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3-form RPG boss: "Harlequin Epicycle."

Author: 
Redshrike
Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 18:41
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Hey everyone! I made this boss for a challenge over at Pixeljoint, in the same style as the rest of my rpg enemy set.  He has three forms, starting off as a robed and masked creature presenting a vaguely humanoid front, and ending up being revealed as a decidedly non-human critter.  Having multiple arms with weapons is a bit of a trope/cop-out, but I didn't have any other ideas.

Note that my normal policy is not to do boss art for this set, for a few reasons.  First, most people are going to be more concerned about having major characters like bosses be unique than normal random encounters.  Second, they're a lot of work for something that will be less useful anyway.  But I figured I'd post this anyway, since it turned out pretty well and has no other destiny atm.

Credit to my hella bro for the name.  He always delivers.

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Stephen Challener (Redshrike), hosted by OpenGameArt.org
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vestrel00
joined 10 years 8 months ago
11/25/2012 - 18:50
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Thanks Red. As always, top tier work. =3

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leeor_net
joined 12 years 9 months ago
11/26/2012 - 05:16
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These are great! I really love how the style of this graphic and the others in your series are consistent.

Thanks for another great contribution!

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Bertram
joined 12 years 5 months ago
11/26/2012 - 08:44
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This shall definitely be one key minion, if you allow me to. :)

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Redshrike
joined 13 years 7 months ago
11/26/2012 - 09:06
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Thanks guys!

@Bertram: by all means, please do.

@leeor_net: I appreciate that.  I've been working on this set for 2 and a half years off and on, and it's finally approaching minimal completion for full game usage (though of course I want to expand beyond that, too).

@Vestrel: Thanks!  I saw that it was in your game collection, and I'm honestly very interested in seeing what you end up doing with it.

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vestrel00
joined 10 years 8 months ago
11/26/2012 - 09:21
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I was going to stop writing new monsters but I see that you want to know my plans for this so I shall write the Harlequin boss in all its glory. I'll post up a link to a video here once I got it done within this week =)

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Redshrike
joined 13 years 7 months ago
11/26/2012 - 15:13
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That sounds great!  I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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vestrel00
joined 10 years 8 months ago
12/01/2012 - 15:00
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Hey guys,

I finished writing up Harlequin - The Cursed Magician. I really had a lot of fun with it too. I hope that I did him justice. I gave it my all =) He is the true first boss of HoaLW. (Grue is still in progress)

Please put your head phones on and turn the volume up. Headphones are a must to get the full effect! Without further ado, please enjoy the Harlequin - First Encounter.

http://youtu.be/6YAtfW6LKY0

Many thanks again to RedShrike for the challenge and for being such a boss and MatthewPablo for his insanely epic music XD

P.S.
My imagination ran out before I could write up Harlequin in his final form. However, I will come back to him once I get new ideas =)

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Redshrike
joined 13 years 7 months ago
12/02/2012 - 13:05
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Thank you for linking me.  I really like how you implemented it--the style of animation really works with the overall aesthetic.  I am really looking forward to this game.

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looneybits
joined 8 years 1 month ago
01/16/2016 - 09:57
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Thx for sharing ;D

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magicalmetal03
joined 6 years 3 months ago
12/18/2016 - 13:15
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Best Art.

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Pepsidog
joined 6 years 1 month ago
01/25/2018 - 13:01
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Incredible!  But kind of creepy.

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IndigoFenix
joined 6 years 1 month ago
06/01/2018 - 02:13
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Hey, Redshrike!  I've made Harlequin Epicycle into a boss for my online world building game, BoundWorlds.  He's perfect for testing and demonstrating new world building features, especially those related to special effects.  Here's a video of the battle as it is now, featuring all 3 forms:

https://youtu.be/HBmGLzfbHEQ

I should really thank you specifically - since BoundWorlds is built entirely on free assets, your work is showing up a lot!  You'll probably be in everyone's world credit screen for one thing or another, haha.

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aresremos
joined 4 years 1 month ago
02/18/2019 - 23:57
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Fantastic!

 

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William.Thompsonj
joined 9 years 9 months ago
06/10/2020 - 11:50
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Looks interesting using GameBoy original color palette (4-color green!)

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