Game & Map Screenshots 11

[Mr. Detective]

@Frostorm There is already a faint white outline around the texts, but it still isn't enough to make those two numbers easier to see. Can't use another color besides white or the texts in dialogue will look weird, too.

 

[alice_gristle]

@gRaViJa, looks cool, totally 90s! I dig it. But what happens when you go behind houses? Can you see your character at all? Also, those boats floating in the harbour, man, I'm sorry to say but they just look weird!

 

[gRaViJa]

@alice_gristle 90's is what I was going for! At some parts you will see your characters outline. it won't be implemented on every single tile, but on big buildings etc. it will. Some stuff might look weird because of changed perspective from 2d to 3d, but you recognised it as a boat floating in the harbor, so for now that's enough At some point I will replace objects like that with my own version with correct perspective, but my focus for graphics is elsewhere now.

 

[masterlobo]

Been on this forum forever and never did it occur to me to post here, so gonna give it a try

First a lovely autumn forest.


And now what perhaps may be a hot take lol (I personally prefer on map encounters)

For the record, I don't hate random encounters. Plenty of games and classics I love use them. I just prefer the less disruptive nature of on map encounters.

 

[Frostorm]

First a lovely autumn forest.

Lovely map, what did you use for the falling leaves effect btw?

 

[masterlobo]

Lovely map, what did you use for the falling leaves effect btw?

Thanks! And I'm using MogHunter's Weather EX script.

 

[bg400]

So... due to reasons of lack of ability making a crossover story, and other reasons in general, I've decided to completely shift my Mario RPG game into something more traditional and somewhat rougelike, while also giving the extra third spotlight to my favorite WarioWare character.



(Battle screenshots will come later)

 

[Frostorm]

Apologies in advance, this post is gonna take up some space. I wanted to get an opinion on which style of mapping is better. The 1st type is basically a giant map cut up into smaller sections w/ continuity between each map/section. The 2nd type is made of 4 maps I recently commissioned which don't really have continuity but are connected by 1-tile wide pathways.

Spoiler: 1st Style

*Note: I had to reduce the img quality of Style 1's maps since it was too large to post. It's actually 6 maps, but I pasted it into 1 large img. The black lines denote the edges of the maps.

Spoiler: 2nd Style

 

[Pootscooter]

You can tell they were made by different people lol. The 1st Style definitely looks more natural/organic. The 2nd Style looks more like a cave that only exists in video games. What I mean is, real caves don't have large boxy rooms that get pinched into a "1-tile wide passage" as you described. So I vote for Style #1, the large 6 section map.

Plus, I imagine it would be easier to get lost in the 2nd Style since there's no visible continuity. Players would have to memorize where each map is in relation to each other, whereas the 1st Style looks much easier to navigate.

 

[Lihinel]

@Frostorm : I agree with @Pootscooter Version 1 seems better, both in terms of overall looks as well as gameplay.

@Topic
Made my first real map since XP times:

No parallax, no pictures, no doodads, just tile edits.

I really missed having multiple layers and manual layer selection.

 

[XyphienLLC]

Here's a map for a game I'm making as a video game version of one of the companies board games. If I could get some feedback on it, that'd be amazing as well

Long story short, this game will have some pokemon-ish gameplay mechanics, so the flowers are essentially tall grass. You will find Pixa's in them. <- such as Foxii over here

That being said, how is the map for this?

 

[gRaViJa]

@Lihinel If XP did one thing right it was definitely the rtp style and mapping system.

A Shrine and place of workship in my game, Eniko: Ghosts Of Grace:

 

[ValentinaSama67]

A dorm I did for two of my main characters. I did it from scratch and would love some opinions and/or things I could add.

 

[alice_gristle]

@Lihinel, that looks pretty hot! I'm soo entirely into the fade-to-black woods! Not entirely sure of the washed-out colour scheme, but I'm guessing I might grow to like it, too...

@XyphienLLC, love, that map looks so much like it's meant for a videogame it makes me grin. Yo pond looks a bit artificial, is that intentional? Seems nice to me otherwise, I'd love to potter around looking for critters! Dat Foxii looks a bit weird though, I like the snoring effect, but the way its belly goes makes it look like putty or a creepy balloon... Mebbe if the swelling phase was a bit less exaggerated, would it look more natural?

@gRaViJa, OH WOW HONEY! That looks super... I'm all for that sweet candlelight! Just one thing - being able to walk over candles looks a bit funky. I know that realistically it's no biggie, stepping over a row of small candles is easy... but in the game environment, it just looks out of place. Mebbe fix it so you can't step over 'em? (Also, stepping over holy votive candles IIIIIS PROFANE! )

 

[orange~]

@gRaViJa Looks really crazy good! I love the candles littered around. Gives the place a special vibe.

@masterlobo your maps and scenes look so lively! I'm usually not a fan of the leaf effect, but it definitely works here!

@ValentinaSama67 It looks really good. Very tidy. If I made that map, I'd probably scatter random junk everywhere and break the symmetry a bit like the other table could be tilted a bit differently. But I'm not sure if that would be improvement necessarily. Sometimes simpler is better and your map tells a story that these people are relatively tidy at least? : P


Oh yeah and I made a little trailer too for my upcoming survival horror-jRPG hybrid. Would love to hear feedback.

 

[gRaViJa]

@alice_gristle Thanks! I agree on walking over the candles, I blocked it first but then it became really hard to navigate. had to choose between playability and realism there and i chose playability

@orange~ Also thanks I wanted to clearly show it's a place of worship and mystery but I didn't want another classical church lay-out, after playing Dark Souls III I came up with the stairs and candles idea.

@ValentinaSama67 I love the style, the lighting gives the impression it's during dusk? Ideas to add: tv and game console, guitar + is the middle a table or a desk? It's pretty big for a dorm, maybe.

 

[Ninjakillzu]

I finally have a much needed map view script! This was made at my request by Xane for VX Ace. It's really amazing because it allows the player to look around the map while showing weather, event movement, screen effects, and more! Plus, you don't have to deal with annoying map images! Xane's Map Navigation script

I made these custom arrows.

 

[Dust]

@Ninjakillzu I love the mood in your screen, also very cool lighting.

 

[Weremole]

Tileset took me a while. But wee! Steamship.

 

[Synrec]

These are some screenshots from my upcomming project

This is... just a map for now until I flesh out the areas and start working on the story in full.


Crafting mini-game. Video is on my twitter account.


This is the mission screen. The story in my game progresses in a style similar to the rune factory games with some twists and modifications.


The battle results screen. I'll be editing this a tad when I start the interface and graphical uplifting phase of my project.


And that's it.