SCREENSHOT SURVIVAL 20XX

Really digging the tiles, Red! Very clean and simple. At the bottom of the first map, I suggest you to shift-map the walls in the middle, behind the two ghosts. The first two squares of the walls have black outlines, meanwhile the third squares don't.

T-they're statues, not ghosts. I'll put a podium underneath them to make it clearer as to what they are. As for the tiles, the black outline shows up on the edge of the pillars at the ends of the walls, so shift mapping wouldn't put a black outline where you specified as it's the center of the wall. I see what you mean, though, so I'll see if I can't find some other way that doesn't involved forcing a black outline where it shouldn't be.

EDIT: oh hi ninja Infection. You know what? I am a dumb and forgot that the maps head a tint to them that dropped saturation. I'm just gonna show the shots in game from now on instead of taking mapshots. Here's how it looked:

Oh REMOVE the outlines? Yeah, I can do that. Thanks for clearing that up!

EDIT: Why can't I do the English well tonight?! The last five posts I made were friggin typos galore.

TGhe thing that I have noticed is that you're doing a low resolution style, like a SNES style maybe (I love that) but randomly drawing stuff on the standard resolution, for... some reason.
You'd be probably better of doing everything SNES style. Its easier, more time efficient, more consistant and works better with this simple shading than a potentially HD style. By the way... you're drawing it and then upscaling 2x... right...? Because if you're drawing straight 4x pixels that's gonna take a LOT of time. XD
Since you seem to be new to pixel art I figured I'd tell you idk
Still that's a cute palette and overall pixels you got there! look forward for a complete game in that style <3

Trying out at making some maps for my planned Twin Peaks/Lynchian Adventure Game, which will have time travelling and people getting abducted (by aliens?) to the mysterious Blue Moon.

Nothing special, just pure MACK tiles. I'm digging the simplicity of it though, and it fits the atmosphere/mood I'm aiming for with the game. Is the squarey-ness a big problem here or does it look fine? I think some parts of the cliffs could be a little more roundish. Also, are these tiles at the same height of the hate scale as the RTP?

octopaca:

"Not even close"? I don't see anything wrong, apart from weird perspective on the furniture. And even that could be given a pass due to the minimalist style of graphics.

Maybe the screen with "DIE" written all over it could be too over-the-top to be considered creepy, but without context I can't say much.

I'm not really into horror games (All the creepiness usually goes right over me), but I'm still interested.

To not repeat what others have said idk what kind of angles your trying to make things but the floor and the walls don't match the bed and table. The character is pretty neat though.

Edit: I suggest when making games in 2 hours to use premade tiles and actually make a game then go back and do the graphics from personal experience.

lockez, i disagree entirely



by approximating the golden ratio and understanding how to utilize color, you can make something that's not jam-fucking-packed with tilevomit and still looks nice.

I don't think there's anything that makes cluttered 2k3 maps any better than ones made in VX/Ace. All maps don't have to be open deserts either. Forests are definitely more dense and for reasons. I find that playing these kind of games with a keyboard makes traversing a mess. A game-pad is the best bet and it's what I always use.

I find absolutely no difficulty in running around in maps like the one that I showed. People who do should definitely take it easy with the auto-dash and walk at a slower pace more fit for them. The game the map is made for doesn't take place in a huge world either.

I'm still very interested in knowing what's making the map terrible. Is it because of squares or are there too many ground details? Too many similarities? Is the dark tint making things hard to see?

I mapped the path that way since dirt paths are not always lined up perfectly. Not all of the dirt shown in the screenshot are paths either.

EDIT: Also I know that all 2k3 users hate VX/VXA tiles like there's no tomorrow. I don't have a problem with the VX tiles being a bit square, but I'm trying to find (or make, if I have to) tiles that are less square though. It's not like all things in my map are squares too; most of the tiles are more rounded. The right part of the cliffs are pretty square however. Hmm, know when I look closer, it's probably that weird shadow that makes the cliffs appear more square than they are. I'll see if I can get rid of it.