Hey...
I've started doing a bit of art for this game. It's not exactly amazing, and I just can't figure how to polish the up and down sprites, but everything starts somewhere, right?

I work on everything alone, so part of the reason I'm starting this is for feedback from you guys. You guys are awesome. I tried putting these sprites on another pixel art forum, but nobody said anything. The community here is awesome, though.
The game is going to take a lot of inspiration from the top down Zelda games, but I'll probably let some other Nintendo games' influence leak in. I have a small amount of plotline, but it's kinda incoherent. The most solid thing I have so far is the fact that you play as a royal guard. Some monster revived from an age long ago has come to take over the kingdom. You are knocked out, and when you come back to, the king and queen are gone. While looking for them, you go through the introductory "dungeon" of sorts, which is the taken over castle. When you find the monster that took over the castle, you get into a fight, before it hits you hard enough to send you flying away. You wake up on the outskirts of a village, and the rest of the game ensues.
I don't have much to show for it, but I really want to make this, and I have a feeling that this journal will give me a little more incentive to keep working on it.
Thanks for reading!