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Offline Cyanblue

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[WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

on: January 11, 2012, 11:50:22 pm
Greetings, I've decided to come out of my constant lurking to finally share something with the community.

I've been working for a few days on tiles and sprites for an imaginary roguelike, I tried to make them considerably more cartoony than tilesets roguelikes use(when they aren't ASCII characters), and I'd like some help and comments from you people. So here are some pixels:

this is the player character base


There tends to be a lot of character customization in roguelikes, so ideally I'll make many different kinds of clothing to be worn. Meanwhile, here's some basic clothing for the character


I'm sure you all figured out by now that all the power comes from the scarves.

I also made some basic tileset mockups
   

And some scenery, just because I felt like making it

   

That's it for now.

Something I specially want to know about is what do you think about the perspective of the walls. I used a weird fake perspective that doesn't really make much sense, to keep the wall sections inside their 32x32 tile size. I think it works well but I might be completely wrong, it's really hard to know after working on it for a while...
I'd really appreciate comment or advice about anything and everything, since I have basically no experience with them pixels.

Thank you for your time.

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 12:43:51 am
That really, really needs some contrast. I won't go into anything else yet, just get some shadows and delicious saturation in there.

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 01:12:27 am
I see...

Well, actually, I don't see D:
I've noticed before people saying the same thing about sprites that seemed completely fine to me (that other people had made), so I guess it's a problem I have? They look good to me, though I can see the contrast is low... is that necessarily a bad thing?

Anyway, since I asked for it I won't just ignore advice, so I made some extremely quick and lazy photoshop edits to know if they look any better to you or not.

This still looks good to me, though I'm not sure if it's better than the original version


This is at the point where it starts looking far too contrasted to me


Of course, I assume carefully picking new colours to contrast better would end up looking much better than a quick photoshop adjustment, but that'd probably take more time...
So, um. Any more feedback :D?

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 01:33:31 am
You need more vibrant colors and more range in the palette. Did a quick edit (and these aren't very good colors, just there for demonstration)-



This makes it a lot easier to see that the original looks like it has a heavy grey filter over it.

Offline Cyanblue

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 02:10:00 am
Oh god, my eyes...

Now I can't understand how I didn't see it before, does this happen often D:?

Anyway, I tried to actually pick some new colours this time around, hopefully this is much better...



Thank you for the advice, I'm already glad I asked for help in here.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2012, 02:13:59 am by Cyanblue »

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 03:06:55 am
Better, but the palette still needs some range. Get those darks darker and the lights lighter.

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 01:50:29 pm
Here we go again...!



What do you think now?

I really appreciate the help, bye the way <3

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #7 on: January 12, 2012, 06:15:51 pm
i think you could reduce the contrast on the floor, as all the brick lines just add unneeded noise.  then you could benefit from adding lighting, so that certain sides of the wall are in shadow, and add cast shadows on the ground. edit:

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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 06:58:30 pm
Your palette is too much of a 'boring' colour ramp.

what you need is hue shifting



something like that (by Syosa btw), instead of something like

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throw some colour in man!

« Last Edit: January 12, 2012, 07:03:57 pm by QuaziGNRLnose »
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Re: [WIP][C+C] Roguelike mockup

Reply #9 on: January 12, 2012, 07:02:33 pm
*delete this* accidental quote
Originally posted by Jeff

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