EGA / 16 color artwork

[alphex]

Given the need to go for a stylized look, 16 color artwork always was fascinating to me - a lot of the detail came from you interpreting the stuff only alluded to. Anyone else have a soft spot for those? The backyard of Maniac Mansion to me is still as incredibly atmospheric as ever, and I'd first played that game in 1997. Laura Bow 1 also NAILS the creepy garden setting, which seems to perfect lend itself to the weird EGA palette.

Have some pics of a couple of favorites & by all means, contribute yours!

[surnshurn]

[ruysan]

I never liked EGA colour palette. It made games just too garish.

But, colour limitations could in fact benefit games. Most Amiga games had 16 colours, but chosen from a much bigger palette, and some developers Like the bitmap brothers used it to their advantage.

Also, loom looked way better on the Amiga than on VGA. At the time it seemed some developers didn't know what to do with so many colours.

[surnshurn]

Aug 30, 2017 5:19:53 GMT -5 ruysan said:

I never liked EGA colour palette. It made games just too garish.

But, colour limitations could in fact benefit games. Most Amiga games had 16 colours, but chosen from a much bigger palette, and some developers Like the bitmap brothers used it to their advantage.

Also, loom looked way better on the Amiga than on VGA. At the time it seemed some developers didn't know what to do with so many colours.

one thing you might not know about the commodore - while it had 16 colors allowed to be drawn at one time, it used a matrix of 16x16 (i believe) cells that only allowed 2 colors in each. if you look closely at the pictures i posted, you will see that the colors are spread out in twos within those squares. 
by comparison, the new trend of retro-looking games just feels lazy to me.

[elektrolurch]

I do love EGA Adventure games. Loom is awesome..

[Bumpyroad]

This isn't from the game, but i've got the whole video, that i like, if that's OP fitting