So over the past few months, I've been working on-and-off on a sidescroller (in fact I had originally planned to enter it into the summer coding competition but never got around to finishing it).  It uses an 8x8 tilemapper and a scrolling 64x96 splash background that scrolls half as fast as the tilemapper, creating a parallax effect.  I made a short screenshot to demonstrate:

As you can see, I'm not much of an artist nor very creative at level design, but I've at least got 80% of the code implemented, with enemies being the last thing i need to code.  If anybody would be willing to help me out with level design, that would be awesome.  I'm not much of an artist and I think this project would turn out much better if I teamed up with somebody who's really good at bitmaps.

EDIT:
Added Grayscale sorta.  But it doesn't look very good when you move.