These are the sprites I made for the main characters of 2 of my Vircon32 games: "One Skill" and "Basic Platformer". In both cases I tried to draw simple-shaped characters. The one for Basic Platformer is indeed quite basic, but for One Skill (which was made later) I evolved the design a little bit.

The character in One Skill can acquire different skills, so it has sprites for 5 states: base (no skill), boots, wand, gun and cape. The skill-changing post and the different skill icons are also included.

Both characters have a 4-image walk animation, jump up/down poses and a death pose. The One Skill character includes idle animations. The Basic Platformer character has only a static idle image, but has 2 jumping variations (jump in-place or moving horizontally), and also has a pushing pose.

If you would like to know about Vircon32, the game console I created, find its website here: www.vircon32.com. Both the emulator and games are free and open source.