BIZARREMONKEY'S PROFILE

author=Fidchell
Tomorrow, usual time, I'll be playing The Mysterious Wonderland of Alicia-Chan and Quincy and Amber: Quest to Autumn. I also have a new Blue Yeti microphone, so my voice shouldn't be muffled and horribly drowned out by the game anymore.

My list appears to be running low, so if you have any games you want played, let me know.

Here's one I made not too long ago! http://rpgmaker.net/games/6693/

Have fun! It's an action game btw :o

And that picture above (am gonna condense it to a link) was finished today.

I will admit, I was lazy with how I rendered the hair :o

author=LockeZ
@BizarreMonkey: Despite being so much larger, the portraits are somehow even less detailed than the sprites. I think your flat art style for the portraits and enemies would be okayish if it had outlines. Without outlines you are gonna need a lot more detail and shading to make it look good.

It's a bit late in the game's development to change all that now! Maybe if you'd said something back in 2012 when i released the beta here that wouldn't have been anything too major to work on. In future projects I'll be diverging away from the MSpaint style but changing 16 facesets just for a graphical upgrade is too much. Also yeah the sprites look detailed because someone with decent pixel art skills made them at my request.

Most of the graphics in the game share the Ms-paint looking style. If you look at the tilesets those sprites are standing on you can see they are much more simplified than RTP.

Also outlines and MSpaint never works... believe me I've been working at this stuff (MSpaint rendering) for 10 years.

A more solid idea would be to just tone down the complexity on all the sprites.

author=Dookie
@Bizarre Hmmmm...I'll give it to you straight-

I appreciate that, even if I end up sounding upset, please know that the straight honest to god opinions you have is what I want, sugarcoating annoys me.

author=Dookie
- Really don't like the super large facesets. I mean, I appreciate the fact that you made them or whatever, but I think the large facesets could work with some super detailed interesting looking portrait (actually fuck that I hate those giant portraits that take up half the screen). Yours look like they were made in MSPaint in 5 Minutes. Maybe spend a little longer on each one, really try to hone in on the style you want, then edit those masters for the different expressions or whatever. Or consider using smaller portraits, ya know of like just the face?

Okay well first off, The large facesets aren't often intrusive so I don't see a large problem with them. Secondly, they are made in MSpaint because most of the game is in an MsPaint style. Updating the faces would give the unspoken obligation to update each mspaint picture, of which there are over 500 (no I'm not joking!). But if it makes you feel better, they took far longer than five minutes. Also I like being able to use characters arms in portraits because they can lend greatly to expression.

author=Dookie
Cohesiveness is really important with graphics, look at Erave's screen. Everything fits together so well. It feels like your game had 3 different people make the facesets, sprites, and maps. I'm having a very hard time deciding what to feel by the look of your maps.

Probably because I did have three different people working on said things. I understand where you're coming from, but making a game of this size cohesive would be a tremendous amount of work, I've certainly done more to lend to it's general aesthetic than I did in Intelligence or Hellcat, that said...

author=Dookie
The portraits are SUPER cell shady/cartoony. The sprites are weird chibi edits and the maps are drab and boring compared to the zazz of the characters.

If i find the time I'll de-zazz-ify the character sprites. They definitely do clash, the tilesets were designed to go along with my mspaint stuff (I had them made to my specifications) but the sprites were made while I was still using RTP tilesets.

author=Dookie
Maybe consider reworking the art direction so everything works together.
Anyway, you didn't get much feedback- just trying to help.

I appreciate it, even if I sound disapproving I really do! It's more I'm just annoyed I sorta trapped myself into this thing. So it's disapproval on myself, not you or Locke's feedback.

Before I close this thoughtbox, what if I just updated my tilesets to mesh well with the sprites? There's a clear bounds box between the messages face and the surrounding environment, so maybe that'd be passable?

That'd make cohorency in its little bit a lot less work, there's only one tileset in my game that adheres to the MSpaint tradition, If you look at the following shot are you genuinely displeased by the clash in aesthetic, or is it excusable due to the clear presence of a divide? (that is if you can ignore the dumb mspaint logo thing at the top middle area)

It looks okay to me, but then a lot looks okay to me!

I am become height, topper of page

I apologize for being the page topper so much, even if it is entirely accidental. :o

Also, one of the new Tier 8 Weapons.

Been a busy week! Here's some sneak peeks of whats new.


One of the Optional Bosses, defeating her will open up Dimension π