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Monty Python and the Holy Grail Point&Click Adventure
I thought following around King Arthur to find the men of the round table in Monty Pythons slapstick comedy style would make probably the funniest point&click adventure you never played - so I reimagined it as a 2023 16:9 480x270 pixelart mockup, inspired by the 1980s and 1990s LucasArt adventures.
I think the movie is amazing because it works on 3 layers. The first is just funny costumes, funny voices and funny gestures even kids can understand. Then there is the layer with all the jokes, of course at this point some jokes show their age, overall it's still a lot of fun today though. But the most hilarious thing is the third layer, the historical one - It might totally fly by you, unless if you are a history nerd and that they combined it with the other two layers makes it in my eyes pure art.
The peasant scene is one of my most favourite ones and probably the one which visuals still has its impact on contemporary medieval movies, with the poor peasants crawling in the filth, but actually standing up to Arthur on an intellectual level. Before this movie all medieval movies were actually quite colorful.
The environment of the mockup was designed in a way that points of interests are clearly highlighted by the lighting in the scene, while not interfering with the painterly oil-like artstyle. The props are all directly inspired from the movie.
The sprites are huge, to allow for a lot of detail and expression. from left to right, Patsy, King Arthur, Kevin and Kevin's wife.
I also gave a lot of care to the UI, which I wanted to have with iconed buttons, so there are no localization issues.
I wanted to incorporate a funny hint-system - talking to the rubber-duck - a couple of programmer people might get that one.
I loved working on this and hope you'll get a chuckle out of it. Have a beautiful day.
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Fucking Amazing
this is awesome! it looks like a real game and reminds me of some of the stuff my dad plays! great job!
Oh I love this so much! Love the palette! Love the fuzzy grass!
I love the rays of light shining down. The whole scene is so well captured. I can hear the clop-clopping and was immediately reminded of the peasants toiling in the filth. Comedy aside, it's such a wonderful depiction of a overcast British countryside.
seeing this brings back memories
every bit is totally beautiful, loving all the texture (especially the grass, i gotta learn to fade it towards the background like that!) wish there were sidescrollers this beautiful, though i can't imagine how much work it would take to animate those guys!
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