Sticking by the same rules as Yacht Club Games did when creating sprites with the NES’s limitations in mind, I limited Spore Knight to only five colors (As YCG puts it, the usual limit is four, they just cheat). While it’s a little difficult to grab good reference images for a game that hasn’t been released yet, I used whatever I could get my hands on (Mostly a longplay of Spore Knight’s stage shown off at a previous E3) to get as close to Shovel Knight’s NES-Inspired visual style as I could, while still staying faithful to the newer graphical style that Dig has! It’s been quite some time since my last Shovel Knight related sprite post! I wanted to do some more tilesetting, and while I was going to put my tileset practice to good use for the next Mega Man 11 demake post, I eventually decided I wanted to make a tileset for something Shovel Knight related.Īs the first knight revealed for the upcoming 16-Bit Shovel Knight title, Shovel Knight Dig, I went ahead a while back and made her a sprite that wouldn’t look too out of place in the original 8-Bit Shovel of Hope! The only reason why I haven’t posted it yet, however, was because I felt as though a background would be necessary in showing the sprite off, and back then, I couldn’t just whip up a background as quick as I could a standard sprite.

Shovel knight sprite sheet gender swap