Emerald BG Critique

Kweepa · Tue 11/07/2006 05:33:15

This is looking very stylish.
The knife looks like a potato peeler though.

R4L · Tue 11/07/2006 05:44:42

Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Tue 11/07/2006 05:33:15
This is looking very stylish.
The knife looks like a potato peeler though.

lol I had a feeling someone would say something like that

Ill have to make some edits. Thanks for the critique so far!

Ali · Tue 11/07/2006 18:05:26

Quote from: Rap4Life42o on Wed 05/07/2006 23:10:30
QuoteNoir detectives don't kill their way to the truth.

You must of forgot about Max Payne.

I have not! Max Payne was what started my bi-monthly 'Noir detectives don't kill their way to the truth' rant.

On topic though, the second knife image is a vast, vast improvement. The clarity of the composition is much stronger. I would suggest you make the ketchup on the document the same shade as that on the floor. I also think the document is a little to large to be on the floor and further away from the knife. To me it looks a little like it is being dropped by the hand in the foreground.

If that was your intention, however, never mind!

-Ali

R4L · Tue 11/07/2006 21:18:51

Actually Ali, it wasn't my intention to do that. Oops!

Ill have to fix that and the knife.

R4L · Mon 17/07/2006 02:45:33

Can anyone think of a good name for my character? Right now, I can't think of a good name. Im looking for a name that sounds gritty, but good too. Im no good at creating character names.

EDIT:Actually, I think I found a name but if you can think of something better, please tell me. I've come up with Harding, John Harding.

EDIT2: Also, does anyone know how I can get more fonts? Not AGS fonts, but Truefonts. Im looking in particular for the Ransom font, but my computer does not seem to have it.

Thanks for the help so far.

Dig · Mon 17/07/2006 03:15:40

If I might ask - how will you do backgrounds? They can't be all black because you won't be able to see the character. How will you do them then?

R4L · Mon 17/07/2006 03:29:18

Dig, I plan to use 320x200 backgrounds greyscaled down, just with a Sin City flair. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

UPDATE: Here is a new screen for the intro sequence:

Theeph · Mon 17/07/2006 03:54:05

Quote from: Rap4Life42o on Mon 17/07/2006 02:45:33
EDIT2: Also, does anyone know how I can get more fonts? Not AGS fonts, but Truefonts. Im looking in particular for the Ransom font, but my computer does not seem to have it.

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Under "R" they have a ransom font.

Also try Blambot, which is linked off above site. Happy hunting.

R4L · Mon 17/07/2006 04:51:19

Thank you so much!

jetxl · Mon 17/07/2006 08:24:02

John is used so much. Try Eddy.
Oh, and the should be a comma between "the same" and "mr. Harding."

R4L · Mon 17/07/2006 08:32:10

Here is another pic:

And here is the edited version of the last pic:

Jet: Eddy sounds a little petty, like My Cousin Vinny petty. Do you have another name?

EDIT:Sorry if that came out to be insulting, I didn't really mean to say it like that.

UPDATE: I decided to put together a little non-playable demo that reveals some story. It the intro for the game. You can download it HERE.

Theeph · Mon 17/07/2006 10:15:16

Welcome r4l. Looking forward to this game.

Btw about names how about Vincent, Rick, Derek. They're kinda dead hard. Especially Rick. I can count about 6 film noir movies I have with Rick as a main character.

R4L · Mon 17/07/2006 10:22:47

Haha, I like that, R4L...

I like Vincent, and Rick. Hmmm... I might use Vincent, IMO it sounds better with Harding. Vincent Harding.

Phemar · Mon 17/07/2006 15:15:00

Rap, you just gave me the entire source code for your intro

When you distribute your game you only need to give us what's inside the compiled folder!

R4L · Mon 17/07/2006 15:34:08

But then again, with my evil plan, loading up the source code in AGS shall completely and utterly destroy you computer!!11!1!!

J/K but that was just the demo, I always create a copy for the final version.

R4L · Mon 07/08/2006 18:02:54

UPDATE: I know that I couldn't finish this before the end of MAGS, so I decided to re-do most of the work. Here is a scene of a police car parked outside of your apartment. I don't really like the shadowing, but I worked roughly 2 hours on this.

nihilyst · Mon 07/08/2006 18:21:09

For using only white and black: That's really good. I like it. Only the police car looks out of perspective.

cheers
nihilyst

R4L · Mon 07/08/2006 18:31:17

Yeah I can't seem to fix the police car, but I think it looks fine for the scene, as I am using it only for the intro.

Hollister Man · Sat 12/08/2006 17:51:14

You could always say someone stole the back tires.

Really, really good work here, although I can't say I've spent much time dissecting film noir.