Take a look at this background...

[Nine Toes]

This is a background I made for a game I started a long time ago.  It's supposed to be a dorm room for a college student.  I tried to make it look like a 19 year old lives in it, hence the skateboard, the playstation, the guitar, the posters, the overflowing wastebasket.  I'm trying to make it a little more colorful, though... and I'd like to make it look a little less tidy (you know how college boys can be...).  I also noticed that it's slightly out of perspective in some places.


Any comments?

[earlwood]

Obviously, maybe a bit of shading and a Little more detail [nice Strat,BTW ]
a few other things:
there is one pixel under the bed that is white, and if this was a 19 year old's room, I think there would be clothes and old soda cans everywere, maybe a model plane on the ceiling. Basically, It looks a bit too organized

[Ben]

I think the room looks too big for a dorm.. Also, the way everything is lined up on one wall is also kind of unnatural. If you feel like starting over (I know, I hate starting over too ), I think it would look much better if you showed two adjacent walls. You could keep the bed in the corner, and the guitar right next to it, but I 'd move the tv so that it's in front of the bed and the desk so it's to the right of the guitar.. You may not even have to show the door at all..

[Nine Toes]

Do you mean, a kind of isometric view?

(man... I really don't wanna start over on this room...  )

Actually, I have the other half to the room... In AGS, I put hotspot along the bottom, so when the character walks down towards the bottom of the screen, the background changes to the other half.  The other half is far from finished, it's only got a couch, a bookshelf, and the other half of the bed.

But anyways, do you mean isometric?

[Ben]

I don't mean isometric. I'd still use normal perspective, but view the room from a different angle.. Slightly askew instead of viewing the wall head-on, so you could see two walls at once.

Although I can see why starting over would be difficult. You've already done a lot of work on both sides of the room.. Perhaps a simpler way of making the room look smaller would just be to move the dresser up against the right-hand wall and move that wall to the left... Maybe lower the cieling a bit too.