BIZARREMONKEY'S PROFILE

author=Max McGee
guys sometimes when i should be working on my game i just post on rmn instead

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Been thinking a lot on cutscenes recently. Presentation, natural reactions, etc.

My dumb blue hipstery scarf.

And a wallet with no useful information or money (i never carry cash), my go card, my cheap phone and my house key if they're lucky.

But if they get my wallet, they'll have discovered the greatest treasure of all.

My business cards. Each grants +10 to pretentiousness and provides a passive aura of insufferable smug.

I think if one found me dead with my possessions, they'd find me at least a little interesting, looking at all the flashy business cards carrying my alias... or alter ego.

I just carry them with me, never know when someone is gonna ask for your name and number. Most of my friends call me Biz, even my stepdad. It's just a monicker I ultimately prefer.

author=yuna21
Doing some cutscene art for Tristian.

I bet it's nice to be able to go back to drawing with the sai tools after all that hectic pixel art, these look really cool.

Updated my trailer a little, but I'm not happy with it yet, fixed a bunch of bugs that one of my playtester's found, and began on optional boss work. It'll continue at some point.

author=Dookie
The first image sits better for me.

These are TOO vivid, it looks like every rtp screenshot to me.
theres probably a happy medium between the too, honestly, if you don't mind adjusting the saturation.

I'm a sucker for desaturated, drab looking washed colors though so I may be biased.

If you think THIS is too vivid, I pray you never try to play one of my games.

PEOPLE HAVE DIED!

Others merely blinded.

I hate dull uncolorful palettes, especially in upbeat games. Can you imagine a game like Jet Set Radio or Ratchet and Clank with a coffee and grey filter over it?

In some games, that more brown/grey style suits, but for a game that's meant to be fun or upbeat, vivid colors are the way to go, it's all on the atmosphere.

The RTP isn't near that bright, in fact it's pretty drab, all things considered!

In most cases brown and grey / desaturated colors serve as a lazy excuse for bad color design. Oddworld Abe's oddysey had a tremendous amount of atmosphere, and the richer colors played into that better, rather than taking away from it. It was realistic, but in an alien world... and it was colorful, not neon but it didn't rely on desaturated colors, it worked.

I don't agree with the art direction in New n' Tasty, but that's a whole other bucket of worms.

@0range00: Lol, thanks! I was hoping to have some more to show on that today, but I don't, instead, here's an optional boss which i just finished work on today.

Haywire is a state that doubles Energy cost for all abilities. On the note of the screenshots, I'd like some feedback on the fonts. Orator STD is being used for System, whilst Tekton Pro is used for messages. Before it was all boring straight-laced Arial.

author=LouisCyphre

• If those are raindrops; I recommend shrinking them and making them more frequent.
• I recommend making additional upper-layer tiles to smooth out the appearance of the treetops. Perhaps give the clifftops the same treatment, but the treetops are more apparent.
  
• The stairs seem awfully uniform for packed-earth stairs; I'd recommend making the dark pixels less aligned between steps.

Other than that, it doesn't look bad at all!

Thanks for the tips! Those aren't raindrops, no, they're cosmic debris. I can definitely make the stairs less uniform. Just not something that occurred to me at all.

So I updated a few of the tiles, the stairs and also the tree autotiles and cliffs, see whatcha' think now.