Dueling Analogs » Dragon Quest

Google Maps for the NES

Steve Napierski — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:44:07 +0000

For April Fools’ Day, Google “announced” the upcoming release of an 8-bit version of Google Maps for the original Famicom a.k.a. Nintendo Entertainment System. They also gave you the ability to demo said release it in your web browser by clicking “Quest” in the upper right hand corner of the Google Maps page. Unfortunately, April Fools’ Day is now over and so is that link on Google Maps. Fortunately, there is still a link to access the “trial version” directly.

source: Google Maps

Take Care And Tempt Not The Fates

Steve Napierski — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:18:46 +0000

My favorite thing in the original ~~Dragon Quest~~ Dragon Warrior was when you reached the max level of 30, talked to the king and he said, “Thou art strong enough! Why can thou not defeat the Dragonlord?” That was my first maxed out character EVAR!

source: Magical Game Time
via: Tiny Cartridge

Black Metal Slimes

Steve Napierski — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:52:26 +0000

Wouldn’t the King Metal Slime, because of his enormous girth and obvious increased weight, be a Heavy Metal Slime?

[flickr via Tiny Cartridge]

Guest Strip by Emily Miranda

Steve Napierski — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

I wasn’t planning on running a guest strip today, but when I saw this comic yesterday I just had to. I really enjoyed it and I definitely wanted to share it with all of you. It’s simple and clever and I wish I would have thought of it first.

Today’s comic was created by Emily Miranda who is also know by the handle Scarlet Pirate online. She writes for Gamergrrlz.net when she’s not writing for her own personal blog. Thanks again, Emily. I really enjoyed this comic.

So, the discussion in the previous comic about what was the most anticipated game of the year has gotten pretty heated. I see a clear slant towards StarCraft II over Halo: Reach, but both sides are still making some strong valid claims for their choice. If you’ve got an opinion about it or just want to read some of the comments left, head on over and check it out.

Now if you will excuse me, my copy of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World for the PS3 is starting to call my name. Also, don’t forget (or here’s you’re first mention of it) that the 4 minute Scott Pilgrim animated short is running on Adult Swim tonight at midnight, as well. I’ve already got my TiVo set to record. But before that the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World game pitch after the bump.

Joystiq [Scott Pilgrim pitch video shows an even more retro version of the game]

Avoid the Desert Plains

Steve Napierski — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000

I was originally sketching the artwork for this comic, but I kept visualizing it in sprite format. So rather than reinvent the wheel to look like something different than what I was seeing I opted for the sprite version.

Fun little note about mixing Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior Dragon Quest sprites is that Dragon Quest sprites don’t have the same black outlines that accompany their fellow Square-Enix’s counterparts. So I decided to add the outlines to Erdrick Loto so that he was consistent with the rest of the sprites.

Last week was a very good week for Dueling Analogs. Thursday’s comic, Super Mario Bros.: How it Really Happened was the highest day on Dueling Analogs EVER. It always makes me feel good when I create a comic that I like, but don’t know how the masses will receive it. And then it’s received very well. Two previous examples of this are the 4chan/Twitter comic (previous highest day ever) and Mega Man 10 Easy Mode animation.

Speaking of animations, I working on another one for Dueling Analogs and hoping to run it on the site pretty soon. So until Thursday…