Well, there will be no ponies or pony music. (You might want to look for Derpy, but she'll be very hidden.)

Anyway, the music that was composed so far sounds pretty great.

That is to be expected. Slow songs, fast ones, stuff like that.

EPIC! DERPY!!!!!!! WILL SO PLAY IT :party:

Glad you like. That's actually the font from Final Fantasy.

Also pause screen update. As you can see, I used that spritesheet with better grayscale and it works perfectly on Linux.

First screen of the game, everything are still placeholders (overworld map badly ripped from the original game while the character is taken from another project), but I have a character moving on the screen and the map scrolling with it!

But I think that juju is making color sprites.

I think even the menu was a placeholder, since it barely includes anything (such as items which are missing, and yes in Reuben all you can do in the menu is use items ) and it's not gonna be transparent due to the NES limitations. There was a colorized version of what it could look like, but sprites would be much different:



Menu uses 5 colors, Reuben 4 extra colors, which leaves 7 extra colors to design the map tiles (although they can also use non-changing colors from the menu and Reuben). With removing the menu gradient, it makes 3 extra colors for maps.

I think even Reuben sprite is gonna be changed, although I hope it remains similar to the original and 16x16 so it doesn't look like a 16x32 guy is trying to sneak in through a smaller door . I mean, Reuben Quest is in no way related to The Hobbit/LOTR

Yeah but isn't the current sprite 16x32 or something? You would probably need to redo entrances so doors takes two tiles of space in height. But again that might not be that hard due to how high walls are already, except maybe the final dungeon where it might look weird to see a door taller than walls.

And I hope your internet installing won't get cancelled again, otherwise I'll be at loss of words. >.<  (unless you're really doing something wrong like not being home or sleeping everytime the technician comes or constantly telling the company to postpone the day where they can come)

Does the contest allow re-using pre-made/copyrighted intros and animations? You might want to try to mimic something like this but custom made or using 8 or 16 bit sprites.

Ah ok. It should be fine then. Any updates btw? (Since the contest ends in a few days)