
174 Pixel Art for Game Developers
Now to get more mileage out of our mountains we’re going to reuse
those tiles by simply duplicating them and making them two shades darker
(FigureE.).
FIGURE E9.75 Reusing the tiles for a closer mountain range.
Butbecausethesemountainsaregoingtobeabitclosertotheviewer,
we’re going to give them a little bit of detail. We made these tiles two shades
darker so we can use the in-between color to add some highlight to the
peaks of the mountain, as shown in FigureE.. Then we can add these
mountains onto a new layer and we can see how the added texture subtly
improves the image in FigureE..
FIGURE E9.76 Adding highlights. ...