THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

@dethemetal: http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/658/locker/colhaven.PNG
The mapping looks good, a bit systematic maybe, but I can understand that. There's only so much you can do with a chipset... One thing does bother me though, is that yellow 'line' neatly delimiting the streets. It would be better if it didn't stood out so much. Try making it less bright somehow, or try sectioning it a little, that may do the trick as well.

@stardust: http://www.imagesload.net/img/temple.png
That's a very nice map, it's all made with the rtp? Anyway, if there's a full moon on the sky, I think there should be more light on that roof. Things can get very bright on a full moon night, and shadows tend to be darker as well. I guess there are supposed to be some clouds on your screen, but even so... Also, a couple of moonlight rays would look neat too.

@Dyhalto: http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/games/3665/screenshots/ItsCleah.PNG
I agree, with LockeZ. I think you should take all your graphics from the same source and use the same resolution for them, to avoid those jarring visual inconsistencies... I'm particularly worried about those blur-filtered sprites. I believe you did that in a hurry for some event? But you no longer have a deadline, take your time and fix those graphics.

@Ocean: http://i.imgur.com/PMyEE.png
Is that a finished map, or it's only a test map? I mean, I like the tiles and especially those little charas. But the map is rather big and empty. The size of the door and those very tall walls also give the impression that the room is bigger than it perhaps should be...

@Link_2112: http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/9179/locker/FFc.png
I really like the color version the most. But if you going to go that route, I suggest you to use less saturated colors. And to standardize? the number of colors you use in every thing. Some tiles have three to four colors, while others, like the grass have only two...

@Avee: http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/15964/locker/Avee_screen_07.PNG
The HUD is simple but it's looking pretty neat. Are you planning on putting something at the right end, though? If not, maybe you could arrange for the portrait to show in that spot, so it doesn't look as stacked on top of everything else... Another thing. That pattern on top of the HP circle is somewhat distracting. Try making it a bit subtler somehow.

@alterego:
It is a test map. It's actually been size reduced since I noticed that as well. I did make it slightly empty still because I need the player to be able to run around, no use having very cramped spaces with encounters chasing you. I will see if I can tighten up the spaces a little but I don't want to squeeze it too much.

author=LockeZ
@Link_2112: Your desaturated version isn't actually desaturated, just darkened (I think). I took it and desaturated it for real in photoshop and the result is way less tropical looking. Of the two versions you had, the lighter one also does look more tropical. The brightness and saturation seem to mimic the effect of a bright tropical sun.

http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/6579/locker/FFcdesat.png

Looking at your version...I don't see the difference between desaturating and making it darker(that is pretty much all I did). Yours just looks darker, too dark in fact. Me no likey. In my version I only changed the water and grass though, and by a miniscule amount at that.

Maybe I don't "get it". If a blue has less blue in it, does that make it desaturated? Wouldn't desaturation involve reducing the colors? Which is the same as making it darker, no? My map probably looks more tropical because of the objects in the water. Let me kill those, I threw random stuff on the map as a test.

http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/9179/locker/FFc5.png

Let's just stop talking tropics xD

In my view, it's not every color that is "too bright". I think that toning down the grass will balance it out better. Maybe you put too much saturation, but those colors look drab. I'll mess with it further some other time I'm not tired, but if not being saturated means dark colors I'll live with full on saturation. I want the game to be bright and crisp.

I do like the version with colored outlines on everything more than the version with half the objects having colored outlines and the other half having black outlines.

Well, the alternative to colored outlines isn't half/half. I would put a black outline to everything. It's just that by default, the gameboy graphics were half/half. So when I recolored that's how it turned out.

I'm kind of curious what those pine cones floating in mid air are supposed to be.

haha They are rock formations. You don't recognize those tiles? They are classic..I expected more from you.

author=Link_2112

I'm kind of curious what those pine cones floating in mid air are supposed to be.

haha They are rock formations. You don't recognize those tiles? They are classic..I expected more from you.

Classic or not they look way floaty. It's probably because the tip of them is level to the tip of the palm trees, which are (supposedly) tall, the dark line underneath them doesn't really help either (it's probably just a tile error but it can be mistaken for a shadow)

But I like both versions. Although if the red guy is the Main Character I'll feel like I'm playing as SegNin D:

author=alterego
http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/6507/locker/FFcdesat.pngI was thinking something more like this. Except, you know, less hastily done... And when I said 'less saturated' I didn't mean by messing with the actual saturation handler in Photoshop, because that will technically desaturate all the colors uniformly, resulting in an ugly mess of greys if you take it too far. -I meant it in a more 'colloquial' way of just picking a color somewhere to the left of the ones you currently have; according to what you think will work best for the kind of thing you're going for.

Also, I didn't mean to say that having only two color for the grass was a bad thing; I like it too. Just that everything else should have only two colors as well, you know, for consistency's sake.

I'll play with it. I like some of the colors in yours.

Yes they are supposed to be floating rocks.

This is an ABS I made almost 2 years ago. I found the file recently.


I love Shining Soul I & II.

Just have numbers 0-9 (that's ten pictures) that go in whatever spot. (So, the 68 would be Picture 1 = 6, Picture 2 = 8, etc, and change them via conditional branch.
IF Variable (Health by tens)= 60
Show Picture 1 (6)
END
IF Variable (Health by tens)= 70
Show Picture 1 (70
END
Of course you;d have to do the same for the hundreds, tens and singular number spots, but once it's all set out all you'd have to do is change the variables.}

@Aqua:


And so this isn't all tutorial, something from me.


This is where you can find your team mates and change your party. You can have up to six people in your party, but in battle you can only have three fighters. You can change the team every turn.


The first dungeon - the maze-like Heart Woods.


World map. Places of interest that can be accessed have their names above them. You can't unlock certain places until later in the game. Others can be unlocked by visiting them.

What do you mean it "empties out"? Can I see your event coding, per chance?

This is a battle system and menu system I made about a year ago. The enemies are animated.

And best of all, it's really simple to use. If I ever released it, with some simple instructions, it could even be used by those RM twits who don't know left from right. Maybe.