SCREENSHOT SURVIVAL 20XX

@Chilly I'm no expert in art or architecture, but I think the curved corner looks way better than the 45 degree corner. It gives the room more personality, makes it look more creative.

Overall, I think the curved corner looks better and somehow gives 'emotion' to the room. Dangit, I went slightly philosophical, didn't I?

I personally like the straight lines better, it fits with all the hardlined stuff in the room.

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed about the brightness being a bit too much. Not sure how I'll solve that problem yet (trying to use only NES colours + a few).

@Chilly-Pheese-Steak:
Both versions look great. Gotta agree with Ozzy though, the one with the rounded courners has more personality.

I'm having a bit of trouble deciding on how this sloped part of the road should look. The idea is that the road and the stairs are on the same level. The first picture is how it looks with no changes, and frankly it looks very flat. In the second one I've added cliff edges to simulate it going down, but there's still something bothering me about it






Does anyone have a good map pic that has a similar road to this? I'm betting that I'll have to make a new graphic anyway, maybe looking at another map would help.

@Konradix:
Angles in 2D are difficult to show from that angle. My advice to you would be to make the entire dirt section use the fully transparent tile and then use a correctly aligned, stationary panorama to show the angle. The reason for using a panorama is simple: you can draw a specially angled dirt path to show add some added depth. Roads don't usually have impassable cliffs in them, so that should be right out.

One of the reasons the dirt-only path doesn't look right is because the dirt tile itself has some obvious tiling in it (the darker shade forms a little line). With a panorama, you can rotate the tile a few degrees and not break the illusion of height difference. If you don't understand what I mean I can show you, but I am pretty lazy, so...

@Dragol:
I prefer Dyn blending.

Some of you may recall I posted my moist cave (body interior) tileset awhile back, but it was repugnantly bright. I tried fixing the colours and lowering the saturation considerably, and I think it looks way better. It might still be too bright, because my monitor has a tendency to darken things slightly, but I like where it is now. Thoughts?


The original for comparison:

From a fantasy perspective, I sort of liked the walls being the same color as the ground for an "inner body" tileset. But from a gameplay perspective, the new more-different colors make it way more readable and less of an eyesore. And it still looks completely gross, like a place where I definitely don't want to have a picnic, which is probably the most important thing for an inner body dungeon.

Put some big gross pimples in there as doodads.

author=Feldschlacht IV
That looks way better!

Yeah, haha, thanks. The GBA palette is nuts.

author=LockeZ
From a fantasy perspective, I sort of liked the walls being the same color as the ground for an "inner body" tileset.

I agree with you; having the walls and floor the same colour gave it a sort of "inside a vein" feel, whereas this is more of a "dungeon walls and floors" thing. I felt like the players eyes would thank me after staring at this gross mess for awhile, though, and readability is a big deal to me. It was a tough decision.

author=LockeZ
Put some big gross pimples in there as doodads.

What do you think chests are going to be? ;D

@Dragol:
That's a pretty bathroom. I'm sure those stainless steel toilets are auto-cleaning and not gross at all!
edit: I'm not sure having a glass stall door makes a lot of sense, though... kind of defeats the purpose, no?

author=Dragol
It's more like touchable hologramm, cuz fuuuuture.
Transparency active then cabin is empty, if somebody goes in there then it becomes matt.

Genius!

I can't believe that you are still making games about yourself :P