Early sketch of my Bubble Bobble boss. #bubblebobble #pixelart #c64

I created a palette of the basic 16 EGA colors, plus 50/50 mixes, totalling 73 colors. The key is to use pairs of colors that a human would pick.

Convert to this palette, without dithering. Then clean up stray pixels etc, before converting to the final 16 color EGA palette with pattern dithering.

I tried visualizing the wind currents in Bubble Bobble for the c64.

The dots spawn at the center of each tile and move the direction of the current. After the dots have moved one tile, the animation is repeated.

Randomly spawned dots would looks better. Might try later.

I disassembled the c64 game Bubble Bobble to find out how wind currents work.