DRAKIYTH'S PROFILE

I thought I would upload a quick vid of this in action.

NOTE:
Bottles in Aftermath are much like The Legend of Zelda ones. You can refill them with water or other liquids making them very useful to have. Collecting these bottles will be a fun part of Aftermath.

It's common sense of the purest form. If you try to compare indi games with "professional" games you're doing it wrong. Why are you doing it wrong? Well, let's see shall we.

#1: Indi games are usually a single person. Some indi designers might have a small crew of people who help them out.

#2: Game companies PAY people to work eight hours a day to create a game. They also don't accept just anything and have a strict quality assurance set in place.
Imagine if you had a big boss man breathing down your neck while you tried to create your indi game? Yeah, that doesn't fit well for most people who aren't getting paid but instead putting out a free game for everybody.

Most indi developers go through a lot of hard work just to find their game bashed by a JRPG/COD fanboi. The reviewer is completely fucking oblivious to the fact the game was made by a solo artist or small group of people and bash the shit out of it with completely retarded statements like. "Call of Duty is better. This is boring."


There SHOULD be a review a reviewer and if that reviewer gets horrible ratings their ability to review is revoked. The best review of a game or movie is the MOB not a single person's opinion. A group of one thousand people with LIKE/DISLIKE opinions usually tell the truth pretty good. Of course you have trolls who rate everything bad because they are just assholes but not everybody is like that.


As far as the rating system goes. I think "Wording" would be more user friendly. Just like that person at the beginning of this thread suggested.

author=harbin91
Could it not have been done as an event and a char tile? Still looks good.

It's possible to do it that way too Harbin, just a bit more of a pain in the ass. Especially with pass, no pass, height etc. My custom map TileE chip is looking pretty solid and it's not even 80% full.

author=InfectionFiles
Oh yeah, I bet it was a bitch.
They mesh very nicely though, did you have to resize them as well?

Yeah, I cropped the normal picture of the car, set it to 128 by 96 (4 blocks width and 3 blocks height) cut it out, pasted it in MS paint, carefully painted around it with the color I use for transparency. Took that product and put it IrfanView, screwed with the Contrast, Gamma and Saturation until it looked similar to the art style of the tile set. (Set these side by side and compared them) Added the color for the semi-transparency which is a dark grey I use in the shadowing. Overall, it took a while but I think I did I good job in adding my own custom stuff that fits with the map.

I plan on adding more too. Most of the vehicles you see in this will have the paint burned off them.

I personally feel a lot of designers get lazy when it comes to originality or making their skills unique. I am a huge fan of multiple choices, themes and flavors to get through a game with. Having one skill that does it all is nice but it gets tedious and pretty goddamn boring after a while. I can see party members aside from your main protagonist using their own built in things, but the main character needs a lot of variety and customization.