I think I’ll try to sell this one when it’s finished, so some lucky punk can say “I will not give up my favorite decoration, I like Captain Solo right where he is” when asked about it.

Well now it’s Thursday… and I also probably won’t have a comic done at least until tomorrow, so. Pretend, for now, that this is a comic, and the punchline is that I don’t know how to balance my time

That’s the finished version, or at least it is for now. Whether I add anything or not, I’ll take better pictures later

Bonus

Crystal orb, symbol of my clan, use your darkling power to show us all you could! I mean CAN!

step two-ahhh

stay tuned as it grows up

The bad news is that Paper Mario looks like trash in HD. The good news is there is a plugin for Project64 that can load external textures in place of the low-res originals. The bad news is that freaking nobody, in said plugin’s ten or so years of existence, has ever finished one of these. The worse news is that all the Paper Mario ones used The Thousand-Year Door’s sprites, and they really don’t mesh with how Paper Mario 1 animates things. At all. Seriously…

So I’m gonna do one. As much as I’d enjoy doing the entire thing from scratch, that’s not what I want to play. I want the original look, in HD. So I’m tracing the original sprites, with the original poses and the original expressions, using the original colors. Little more, no less.

I really have only just started; Bombette’s is the only sheet I’ve finished, but here’s a taste of what all it’ll be like:

The extent of the creative liberties I’ll be taking can already be seen, in the fray on Bombette’s fuse.

I’m doing this in steps that will still leave me with something finished, even if I don’t finish. Characters and enemies first–that will be something you could say is complete. Theoretically, I’ll play that and think, “the 2D parts of the environment are driving me crazy,” and I’ll do those for a second version. Then I’ll want to do the menus and items. Finally I’ll do the textures for the 3D things. So basically only the characters are really planned, and the rest are penciled in. If I DO HD up the whole game it’ll probably take a couple years. I’ll keep you posted

I don’t want help with this. I’m doin’ it myself, as practice, as a challenge, as something to do, as whatever

Ahh, the days of my youth. Like the scent of fresh lemon… you see.

Guess it’s worth a mention, though, that I’m starting a little project this year. I’ll explain more of it later when I have more to show for it, but till then:

The level is actually called KING Bowser’s Castle (at least in the GBA version) but I liked how Kamek called him Prince Bowser in Mario & Luigi 2. I liked everything about Kamek and Bowser’s interaction in M&L2.

Crashed into a whale, can’t find sub insurance or registration, whale won’t stop swearing. FML

THE TEARS, THE DRAMA, BE GLAD YOU MISSED IT

That’ll be all for now. Maybe I’ll pick it up again later on.