BIZARREMONKEY'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
There's nothing bad about the placement of objects or the size or the layout or anything else technically wrong with that screenshot, BizarreMonkey, it's just... ugly. I'm 93% sure it's the colors and the way contrast is used. You've got the big white areas and the harsh black stuff which massively stands out, but it's very hard to "read" the map because there's no correlation between white/black and passable/impassable tiles. The color stands out so much but doesn't actually mean anything. Maybe try making that checkered floor white and the walls black?

author=Housekeeping
@Biz: Did you draw those monitors mounted on the wall? They look pretty rad!

author=LouisCyphre
I would definitely darken the ways to a light or medium gray, purely for clarity. Serviceable otherwise, though!

Holy shit one person at a time jesus christ.

Yeah, I agree that it is WAY too contrasted, and so I am gonna fix that, Postmartia on the outside is a dark grey or almost black, so making the walls a dark grey which makes the checkerboard seem lighter may be a good way to go about that, I think.

@Housekeeping: haha, nah. I can't sprite like that, (okay actually I can but I don't enjoy it much) those TV's along with most of the tiles there are part of the futuristic resources pack that I bought a while ago.

Edit: Okay I think this is better.

author=Kiana
I've spent the last two weeks (give or take a day) working on a game inspired by one of my childhood passions. It's definitely still in the planning stage, as most of my time and energy has gone towards figuring out the general plot and key characters.

Also implementing scripts and removing any scripts that I initially felt would be a good addition, but no longer fit once I got a more concrete idea of the mechanics I was after. A few compromises had to be made due to script incompatibilities, but that's why I'm working this out first.

Somewhere in between all of that, I made the world map. It was a fun break.

On the mechanics side of things, I've reduced the number of stats. Each character only has four: Power, Resistance, Speed and Energy. Energy works as both HP and MP, so there's an inherent risk in using powerful but costly spells. I did a little window adjusting to make some of the menus look a bit nicer with the reduced number of stats (and increased number of equipment slots), which was also quite fun. Though occasionally frustrating.

I'm also employing a Pokemon-esque system where losing a battle just teleports you somewhere safe. So failure just means you lose some cash (based on the total party level) and have to run through that dungeon again, but you keep any exp and items you picked up.

Today, I took a break to start drawing some art assets for the game. Below is one of them.

Over a decade of practice and hands are still impossible to get right. Even I reduce the number of digits.
You will probably find out very quickly that I have a fondness for white hair.

Hopefully, it will be my first submission to RMN. And with some (possibly a lot) of luck, it will be my first completed game.

THIS! This right here? This is the sort of style I myself was going for with this little thing.
Drawing Galaxion Peacekeepers was a fun exercise of today.

Inspired a little by Irken Soldiers.

Also did other stuff but its not huge on visuals, but see this list for my progress yesterday and today.

12/01/2014:
-Began large update to Postmartia.
-Updated some faces used in different situations.
-Fixed what remained bugwise from the last Press build testing phase.
-Did the art for Sod and Baron Gadzoo of Tekerlek
-Updated all pre-end game obelisks.
-Fixed some sound issues in Adashi's battle.
-Rephrased a little of Zardari's dialogue.
-Updated Asarath's dialogue to exclude mention of the Paxton, as it no longer exists.
-A save prompt is called before every Ogg Theora video cutscene.
-Title Menu Credits were updated.

12/02/2014:
-Began and Finished drawing Galaxion Peacekeepers (stationed around Postmartia) and they look pretty badass.
-Added some holograms of Corporation XVI members around Postmartia's Central Plaza.
-Finished the update to Postmartia.
-Fixed some typos in dialogue.
-Removed the forbidden word and changed it to douche.
-Unticked Stepping animation for Safael.
-Fixed a tile error on Galaxia: City 17
-Fixed a tile error on Postmartia: Refuge Plaza
-End Scene credits were updated.
-Tested ending, Outside of two images needing to be updated, it's good to go.
-Updated face graphic for Hellcat
-Fixed up some wrong showing of faces in Dialogue

I am having a lot of computer failures recently so 50% of the time I'm in safe-mode.
Doesn't stop me from using gimp.

Inspired a little by the Dark brotherhood note in skyrim and the subsequent picture of this...

Am actually female, shhhh! :0

Totally.

author=yuna21
@BM: More like my poor hand. Since I freehand everything with a mouse. XD

Ahahaha, I do that sometimes! Though what you do looks way better than what I do.

Oh, here's a thing for a game I finished updating recently.

Currently I'm working on optional content. Melding the epic quest-lines together and all that.