strict to herself and to others
- ... a role model for her workers
- ... naive - fighting for a greater good, not understanding that the steps she is taking might have the opposite effect

Love it, tamashi - I've added her to the wiki.

In terms of personality, yeah I think it wouldn't hurt! The main thing would be that the personality should be clear from a few lines of dialogue, since that's all that most characters will probably get.

That's right - but she's not the only person who will talk. As you aproach her, you will face her workers.. and they might loose a few lines about her. Something like...
"If you want to continue, you have to pass me!"
- you defeat the worker -
"What a loss!"
- when you talk to him after the fight -
"I hope Boss is not mad - she gets angry so fast..."
"But she is a nice person and has a heart like a diamond." _{(oh god... mineworker jokes...)}

Probably someone else might say
"I will train more and become as strong as our Boss."
"She worked so hard to become the leader, I wanna be like her someday."

Or so...
Something I liked in Pokemon Firered was the device, which sorted quotes of characters to specific persons, so if someone talked about a gym leader, you had that line in your device and could read it again.