THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

I'd say the nose is not quite right.

author=Oh_Carnby
Keep in mind that I'm a subpar mapper at best. I'm much more of a writer, less about the visuals. But I'm actually taking my time and studying some other games to slowly learn how to map. I think this one looks OK. Could be better, but I can touch up the maps as I go along.

Also, my friend (who is doing all the artwork) intends to edit a lot of the RTP chipsets (as well as make some all new ones) to freshen up the maps even more.

Way better than any kind of map I could ever do in rm2k3~ xD

author=LockeZ
Carnby, do you have or could you create a slightly darker version of that floor tile? Making the bottom level of the cave be a different color than the raised areas would help a lot with visual contrast. Doesn't really matter whether you make the darker area be the lower or upper area, either way would work I think.

Something like this, except done for real instead of photoshopped:

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Man, I've gotta start doing that with my maps. The contrast between the two really does make it look a lot better.

EDIT: And here's a screenshot:



This area is supposed to feel a bit creepy, so hopefully this screenshot has that vibe.

author=LockeZ
Creepy is definitely the vibe I'm getting. Like that "there is an open portal to hell floating in the sky above this graveyard" level creepy.

Perfect, because the first half of the game is about closing portals to Hell. There is one very nearby to this area.

Ugh. Your screens are beyond awful, you know they are, everyone tells you exactly how to fix them every time you post them, and you never do. I can only assume you want it to be as terrible as possible on purpose, at this point, which is getting extremely old. Make stuff that's not sweet bro and hella jeff parodies, or gtfo.

Just in case you've forgotten the other eight times I've said so, your images are horribly stretched and disfigured, you have photos mixed with drawings, you have different styles of coloration mixed together, you have absolutely no sense of aesthetic layout, you use five different fonts on just the title screen, the color palette in the photos was done wrong and ruins them, and you have random japanese text in the middle of a game designed for english speakers for presumably no other reason than because you're an intolerable weeaboo who thinks japanese text = awesome.

author=LockeZ
and you have random japanese text in the middle of a game

What is "クサビ"　(kusabi)? Is it a character in the game? Because I'm pretty sure it's not a real Japanese word (not one that makes sense in that sentence, anyway)

I'm pretty sure I have nothing against being dark and gothic, I just have something against all the objective artistic issues I listed out. And I have nothing against Japanese people or their language, I just have something against using things the audience (and usually also the author) doesn't understand and thinking they're cool just because they're "exotic."

Also, this is a thread for talking about screenshots. You see those other 196 pages of people posting screenshots and then other people telling them how to improve them? That's what this thread is for. If people telling you how to improve your work pisses you off, then keep it to yourself.

Yes, I'm being rude about it; but I'm not being rude about your work. Your work has potential - the problems are serious but easy to fix. I'm just being rude about the fact that you had the same aggressive, rude response the first several times we had this discussion, months ago, when I wasn't being rude.

author=Ronove

This dark and Japanese shit is my style.GOTHIC.

Gothic isn't Japanese though... it started in Europe basically (you know, with Gothic Architecture and even a romanticized Gothic in terms of Gothic Romance (like Ann Radcliffe novels), etc).

If you have no want to listen to people (be it good or bad advice), why are you posting here?

Are kidding me?
They're telling me to change my style.It's like sombodee tells you to change star stealing prince to Mario Kart.

author=dethmetal
Man, I've gotta start doing that with my maps. The contrast between the two really does make it look a lot better.

EDIT: And here's a screenshot:

This area is supposed to feel a bit creepy, so hopefully this screenshot has that vibe.

It certainly gives off a creepy vibe.
One thing that irks me are the pitch-black trees. They seem a bit too sharp and pixelated at the upper half, which makes them look more like only shadows. Compare with the spruces.