Wow that looks really good!  Are these game screens or just mockups?  I love the lighting effects.  Don't know why but it reminds me of Commander Keen for some reason and thats not a bad thing

Commander keen!  Used to love that game.  It never even came to mind while I was working on these mock ups but it must have been lurking somewhere deep in my subconscious.  One of the big things that I want to push in this game is the dynamic lightning effects.  More the merrier. 

One thing that has been bothering me is that in some of the darker areas the main character (Black hair space suit) seems to fade into the bg to much and will probably do more so on darker maps.  I'm going to rework him to make him more silver, or I might try some yellows/orange to make him pop more on the blue/purple bgs.

Quote from: RetroRob on August 11, 2011, 04:02:55 pm

I'm trying as much as possible not to deviate from the NES palette which is why the mire has that same green everywhere in it.

Sorry if I misunderstand, but you've got like 10 shades of green on some of your mire tiles; the NES palette only has 4 shades of each hue, so you already not following it.

And even if you were rigidly following the NES palette, it still has several green hues available so you could use e.g. the yellow-green for highlights and get a bit of hue shifting in there.

Yes some of the tiles - like the ones with the grass on them have an alpha transparency black outline which adds to the amount of shades on that tile. Sometimes I will darken the the original NES colors as needed - like the dirt / grass top tiles.  I didn't say I was rigidly following the NES palette, I just use it as the base.

Blossom Tales isn't up on XBLIG yet !  Still in development.

Below is a mock up for the Mire that Lily travels through on her way to the northern part of the map.   As always, all crits welcome


Here is a link to the mire scene with some rain and lighting effects,  right click and select show all to zoom in -- http://robertmaherdesign.com/Rain.swf