THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

Actually, it baffles me how you guys at 20000000 step tiles after the stairs stop. It just looks stupid. :/

I think I already addressed it early...

Oh no! I need climbing gear in a world filled with monsters, clothes that enhance my magics, wizards trying to take over the world with mind-control spells and crazy-ass floating islands. Frankly, suspension of belief for pretty things works fine for me. I'm not gonna measure the height of every step to see if it matches the incline exactly or wonder where the water from the waterfall that falls from the sky above is coming from or why those purple plants are glowing or why the pretty fairy is raping me with her fey majicks.

I guess some people feel the need to question every little detail but that, to me, looks like it's just ruining the fun of the escapism. ^.^

What matters most is keeping it continuous all the way through the game, really.

Since you're already using cartoon graphics, realism should take a backseat to what actually looks good :)

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I got the basics of a mid-game menu working! The actual window sprites are still gross, though; I'm using placeholder stuff for now. But I think the layout makes sense - you press Left and Right to switch between Weapons/Items/Relics submenus, and Up and Down to scroll through whatever submenu you have currently selected.

Heh; 'Realism' is always an important consideration to have. We all conform to it to some extent. That's probably why your game is not 'full' of crazy random things happening all the time, even if 'some' crazy things, such as Magic, are possible...

In this case I don't know to what extent we're actually discussing 'realism' rather than 'aesthetics' though. I mean, if you're after a certain level of visual depiction (and this is independent from graphic styles, too) you can get away with things like houses that are twice as big on the inside than they look from the outside, objects with different perspectives, or a limited color palette, etc.

But if you're making an effort to represent things as accurately as possible, having stairs protrude farther away from the wall the taller they get, is really the way to go. Up until the point in which it actually becomes impractical, is the most reasonable and aesthetically pleasing solution of the two... I guess the real problem is that people never got used to see that in old fashioned RPGs?

This started as a replication of the Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru battle system, but turned into a menu somehow.

author=wildwes
@TDS
Why is the Ocarina of Time called a Flute? At least call it an ocarina!
Fun fact: I've never played LoZ:OoT

Looks like you've never played A Link to the Past, either

BTW This is the playable part of the Overworld for the first Demo I'll have ready for my project.

It features random battles at a medium-high rate, but dirt roads are encounter-free:

@Arandomgamemaker:

That looks very nice, and the cutscene rocks, as well! However, the guard sprite looks a bit bare, and you should try to match the prisoner's sprite to how it looks in the cutscene - the sprite has too much black.

There are almost no landmarks in that forest except for that one river. Nothing that says "magic forest" to me either. Add something that sets it apart from all the other RTP forests!

A big magic tree. A magic pond. Some kind of sparkly magic flowers. Some kind of wildlife (magic forests should have plenty of wildlife). Weird plants. Y'know, magic nature stuff.

Elevation and depression would be nice, too. Not just flat land. You could have a large depression with fairy houses or a witches hut or something mystical in the middle. It'd be inaccessible, but look pretty neat~

For example: Very Large Image (probably best to open in another tab)



Also, just showing: