Interface test and animations

[pixelcat]

The new dragon colour looks excellent, and I like the new outfit a lot more.  I really like your style, your characters have always been some of my favorite.  Keep up the great work.

[jetxl]

I have to tell you that the things you draw are totaly awesome.
A while ago I showed your drawings that were on the critic lounge to a friend of mine. I said that I never seen sprites this good, not even in Capcom games, and my buddy agreed. These are the BEST sprites on the planet.

Enough idolizing. You want feedback that can help.
When the menu appears, the interface gui disapears making half the screen black. It's like looking at the nightwatch and the wooden frame disapears.
You should make the menu gui as big as the background. You can then also add buttons for increasing/decreasing sound and walkspeed.

The menu button itself is out of place at this moment. You're going to add more buttons, but maybe you should place the menu button in the upper-left corner and make it pop up (like the auto hide menubar in windows).

let me show you what I mean.
function repeatly_execute(){Ã,  //global script
Ã,  if (mouse.x<=20 && mouse.y==0){
Ã,  Ã,  GUIOn(1);Ã,  //gui with only a menu button in the upper left screen 20x10
Ã,  }
Ã,  if(mouse.x>20 && mouse.y>10){
Ã,  Ã,  GUIOff(1);
Ã,  }
}
or you could display the menu screen when you press Esc.

[Bernie]

Thanks for the comments!

jetxl: The normal gui will be even more empty if i remove the menu button, and i need something in the middle, so I don't really want to put it somewhere else.



Also, I've made the interface only go 50% black when the menu is open, and it opens when pressing F5 already. Not sure if I'm gonna add volume/speed sliders, maybe later on.

[strazer]

I agree about removing the menu button from the main gui.
How about this layout:

[Bernie]

Hey, that's a good idea... I'll do that, thanks!

[Migs]

I wish I had a fraction of your artistic talent, Bernhard.  Keep up this excellent work!

[Bernie]

I don't believe in talent, only practising helps to get better at stuff (at least that's how it is for me).

Anyway, I've been trying to do some art stuff after having abandoned drawing for about a month. For this game, I want to use a non-manga/anime-like style. I usually draw manga stuff, but I want the artwork for this game to be a bit more natural and not too cute.

Here's my attempt:



Does this still look kinda like manga stuff? I'm having a hard time telling... I really should do less manga art, heh.

[pixelcat]

Beautiful work, Bernhard...

Sorta looks like manga... things like the pointed nose, hair, eyebrows, and mouth seem close to the style.  The shading and overall character seem to be "a bit more natural", if that's what you're going for, so you don't really notice the manga aspects unless you're looking for them, IMO.  Really nice work.

[Chicky]

it looks like the really realistic style manga. Bloody beautiful. infact id say it looks more like marvel comics style, spiderman ect.

[Bernie]

Thanks! In that case, I'll stick to that style, it's fun to draw like that and a good change to my usually pretty cutesy manga style, heheh.

[sedriss]

I get a "Page not found" when i try to download itÃ, 

[Bernie]

Oh, whoops. I removed it from the server yesterday. I'll put it back up right away! Try downloading again in 4 minutes.

[Nhazgul]

Beautiful

[Bernie]

Thanks!
I think I got even more away from an anime/manga style now:



Or at least I hope so!Ã, 

[Tiki]

Brilliant, Bernhard , but is his hair on fire?   

I agree with you that it is even further from the anime/manga style than the last one.  Stick with this stuff, and make us a game!

Now that I think about it though.....his chin seems a little off, like its leaning to the bottom right, but his neck more to the left.  Ah, but I have funky eyes, so its really up to you.  I may do a paintover after the Father's Day festivities to show you what I mean.  Again, great peice of work!

[TheSaint]

havent stoped before but i wanna tell u that i also like ur gui and sprites. drawings aint bad aswell, first one is more like anime than other. neither is classic manga but style is anime definitely.

cheers

[big brother]

Hmmm...still thinking about the spirit's new color. Does anyone think the rust color makes him look demonic? You could always go with a cute pink or a baby blue...

P.S. Demonic is bad.

[Bernie]

You think? Hmm... maybe I will change it, gonna check how it looks with some other backgrounds.

[Darth Mandarb]

Darth Mandarb: I'm not sure what you mean with 'nose cut off', maybe could you explain it some more?

Somehow I missed this ...

I went back in to take a screenshot of what I was talking about but couldn't duplicate the problem.Ã,  Took me a while to figure it out but I think what I was seeing was that the character was floating in precisely the right spot that an element from the background was blended perfectly into the face of the character and was creating the effect.

This time when I played it through I didn't notice anything wrong with the nose area.  Sorry for the confusion.

[Al_Ninio]

I don't have any critics at all, except the background looked a teeny bit blurry.

And another thing, I thought the latest  pic you posted looked familiar...
And THEN I thought: Pixellation forums... Right?

Good stuff, man.