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 Edit added some more tile tests which I hope should give a better feel for the over all art style I might use. wondering what peeps think of this first pass on a tile, something feels off about it for me but I cant put my finger on what it is, possible the colour of the base tile clashing with the berry not sure tho. need the feedbacks pls :) |
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| oh should say the two smallest tiles are probably going to be the game size's. |
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| looks delectable, but a tile for what now? need some context. |
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| I think it's over-detailed. You've drawn all that detail in the leaves etc, and you can't see any of it in the tiles you're actually going to use. Also, you don't want 3 strawberries in one tile with the 'main' one off-centre. Just one will do. |
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| I like where you are headed. I think the one farthest back looks bigger, but I think it is an optical illusion. Is this for a match 3? If so I think it is a good concept to have 3 and show a match some way if you can. |
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| I think the strawberries are just too skinny. The top two strawberries should basically be one strawberry. |
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| CGV : you can blame my shitty strawberry plant thats sitting on my window cill lol, but yeah now that you mention it I can see exactly what your talking about, I might have another go at it with a fatter strawberry in mind. Gfk : I put three on to fill the tile out, but if I draw a fatter berry then I probably wont need more than one per tile. Why : In short yeah, match 3 with gravity, I was planning to simply port my older Match 3 games but after giving it some thought I actually came up with what I think might be an original game mechanic in the genre so going to roll with a totally new game, new art, and new theme, as you can see it will be fruit, although with the gravity twist, I might turn the theme into stars , moons and planets, still early days yet. |
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| Looking good although I have seen a match 3 game using gravity before, or at least using box 2d and physics. The orange looks good, even the lifelike bumhole :P |
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| The strawberry looks a bit strange shape-wise and the highlight on the orange specifically looks off. (To strong or large maybe? Add similar highlighting to the other fruit?) I also agree with Gfk on the strawberry detail, it is a bit more detailed (almost a different style) than the other two. Looks pretty nice at this point though. |
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| John, when I said gravity I was not talking about it in the way your thinking, not keen on going into more detail on here but if your interested I will let you know on over a PM, its nothing amazing just not something I have seen done in any other match 3, at least I HOPE! its not been done. Unlikely, yeah the Strawberry was the first one, I changed highlights for the Orange and Banana, just need to retouch the berry to make it look the same, the highlight itself only looks a little odd on the larger tile but thats not the one that will be used, when I draw tiles I draw typically draw them around 512*512 or 256*256 and then scale them down to the game size I find I can get more detail and a nicer look that way. |
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| my first thought is the buttons are too dark on the edges. |
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| Agreed, the edges seem a little dark now. :) |
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| yeah the image is updating as I work and play around with it, thanks to dropbox, just trying out different tile backgrounds to check contrast. |
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| For me the highlight seems a bit strong, especially on the orange. |
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| Are those bananas on the strawberry? ;) Haha, just kidding. I like that! |
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| I need to add a little shadow to those little strawberry pip things, but had a feeling that the shadow detail would be lost at the smaller size so didnt bother, no harm in throwing some shadows in tho I guess to see how it looks. On another subject, anyone got any fruit suggestions ? kinda drawing a blank here . |
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| On another subject, anyone got any fruit suggestions ? kinda drawing a blank here. Oh those pips on the strawberry are actually seeds :P As to fruits I would suggest a pear, cherries and some grapes. |
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| Just want to say that I absolutely LOVE the tiles and your graphics style in general. They way they pop is one of the first things that a player notices and I believe it helps drive downloads. If I ever finish a game I might just need to pay you to do an icon for me :) |
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| Thanks guys, think I have my groove for this so will probably stop updating the above image and just get on with it, thanks for all your help. @Why0Why , I have done art for a number of people here and on other communities so any time you need me, just drop me an e-mail. |
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| "anyone got any fruit suggestions" Kiwi, watermelon, lemon... |
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| Oh, didn't have water melon written down, thanks Gerry. |
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| Damn so you make a fruit match 3? That's what I wanted to do as well. lol |
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| Plenty of room for fruit match 3 games mate so don't let me stop you , the more the merrier. |
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| Great images. Wish I could draw.. |
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| A little off topic but kind of on topic I saw a TV ad today (UK ITV2) for Candy Crush Saga?! They must be making bucket loads. |
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| They do. Actually around 500,000 each day. |
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| Nice grapes. :) I'm still not too hot on the highlighting "glow". It just looks a little much on the grapes for example. |
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