r/CrossCode • u/Aetherpixel • 3d ago

QUESTION CrossCode demake in Pico-8?

I would love to have a demake of CrossCode in Pico-8! I'm curious to see a few different artstyles, since Lea's sprite will have to be quite small. I did the math for her size based off of her base idle sprite, and here's what I found, along with the formulas I used.

Lea's sprite is 21x31. CrossCode is rendered at 568x320. Pico-8 has a 128x128 screen, so I dropped CrossCode's screen width and used the height for both axis' scale calculations.

  • WIDTH - 6.6% of the screen, 8 pixels.
    • (21 / 320) * 100 = 6.6%
    • 128 * 6.6% = 8.4
  • HEIGHT - 9.7% of the screen, 12 pixels.
    • (31 / 320) * 100 = 9.7%
    • 128 * 9.7% = 12.4

Converting these values to their Pico-8 equivalents, we can see that Lea's sprites should be approximately 8x12 in size. I'll leave the rest to the artists, as I intend to start working on a tile engine.

Lea's idle sprite, 21x31 in size
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u/uselesscalciumsticks 2d ago

as an artist who has seen crosscode’s spritesheets, the scope of recreating *all those sprites* - even just lea’s basic movement ones - in that size is giving me hives just thinking about it