Summer Heat

Pixel art for submission to GB Pixel Art Jam 2024 (https://itch.io/jam/gbpixelartjam24).

Inspired by some bold 80s colors (a version of the Mangavania color palette) and memories of fun times playing NES games at a friend's house, this is Summer Heat.

Is that water made of lava, or it just your imagination? Who knows? Who cares? The 80s were a fever dream of wild choices and wide-eyed regrets seen more clearly in the rear view mirror of a Ferrari Testarossa. All I know for sure is that you can't let that big wave hit ya where the Good Lord split ya. So put some lotion on that sunburn and surf on, you crazy human, making speed like it's the last heat of the last race of the summer. Oh, and do some rad tricks while you're out there, would ya? Just cause you gotta go fast doesn't mean you shouldn't look awesome while you're doing it.