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[baconman]

(thought that was bottom-left of "old" for some reason...)

[Droqen]

- removed fade-to-black near bottom edge, recentered screen


and for perhaps the first time ever:

- made an enemy easier.

[baconman]

You don't say "easier." You say "better balanced." That way it makes people think you're adding to the game.

It's the Drill guy, huh?

[Droqen]

It's not the drill guy. He will remain a bastard :D

edit::

I added some arches, and some smoothing, and some cracky glass.
Feed me back!
(I'm happy with the glass, not totally happy with the arches.)

[mokesmoe]

I think that you should not connect (or arch) blocks that are just diagonal to each other. The two arches that aren't diagonally touching an air block look good.

[baconman]

Maybe so, but they still look better than just ambiguiously floating blocks, since it looks like by design, connecting diagonal blocks is what they're *supposed* to do, to give the layout a sense of structure. It may take some adjustment to get used to, but I like it.

Maybe a slightly less extreme version for lower corners would round it out. (Like 20-25% of a tile in the curve, rather than the full-on 50% in the upper ones.)

[Droqen]

I'm thinking of adding a new colour to the general palette: a 50% black, for background elements. When solid blocks are destroyed, they'll leave behind a ghost of the same colour where they used to be.

I agree that the diagonal arches look weird: I think they look kind of good conceptually, just as connecting shit together, but they aren't pulled off very well.

[baconman]

If you do that, go 30% or brighter. Unless you *want* players second-guessing if they broke that block or not...

[Droqen]

Yeah, I'd definitely want to make it obvious! I actually had tried 50% before that and... it was too dark. So I think it'd be 20-30%. To the left is ARCHES, MK. II How do you feel about it? I had the inner corners smoothing, but it wasn't working well with breaking. Then I remembered that I am a programmer and stopped being dumb and fixed it. :D

[mokesmoe]

Looks much better. Still a little weird, but I'm not sure exactly why. Doesn't look good overlapping the clear block though.

[BlueSweatshirt]

Two mockups for Droqen-Martin-Bro-Man-Guy-Cat:



I like #2 which introduces another color into the palette. It helps communicate that the thing isn't a solid block but instead just a connecting graphic which is in the background. The color could also be used for other background ornaments as well methinks.

[mokesmoe]

I like it.

[Droqen]

Hmm. I don't like it!

It made me decide to go find some cool shapes and see what happens to them.



The part of your mockup that I do like is outlined in GREEN (bottom-middle). It implies a sort of diagonal grid (lattice?) structure, but it also doesn't do it well enough for me to go crazy for it...

^^^ I wish that structure could come out more clearly.

Anyway, I'm becoming a fan of the oblong shapes the current system generates (rather than detached with structural backbone?)! Those were basically all of the interesting shapes I screenshotted wildly while on a single run. Do you like them? s: Am I all alone in liking them? x3

EDIT :: The one in the top-left I screenshotted because it was awkward, but I think it looks more awkward post-mockup (outlined in red).

The shape in the top-right looks a little awkward too, and I mostly took a shot of it because of how many features it had.

Some of the more small and elegant shapes are my favourites (see: tall window in b. right, interrupted ring in b.left (ruined, I think, in the red-outlined remockup), and the double-layered whatever-that-thing-is in mid-right).

[Droqen]

POST SURVEY:
NOBODY CAN AGREE.

CONCLUSION:
USE BOTH STYLES???

[Udderdude]

This one looks pretty cool.