Well, I’m told that it’s crocheted, which is apparently a different art than knitting. All I know is that it involves yarn and metal sticks.
Samus Aran, from NES Metroid. The sprite is accurate, right down to the height/width ratio of the stretched pixels. She’s been working on it since April. In the picture she has 7 columns put together, and when it’s done it’ll be 20 columns wide. When it’s done it’ll match the pattern in the picture, which is on normal 8.5x11” inkjet paper, to give a size reference.
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MadSteelDarkness wrote:I'd love to see pics of the finished piece.
I'll be sure to post pics when it's finished. She actually has 13 columns done, they're just not all stitched together yet...estimates the whole thing will be finished in about a month.
GaijinPunch wrote:All my wife does is come in and talk right in the middle of a possible high-score run.
Wait, wait, lemme guess..."Is this game more important to you than our relationship?!"
Nah, I don't get that shit. She knows where the games stand. I try to explain to her, "If the TV is on it's side, just don't fucking bother me." It's the same thing every time. She says something, I die and yell "God Fucking Damnit" and then she says, "was that my fault?". :/
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
Nah, I don't get that shit. She knows where the games stand. I try to explain to her, "If the TV is on it's side, just don't fucking bother me." It's the same thing every time. She says something, I die and yell "God Fucking Damnit" and then she says, "was that my fault?". :/
Fuck, the number of times that must happen to me... so why do I always turn round and say 'no babe, not your fault' through gritted teeth?
Accutron wrote:Well, I’m told that it’s crocheted, which is apparently a different art than knitting. All I know is that it involves yarn and metal sticks.
Samus Aran, from NES Metroid. The sprite is accurate, right down to the height/width ratio of the stretched pixels. She’s been working on it since April. In the picture she has 7 columns put together, and when it’s done it’ll be 20 columns wide. When it’s done it’ll match the pattern in the picture, which is on normal 8.5x11” inkjet paper, to give a size reference.
ST Dragon wrote:Can you post a closer pic of Samus in the center?
Sure...
This is the image the pattern was printed from. We added the colored border after I printed it out. It's just a blown up Samus sprite that I ripped from a cap of Metroid running in an emulator. The yarn colors aren't precise...they're just the closest we could find at Wal-Mart heh.
Ramus wrote:Impressive. My wife scorns my videogame habbit. You lucky bastard.
Mine's just the opposite...top western scorer in Katamari Damacy, skilled at platformers and rhythm games. I can't imagine being married to a non-gamer
Dylan1CC wrote:I take it your wifey is a big Metroid fan to do that.
Well, not really. She's beaten the first one a couple times, but it's not one of her absolute favorites. I'm the Metroid fan I suppose. I suggested she do a pixel art afghan, and she said "Okay, of what?" and I was like "I dunno, how about Samus?"
She should do a mario afghan next. The length of the afghan could be one entire level!
Randorama wrote:ban CMoon for being a closet Jerry Falwell cockmonster/Ann Coulter fan, Nijska a bronie (ack! The horror!), and Ed Oscuro being unable to post 100-word arguments without writing 3-pages posts.
Eugenics: you know it's right!
If this one sells, we do intend to make some more, and doing a shmup one is high on my list. The two limitations to the design are sprite size and number of colors. It's not entirely practical for her to make each 'pixel' smaller than they are in the Samus afghan, because every pixel is a start and stop...a break in the process. Plus, each pixel has two ends that have to be tucked in, which adds time. It's not impossible to make smaller pixels, just more work relative to the size of the final product. As far as colors go, the limitations are the availability of yarn colors. We had to make some compromises with the Samus afghan...the yellow is very close to the original color, but we had to take some liberties with the orange-red color and the green. They're close enough, but not exact. She used normal old Red Heart brand yarn that you can get at Wal-Mart. It's relatively cheap and very durable, but the trade-off is a mediocre selection of colors. Other more expensive brands of yarn have better selections of colors, but that increases material costs.
If anybody wants to post some sprite ideas (clean gif/png caps from an emu), I'd be happy to take a look at them. Most stuff from the 8 bit era and some 16 bit stuff should be totally doable. She's agreed to take custom orders, with a down payment and about 3 months build time. Really, any sprite can be done...it's all a matter of cost and time.
The NES outputs at a resolution of 256x224 pixels. On a 4:3 screen, the pixels are stretched horizontally, making them appear slightly wider than they are tall. The pixels in the afghan are stretched to the same ratio, or as close as we could get with the stitch she used.
Fuck, the number of times that must happen to me... so why do I always turn round and say 'no babe, not your fault' through gritted teeth?
