THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

I made it a little less random, thanks TBG~ I was actually kind of afraid I'd end up with tile vomit so I appreciate the heads up. I think I could do a little edit for the beams.

Thanks~<3

Here, quartz walls/floor/crystals. Also, a part to go under the floating roof tiles. If it needs to be slimmer, let me know.
Also, wall beams. The middle parts will tile correctly~ Best used with shift-mapping when against an actual wall.

Gourd, use the Autoshadow tool to put shadows on the tiles that the support beams pass over. I know that, logically, there's no light source above those support beams; but it would do wonders to indicate that there's a physical object overhead on those tiles.

Map here is to basically say what is what (the water by the entrance is a full heal spring,the dark green grass inflicts Poison status to the party, the red plants inflict something I haven't decided on yet, the brambles inflict something, and the blue flowers inflict something). This is the very first area of the Valley of Corpses dungeon (I know! I'm working on a beta5 dungeon! GASP!) and well...it's supposed to be a valley. I wanted to use a different tileset than the Youkai Mountain tileset (which is also shared by the Forest of Magic I do believe as well as Eastern Forest), so I looked around and found this one which feels more swamp-like but...I think it works well! And of course, there's going to be caves. There's ALWAYS caves in this freaking game ehehe...

For reference, the gimmick of this dungeon is that the player cannot use the Item command in-battle (I'd remove all of the items themselves but...that's a lot to keep track of...), while the subgimmick is that there's status tiles in the dungeon. This dungeon is basically to get more use out of status-healing abilities as well as the MP Regen status (which is going to go to 5% instead of 1% recovery per turn in-battle), and to get more mileage out of a couple characters that people may or may not be using at this point in the game.

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@ Xenomic - that looks really quite adorbs : )

hmm, testscreen, w/ stuff from a new tileset.

I love the tileset, I think it goes well with the sprite.

thank you very much Shadski : )

@SnowOwl

It's a 'work in progress', but if you refer to the lower rooms, it's a japanese style building so, you can slide open a certain part of that what you see as wall basically. The strong contrasts i might use for a rather dark / odd atmosphere i may be aiming for. In that case i will probably still play around with the color saturation / -theme etc.

@SnowOwl

Ah, yes I see what you mean now, thank you. : )
As I said, it's just a work in progress or even sample work.
Since I am yet unsure if the map is going to be used in the way you see it, I did not flesh out any concepts on how to get in the bathroom. :P
As for the other 2 "rooms", they are just small wall closets. You wouldn't be able to go in there anyway.

And as was tried to state before, the lighting would still be tempered with anyways, it's just a rough idea really - due to the fact that the shadows are added in photoshop, they wouldn't look exactly like this in a game probably.

Yeah plants usually spread to areas close by, but it looks weird to have them right next to each other in games where the sprites are the exact same, so you kinda have to put them diagonally and stuff like that.
Also another minor thing I noticed while I whipped up the edit, you should probably make all the tall grass the same ones, it's a bit jarring with 2 types of tall grass that is similar but not the same, especially since one has those really dark areas.
Probably wouldn't hurt to put some plants on the high spots too, weird how nothing grows there, you could probably remove some of the lower ones to not make it look to cluttered.

Trying to figure out if this looks bad or good. Feedback?

@ narcodis


umm.. and the tall mushroom.. is more sideview... weather it's supposed to be like this or topdown, I don't know : )