Since this game's transition from #UNDERSWAP to #SWAPFELL, pretty much everything has changed substantially. As a result, almost all sprites and ideas I've been working on for years were scrapped. However, I feel like it's a waste to let all of these things just sit in my storage forever, so I've decided to share some of it with you guys!
It's probably pretty obvious, but most of the early sprites are actually edits or traces of existing Undertale or Underswap sprites. For example, Alphys:
The original design on the left is ripped from a Neutral Underswap Alphys fangame, but for the life of me I couldn't find out who made it. So naturally, I just recreated it and made a whole sprite sheet for it (sarcasm. this was not the right thing to do.) Luckily these type of 'edited' sprites will not be used in this game.
It's not great, I know. I did make a full (original) sprite sheet for her overworld armor as well, though that's more likely to be reused.
Next up, the Ruins! Or temples or whatever. They were originally blue like in the early images of TS!Underswap, but I figured it would be far more interesting to use the tiles from the Throne Room to create a more lush, royal feel (and according to a game jolt poll, most people felt the same way). Although they're pretty much all reskins, it definitely inspired the current, more varied designs. Here's the iterations in order:
Pretty cool, right? As for the yellow-orange tileset, there were a LOT of ruins rooms made for it, but they're all reskins, so I won't flood this article with them. There were also some sprite sheets made for early swapped ruins random encounters:
I won't be showing all of these, since they'll probably be edited and reused. But on the the topic of small sprite sheets, I've got a few more:
I did sprites pretty out of order. The Napstaton one is straight from the Underswap April Fools trailer that was originally on this page. Undyne's sprites are heavily inspired by her Deltarune appearance rather than Undertale. All of these designs have changed so substantially that I don't really consider any of these images spoilers.
There's a bunch of other stuff, but I don't think most of it is worth showing and I'm also getting tired of writing this. There is way more of this stuff than I thought there was and it's totally unorganized.
I hope you enjoyed this view of my past sprite work, and I'm looking forward to sharing new stuff with everyone as the game progresses!
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