Let me say before I begin my story, that I haven't played the Oracle games to completion, or at least not to Crown Dungeon.So when I set out to sprite the crystal switches and related blocks from LttP in an MC style, it seemed like it would be a run-of-the-mill afternoon activity. Little did I know that it would end in tears.
It began simply enough. There's a red crystal switch in Minish Cap, so I swapped out the palette of that, and made it one pixel wider (it was 15 pixels wide, a convention I don't like to follow). Then I appropriated a similar stone square from the cave tileset for the blocks that pop up.
The trouble began when I showed my edits to a friend.
"What do you think?"
"Well, shouldn't it be red rather than orange?"
"Red? Why would it be red?"
"...Because they were red in the other games?"
What a joker, I thought. Those switches were blue and orange, I lived and breathed LttP as a child. I took out my trusty colour-picker to clear this up once and for all.
Well, that certainly does look like red. In fact, it's way over at hue=0. It's purely, unmistakably red.
My heart sank. The world didn't make sense to me any more. I threw myself into my work, repalleting so that I might not have to think about my lost childhood. So here I sit before you now, a broken man. With nothing to distract me, that blood-red switch is a constant presence. It circles my mind, a buzzard waiting to claim its spoils. But at least my torment resulted in this WIP, which I present to you.
R.I.P. Orange switch, 1992-2010. The flag of my soul will forever fly at half-mast.
C+C
