Quote from: Ichigo Jam on April 04, 2008, 01:23:50 am

5) you seem to be using a lot more colours than are really noticable. If you're thinking of animating it, I strongly recommend you cut the palette down considerably!

I only see one set of colors that this is really true for (And that's the skin outline and hair shadow)

Hmm, maybe I overstated things...
As Sherman Gill suggests, I was referring to the skin and hair, which between them seem to use 13 different colours - including one brown (RGB:108,50,4) which is used for only one pixel.

http://leroy.ensellitis.com
Which layout do you like better? *puppy eyes* The second one is still WIP.

I prefer the minimalism of the second one.
The circles in the background of the first one are too high contrast where they're behind the text, making it harder to read than it needs to be. Also, the tiling of the background is a bit too obvious for my taste.

Tiles are 8x8, so the BG palette is selectable for each 16x16 pixel block.
Each palette has 4 entries - 3 of these are selectable colours, the fourth is always transparent.

But I don't know what the "fade region" is - is there an example of it in any of the screenshots at the top of this thread?

About the game:
Am I missing some options, or is it often impossible to hit the target even if you were able to know ahead of time which cards you'll be dealt?
Sometimes I get nothing but addition and subtraction cards which makes the game uninteresting (since the order they are placed in makes no difference to the result of the sum.)
What's the blue card for? I see the text "Hit my mini goal in 3 tries for a blue bonus card" in your 2-25 update, but I've not seen it in the actual game?

About the pixels:
To make it look more interesting, you need more of a theme for this - currently you've got a very simple red/white/yellow colour scheme with a quite minimalistic approach to the design. (Also, the faces don't really fit with the cards.) There's nothing wrong with that as such, but it's just not very exciting. At least try experimenting with different colours (especially less saturated ones, and remember you don't have to work on a white background.) Or think about adding a picture/design to the cards to use some of the empty space on them.

Put some details on the back of the cards - currently they're bright red and completely plain.
It would also look more interesting if you made the face-down pile of cards visibly a pile - i.e. give it some depth so you can see it's not just one face-down card.

I noticed that you're using 46 different colours in your image - this is quite excessive, and just makes it harder to work with. Some of your AA is basically invisible (e.g. between the white BG and the pale grey you're using behind the small text) and there are several almost indistinguishable colours in there (I didn't even realise there were 3 shades of red there until I looked in an editor). In fact, I'd suggest not bothering to do any AA until you're happy with the design, else it's just making it harder to edit.

Here's an edit just to give you some ideas - I'm not suggesting that this is the way you should be going, particularly.:


Also, check out this thread if you haven't already: http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=5848.0