The Darksiders Part I - The Curious Case of Mark Idalo

Cyrus · Wed 05/03/2008 14:13:50

When are you going to post the Afterlife screenshots?

Cluey · Wed 05/03/2008 15:32:38

Quote from: Cyrus on Wed 05/03/2008 14:13:50
When are you going to post the Afterlife screenshots?

Later this week when I'm happy with them. Expect Friday-Saturday.

Stavaas · Wed 05/03/2008 18:30:56

Hey there,
really looking forward to this game. I'm actually in the works of doing something in the same time period and artstyle. Mind telling me what program you used to create the art for the game?

-Stavaas

Mr.T · Thu 06/03/2008 14:45:44

Quote from: Ben304 on Tue 04/03/2008 11:22:51
This is the fourth time I've looked at this thread, and only just now did I realise that the guy is investigating his own murder.

Now this is an idea I love. I look forward to the game!

I couldn't agree more, the plot seems great, I want to play

vertigoaddict · Thu 06/03/2008 20:23:37

I think I saw a game with quite the same plot, this guy gets beaten up to death and he has to find out why, something called 'Shadow Quest' or something; I don't remember.

Anyways, this looks great, can't wait!

Cluey · Fri 07/03/2008 22:40:10

So yeah, I spent a few days working on this shizzle, it's an afterlife background, hopefully should give you an idea of the style.

Could use anti aliasing maybe...

I'm aware that there is a way to get effective anti aliasing quicky, drawing the image twice as big and then shrinking it, but I always forget lol. Something to remember for Part II....

Anyway, the place will look busier with some NPC's bustling around.

EDIT:- In response to Stavaas, I use GraphicsGale for the main part, and then I tweak the colours and certain things in PS (I'd do it in GraphicsGale, but the lack of adjustment layers is a bit of a bummer)

http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/

It's in my opinion the Photoshop of the pixelart world. Really good (and free).

Mr.T · Sat 08/03/2008 21:11:02

Looking great Cluey!

ThreeOhFour · Sun 09/03/2008 01:52:24

Yes, Gale is very cool, and yes, wonderful background!

sergiocornaga · Sun 09/03/2008 04:40:47

Glad to see this revived from the dead. I think it looks better than ever.

Cluey · Tue 11/03/2008 19:44:56

Ok, this is just an update post to say that with the planned downtime tomorrow-sunday and my two week holiday to Japan on Monday means I won't be updating after today until April 1st. Just incase you think the project's died. Best to have this one post than any number of potential posts asking me where I am.

TL;DR:- BRB

ShadeJackrabbit · Sun 16/03/2008 19:42:40

Looks like a great game! Can't wait to hear some more progress.

Cluey · Sun 13/04/2008 19:37:50

Japan was awesome. I'd talk about it more but this isn't a blog site.

I will however bump this thread back to the top, with a new background:

Streetlamp needs work, other than that, it's the outside of the ship I poster earlier.

ShadeJackrabbit · Sun 13/04/2008 19:42:17

Ooh! Nice! You've got great lighting effects in your scenes...

Cluey · Tue 15/04/2008 12:50:19

Quote from: ShadeJackrabbit on Sun 13/04/2008 19:42:17
Ooh! Nice! You've got great lighting effects in your scenes...

Thanks, it's only the living world backgrounds that will have the "stage set" look, the afterlife ones will be a bit more bright.

Also, these backgrounds look much better on a TFT, if you think they look too dark, tweak your gamma a bit.

miguel · Tue 15/04/2008 13:13:47

All you screenshots look very good, very professional. It must take you some time getting to that perfection of lines, perspective and color choice.
Keep it up!

Dualnames · Wed 16/04/2008 14:01:09

I was about to notice that the lamp's lightning not correct but then i noticed your comment about and that stupid boat looking kind of awesome and cool.

JuuJuu · Wed 16/04/2008 20:40:03

This looks very good! Great screenshots! I really like the style. Hopefully all goes well, and I can play it.

dirk delshire · Mon 21/04/2008 23:16:34

Looks good, and your perspectives are unique for most 2d adventure games. The way you have the real world looking noir and the afterlife colorful reminds me of The Corpse Bride. If you watch the special features on that movie Tim Burton talks about that stuff. I of course always watch them because I'm studying to become a director.
Anyway I hope you finish this game it's a nice idea. I was disappointed when the movie The Missing didn't follow up on it like the trailer implied, but not many movies live up to their trailers anyway. Best of luck chum.

Puddleglum · Tue 22/04/2008 00:23:25

The graphics are perfect. I am so excited for this one!

good luck !!

Cluey · Wed 23/04/2008 11:54:15

Quote from: dirk delshire on Mon 21/04/2008 23:16:34
The way you have the real world looking noir and the afterlife colorful reminds me of The Corpse Bride. If you watch the special features on that movie Tim Burton talks about that stuff. I of course always watch them because I'm studying to become a director..

I've not seen Corpse Bride, but I love Nightmare Before Christmas's style, and it's heavily influenced the way I draw the dead characters. I'll upload some sketches tonight if anyone's curious.

I'm currently working on the Police Station reception (40%) and the Death Ferry (80%), then I'm going to move onto getting a few more characters done so I can think about assembling a demo.