My pixel art skill is pretty low. I wanted to draw the pictures my self. I tried it today and it isn,t bad but it's very time consuming for me. So any artist interested? Or anyone knows where i can get some pixel art assets?
Try keeping it simple. Old 8-bit adventures had very simple art that were essentially vector art. You can simulate the style of art quite easily, and churn through the pictures.
If you are not a natural artist (as I am not), it's certainly worth going the abstract art route. See the graphics in Escape From Dinosaur Island DX (not the loading screen), as an example of how to do abstract style graphics.
Or ... an artist can step forward. :-)