SCREENSHOT SURVIVAL 20XX

New battle background with Hornet enemies. What do you think?

Thank you for making the shadows look like shadows instead of black puddles.

Also yeah. A+ on the visuals. Though I've never really been a fan of normal insects as video game enemies. Like, I've killed hornets, twenty at a time, in real life, and I don't even know a single magic spell. They only even attacked me twice, and I took zero damage both times because I was wearing a hat. I worry for the future of the realm if our heroes consider this a grueling battle.

author=LockeZ
Like, I've killed hornets, twenty at a time, in real life, and I don't even know a single magic spell. They only even attacked me twice, and I took zero damage both times because I was wearing a hat. I worry for the future of the realm if our heroes consider this a grueling battle.

Watch out, we've got ourselves a BADASS over here! XD I bet they were the tiny, puny variety that die in one hit, though, and not the 4-5 foot tall monstrosities we see in RPGs. :P

Wasps and I...don't get along. I've had a phobia of them since I was a kid (got stung several times when I was really young), and DAMN do I hate them. They're so annoying and pester me whenever they get the chance, and they can SENSE your damn annoyance and buzz around you more and more until you either leave, attack them (pissing them off even more), or they just decide that they REALLY REALLY want that ice cream in your hands and are willing to bite you over it. ;_;

...So if I end up in a JRPG and see hornets the size of PEOPLE...I will promptly have a heart attack and die on the spot. Unless I know a fire spell. Then I will burn the entire map down to the ground in an attempt to murderate the giant wasps.

Seriously, !@#% wasps. They serve no purpose in the world! At least bees pollinate crops and make honey! :(

Off topic for the thread but in regards to the wasp/bee chatter: When I lived in the country some years back now a giant tree cracked in half revealing a killer bee hive that was all up in it.
My house was only a feet away from the tree and the bees started attacking my dogs and myself. They were extremely aggressive and stung like a bitch and it really became like that one movie where the town gets horded by bees.

Annnyways, me, my brother and a friend drove up to the nest in a car and threw bug bombs into the nest and tree, and we pelted the hive with bird shot for good measure.

We must've killed like five hundred+ bees, it was a bloodbath. Gained like three levels that day...

COUNTRY LIVIN' YEEEEHAWWWW

author=Cap_H
Crap, I'm total dumbo. I read your post, then moved on something else and then returned to comment on it. I though that's the original PS One (tho you don't write anything about ps) title. Somehow I turned text on its head in my head and wrote that piece of crap.
My reaction suggests that the now one really caught the style, man.

No worries man, I've done it before to.
And thanks, I wanted to get it as close to the original as I could.
Still just a wee bit iffy on it.. it might need more improvements.

Eh. There were certainly plenty of RPGs on the SNES with tiny one-tile sprites like that. In general I would describe almost all of them as terrible-looking, though:



Your tilesets and color palettes are certainly pretty enough to ascend beyond the awful visuals of games like FF Mystic Quest, despite the similarly stubby characters. I really dislike these kinds of chibichibi characters since they prevent me from taking anything that's happening seriously - they don't look enough like people and they are pretty much incapable of identifiably performing almost any actions except walking. But your tilesets would need to be reworked if you made them taller, especially any manmade tiles, so it's probably not worth it. If your game doesn't have much of a story and is meant to have an atmosphere that's very much about wilderness-exploration, then obviously the character graphics are the least important thing on the screen.

It's normal when the characters are more complicated than the tiles -- this detail pops them up. But yeah, I do think they could use a bit of work. Anyway, this looks absolutely stunning! The only thing I'd complain is the battle HUD. Font is rather tiny, straight white on semi-light blue. You could omit things like MP (have it appear only on the magic selection window), not display the max HP... Or just try a change of font because Small Fonts is a really ugly one haha

Oh, just another thing about the characters -- I just noticed they have hard lines, opposing the scenery which features soft lines. This is something we normally want to avoid because hard lines really look dated, especially on 16x16 characters. I'd go for a hard outline and soft inlines. But that's me.

Also @InfectionFiles ;_;

just ;_;

I have a pretty fucking brutal phobia of bees, wasps and et cetera, though I've been only stung by one like 8 years ago. That's because mom would scare me out of going to the kitchen saying a bee-cockroach monster'd be waiting for me, and that they are horrible and kill. Today I kind of can't stand them and I WILL "walk" away. If I see one coming I'll scream and run. >_>

EDIT: Nevermind about the charset stuff, I saw them here and they look fine

author=LockeZ
Thank you for making the shadows look like shadows instead of black puddles.

Also yeah. A+ on the visuals. Though I've never really been a fan of normal insects as video game enemies. Like, I've killed hornets, twenty at a time, in real life, and I don't even know a single magic spell. They only even attacked me twice, and I took zero damage both times because I was wearing a hat. I worry for the future of the realm if our heroes consider this a grueling battle.

LockeZ confirmed hornet-stomping badass.

@Erave: those colors are nice, not a fan of the retro style but that's just a personal opinion, not to mean it's bad in anyway.

Personally I never understood the large appeal of making pixels bigger for more 'beauty', i'd call it nostalgia which doesn't exist for me despite my age because the first game i played was Oddworld Abe's oddysey, a cinematic plat former that makes most graphics even in this day and age look bland or unappealing.

Not to say graphics make a game, certainly! I myself have no right to talk down graphics, given my history.

Here's a trailer for my most recent release (3/14 because of reasons). I've done my best to keep it artistically cohorent as I can, there's definitely some maps I'm going to go back and touch up, though. Need to add some detail but the time it takes demanded too much of my time getting the plot done.
I know, it is a super weird music choice, but I figured with how much Yu-gi-oh unwittingly or not referenced the Illuminati, I'd go with it.

I'm not putting the demo up here, if you wanna find it you can work out how to since I don't wanna advertise it. Just wanted to show y'all the trailer.

E: To Clarify, I will probably put it up when it's complete, right now its a demo.

Pizza I love the monochrome thing you're doing, and I know thats like a "thing" of your game, but it can come across a little drab. I would consider adding complementary color highlights to the monochrome, (e.g. some kind of aqua green in the purple world, some orange in the blue etc.) just a thought.

also that floor reads more as grass than carpet to me. maybe a consistent but minimal texture could work with the style, rather than a few tufts here and there.

author=Dookie
Pizza I love the monochrome thing you're doing, and I know thats like a "thing" of your game, but it can come across a little drab. I would consider adding complementary color highlights to the monochrome, (e.g. some kind of aqua green in the purple world, some orange in the blue etc.) just a thought.

also that floor reads more as grass than carpet to me. maybe a consistent but minimal texture could work with the style, rather than a few tufts here and there.

Yeah, I might ditch the monochrome thing and just try to create a more natural focus on certain colours instead. Pixelling in monochrome is starting to suck the life out of me.