Another Harvest Moon Tileset WIP

[Mr.Modem]

There haven't been much stuff coming out from me lately so I've decided to post some of my new stuff. I've recently had a period when I didn't pixel anything but I think I've got my imagination back now. Anyway, this is a tileset based on the original Harvest Moon game. I tried to stay very close to the original as possible. Some parts are still very WIP and others almost finished. I'm going to need lots of transition tiles between the different materials but I feel that it would be good to get some c+c on the main tiles before I start. The tiles I'm most unhappy with right now is the grass tiles. It would be really nice to get some comments on how to improve them. Edits and other reference pics are very welcome. For this tileset I've used many references; tiles from the original Harvest Moon, crab2selout.png's Harvest Moon tileset and some other pictures used as colour reference. Made in Pro Motion, 22 colours, best viewed in 2x zoom.

[Ryumaru]

very detailed
i think the problem of the grass might be the lack of interesting colors(some hueshift towards yellow or blue would help)y the shad
but it might also be the way the shades are arranged, like blanket shading.
btw i think some more bright colors would liven this up some, atm it looks very dark

the to what i think are water tiles look pretwty uh, bad.
i like the colors of them, there fine, but there are just random marks. of course i havent played harvest moon so these tiles could be something that i dont think they are.

the darkest color in the ground tiles makes them look very grid like, along with highlights that seem to be around the edges too much.

also, about the grass tiles. they seem to use much less shades than some of the tiles around them. which might add to them not looking right and somewhat out of style

[Darien]

The grass tiles have too much definition for each blade... really you should just be suggesting grass blades.  They should not pop out like they do, as that brings too much of the viewer's attention, when grass is just a background thing.

The rest is looking pretty good. I like the well, although I think the roof thingy should be raised a bit.  The fenceposts look flimsy and way too small compared to the well... maybe the well is just too big for the rest of this tileset. The water may have potential if you can animate it well, though right now it looks icy.

Also, the shadow on the trunk is suspicious.  I can't figure out how the sun would be placed for shadows to go in all those different directions.

Good work, keep it up.

[Mr.Modem]

Thanks for you comments guys! I will think of what you've said and hopefully the next update will be much better than this one. I don't think you will see a major update very soon cause I'm a little busy right now.

I think I'm going to work on the grass tiles first cause they need the most work. I think I will go for a more flatter look. I also realize that the water tiles also needs a lot of work. They were made very quickly to see how the colours worked together. Thanks for the comment about the shadow on the trunk. When I see it now it looks really, really stupid. Shouldn't be to hard to fix though. I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do with the well. Raising the roof seems to be a good idea but I don't want to make the well bigger. Anyway thanks for the comments!

[Mr.Modem]

Ok i did a quick update. I've completely changed the look of the grass tiles. At first I thought I should shade the grass very flat with almost no texture at all. I soon realized that it wouldn't fit in with the rest of the picture. So instead I tried to do some Secret of Mana 3 grass tiles. The new look fits better much better in with the rest of tiles imo. What do you think? I did some changes to the water tiles too and tweaked some of the other tiles


EDIT: Sorry for the double post.

[Lick]

I love it. The only thing I don't love is the palette. It's to brown-red in my eyes.

[fil_razorback]

I like it pretty much, including the palette. But, I think that the grass is too much seiken3-ish, it nearly looks like and edit :/

[moonside]

Looks great. Maybe a little dark, though.

[ndchristie]

it looks nice, but im not fond of the dirt texture really, i think it and the grass feel too busy and could be simplified.  your call though, and it all looks good.  one thing id really like to see though is something that wasnt in the original game, though i dont know how close a clone you want to make

[Mr.Modem]

Thanks for all your kind words and good comments! Some of you have commented my palette choice. I think I will tweak it a little bit in the future, probably lighten up some of the shades. I don't think there will be any major changes though cause I'm pretty fond of the way the colours are now.

@fil_razorback: Sorry to hear that you don't like the grass. I personally like the Seiken Densetsu 3 (did I spell it right?) style very much and I'm quite happy with my grass tiles. I think it will look much better when I  add more transitiontiles between the grass and the dirt. And no it's not an edit I made it completely from scratch (with seiken as a reference).

@Adarias: I'm glad you like it and I understand what you're saying about the dirt tile. I see if I can simplify it without going to far away from my style. The dirt tile look too attached to the grid right now, that's something I have to work on. I will probably add more things that isn't in the original game but right now I want to focus on the tiles I already have.

Again thanks for your c+c. God I love this forum