There is a great game engine built with these old school effects in mind called Tilengine. It’s worth checking out for anyone still interested in this old school technique.
Deluxe Paint IV is still an amazing, compact piece of software. Integrated 2.5D Animation, extensive Array Tools, Special Fills and lots of other tools that cannot be found in modern software, especially achieved through a pretty simple user interface. Computer Power has increased, but good and inspired programming, still shines.
Interesting and informative video. However, I was hoping to find more information on how to achieve color cycling in Photoshop. Any help in this regards would be so appreciated. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Mark Ferrari is the man! I played Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion more times than I can remember. I love pixel art. I just bought Thimbleweed Park today after learning it actually came out and I can play it on my phone! It's literally downloading.
I'm a bit late to this video.. but for the past 30 years I've been looking for a screensaver that I had on my first PC in the early 90s. It had three options - a flag, a tunnel and a donut. It looked like they were animated because of colour cycling. Nobody has ever heard of it and I've not come close to finding anything about it. It was a standalone, it wasn't After Dark or part of any other screensaver pack. This year, I got so sad from looking and getting nowhere, I remade it myself in photoshop using colour cycling and a macro to create frames, saved it as a gif and then programmed it into a .Scr screensaver file. It's a lot higher quality than the original, but its scratched my nostalgic itch somewhat. This is one of those things that really annoys a person like me. I like to know what everything is and collect things, so losing this to time really bothers me.
I grew up playing 16 and 256 colour games in the 1990s on IBM PC so am familiar with these vintage graphic games and I love the look of them, thanks for sharing this detailed video on how these early graphics were done.
the demos are amazing i love it. colour cycling is so simple yet so amazing. many people think index colours are primitive since now every machine has the ability to produce true colours but index colours can do magic with very little processing power.
Can anyone give give me a hint how to export color cycled images from GrafX2 ? I would like to resuscitate this old technique and use it for pixel art games but obviously some additional pieces of code are necessary as gif cannot store these images...
Haha that was great. Trip down memory lane there. I never really mastered the art of colour cycling to make great use of it but I did have a passion for making fractal images and then colour cycling those in Deluxe Paint. You had a quick blip of a clip in the video.
Great! BTW Bridge Strike game is new game that uses colorcycling for weather changes an night and day cycle. It was made in 2018 for old Amiga computers but its modern version is available also for Android and IOS ;)
on the website Coub.com if you search for pixel-art you will find tons of examples for this technique! and it's beautiful! Now i know what it's called! ty
Soebody old understand how not only to display the effect in the program, but display it as an animation and make a gif?) because when saving the image, colors remain static((((
Absolutely a shame its not used much anymore but i think the primary the reason for this is that most video modes (notably 24bit and higher) does not use indexed colors but rather the raw RGB (or other representations) values directly in the pixel. You can't color cycle if its not indexed.
That is certainly the case! For that reason some artists restrict themselves with the tools they use. Nowadays it's certainly easier to get lost in the myriad of option in software and hardware.
As a reminder, game hut was popular till he pushed for a business for streaming video of a video game which takes more data than the game itself. He tried to start that business and after that I don't think he ever made another video cause everyone realized how bad and stupid of an idea it really is.
There is a great game engine built with these old school effects in mind called Tilengine. It’s worth checking out for anyone still interested in this old school technique.
Thank you! I was looking everywhere for such a tool!
Deluxe Paint IV is still an amazing, compact piece of software. Integrated 2.5D Animation, extensive Array Tools, Special Fills and lots of other tools that cannot be found in modern software, especially achieved through a pretty simple user interface. Computer Power has increased, but good and inspired programming, still shines.
Ngl I wish we had those features in current software or similar
Interesting and informative video. However, I was hoping to find more information on how to achieve color cycling in Photoshop. Any help in this regards would be so appreciated. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Mark Ferrari is the man! I played Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion more times than I can remember. I love pixel art. I just bought Thimbleweed Park today after learning it actually came out and I can play it on my phone! It's literally downloading.
