Hyrule Castle Town Ruins

Well, that was fun. When I started tackling this one, I was going to go about it the same way I've seen in several games: purple=night. Well, I managed to get the ground colored in different shades of purple and it looked awful. Really awful. So I tried a different approach and tried using the colors found in Yoll Graveyard in Oracle of Ages. That looked awful too. But it pointed me in the right direction. What I ended up doing was making a palette of every color I used in the original Castle Town and lowering the saturation by different amounts. In the end, I ended up with a more brown-ish, almost sepia colored Castle Town.

Then there was the matter of changing things. Spiting buildings was a challenge for me in the first place. Reducing an entire town to building skeletons was more than I could do. So I settled for busting in the doors and left it at that. Then there was the dead trees. Trees are a pain. I ended up taking the dead trees from Ages and cutting out all but the four corners, which joined to make a decent dead tree sprite. And yeah, I filled in the back alley with more houses. I actually surprised myself at how well I was able to incorporate the houses that were already there.