Quote from: ndchristie on July 25, 2008, 06:50:53 am

Quote from: Opacus on July 24, 2008, 06:25:34 pm

I'm sure atleast some of you played FFVI:
Anyone know why instant death attacks sometimes don't work? For example with Edgar's chainsaw.
Sometimes when it does instant death, the enemy dies but then just pops back up. Why does that happen?

automatic instant death would be lame, sometimes it misses (but still shows the full animation) and sometimes the enemy is immune (bosses).  This is true in most early FF's.

Ah right. But I found it weird especially because it ALWAYS has the instant death effect on a few specific monsters. Who would then re-apear with full health!
So instead of sometimes doing damage instead of instant death as it should, it always does instant death which I found kinda weird.

try throwing a revivify/ phoenix down / potion at those monsters
i'm pretty sure this happens when you instant kill zombie type monsters

forgot to grab me a tile in the iso collaboration
i'm such a failure pixel artist

it's actually a slightly fixed up snake doodle

(snake doodle #1 of 2)

(tileable)



it's a common motif in my doodles

(snake doodle #2 of 2)


i have a whole folder of ms paint black and white absent minded doodles

To be informative: it's at least 72 pixels over size restrictions in both dimensions

The piece itself: The face gets lost amounts those dark areas of color with its low contrast. I suggest playing with the skin palette

Excellent lighting system
although i'm not to sure of the shadow  on the ground beside the middle knight, why is it the same height as the on on the top knight?
(i'm assuming the light source is from off in the northwest direction)

I think to debunk the busy-ness, you should take the scene above where you're asking us about busy-ness, and make several copies of it
1 without the well defined rock clutter
1 without foliage
1 with some generic blank space <- important, it seems as though you're trying to fit the whole map into the viewing area, as opposed to utilizing scrolling

and then compare it to this one
i think your lack of definition of forms on foliage tiles is causing it personally
the tiles that lack outlined areas have too many shades and seem almost unfinished
you'll get into a debate with yourself about oversized plants, such as how rpgs like to define "to-scale-massive" grass blades, but i think you'll find the planks and rocks already existing allow you to oversize and define your plants a bit

try it, is all i can say.

p.s. i've been watching this develop for a long time and i read the blog all the time, lovin it