Do these opening intro screens look good to you?

[R4L]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Stand_Alone_Games_Prestent....bmp

This is the introduction to my game. Done in 320x200

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Stand_Alone_Games_Prestent3.bmp

This is the same thing but it has a bigger character and a thing that displays my name.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/A_Game_Made_In_AGS_Engine....2.bmp

This is the screen after the first 2. It says that chris jones is a genius and stuff like that for making ags.

Anyway can I improve anything? All criticism is welcome.

[Andail]

Hm, I think I have seen the "I'm with stupid" sign in your posts before, so I'm not gonna waste any time explaining why it's there.

The guy saying "stand alone" is pretty cool I guess, but over all it feels pretty simple, especially the last "screen", which is just some text saying CJ is genious. Doesn't seem to be too much work involved, in other words.

[m0ds]

I concur with Andail. They look pretty rough and whipped up pretty quickly.

2) Always start what ya finish

Don't do a half assed job. Push yourself, and I'm sure you can push the abilities of MS Paint!

[Alexis Vale]

I can barely read "Stand Alone Games presents". I see somewhat of a theme here, but, in my opinion, it would look better if you had one base image that you just changed the words. That is, if you want a theme. Um:

[base image] Stand Alone Games presents

[same base image] a game by Rey Hect

[same base image] made in AGS (Chris Jones, you are a pure genius!)

But that's just me because I'm boring. Otherwise, just have entirely different images (that have a significant difference).

[R4L]

Mods, Andail: Yes I will work more on the screens and put maybe a cool animation scene for the beginning and when he comes to like one frame say where hes running or something, i can put like STAND ALONE GAMES PRESENT and then go back to him like dodging bullets or something and say something else. Its alot of work, but I will try to make it happen. I love MS-PAINT style for its color changes and so on.

AlexisVale: Like the idea, kinda, I don't know I will try it anyway. Thanks.

Well ladies and gentlemen, back to the old drawing board...

[R4L]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Intro.bmp

Yeah yeah yeah I am stupid but this my room1 for my new game I started called Cosmo Colatteral's Adventure. Well criticism is greatly appreciated.

[evilspacefart]

like that style better. you definitely put more work into that one.

[scotch]

Why can't you convert to gif or png?  Do you like getting the I'm with stupid image every time you post an image?

If you need a converter try this: http://agagames.com/scotch/BMP2PNG.EXE

just drag your bmp file onto it and it'll make a png version of the same colour depth.

The image is nice though, only major critisism is that the flat front of the building is shaded like it is curved.  But overall looks quite nice, if a little bare.   Perhaps add some clouds and plants?

[R4L]

Thanks for the thanks or.. whatever.. yeah.. well anyway that converter works great. I am adding some clouds and plants right now. Thanks for the criticism.

[R4L]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Intro4.jpg

The JPEG messed with the picture, but the GIF changed the light grey I had in the puffs of smoke to like a faint purple so I saved it like this.

I didn't add any plants because I can't make plants... I can't really draw nature that well. I was going to draw a tree but that was a disaster.

Give me more tips on plants please.
Thanks.

[R4L]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Intro5.jpg

Here I have put a sunflower and a regular flower underneath it. I am gonna do the shadow of both of them soon. If you look real close at the sunflower, there are three shades of green on the stem, and a light shade of yellow at the tip of everyone of the pedals.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/room1.bmp

EDIT: YES IT IS IN BMP AND I DON'T CARE IF I AM STUPID! Bmp is better than jpeg because quality matters and gif just screwed with my colors so... here is my 2nd room in BMP.

EDIT: Sorry for making triple posts.

[TheDude]

Dude... triple post! Use the edit button.

[scotch]

Yes, jpg is bad, gif screws with the colours if you save from paint, but save a bmp and use that converter.  Should have the exact same colours and be much smaller filesize, and is allowed by the forums.  AGS can import pngs now, too.

[cpage]

also man its coll that you post some images here for us to see but dont post them all! that way we wont know thw whole game befroe it comes out!

anyway from what i can see you are getting better with every new BG I like your style and keep up the good work

[R4L]

Thank you all! I am glad to hear that you guys like my screens. I have another one done but I have to leave at the moment. Maybe some other time I'll put it up. Once again thank you all.

EDIT: Here is a sample room for a murder game I want to start on as well...

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Rooftop2.PNG

I won't lie but I did this on a program I had a long time ago called Mickey's Magic Artist Studio. Its quite nice and has tons of tools. I reccomend it

[earlwood]

 :o Dear god, that is awesome! I hope you aren't kidding, because I'm stea...err, downloading the shareware version and eventually buy it...honestly.

[R4L]

Actually, I am kidding!

[R4L]

Oh, don't stop downloading the Magic Artist Deluxe Studio thing because its awesome. Just get it and spend some time learning its tools.

[sergiocornaga]

Looking good.

[R4L]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Room5,2.png

Heres another one, its a lake scene. The main character will be small so it looks big but this is what I can get cause I ain't no artist. Water is hard for me to draw.