I'm a bit late to this video.. but for the past 30 years I've been looking for a screensaver that I had on my first PC in the early 90s. It had three options - a flag, a tunnel and a donut. It looked like they were animated because of colour cycling. Nobody has ever heard of it and I've not come close to finding anything about it. It was a standalone, it wasn't After Dark or part of any other screensaver pack.
This year, I got so sad from looking and getting nowhere, I remade it myself in photoshop using colour cycling and a macro to create frames, saved it as a gif and then programmed it into a .Scr screensaver file. It's a lot higher quality than the original, but its scratched my nostalgic itch somewhat.
This is one of those things that really annoys a person like me. I like to know what everything is and collect things, so losing this to time really bothers me.
This was a really great piece you did, a mix of design, history and creativity. Hope you'll do more videos like this one.
Are there any open source programs that allow color cycling
I grew up playing 16 and 256 colour games in the 1990s on IBM PC so am familiar with these vintage graphic games and I love the look of them, thanks for sharing this detailed video on how these early graphics were done.
Hey, I’m bummed because I was watching your videos, great quality, awesome Information, only 7K! Seriously your stuff deserves more exposure.
the demos are amazing i love it. colour cycling is so simple yet so amazing. many people think index colours are primitive since now every machine has the ability to produce true colours but index colours can do magic with very little processing power.
Excellent color cycling example is the "Dazzle" DOS screensaver software! The computer generated art is just stunning! 😉
Can anyone give give me a hint how to export color cycled images from GrafX2 ? I would like to resuscitate this old technique and use it for pixel art games but obviously some additional pieces of code are necessary as gif cannot store these images...
Same
Great video, colour cycling was such an important tool for early 16bit software. Even being forgotton later on in that generation!
Windows 7's boot screen had a neat spinner that was also animated using color cycling. It's so good that everyone thinks it's multiple frames.
Haha that was great. Trip down memory lane there. I never really mastered the art of colour cycling to make great use of it but I did have a passion for making fractal images and then colour cycling those in Deluxe Paint. You had a quick blip of a clip in the video.
Your videos are truly treasures
Perfect video and references, a pleasure to watch thank you.
Great! BTW Bridge Strike game is new game that uses colorcycling for weather changes an night and day cycle. It was made in 2018 for old Amiga computers but its modern version is available also for Android and IOS ;)
Wonderful video ! Thank you so much for making it !
You should add more samples from the old demo scene and not just limited to games :-) nice video!
0:40 dawn is mesmerising. where is it from?
This is one of Mark Ferrari’s work. He did some beautiful stuff!
What's the source for that "back in the day" tutorial?
Wow I remember deluxe paint. Showing my age.
on the website Coub.com if you search for pixel-art you will find tons of examples for this technique! and it's beautiful!
Now i know what it's called! ty
Like. Very interesting and informative video!
Soebody old understand how not only to display the effect in the program, but display it as an animation and make a gif?) because when saving the image, colors remain static((((
Use a screen recording program and export the file either as a video file or as a GIF.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Damn - for 30 years I've believed the boing ball was 3d animation!
Absolutely a shame its not used much anymore but i think the primary the reason for this is that most video modes (notably 24bit and higher) does not use indexed colors but rather the raw RGB (or other representations) values directly in the pixel. You can't color cycle if its not indexed.
Great video Apparently less resources make people more innovative.
That is certainly the case! For that reason some artists restrict themselves with the tools they use. Nowadays it's certainly easier to get lost in the myriad of option in software and hardware.
great
so interesting!!!
oh....master...you...are...a..master....Thank you so much
7:12 woah
oraio video. Nostalgia
As a reminder, game hut was popular till he pushed for a business for streaming video of a video game which takes more data than the game itself. He tried to start that business and after that I don't think he ever made another video cause everyone realized how bad and stupid of an idea it really is.