Well, I wasn't able to work on this for the past two days, so am planning to dig in this weekend. Played around some with GifCam. My laptop's framerate drops to pathetically low numbers when running this - making it awkward to play while capturing. Made 3 progress gifs though! I updated my main characters sprites and worked out his animations. Started playing around with some of the other sprites, but they still need a bit of work. Working in just the 4 colors is a unique challenge.
I started with this camera transition between rooms/zones but decided it doesn't fit with the game play style I'm looking for.
No transitions in these: