Different Characters or Clones

[Damian]

When creating towns and people, do you use different sprites for every character in every town? (Are each of the characters' sprites in your game different from all the others?)


Or you just use the same character sprites you already used in previous towns?

 

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

I widen my variety, some have the same sprites in different towns but they will all have different faces, in the end I think I am going to need to put them all in one picture cuz the list of faces are getting too big.

 

[Frogboy]

I'm using the generator to make unique characters for each town. Unfortunately, the generator doesn't support child characters so I'm using the pre-packaged sprites for those (which sucks because they only come with one face graphic).

 

[trouble time]

I don't use faces, and I use the DS tiles so it'd be really hard to use wholly unique characters.

 

[slimmmeiske2]

I use different characters, but my games are pretty short. 


Honestly, even if you go for a long game, it's possible to have all unique sprites. There are a lot of sprites out there! (Well maybe, not yet for MV, but that'll change.)

 

[bgillisp]

Within the town I keep them different, but across towns I will reuse them. Also, I reuse sprites if it would make sense that the player would not be able to tell the characters apart anyways (like say twins and such).


To give an example, in my game you will find an undead village. Since to humans in this world a skeleton is a skeleton is a skeleton, I use the same sprite for all of them. However, I do add a comment by the character that he cannot tell one skeleton from another, so the player knows why this is done as well.