I am putting code related work on hold to work on my pixel art skills because my art guy left the project. So my days currently consist of trying things, find how ugly my things are and read about pixel art. Im still in good terms with ashot so I can still use his work but I cant really expand on it until I actually understand pixel art so I am trying things vaguely based on the original art style. Ill balance between art and code once ill feel like I actually have an idea of what im doing (at least enough to make things that make sense). I might also look for another art guy at a later date, but I want to get better at pixel art myself before that. I'll link below some of my past tries because why not.
http://puu.sh/8Mogq/1864cfd54f.png
http://puu.sh/8MQI3/19807a4a56.png
http://puu.sh/8MRpm/c8615eb507.png
http://puu.sh/8NqCo/e5bc80f406.png
On an other note, earlier this week I started to implement a dodge prototype, and the ugliest jump animation you can imagine.