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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #50 on: July 27, 2007, 11:43:02 am
When you have characters, post a mockup so we can see what clashes with what, given good contrast.

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #51 on: July 27, 2007, 03:09:23 pm
Indeed. With too little contrast the background may become completely detached from the sprites, preventing it from merging into a believable scenery.

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #52 on: July 30, 2007, 04:31:00 pm



I keep forgetting to get some character sprites from my employer (I accidentally deleted the email he sent me with them) but here's the bamboo with the foreground layer as well for now.

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #53 on: July 30, 2007, 09:34:44 pm
I'd say drastically cut down on the number of bamboos in the foreground, and space them out. It will create gameplay/readability confusion.

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #54 on: July 31, 2007, 03:25:12 am
Good call on the foreground. Whoops! I didn't think about that. Well, I did but I thought about it in the sense that I'm going to be making variable tiles for all of these backgrounds later. I suppose it'd be best that the main tile was sparser than the tile variances.

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #55 on: July 31, 2007, 03:27:21 am
Okay seriously dude, add some contrast, you were told like over 9000 times on your last piece but you didn't, also, still too many in the foreground, maybe make them cut down/smaller?

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #56 on: July 31, 2007, 04:16:51 am


I added a bit more contrast. Whether or not it's enough, I don't know.
Also included the remaining background layers.
Where does it stand? I don't know that either.
I like it alright but I've done much better work. I guess that's my stance on it.
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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #57 on: July 31, 2007, 04:46:54 am
why are the two repeating foreground bamboo practically the same?

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #58 on: July 31, 2007, 05:04:17 am
I'd say cut out any bamboo in the foreground all together, personally. They're way too distracting, and only get in the way. Maybe find something else to put in the foreground, perhaps baby bamboo. We didn't see any tree's in the foreground in the last piece, I don't really see why we'd see the bamboo trees in the foreground on this one.

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Re: Sidecrollin' excessively tiled fun fest 2007

Reply #59 on: July 31, 2007, 05:12:26 am


I have no clue why I left them the same. Apparently this bamboo forest is getting the best of me. XD

Dusty, you're probably right about that, the client happens to want foreground bamboo so there's not much I can do about it. Perhaps I'll push for one of the alternatives you've suggested. For now though, here's some not so repetitive, repetitive foreground bamboo...