Flappy Bird Sprite Design

Do you have an artistic side? Do you have an interest in Flappy Bird character design? If so, this post is for you. Flappy Bird was such a big game, it practically blew up on the App Store in minutes. It's definitely the most addictive game that I've ever played. I think, after Flappy Bird was taken down, game designers thought it was a good idea to jump on their game design program and create a Flappy Bird prototype for them or their company to go big. I'm not looking to go big, but Flappy Bird is one of the simplest platform games to create. With a small bit of code and a few designs you're set to go. 

See, I'm more of the artistic side to creating games, but I can actually code some GML (GameMaker Language). I'm currently creating a 3 level platform game as a preview as to what I can do, so be sure to check that out when it drops.
In this post I'm going to show you how I created my Flappy Bird character in the GameMaker sprite designer.

I started by downloading a picture from the internet as a reference to work from. Also, opening the program and creating a sprite.

I made an outline with the finest pencil preset, as the game is pixel based you can see the image isn't in the best detail but I still managed to get a good outline.




Next I added a white shading to give myself a reference as to where the lighter colour will be, depending on what colour I'd like my character. 

I used right click when using the pencil preset, when clicked this gives us a white colour pixel instead of a drop down menu. 

I added some colour, experimenting, trying to make it a bit different to the actual game character. I used a dark pink where I made the shading reference and a lighter pink for the rest. In the top corners I used the same pink and just turned down the opacity to 174 and lightened the corners a tad. For the mouth/beak, I used an orange colour and then changed the opacity to 180 with the same orange and filled the rest.

Download the final image (32x32px).