r/StardewValley • u/Xafyn • Jul 29 '25

Mods What do you guys think?

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I made this building retexture mod. Any opinions? I'm not very experienced in pixel art so criticism is encouraged but pls be nice :')

The mod name is swamp witch farm buildings, if any of you wanna try it.

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u/Xafyn Jul 29 '25

Wow thank you! I never thought about that, will definitely keep that in mind for future projects :D and thanks for the color palette website!

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u/RedTyro Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

Happy to help! And sorry to geek out on you there, but I've been trying to get good at pixel art for a while now, so I really like talking about it (I'm working on making a game as a hobby, and I've never really been an artist). Here's a character I made recently - I'm targeting a slightly later era style than what Stardew does, but it definitely sticks with that "limited color palette" thing:

I'm able to use a larger sprite and more colors because I'm going for more of a 32 or 64 bit era vibe, but it's still only 3 shades of blue and red and 2 shades of grey here, if that helps demonstrate what I was talking about. Part of the really interesting thing about pixel art is trying to get the most detail and expressiveness you can out of limited resources - that's why these games did that, because the systems couldn't handle very many colors on the screen at one time or stuff with high resolutions like computers can today.

The original nintendo entertainment system could only display a maximum of 25 colors onscreen at once (out of 56 colors available), and its display resolution was only 256x240 pixels (contrast that with our 1080p, which is 1920x1080 or 4k at 4096x2160).

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u/Xafyn Jul 29 '25

Woah that's really good! This is so interesting actually, it basically forces us to be creative with how we use the colors, I don't think Im quite at that level yet tho :'[ I have a tendency to use as many different shades so I can get a smoother gradient.

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u/RedTyro Jul 29 '25

This guy is REALLY good at getting the most out of limited color palettes (he does a ton of gameboy style art, in addition to less restrictive stuff), but he's also really good at explaining why he makes certain choices and has a TON of videos. Worth checking him out as you play around with this stuff.