Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: ndchristie on July 21, 2007, 03:19:28 pm
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(http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07296/Gay2.PNG)
it's supposed to be flat, as of yet uncultivated land. the trouble is that that just seems to kinda suck. Any ideas on how to make this more interesting? Regular crits accepted as well
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Look okay to me.
You could throw in some puddles.
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How about adding some regular furrows, indicating that it's been plowed..? Weeds as well, unless those are weeds that you have there already.
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A small stream or two would look good.
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Well, I would assume that such an area would have terrible gusts of wind and lots of dust in the air with nothing much to hold it down. As far as the pixels, I would eliminate or define the green squares on the rims of the grass tiles.
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Rocks, cactuses, dead trees, cracks, animal tracks, animal remains or shrubs? It depends on how dry and barren you want it, I suppose. :)
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Rocks, cactuses, dead trees, cracks, animal tracks, animal remains or shrubs? It depends on how dry and barren you want it, I suppose. :)
more barren than that i'm afraid :\
ill try some animated dust clouds over it and look towards the grass
the real trouble with this is that it's supposed to be almost completely barren and has not yet been made into a farm (so no plowing). There are easy ways to make this into a different place, but i'm still not sure how to make this place not totally boring.
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what makes you think that a BARREN area should be interesting in the first place?
its already interesting enough for what it is, if not more.
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Yar, I don't really see anything that needs improvement, besides what appears to be just missing or badly placed tiles. I don't see how or why you would want to add more, since it already conveys the info that "this place is fucking dead!" while still looking good and interesting.
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Looks good enough. Throw in some rocks and more plants, and maybe some marks of wildlife even?
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A cliche would be to add the skull of a dead cow somewhere in the picture.
Otherwise add some cracks in the ground.
I still think that less is more, when it comes to looking barren at least, and you already got a lot going.
If you add something be sure to take something else away.
On a side note I think the HUD looks great. I wanna play this game even though it looks like some kind of farming game which I usually hate.
Say that it's a brewing or a distilling game and I absolutely wanna play this game.
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So.. Death Valley -kind of barren? Cracks sure are fun to tile:
http://thefrasergallery.com/BethesdaPhotoCompetition/2006/Eric-Moore-Death-Valley.jpg
(http://thefrasergallery.com/BethesdaPhotoCompetition/2006/Eric-Moore-Death-Valley.jpg)
Windswept dunes and areas of white sand or salt:
http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/v1010/images/death_valley.jpg (http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/v1010/images/death_valley.jpg)
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what strikes me as a little odd is that all the shrubs are so green and happy. I would think some of them would be dead, black/white (probably black and thorny in this case, white is more for a dried up salt lake). Dead looking trees are also an option. I really think the scenery is looking nice for what it needs to be so far and dont think it is boring I think trees are probably the only thing it needs.
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Well, as you didn't comment on my reply, I'll expand a bit:
It's a flood zone, and whilst it does look muddy, I think some small puddles would give a better impression that this place is liable to flooding.
Which I assume is the reason for the lack of life. The greeness of the plants would then make sense too.
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Maybe less vibrant colors? skulls s poping out of the ground that are covered in mud, suggesting that there has been a flood scince the time of the animal's death. maybe a dead tree, or some vulture shadows on the ground. puddles has areready been suggested a few times, maibe bird poos in the rocks? It also could be less repetitive, but that seems to be your objective. experiment, i guess.
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what strikes me as a little odd is that all the shrubs are so green and happy. I would think some of them would be dead, black/white (probably black and thorny in this case, white is more for a dried up salt lake). Dead looking trees are also an option. I really think the scenery is looking nice for what it needs to be so far and dont think it is boring I think trees are probably the only thing it needs.
Actually, desert plants are usually dark green or a sandy yellow.
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Firstly, the colours are gorgeous.
Secondly, the flat/solid greyish colour isn't helping here, i don't think. It looks like mist, but i'm guessing that's not what it's meant to be? Either it's too desaturated or too light, or both.. it just seems to scream 'I AM FLAT AND OPAQUE' at me.
The menus and stuff are hot, i can't get over it. :0'
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Looks really nice. Those flat rocks need some contrast at least. It kinda made me thought those are paper rocks or a buncha spots lying on the ground. Those are what I got for now.
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Is this unfinished? A few tiles look to be incomplete. It's also a bit hard to determine how it looks with all of the GUI in place.
I like it quite a bit, the colors are real nice. My only suggestion is maybe a bit more texturing and perhaps some variance in vegetation.
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yeah i've only been working on this for about 30 minutes total and i was either watching scrubs or friends :P
that you all for all of your suggestions I will be taking them all to heart soon
this is part of the farming engine in an empire-builder, a project in the conceptual stages called Tales of One Thousand Kings, mixing elements of sim cities, harvest moon, etc for the tribe and city-state engine, and advanced wars mixed with dynasty warriors for the combat engine (you get to kick ass as heroes to increase the attacking power of your units etc). There's a much bigger concept that i can touch on so briefly, but people should not really take too much interest in this - it is waiting until after Partisan TB is finished to even begin programming (at least 3 years from now).