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[Blambo]

[Joshua]

Whoa. 

[Damian]

that character 

[Eendhoorn]

Looks awesome 

[My Loathsome Cowboy]

ah, haha, sorry about that, guess i've been obsessing too much about economics lately. It's been pretty well recieved, very happy with the steam reviews. currently a 78% at metacritic but that's mainly because of one 6/10 review among many 8/10-ish ones. here's a mockup of a spectrum version,to stay on topic:)

I actually just picked up Teslagrad off Steam today.  Godspeed, man.  Hope you get to keep making stuff.


Here's a thing from the RPG I spend more time thinking about than actually making.  Hoping to change that soon, though.

[olli]

Thanks a lot, it's appreciated!really like the character designs and that intense shade of grass colour in your rpg battle mockup, it really pops!

[Pol]

Here's a thing from the RPG I spend more time thinking about than actually making.  Hoping to change that soon, though.

Woah love the art style ! Both the characters and the UI, I don't know what it will look like in motion but it's tote fresh :>

[Lazycow]

Great... Except that white outline. Try to get rid of it!

[sam_suite]

I actually like that white outline, seems like a cool stylistic choice

[siskavard]

blambo that looks sick tight dope rad

[sparkling vinegar]

I like the character but I'm not a fan of the moon and clouds

I'm actually not a big fan of the character... soon an update I hope.

A new version....don't pay attention to the landscape. I only updated the character at the moment.

Better ? Worst ?

[Kingel]

The added details definitely improve the readability. I couldn't help seeing the old one as Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show.

Here's a thing from the RPG I spend more time thinking about than actually making.  Hoping to change that soon, though.

I really like the painted look of this. I keep seeing the contact surface between the slimes and the ground as a plane facing me, though, as if they're lying sideways on the ground. Adding a cast shadow would definitely help. Maybe breaking the outline where the characters/slimes touch the ground would make them seem more connected to the scenery?

Here's a mockup I made using the arbitrary restriction of maximum five colors per tile. Also tried to keep the tile count relatively low.

[Geti]

Niiiiice but imo the characters are way lower quality than the tiles. Love those spikes.

[Kingel]

Thanks! Yeah, I think it's mainly that the tiles are more monochromatic and thus better suited for color restriction. I found it much more difficult to make the characters look interesting using the same limitation, within the smaller areas especially.

Now that you mention it, I could have added an equally arbitrary sprite limit and used overlaid sprites to increase the color count. Food for thought.

[Geti]

Yeah I find that with low colour count actors it's all about lighting, since everything else is basically lost, your characters (and items) there are a bit flat and low contrast, and really blend into the background; the shading when they're alone is pretty solid but in noisy context they fall short of your usual quality bar :^)

[moi]

I prefer the old version, it looks like something from an old grainy B&W movie. Don't know if that's what you were looking for though.

[Blambo]

blambo that looks sick tight dope rad

sick dope sweet thanks

[ty.static]

For fun...though if a developer wanted to take a crack at it..

[Snow]

Decided to move this post from unfinished game thread to here:

I'm not sure what to do with this:



Avi (of an older version showing movement - has a positioning bug. The movement in the game is tile-based - just like a roguelike): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13441474/Underworld/Corona%20Simulator%20Caverns%20and%20Rocks.avi

The idea started out as a simple 2d platformer roguelike/cave exploration game. Your little miner had a backpack that could only carry a limited supply of items - including ladder pieces. You had to find the exit and as much treasure as you can without using up all your ladder pieces.

I don't know if I'll ever finish the project. In the gif I tested out the concept using Corona in the iPhone simulator. I'm working on another project right now that will probably take another 1.5 years to finish, so this will be sitting on the shelf at least until then.

I was also starting to test out enemy ai (and had the enemy on the top layer to watch movement). Some of the enemies I had planned for the game included triffids eventually crisscrossing the entire level with vines that took hit points, a sand worm that would hunt you and generic enemies like skeletons, scorpions, bats, spiders, etc.

[nicked]

Wheelbound Desert tiles work in progress:



Any ideas how to make a desert more weird and alien, and less generic?