~Screenshot Central!

[Prpl_Mage]

If you're gonna change the trees and stuff you better change the grass and water as well. They kidna stand out now

[A Forgotten Legend]

@Dren
Yeah, I'm going to just try to darken everything as a general rule - I just didn't want to do anything until I decided whether I liked it or not.  The rocks are pretty minimally changed, but it worked well.

I really really like how that looks.  I'll have to check out your topics for it.

@Purp
The grass was changed, the problem there is I don't want to it to be too blank.  Maybe I just should get rid of the darker grass?  The water is on the list.

[Fisherson]

I like it AFL. Bright colors aren't my personal favorite, but it still looks good. Reducing the detail in the tilesets will be a good idea. Did you edit the rocks? I especially like the way those came out.



I started working on animations for character's unique skills. I also started a post about the project on rmn and tumblr.

Love the glowing fade Timber's got going on there! One of my favorite tricks to do with battle animations.

[Momeka]

 Title screen

[Zoltar]

Title screen

How do make such pretty things using so few of colors? :O It's like old school game boy in high def.

[Momeka]

How do make such pretty things using so few of colors? :O It's like old school game boy in high def.

Thank you, I find it easier working on smaller stuff with a limited number of colors than the other way around actually. And it's a game boy game so nothing really high def about it.

[Prpl_Mage]

Do you make all the sprites beforehand or do you just hex it up?

[Zoltar]

Thank you, I find it easier working on smaller stuff with a limited number of colors than the other way around actually. And it's a game boy game so nothing really high def about it.

Your welcome and to me it looks kind of detailed on the skull. Lots of shadow.

Do you make all the sprites beforehand or do you just hex it up?

Hex as in a spell? o.O I thought you were only a pretend wizard!

[drenrin2120]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal

I'm also kind of curious about that, though. It's not like you can 'import' graphics into a rom... or can you?

[Fisherson]

That is one cool looking title, Red. Reminds me of a certain starting monster from FFT that annoys me when I'm trying to train up my units and don't have many casters or long range types. >.> Darn thing just sits out of range and sends a lightning soul to blast me chipping away at weaker swordsmen and such. Still a cool title though.

Hex as in a spell? o.O I thought you were only a pretend wizard!

Shows what you know, youngling. How do you think real wizards hide in plain sight? =p

[Momeka]

Hex as in a spell?

Yes.

Do you make all the sprites beforehand or do you just hex it up?

For larger images such as the title screen I draw up before hand and run it through a program that hex it up and remove duplicated tiles etc. For sprites and tiles I use an old clunky editor that really sucks. But I have to use it to be able to import all the tiles in their old clunky map editor.

[Momeka]

Here is some of today's progress.



(I failed with the first gif it's way too sped up)

Made a fade in/out function, animated tiles and a map converter for the Ogmo editor. So yay, no more clunky tools from the 90s.

[drenrin2120]

It all looks great except I feel the perspective is a bit off with the waterfall. The waterfall itself is fine but the source stream feels odd. It might just be that the waterfall starts up to tall, but it's hard to say.

[Archem]

I agree. Since the waterfall begins from what looks like a foot or two from the wall, it's odd that it hits the water a foot or two away from the wall.

[Momeka]

Thanks, guys.

Does this look better?


Otherwise I should probably make a special tile for where the waterfall hits the water.