How do I make sprites and tiles?

[themastergamer121]

I'm planning on making a horror game "a night with freddy" it's when after the game "five nights at freddy's 2" the pizza parlor was close and the animatronics were sent to get destroyed. But no one knows what happened after they were shipped away. months later the local factory has been closed. Rumors of it being haunted started due to people seeing strange figures in the windows. A group of teenagers are dared to stay in the old factory knowing little that the animatronics are still there. They soon realize the exits have been mysteriously blocked. As they try to figure out how to escape their one source of light goes out, screaming is heard. When the light turns on the player encounters the first animatronic.

I got everything else planned by the only problem is I do not have the sprites for the animatronics. Is there any way I can make them?

 

[Andar]

Basically all you need to make sprites is a program like paint, GIMP or photoshop and start painting. That is a lot of work and not all people are artists however.


Alternatives are to use one of the character generators - Ace has one build-in, but that has limited resources and is geared toward fantasy, but it is already included.


There are several alternatives (for example the game character hub on steam), but each character generator has its own limited set of resources and you should check if your ideas can be solved by the generator before purchasing anything.


If you do not find any generator with the required parts, then you're back to making them with a grafic program - or requesting or paying someone else to make them for you.

 

[themastergamer121]

Basically all you need to make sprites is a program like paint, GIMP or photoshop and start painting. That is a lot of work and not all people are artists however.

Alternatives are to use one of the character generators - Ace has one build-in, but that has limited resources and is geared toward fantasy, but it is already included.

There are several alternatives (for example the game character hub on steam), but each character generator has its own limited set of resources and you should check if your ideas can be solved by the generator before purchasing anything.

If you do not find any generator with the required parts, then you're back to making them with a grafic program - or requesting or paying someone else to make them for you.

I just checked out the game character hub and that is EXACTLY what I need. But there is one thing i'm confused about. does it only get it's sources from the sprites from rpg maker? How do I make making the five nights at freddy's characters  alot easier?

 

[Sharm]

Yes, it's just the resources from the RTP, but it's both XP and Ace's, so there's that at least.  The important part about that program, though, is that you can easily add stuff, so you can bring in whatever you find, make, or have made.  I know there are some generator parts around the resources section of the forums or the Restaff.  You could also make or hire someone to make more generator parts.  Or, if you want to use a completely new base it's easy enough to set that up in the program too.

 

[Tommy Gun]

You may want to check out my sprite formatting video in my sig.