Wow I so did not want this type of complete and utter shit to break out over me or something I did.

@.TakaM: What are you talking about? The tiles are only similar in the simplicity of the grass. The cliffs and road/dirt tiles are -completely- different.

@Faceless: Well thankyou for not 'condemning me' but telling me something i made is 'shit' and 'ugly'..well that's just fucking rude and again no help at all. If you really wanted to help you could have given me examples of how I could IMPROVE..not simply of how I did things wrong.

@Helm:

1.Totally not my fault in any way if people don't read the full post. The '-----'s were meant to separate the note from the rest of the post as I know that a lot of people dont bother to read descriptions. How would you suggest I make it more noticeable next time b/c doing SOMETHING LIKE THIS just to get people to read something is ridiculous.

2.How is it not based 'loosely'?
Lets list the similarities and the differences, okay?

Similar:
Trees
Simplicity of the grass tile

Different:
Palettes
Cliff tile
Dirt tile
Plants
Dirt beneath the plant

So the differences heavily outweigh any similarities. I agree that the trees are too similar and will work to improve that. However I do not agree with how this was all dealt with. I remember a time when I could post something and if members thought I could improve..they would actually help me. Not simply tell me I was bad. In fact it was you yourself that finally clued me in to how colour ramping works and I loved you for that. There are always going to be assholes in life but the Pixel community seems to have become a nice sink pit for them over the past 2 years or so.  (note that this is not in any way against you, but just the animosity and rude comments i see members make sometimes)

@Adarias: Thankyou. This is the kind of post that actually strives to help. Any suggestion as to what I can do to improve the path? I didnt want it to be too detailed in comparison to the grass. And yes I'm going to try reworking the trees again. This is still a wip afterall. Infact here is an update:

OH hahahaha duh thats why :
1.it looked wrong xD
2.i didnt notice any changes

silly me

I found a folder full of old stuff awhile ago and started reworking a mockup i started like a year or more ago now.

I started with this



and edited it into this



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After some suggestions from people on Pj I'm in the midst of redoing the tiles aswell as placement. I've also decided to get rid of the building as..I just don't like it haha.

As of right now this is what I have



Things that need to be finished:

Water
dock
stone
apples
monsters/enemies

I'd love any suggestions you have on the tiles I've made (current ones..dont bother with the old ones obviously rofl), as well as what type of monsters to put in or anything else you think should be added/removed etc.

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note: loosely based off of Minish Cap . Keep that style in mind.

Sorry, I don't really understand what you mean. Do you mean the outline around the curve of the neck - how its really dark?

Wether it is dark or light isnt really what i was trying to address, but rather the fact that you have used a continuous line of solid colour to outline the edge of the neck.

Zoom in on my example and make a comparison. Instead of using solid lines, I have used shadowing/shading to define actual depth.

I'm horrible at explaining things which is why I make examples in the first place haha. The only thing I can suggest to you is to actually take a good look at the example and compare.