It also obviously wouldn’t exist without his original artwork and the efforts of everyone at EXOK, so thanks to all of them too! Along the way I’ll provide analysis and design rules that will help you replicate this game signature design style.īig thanks up front to Pedro for his help proofreading my animations and observations! This guide is a lot more accurate thanks to his input. To make this guide, I deconstructed and re-built the first room of the Forsaken City so I can show you how the art for these rooms is made, step-by-step. I think these 8x8 tilesets look way better than many 16x16 tilesets while requiring an order of magnitude less work. These tilesets are designed for efficiency making a game with almost a thousand unique rooms is a ton of work, and the good folks at EXOK developed some really clever techniques that can save us all a lot of time and effort in both art and level design. What I found was a really ingenious blend of procedural, randomized and hand-placed content that’s surprisingly easy to mimic once you know how it all works. When I needed to make some pixel-art tilesets for my Metroidvania Generator, I spent some time reverse-engineering Celeste’s levels to understand how Pedro Medeiros made each room look so dang good. Celeste is one of my all-time favorite games, not just because it’s perhaps the first hugely popular indie game made by trans developers with a trans protagonist or an extremely thoughtful depiction of mental illness, but also because it’s ✨ gorgeous.✨
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