MAGI'S PROFILE

There is still subtle communication in the size and shape of the Dark Souls ui. Health is a significantly larger bar because the difference between 0 health and 0 mana is no health means your game ends. If you want to just ignore the importance and power of color in your project, at least consider that

author=ESBY

That's why I used established colours for the bars, colours people make instinctive associations with. I think after 30+ years health bars are pretty well established within rpgs now, so I don't think I need a giant arrow and flashing text to explain that the health bar is in fact the health bar. Dark Souls and Skyrim seem to be doing quite well for themselves.
Do you raise the colour blind point with everybody? It seems a weird thing to single me out on.
What?

Look at this in grayscale.


Look at Craze's image in grayscale.


If we take out all the color in an image, an artistically strong tileset and UI will have no trouble communicating itself. Most pixel artists believe that if your image doesn't read well when you take out all the color, changes need to be made. What we can see in the tileset and ui you are currently using is that there is a very low value range. This is creating a very muddy palette that already isn't pleasant to the eyes, so you absolutely don't want to make it worse with a UI that doesn't stand out at all.

I made some adjustments so you can see.


You could probably argue that people can read your bar to the left. I'm sure after some effort they could. But do you want to settle for that? You could make a much stronger composition by making some tiny alterations while retaining your recycled use of map tiles on the UI layer.

Yes games making fans, we can have our cake (and eat it too).

Please don't forget that you might need to add a wait in there somewhere depending on the length of your sound effect.

While you are add it, why not add some additional sounds for different terrain types and some animations when running through dirt? If you're going the event route, there's really no harm in amping up your presentation to the maxxx

The Steam store has been around long enough for the majority of people to realize even the most regurgitated trash is worth something in a world with 7 billion+ humes .

author=LockeZ
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with saving the world through the power of rock and roll. It saves my life every day. Every. Fr*****ikkin. day.

I don't really like polls in this situation because they are far better at pulling statistical data than anything else. Polling surveys are the kinds of things most people associate with the end of purchasing a new product or working with a customer service rep. They're impersonal and have a rap for being that thing you want to get through as quickly as possible to get back to whatever you were doing before.

If they want to 'chance' getting any meaningful input data via this method, then that is certainly their right. I wish LeonardEilander and Sons the best. I hope you can create your best RPG ever .