VERSALIA'S PROFILE

@Versalia:Animated battle backgrounds are always a plus. But the maps seems a bit bare. Are you still going to add more details to it? If not, making the enemies bigger may also help with that... Besides that, it looks fine. Perhaps the glow from the lights is too visible? If it was dark I would understand their radius to be that wide, but since it's not, it looks odd.

I'm definitely going to use more of the screen space. Most battles will have 3 enemies, not 2, and I plan to make the turn order prediction a small vertical bar in the dead space against the left border of the screen (it's currently a horizontal one tucked into the topleft). I'm also using front-view battle system but including battle animations that have the characters' sprites appear, so those will probably be skewed to the right side.

edit: oh and also the lights are bright because the laboratory is ~on alert~ (test subjects like the frogs have escaped and also you are not supposed to be in there)

Punkitt, just because that resource is used a lot doesn't mean you can't VERY easily make a slightly different version for your bee (and other yellow-colored sprites who are using a yellow highlight). But also that's suuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a minor issue in the scope of an entire game that you can feel free to disregard it because nobody's going to post a review like "1/10 would have been 10/10 but there was a particle that was kind of hard to see on this one bee"

farting around with making my own animated battlebacks
this one's in the first area, Echo Laboratories
(sorry for quick gif resolution)

author=alterego
@Luchino:The first screen look great. But why is the tall grass so vibrant when every other color is not? It doesn't look bad per se, but it stands out a bit too much. ...

Yeah, my immediate thought was "why is that grass neon-colored?" You can still have it be bright without being searing yellow

What if you did them as events like Craze said and give them a slow and whimsical looping travel path. That way you can have them floating around certain areas instead of a camera filter dealio. More immersive! Buzzwords are good, so. Have you played FFX? Think pyreflies! They aren't just indiscriminately floating everywhere. They rise from the riverbanks, they cluster around undead and sources of magic, etc.

author=Luchino
Edit:


Auto-shadows nixed. Fixed the buildings as well.

The background doesn't look... even remotely in the background. First, it uses brighter colors than the rest of your map, which makes the eye perceive it as being closer to the foreground. Secondly, I think it's too "in focus" with those sharp pixels. If you ran a quick, very gentle blur filter over it in photoshoop it would look wayyyy better


look see now it's in "the background"

Frogge, the teeny tiny visible area thing is soooooooo overdone. It leaves little to no room for anything to look truly interesting. Also your yellow saturation is awful. It is not atmospheric it is just yellow. Why don't you edit the tilesets and stuff to have a more interesting palette rather than just apply a universal screen tint that washes everything out. In combination with your tiny viewpoint all it just makes the tiny bit of what you CAN see more boring