New background drawing tutorial

aussie · Wed 20/10/2004 17:49:28

I've added a tute I recently made for designing backgrounds "the sustainable way" (320x200 DOTT-style).

Here's the link.

Designing backgrounds the sustainable way (5 easy steps)

If the link doesn't work, or geocities tells you the page does not exist, just paste the link on your address bar.

I did post this in the tutorial thread as well, but I wasn't too sure people would look actually at it there.

Note that Geocities allows very limited bandwidth. Even though the site is pretty small you might get a message saying I've exceeded the limit and you can't access it. It should be back up within an hour from the moment you get that message, don't worry.

Scummbuddy · Wed 20/10/2004 21:50:44

its beautiful. thank you very much. you do show it to look so easy. and it isnt all that hard. but what a surprise. thank you

aussie · Thu 21/10/2004 09:12:17

I just think that's the way to go if people want to finish their games...

auhsor · Thu 21/10/2004 14:13:40

Thats a very nice tutorial. If I ever get time to make a game, that would be the technique I would use. Thanks.

Quintaros · Fri 22/10/2004 00:52:33

Nice tutorial.Ã,Â I definitely fall into the camp of the background overachiever and go for broke on every image spending upwards of 8 hours on a background.Ã,Â For my next project I'm definitely going to aim a little lower and try something more "sustainable".Ã,Â

Andail · Fri 22/10/2004 12:43:33

The background is nice, although the cut-out foreground is a bit...too much...if you want that kind of black foreground, make it silhouettes of furniture or other items, like vases or whatnot. That would make more sense.

aussie · Fri 22/10/2004 13:23:31

Ye, you're right, the top particularly is a bit overdone. Still, I think it's pretty reasonable quality for not too much work.

Developer · Sat 23/10/2004 14:30:49

VERY COOL! 8)

Remco · Sat 23/10/2004 14:57:41

i like that black cut out foreground. It gives a cartoony feeling, and that fits with the style. Very nice done.

Albino-I · Sat 23/10/2004 17:16:10

Quote from: aussie on Wed 20/10/2004 17:49:28
I've added a tute I recently made for designing backgrounds "the sustainable way" (320x200 DOTT-style).

Here's the link.

Designing backgrounds the sustainable way (5 easy steps)

If the link doesn't work, or geocities tells you the page does not exist, just paste the link on your address bar.

I did post this in the tutorial thread as well, but I wasn't too sure people would look actually at it there.

Note that Geocities allows very limited bandwidth. Even though the site is pretty small you might get a message saying I've exceeded the limit and you can't access it. It should be back up within an hour from the moment you get that message, don't worry.

Very nice tutorial. This should definately go to the 'tutorial' section of the main page. Very useful, but I still like to use some time with my backgrounds (it could also be that I'm so bad at it..).

Oliver · Sat 23/10/2004 17:36:23

Alright, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen:P

Well, maybe I'm getting a bit carried away, but it's a really good tutorial

Easy as hell. Though, I can't use the tutorial for my game because my game has a tottaly different style. But it's awsome anyway.

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