A room from my upcoming (and first) adventure game.
Please tell me what you think (it was made in mspaint)
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Reading_room.gif)
/State Of Being\
Quote from: a_Guybrush_guy on Thu 04/09/2003 12:49:25
A room from my upcoming (and first) adventure game.
Please tell me what you think (it was made in mspaint)
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Reading_room.gif)
/State Of Being\
(by the way this is a small room)
First some general things:
1. There's no real need to quote yourself
2. If you have to quote yourself, there's no real need to include the image, we can all see it in your first post
3. Don't double-post at all, really. You can just edit your first post and include your one-line addition.
To the room itself:
Truthfully, the room isn't really working at all...the only good thing I could say is that you seem to have put down a lot of work on the details.
Apart from that, the perspective is really a mess and the colours clash infernally...
if you changed the perspective somewhat, changed the colours slightly and did some other corrections, the room could very well work in a game...perhaps someone will show you.
There's some bad karma going around I think. Anyway look the perspective is not the most important thing, also it's your very first game. So don't sweat it. :)
Now, I made a quick example based off your room that should give you some ideas on your next drawing that might make you smile & say 'gee wow' when you're doing it. Maybe not, but I hope it makes things clearer. Also, I'm no perspective expert either, but this link has a tutorial I found useful. I hope it helps, peace!
http://user.tninet.se/~vqb114l/ilb/tutorials/pers.htm (http://user.tninet.se/~vqb114l/ilb/tutorials/pers.htm)
(http://www.flakquest.zapto.org/miscart/roomexample.jpg)
Andail Said it.. the perspectives are way off..
also one thing that grey thing is a door? I really don't know..
you should try starting on the primitive shapes of the room and then start to put the detail in place..
one other thing, what resolution are you goning to use in your game? because that room is 312x391 and to use that kind of resolution for a bg it's really complicated.
For your first game the perspective is not that bad. The only thing I would change is the bookshelf's perspective and that shouldn't be too hard. Everything else is pretty good for a first game.
Dagooh: what gray thing are you talking about? If it's that writing on the wall I can't see how you would think it's a door.
Heh, that's obviously some sort of billboard poster thing, it's not the door....the door is right next to the goldfish...come on it's plain to see! :o :o :o Tonight the smilies revolt! ;)
wow, thats a big bilboard poster thing, sorry my bad ::)
thats kinda nice.. but..
THATS RIGHT! ITS TOOOOOOO DAMN SMALL!
but you do a good job then! - keep up!
have you actually seen a reading room before ?
i don't really have a problem with the perspective or the colors, because you have the right to be learning.
but you should think better of the scene you want to depict. your room is almost empty and there are no chairs or desks. i've never seen a neon-bright big ass panel, or whatever that is, in a reading room. i would expect many more shelves and books. i don't see any light sources. etc etc.
in short, learn to observe, and think of how a place like that would be in real life. don't start drawing the room before you clearly visualize what you're gonna do.
here's an example (http://isuisse.ifrance.com/jet-black/div00.gif), to give you some ideas hopefully. if you don't like it, try google and look for reference.
Is that IceClimber? Wow, I dig that....twas my very first Nes game. Making my brother into a snowflake, that was joy.
Anyway it could be a children's reading room with a fun plush carpet that the little kiddies like to lay on whilest delving into the depths of Seuss? Or, it could be an erotic bookstore where the neon signs are rampant(hey I've neeeever been there I'm just guessing)? A chair just seems, so out of place in these cases...and for the latter maybe a crappy stained bed would be appropriate... :)