THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

@Sanosuke_
Wow, all that coding sounds very impressive! I especially like the idea of background fluctuations in the world market and NPC activity, as little details like that really add to the believability of a setting (not to mention the replay value).

The menus look gorgeous by the way.

That's a map? It looks more like a battle background. Is it a playable map, or just for a cut scene? It's really pretty, but doesn't look like a terribly interesting area to walk through unless you're planning on filling it with objects later.

As always, I hate giant circle shadows. They never even look like shadows to me. They always just look like the ground is wet. My brain subconsciously discards the possibility that they might be shadows because there are no objects of that circular shape for them to be shadows of.

Adding beaches to Blackmoon Prophecy's world map.

author=Kp
A video about my game Mike M SPACE, an adventure game without any fights, only exploration and enigms.

magnifique

Ahh you are making Moon Oddity, too. Keep up the good work.

Wait, did you also make The Best Game in the World? I think it was removed from RMN but there are videos of it on your YouTube page.

nice graphic style

I like #1 the most as the trees become hard to distinguish from each-other, creating a sort of naturally meshed-together canopy instead of a row of spheres. The second one isn't bad though. I don't like the small trees (I almost never like 2x2 or 1x2 trees) but that is only my personal preference for de-chibification whenever possible.

Maybe use a mix of different trees?

Yeah the chibi looking ones are ok, but I'm learning how much better stuff is out there, ha. I'm leaning towards the one on the top left, mostly because of the setting. I tried mixing the trees and the colors just don't match.

@SorceressKyrsty
I like your choice of colour palettes for the background. I recommend making the far bank look less square, and actually lowering its detail, since it looks more detailed than the foreground. I know the trees are unfinished, and they look okay so far, but there seems to be too big a space between the front row and the back row. I would also refrain from drawing individual blades of grass on the map, as they make the characters look out of perspective. I'd use a texture for the grass instead. The purple water also seems a bit off, since there rest of the image doesn't have a reddish tinge.

@UPRC
The beaches look good, though one problem I have with that tileset in general is that the coast tiles break up the pattern of the waves. This is really a quibble though.

@Kp
Wow, that looks very cool! I'm a big fan of those kind of 'Earthboundish' sprites, and the locations and characters are very imaginative. The horizontal walk seems rather odd, but it is amusing to look at.

@tpasmall
I would go with the one on the top left, for the reasons LockeZ mentioned.

author=Lucidstillness
@SorceressKyrsty
I like your choice of colour palettes for the background. I recommend making the far bank look less square, and actually lowering its detail, since it looks more detailed than the foreground. I know the trees are unfinished, and they look okay so far, but there seems to be too big a space between the front row and the back row. I would also refrain from drawing individual blades of grass on the map, as they make the characters look out of perspective. I'd use a texture for the grass instead. The purple water also seems a bit off, since there rest of the image doesn't have a reddish tinge.

The purple water is because it's been infected with Decay. And the trees will probably always cause me issues- trees are the bane of my existence >.>
The far bank is square because this was drawn over a mode7 warped map so it still has tile-like stuff and any dramatic change in the bank would make the loop very obvious.
I have an idea for the trees on the far bank but we'll see how it goes.

Nice, very expressive... robots.