THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

I actually meant the word color not the image color.

WIP. Obviously I want to limit the area the player can walk on since all this map will be good for is using that green teleporter up there, but I was wondering if it looks too obvious. I'm out of ideas about how to accomplish this besides keep piling up sandbags...

author=alterego

WIP. Obviously I want to limit the area the player can walk on since all this map will be good for is using that green teleporter up there, but I was wondering if it looks too obvious. I'm out of ideas about how to accomplish this besides keep piling up sandbags...

That's easy- crack the sidewalk/tiles on either side of the teleporter and surround that with wooden barriers on two or 3 sides- essentially the street around the teleport is being repaired and guards have been posted to prevent passersby from trooping through the construction site on their way to the portal. They might even shoo the player away from the wrong areas and redirect him. Also, the arrows point out, appropriate for leaving the portal. If they're going TO it you might want to point the arrows the other way; if it's two-way replace the arrows with safety stripes to complete the "under construction" motif. Also I'd suggest replacing the water with either a pulsing red area or some kind of pad the heroes can stand on as they approach the teleport point.

@wildwes: I'm not sure what's supposed to be going on with the... bottomless pits or whatever up there on the tops of the ledges. The rest of it looks basically fine, although trees and plants usually grow in clumps, not evenly spread out like that (minor issue though).

@alterego: I'd say make a small brick ledge, one tile high, blocking the path by making the area a different height.

They don't look like fault lines so much as... manmade trenches dug in weird snake patterns and then filled with crude oil. A fault line would be mostly straight or somewhat jagged, and not pitch black.

The actual graphics look really clean and well done, but as you said, the layout is a bit cluttered. I think if you could find a way to separate certain buttons from each other without requiring a whole new box, you could make it look a little better organized. For example, the Invent/Info/Ability/Quit could all be in one box, with some kind of vertical spacer.

In addition, leaving a little extra space with just the black background and no menus will help reduce the cluttered feeling as well. For example, the Map & Area name (Jessica's House) could be on one side of the screen, and the other side could be left blank. I try and do that with websites too :P I think there's supposed to be like a... 70% stuff to 30% blankness ratio? I can't remember.

WIP map of... something. I don't like how the plants are randomly littered about in the top version, but the bottom version just feels empty.

One of the first bosses in my game. The location is not final. I think the outlines are still a bit too strong compared to the other sprites.

Hi it's me.




You are Henri, an innoncent little boy who's looking for his missing dad.

author=Itaju

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One of the first bosses in my game. The location is not final. I think the outlines are still a bit too strong compared to the other sprites.

And maybe alter the PC sprite a bit as well. She needs more contrast. Characters and other things you interact with should pop. With those dull colors, it's hard to tell she's important. Hell, in that specific screenshot, she looks like she doesn't have a left arm, ith it looking so much like the grass. Those frogs and spiders(?) seem to have the right level of contrast for the ambient I think you're going for.