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Offline egrin

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Looking for Ideas for RTS Game

on: August 25, 2017, 09:17:13 pm
Hi everyone,
I am making a 2D RTS Game in Unity and I've decided do go for a minimalistic pixel art style.
Here is a little example of my first units and some basic trees to give you an idea what kind of style I'm going for.


As you can see, I have some basic units for the 3 factions (The Order of Light, The Dark Legion and The Wild Hordes).
Now I am looking to add some larger units like Wyverns and Dragons, but I am not the greatest artist and I am not sure how to go about them. They should be maximum 32x32 pixels but I'd prefer it a little smaller.
It would be super awesome if anyone could give me an idea of how I could do a dragon or any other kind of large monster in a minimalistic style.
Also, any feedback of the units so far would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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Re: Looking for Ideas for RTS Game

Reply #1 on: August 25, 2017, 09:28:05 pm
Sorry, editing the post didn't work for some reason.
Here is the actual pic:

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Re: Looking for Ideas for RTS Game

Reply #2 on: September 14, 2017, 07:05:55 pm
Just giving this a little bump :)

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Re: Looking for Ideas for RTS Game

Reply #3 on: September 14, 2017, 08:01:53 pm
Your use of perspective is great in my opinion, and the sprites/people/animals are fine

But one point of criticism to share would be the trees and landmarks
Simple shading will not do without strong contrast to outline leaves in the trees or ridged rocks in the mountains
I'll lookover it, see what I can do during free time then post when there's sufficient updates
For now work on those points of critique and adding definition to your rivers and land then we'll compare our updates

Fair warning: artists here tend to avoid minimalist topics such as these
Possibly from it being both time consuming and frustratingly limited, even more so with color restrictions
But then again so is most pixelart, so who knows

However there are certain projects to pull advice/ideas from
These use similar miniature tilesets as found in the submission







Older Final Fantasy games also had miniatures on their world maps







« Last Edit: September 14, 2017, 08:22:11 pm by Ma3vis »

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Re: Looking for Ideas for RTS Game

Reply #4 on: September 15, 2017, 09:15:14 am
Thank you for the great advice, Ma3vis, I'll work on it!