THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

author=Sated
Is Detective posting every single map from their game in here or what..?

I've been thinking the same thing...feels like people are making the game for him.

But, he is skipping the step of demos and players criticisms. So that's good.
What's the screenshot topic for then, if not to help?

Perhaps because he requests thoughts on his maps, he gets them? And he's still learning how certain tiles work, design and such, so he's open to ideas. It's actually nice to see a new person who does listen and experiment. He's learning a lot from playing around with what people suggest - you can see it easily from looking at the first maps he showed much earlier in the topic, and the new maps he's been showing. He learned from asking and listening to the answers, but still retains his own ideas for his maps and game.

The Symmetry is a bit off-putting, especially with the way the statues are set out. It looks mostly like you're just trying to fill space and sticks out as such. Also, this is inside a building, right? Two tiles tall? The walls should be higher or at least the same height as the arches, otherwise they'd be interfering with the ceiling.
It's a neat start, though. ^.^

Those arches are a different color from the rest of the walls. The rest is grayscale, the arches are a mix of green and blue. The wood also stands out, as there are no wood in the rest of the walls anywhere.

@kory
It'd look better if the pillar at the top was lowered a tile because it still looks like it's going in the ceiling a bit.
The bottom one is good though.



The events in the lava are fire bubbles and pillars. Otherwise the events are just for the lavafalls, transfer events and chests.
What I want to know is how that canyon looks. I tried to make it seem like you were going over it.

EDIT: I'll be making that pic bigger.....

I meant that I didn't like how the statues were symmetrical and that you should remove one or two, not all of them. ^.^;

Symmetrical buildings are fine, especially old ruins built by civilised hands because they're usually carefully planned to be symmetrical. It was the filler statues being lined up perfectly in the same order and place that I had issue with.
But I agree that you might want to move the above arch down one tile so it has the edge of the roof behind it like with the second one. As it stands, the wall behind it would be two tiles high, since it starts one tile up from the bottom of the arch-bottom tile. ^.^

@seiromem: Yeah, it's a bit hard to see as it is. ^.^

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author=seiromem
There's gotta be a way to easily do this ;_;
right now I'm uplaoding it to google and using the "Image" thing to put the screeny up. What's a better way?

imgur.com too

The archway stands out too much, even if it's supposed to be made of a lighter-colored material (marble, maybe?) I think it should look darker, specially under that light. (Speaking of light, you can seriously improve those light effects. Use overlay pictures or something, not tiles) Also, I think the top of the arch should be black just like the rest of the ceiling tiles, it is weird that you can see it... And just to nitpick. Is there a reason for the shape of the rooms not to be more 'straight'? They're oddly irregular.

@Kory Yeah, either use an overlay for those candles, or just don't use lighting effects..blocky lights aren't really eye appealing~

Here's a WIP for a small map I'm building atm, any thoughts? :o