ELDER71'S PROFILE

I suppose my attitude of treating every game and its dev like they want serious criticism and feedback is a bit out of place at times and not everyone is looking for unreserved breakdowns of their work.

I can't think, off-hand, of a way to tell the difference though. A hobbying kid could make a great game just as easily as a serious, aspiring dev could make a horrible game. The only certain way to avoid hurting the feelings of those who just wanted to enjoy making a game for the hell of it and share it seems to be to 'resist reviewing bad games', which risks starving people who genuinely want to know what people think of their work.

I fully concede that I apply a high (maybe even unfairly high) standard when reviewing, perhaps I'll contact the devs ahead of time in future and get to know them a little.

author=Vegnarus

author=Elder71
Long time no speak fella!

One of the problems with this image is that the lack of a vanishing point's influence on perspective becomes far too noticeable when viewing a map all at once.

I've since added a few details that hopefully make things clearer and, though this is maybe a total cop-out, players won't visit this map until the full-game-version and by then we'll have arranged a 'moving diagonally up and down' type feature, so it can feature actual slopes rather than just simulated ones.

Yeah I figured that looking at it at once made it more noticeable but I thought that it was still worthwhile to take a look at it so I mentioned it anyway! But if you're going to add diagonal movement, then maybe it won't be as bad if you can use actual slopes.

Having said all of that, I haven't actually 'plugged it in' and tested it yet, so there may be significant issues to fix once I've explored this map in-game.

author=Vegnarus
Hey Stephen, it's been a while! Just chiming in to see how you're doing! Good job on the redesign. Though the slope-like rows on the left and right sides look a bit disorienting.

If it's a constructed (as in, non-natural) downward slope, you can make it clearer, smoother and maybe add some shadows, signs or symbols to convey orientation a little better.

The way it is now, the rows look like both walls and levels and it's a bit odd! You can search for pictures of cliff towns and areas similar to Thyden, to gain some perspective and ideas on how to design it.

Long time no speak fella!

One of the problems with this image is that the lack of a vanishing point's influence on perspective becomes far too noticeable when viewing a map all at once.

I've since added a few details that hopefully make things clearer and, though this is maybe a total cop-out, players won't visit this map until the full-game-version and by then we'll have arranged a 'moving diagonally up and down' type feature, so it can feature actual slopes rather than just simulated ones.

author=Kylaila
Edit: As a sidenote Elder71, please refrain from doubleposting. I've seen you do it a couple of times, just edit it in. Abuse that button!

Apologies, I'll edit in future.

EDIT
Ha, here we go, straight away!
Ahem.
Anyway, is there a way I could read my recent review of Radiant Blades? I have the word doc version of course, but just for my future reference I'd like to know where to dig it out on-site.

Radiant Blades this time.

It wasn't exactly a good game, nor was it at all a favourable review. I can imagine the feelings that must boil up when someone slams your game, however neutrally and constructively, but it sort of undermines the whole reviewing/feedback process if you give a game a bad review at the risk of it simply being deleted.

This may be a foolish question, but is there a review archive? I think, if a review is fair, constructive and honest, it should remain somewhere on the site even if the dev deletes his/her game to avoid it being read. Fair enough if the review itself is shitty trash, but from a purely selfish POV, I feel like my time spent playing the game and writing the review have been totally wasted.