Mobster Game - Dark Alley

Mephistophilis · Fri 09/07/2004 15:17:57

Unfinished Alley Picture -

I'm stuck with the Fact I want To keep the Very Dark Atmosphere but I want to keep The moon Light the Poblem is tha There Should Be Moonlight Over the Top of the Fence and this Would ruin the atmosphere in my opinion.
The Thing by TheRight Wall is A placeholder for A bin, Anything to add to The Alley? It seems a Bit empty.

This is The First Room Which is Supposedly Finished But I still Think It's Empty, It's meant to be in the Corner of a Room and Secluded but It feels to Empty:

There is a Guy sitting on the right Chair and you sit on the left.

Main Char -

Thanks to Neole for The upload space
The Fuzz is only from changing BMP to JPEG so not in game

Ali · Fri 09/07/2004 15:28:16

You don't make a scene dark and noir-ish by taking out all the light. Mobster films were shot on 16mm with a small number of lamps - the result was high contrast black and white.

Small areas of light are the way to go, though not quite as small as you've used. I'll try a quick paintover to show what I mean...

This was VERY quick, but I hope it illustrates my point. For speed I've used gradients - not necessarily wise.

Excellent character - is he meant to be a modern day mobster?

Mephistophilis · Fri 09/07/2004 16:06:37

Very Nice paintover but I'm not Trying to make It Noirish it's Just mean to Be an Alleyway with No Light in The Middle of the Night You get Ambushed in it
Depends What counts as Modern Day Mobster?

Redwall · Fri 09/07/2004 19:04:42

I Would Suggest You Don't Use the Shift Button So Much And Capitalize Only The Beginnings Of Sentences And Proper Nouns.

Mephistophilis · Fri 09/07/2004 19:09:26

Damn you! You're meant to criticise the artwork (or lack of it) but I do try to avoid it. AtleastI can spell which some people on the forum can't (I'm excluding those who don't speak English very well)

Cluey · Fri 09/07/2004 20:02:31

So, I I were to type lIkE thIS yOu'D cRitIsiZe mE?
Nice BG btw, its a bit bland though...
I like the look of the main chara

Mephistophilis · Fri 09/07/2004 20:04:17

Can anyone suggest anything to make it less bland?

Darth Mandarb · Fri 09/07/2004 22:08:33

Got [perhaps] a little carried away ...

I would suggest:
- adding some dirt/noise to the ground
- adding trash scattered about
- adding signs/lights to the buildings
- perhaps another window?
(I left the VP in there on purpose ... in case you need it!)

These are things I was planning ... then I realized how much time I was spending on it

Hope it helps.

[Cameron] · Sat 10/07/2004 03:23:28

THAT PIC ROX MY BOXORS!

Mephistophilis · Sat 10/07/2004 16:32:49

.... I might just redo that Picture so It looks like I made it!

I'll post a redo with some of Darth suggestions.
How do you implement Noise?

Mephistophilis · Sun 18/07/2004 11:14:06

It's my Holiday so I was only working on it a Little bit at a time. Voila!

Cluey · Sun 18/07/2004 18:04:03

I think I speak for all when I say, LOADS BETTER
See, it just shows how useful the critics lounge is!

Mephistophilis · Sun 18/07/2004 20:08:43

Woohoo!
This isn't really a demo it's just for critcism of My funky (IMO) GUI, and Not-so-funky Walk Cycles.

Download Here

mousemat · Tue 27/07/2004 09:01:50

I have a pic of my dark maze room bu its not darkened yet

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/maze_room.JPG <<<<<<<look here

ah its not working damn it

the page cant be displayed

Al_Ninio · Tue 27/07/2004 09:05:33

Mousemat, can you please explain why you posted that?
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Back to the thread, Mephistophilis, great improvement, downloading that demo

mousemat · Tue 27/07/2004 09:06:22

Quote from: Highwaygal on Tue 27/07/2004 09:05:33
Mousemat, can you please explain why you posted that?
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Back to the thread, Mephistophilis, great improvement, downloading that demo

Its working again please av a look

Al_Ninio · Tue 27/07/2004 09:08:28

Mousemat, if you want people to criticise your artwork, post it in your own thread, please...

Mephistophilis · Tue 27/07/2004 14:40:35

Oh, this kind of phased out for a few days.
I'm still trying to find a decent tutorial for Save/Load GUIs, but the Quit, Icon bar and Inventory's done (you can't see the Inventory because I forgot to add an Item. I was going to repost it once i'd done the Saving GUIs.

Does the Fact that no-one posts in something give you the right to recycle it? you've already got a page in the Critics Lounge.

Al_Ninio · Tue 27/07/2004 14:46:17

I played your demo thingy a bit.
Not much to see there, but I really like the walking cursor

Mephistophilis · Tue 27/07/2004 14:49:57

I wasn't Planning on using that, I was just going through what I could Change.
What about the Main Guy's Walking?