ok, then they probably won't, or do you mean just movement on the single position they are like breathing? Why not!

lol, like a standing animation, animated npc tiles

YEah that would be cool. And even if they can't move, maybe they'll look better than the ones I made back then . Will they face the character from where you talk? For example if Reuben is behind the NPC I mean.

Also I realized that my longer sky gradient might mess up the intro, so unless Sorunome knows Axe tricks to make text transparent without slowing things down too much, I made a new one which can be seen in the 5th screenshot mockup below:



Of course if he can achieve 3 or 4, then he can go ahead with those I guess, or stick with the 2nd one if he's sticking to 3-LV grayscale.

When talking to them, you could possibly make them stop moving, to save on tiles.

That said, if Reuben 2 is ever re-done, it has one instance where a NPC walks around (during intro), so inevitably he would need a walking NPC animation.

YEah that would be cool. And even if they can't move, maybe they'll look better than the ones I made back then . Will they face the character from where you talk? For example if Reuben is behind the NPC I mean.

Also I realized that my longer sky gradient might mess up the intro, so unless Sorunome knows Axe tricks to make text transparent without slowing things down too much, I made a new one which can be seen in the 5th screenshot mockup below:



Of course if he can achieve 3 or 4, then he can go ahead with those I guess, or stick with the 2nd one if he's sticking to 3-LV grayscale.

It'd be pretty simple to do if he can nail the drawing order. An exercise

or little series of code to determine walking path? like {1,4,3,4} makes npc move down 4 steps and up 4 steps

Well if he decides to add moving NPCs, then he would probably need to add a section of his data for that, which sends keypresses to the walking program, and that program would move the NPCs around. That way they're not hard-coded or anything.

Lol, i would do the hard-code part
BTW, I'm adding a poll: 4lvl or 3lvl greyscale