Hello again!
Thank you for the kind posts, I'll see what I can do about everything...
@Shane
Yeah, I'll see what I can do about the HUD. It is really bothering me, because I want to keep it minimalistic, but since I detailed the sprites(I really want them to pop out of the background) I kind of locked myself into a bad situation, eh? Normally pixel art games are opposite to this, and have more detailed backgrounds with less detailed sprites, but I decided to go the other way(it'll be a !@#$% to animate). The Link is a really, really old design of mine, and I have a verson of him with less colours tattood on my arm, actually.
@Donotfeedthemax
Yeah, I haven't gotten around to texturing the houses yet, so they're really bland. I think this is even less detailed than ALttP, haha... I messed up when I drew the houses, since I can only tile them horizontally now, and I really didn't want to bother. since it's so late I just know I'll mess them up! I'll see about texturing the roofs tomorrow or so, or when I have time.
@Kren
The HUD is not anti-aliased at all. It is made out of single colours. I think I might ditch the bomb/arrow/key counter, and definitely the green and blue circles. They are 16x16 shapes, which is the same size as the item sprites(imagine placing a bomb over a circle, it'd just hide the circle completely!) All tiles are going to be recoloured at some point to allow for more variety(grey to brown, blue, red etc) in order to allow myself to be lazy and have them function for different areas, rather than drawing new tiles. It's a bit of a hassle though, because I haven't added a single colour yet, though I was really close to adding a lighter green, since the lightest greenish shade I have right now is a pure yellow - see (badly drawn)bushes. I do indeed intend on having the ground bricks be brown, too(see bushes again). As for the question regarding Arne's palette; No, I don't think I have ever used a premade palette. I chose all colours by eye, which actually do set me back a lot of the times since I never think all colours through. For example, right now I have a colour that acts as a dark purple, dark green and dark blue, and if I change it to a brighter blue, which I'd really like, it would mess up the greens and purples

I'll have to see about tweaking all of the colours in photoshop or something...
Phew, that's a long message. Thanks for the kind replies guys!


Don't mind the shitty Zelda, I just threw her in there for fun