THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

Hi there!


Here's a screenshot of the town in my game. I feel that it's a bit lacking, but I can't tell on what exactly. Anything you guys could say?

(and no, I did not add npc's yet)

Thanks LockeZ! I'll work on it.

Ah about the small houses, I am a bit confused by what you mean. Are you saying I should resize them and move the forest edges closer? Because you said:

author=LockeZ
The smaller houses are not only absurdly small, but also I like the way the top two houses and the leftmost small house are nestled into the trees,it really adds a lot and mames the elements of the town feel like they work together instead of just placing them next to each-other.

This isn't a screenshot, but I thought that maybe I can post this here anyway. I'm planning on composing custom music tracks for all the dungeons in my game, Exile's Journey. Here's an example:

http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/658/locker/Exile_Shrine_of_Llyr.mid

It's for a water themed dungeon, so hopefully you get that kind of vibe. Let me know what you think.

author=facesforce

I'll be honest, that's very painful to look at.

@Karins: The town looks pretty good, but the main thing that sticks out in mind is the house with no windows in the center and in front of the lake. The lower left house looks a bit suspect as well, but not shabby at all!

@Xenomic: Is that a touhou sprite I spy? The tileset choice reminds me of the final dungeon in ff5 for some reason.

Well, after sitting down and trying to figure out how to solve the floor issue. (Yellow on black does not irritate my eyes, but my sister repeated the same sentiment as Tungermanu). So, I decided to slim up the wall tiles by one line, and then I created a wave texture with a slightly darker shade of yellow so it would not clash as bad. Besides, I feel like waves look more like sand either way. Do you think these changes work well? (The torches by the portal change colors btw)

Oh, and thank you guys for giving me some good criticism. It's hard to work out some of these things by yourself sometimes.

The main problem with the yellow floor is that it's way too high contrast. If you can darken it up a few shades (closer to the value of the brown) it'll be a lot less painful.

@calunio: Hm...you may want to readjust the waist/legs as it looks very awkward. Head looks fine, and arms might be ok. That's about all I can say on that ^^;;




And done I think! This is the last revision of this map, 100% done (perhaps). Decided to make some holes between some paths to spice it up a bit and prettify the Void area. Not much else I can do with this other than add in the treasure chests and the missing events (to code for later). After this, 2 more maps and the Ruins of Vina Dimensional Rift will be done! And that'll leave I think 4 more dungeons for beta5 to fully map out (and one to remap)! Excite!!!

@Calunio: I think they are perfect. Kind of gives me this fist of the north star vibe a little bit.

@Xenomic: And that is what I call a good dungeon. I am kind of interested to see where your eventing will come in play, but yes, adding in those holes makes it feel much more organic. Ahaha, I am glad I could guess where the tileset was from. XD
I seriously don't see any real flaws with it at all; It does not look repetitive for a single section.

@calunio If that's for a top-down game, I'd change the perspective a bit so that the sprite doesn't look flat.

Ugh even when I do 100% original graphics I can;t escape my Earthbound roots