THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

author=Link_2112
I don't have to go into detail to post here. It's probably preferred but what'cha gonna do? If I want to call it awful, I will, and the author will know that someone doesn't like the "style".

The problem with that is it's useless and slightly inflammatory; we're on a gamedev-centered board, and everyone is trying to learn, or should be. It's just as useless to say "oh that's great" without any reason - there are plenty of fans/haters to cover the basic platitudes. Everyone here has things to learn and posting negatively with no constructive or even useful information serves no purpose.

@Sana: The UI boxes look great, I like the purple-on-purple. I'm not a fan of the cursive-esque font, especially in games with lots of dialogue. It makes text hard to read and if there's a lot of reading it's much too frustrating. The font is a touch small as well, which adds to that.

It definitely adds to the atmosphere that I *think* you're going for. I haven't played the game, I just know that usually overly-curly fonts are neat but make reading difficult.

author=Craze
Yeah, the font has to go. If anything, use it for the name box and that's it.

Already changed the font to something less cursive:

author=tpasmall
@Bandito

I see the effect you're trying to go for with your mountain 'ledge', but the problem is, just doing diagonal tiles like that, won't show depth. I created this shot real quick as a suggestion on how you might modify yours a little bit to give it more of a natural look.

Now, its not a great screenshot by any means, but do you see the way I used ramps and shadows to give the illusion of increasing height? This not only takes away from some of the blockiness of the auto-tiles but also helps clearly define where the changes in elevation are.

Just my two cents though.

I see what you did but everything in my pic is the same depth if you understand what I am saying. They are not going down it just goes to another screen lol.

author=Craze
Agreed re: fluidity. I also like how well the DQ/Earthbound-style menu works (especially since it never worked well at all for a full-on RPG).

I hope to see it out of the testbed and into the, uh... fire? Post-production? idek

Thank you! -- I'm hoping to be finished with this game by the end of the month. It won't be terribly long, but it should be fun!

author=chana
Hey, dhm, that's excellent.

Thanks buddy. :)

I see a multiplayer option. Does that mean libgdx supports netplay?

libgdx is a wrapper for writing Java code that easily deploys to desktop/android/html5. Since Java supports network functions, so will libgdx. :) I am going to use a library called kryonet for all the networking functions. (Mostly object serialization to easily send data across networks.) This is a better solution imho than my networking plugin for 2k3, haha.

author=Itaju

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If you're interested in suggestions, my first one would be to change the way you are dithering that portrait. The way you've shaded everything implies texture that shouldn't exist. That or you're just using a color-reduction algorithm with noise scatter, which I would strongly recommend against.

The sprites are getting lost under the details of the roof. The black outline helps a little, but you're going to have to introduce some more contrast to them to make them a focal point. Maybe also experiment with different shading approaches to the roof. Something more planar could imply the detail that you are looking for, while leaving space for the sprites to read better.

As has been mentioned before, the portraits should not be dithered like that. It makes them look like furry rocks. The portrait pallet has a lot of colors that are too similar, or not enough hue shifting, which gives it an overall flat appearance.

The white building draws too much attention because it is white. Maybe make it
grey? It's just a background piece.

I like the overall style and mood of the piece, but you can push it further!

Oh my god the non-dithered one looks about a kajillion times better, why would you not use that

(still looks awful due to the inconsistent jet-black borders and the eyes, but it went from a -76 out of 5 stars to a 0 out of 5 stars)

I agree with Lockez, the less dithered one looks better, at least in my eyes. :)

Could you try it with just a little dithering? I like the undithered a lot more, but the banding is just a bit bad.