I See You

Gauntlet · Tue 11/04/2006 19:26:34

Hi I am new here and i thought up a game which i am working on now its called I See You.

Story

You are Tom Jackel which has just woken up to find his room filled with blood when you investigate you find the kitchen door locked and you have to open it. What you find in there is your dead wife so you quest out to find the murderer, find the motive and bring him to justice you do this by searching for clues, interviewing nearby people and exploring the cities.

Screenshots

Why is there blood in your room

Who is this guy standing around

Development Progress
Story: 100%
Backgrounds: 14%
Characters: 30%
Sound/Music: 80%

Features it will have when it is done
7 cities to explore
10 culprits to interview
Lots of puzzles to complete
A secret room

Hammerite · Tue 11/04/2006 19:38:27

ok. i reckon you should spend more time on your graphics and dont use the spray paint thing from MS Paint (i hate that thing) but your story's quite intriguing, keep going but improve graphics.

Gauntlet · Tue 11/04/2006 21:05:15

well the graphics were done by me so thats why. Okay i do need help on the graphics so if anyone wants to help me please PM me.

GarageGothic · Tue 11/04/2006 23:15:50

I love the style of your graphics (this is NOT being sarcastic, if you stick to this style it will be a very unique experience). I have two questions though:

1) That thing to the left of the couch looks like a hammer. If so, is it an inventory item? It seems rather large, but that's one way to avoid pixel hunting.

2) How does Tom get through doors wearing that hat? Perhaps an animation of him taking it off for room transitions would be in place.

Gauntlet · Wed 12/04/2006 09:36:54

That is actually a pickaxe and its that big because i didn't want that item hard to find as its not really a puzzle (You use it to open the kitchen door). I hadn't thought about the hat being a bit big for the doors mabye i will do an animation of him taking off the hat or mabye make it a bit smaller.

Thanks for all your feed back about the graphics i am looking into some other graphic types (mainly ripping) if someone gives me a reason why the graphics are bad then i might look into it but for know i am sticking with it.

Darth Mandarb · Wed 12/04/2006 09:41:23

If you want advice on the graphics post in the CL ... however, if you aren't planning on using these graphics than these aren't the screenshots that'll be in the game and hence, this thread will be locked.

Ubel · Wed 12/04/2006 09:46:45

I have to disagree with Hammerite too. Please, do not change the style of those graphics. They probably won't get very good ratings from anyone, but at least they're made by you! And they do look quite cute.

I would suggest you not to use the MS paint default palette for your colors though. The RPG colors just hurt my eyes. If you'd just modify the colors to be a bit softer, then the graphics would be nice.

I'm sorry, I know this isn't the Critics Lounge, but I'm sure nobody minds if I do this little paintover, just to show you what I mean with the color usage: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7398/scrnshot3paintover2hs.png

I somewhat like the story/idea of this one and it seems like it's going to be quite a long game too. All in all your game sounds very nice! Good luck with it!

When are you thinking of releasing this by the way?

Gilbert · Wed 12/04/2006 09:51:23

I'll say go for it using these graphics.

Though it's true that better graphics might attract more people to download and try your game, it's not really necessary, especially when it's your first games (ripped graphics are not prefered in general).

Better graphics also means you may need to spend more time to develop your games (and I DON'T mean people shouldn't spend time in making good games!), which may be an obstacle for people even completing their first games.

As long as the graphics are functional I'll say it's okay. Also, remember that there used to be many commercial games whose graphics didn't even reach this level (cf. Mystery House) but of course that's history...

Edit: again, someone beated me while I was typing, I'll post anyway.

Gauntlet · Wed 12/04/2006 10:05:59

Thanks everyone for replying i think ill use these graphics in the game thanks for your advice.

My website is know up it is a geocities website so expect it to go down sometimes anyway here it is

http://www.geocities.com/gauntlet9001/

edit - posts combined by Darth - please do not double post

Gord10 · Wed 12/04/2006 15:30:29

Good luck

I suggest you not to change the graphic style; it looks cute this way. Just maybe you should use a photoshop program, so you could set the colors and give texture effects.

Afflict · Thu 13/04/2006 07:52:52

This might sound harse but all these freaking n00bs making games dont give a crap about the games they make.

Graphics takes awhile and geez I mean we already have one world of chaos game I for one might only be able to stomach one...

It takes a few tuts in one weekend you can draw perspective hands down understand the fundamentals no matter what age you are and you will draw way better!

Regardless Goodluck on your adventure your story sounds interesting just a little adjustment on your progress..

Backgrounds... : 10%
Characters... : 5%

Gilbert · Thu 13/04/2006 07:58:38

Oh please, this is not the Critics Longe, also, you probably make Mills cry!

Play Ace Quest!!11!!1!!11!

Gauntlet · Thu 13/04/2006 16:02:02

what makes you think i need to adjust the production from 40% to 10% and 30% to 5%

This is my new background

lo_res_man · Thu 13/04/2006 17:49:25

I would like to apologise for my rude comments earlier in the thread. They were wrong, sorry.

Gauntlet · Fri 14/04/2006 10:29:14

why is that table getting on your nerves

here is some more backgrounds

Gauntlet · Fri 14/04/2006 15:48:24

tables in cafe's are usually round, i tried to get it as round as possible.

here is my title

vict0r · Fri 14/04/2006 16:19:47

Aaah! My eyes... No critics but please, PLEASE, drop the textures! Even though, something looks better with textures, it dont mean you should change all the colours with textures

And why on earth (just to not swear) are the microsoft hq made of fabrics?

Gauntlet · Fri 14/04/2006 16:31:12

umm... good point i guess that is a problem. And its likrosoft not microsoft.

lo_res_man · Mon 17/04/2006 04:38:42

As in,spandex? $:-\$

Gauntlet · Mon 17/04/2006 11:03:52

no its like microsoft but i renamed it likrosoft