The Screenshot Thread

[MagitekElite]

@Regi & Jeronimus:
Okay then, here is a screenshot of the tilesets in play I cooked up. Its a small forest

In game look:

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Event styled full look:

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[Prexus]

The clumped flowers and growth around the trees looks nice but my favorite is the vines climbing the dead trees. It kind of gives more purpose to dead trees in a sparse forest (they would usually fall and decompose/overgrow rather quickly.)

But that set of dark blue mushrooms needs to go.

 

[Luthur]

Haven't been here in a while...
So I've been working on a new game in my spare time...

as you can see, RIFT is a side scrolling shooter controlled with wsad and the mouse, where you manipulate energy around you to power your failing ship and its guns as you battle your way past swarms of anti-matter spacecraft. It'll feature ship customisation, a campaign mode, endless leaderboard mode and online dog fights. Enemy ship graphics may be WIP, depending on whether I want to redo them or not.

Comments?

 

[Charlie Fleed]

I think that its visual design is brilliant. I really like the led-display look of the menu. The only thing I am not sure about is the title and the gradient you used.

 

[Luthur]

Thanks, I spent a while trying to work out what sort of menu would work. The logo was a temporary sort of thing, I also hate the gradient, but it was just something to put there for the time being. I'll remove it when I work on a logo.

 

[Toams]

yo man that's pretty cool looking, what are you using to make it?
can you move your own spaceship around? or is it static?
also for the title logo
it would work but make the gradient a bit more subtle, and have less space between the characters
try to make the distance between the left border of the pic and the left border of the menu equal to the distance between the right border of the pic and the right border of the logo.

 

[Jason]

Hmm, this is just me, but when I think of "RIFT", I think of the MMO that I keep getting spammed about in my email, I mean, I've been invited to EVERY beta they've had, it's good and all but I don't want to buy it, stop sending me newsletters! D:

tl;dr

I don't think you should use a name that's already taken, but then again, I highly doubt they'll find out about it so it'll be fine.

 

[Luthur]

@Tomas: I'm using Game Maker 8, in GML. The ship is moved with either WSAD or the arrow keys depending on how you want to play. I'll work a bit more on the logo soon, I hadn't noticed the imbalance between the two sides of the menu until you said.
@JBrist: A quick google found the game you meant :/ Maybe something in my mind subconciously gave me that name (web adverts must work...) but this game's still pretty early so I could change the name. I kind of like the simplicity of the one word though...

 

[jacen_omas]

A screen from a town I am working on right now. I have been trying to play around with fogs and screen tint to make it look more rainy

 

[Ellie]

Wow, that is really nice, especially the cart.

I always hate rain in screenshots though, it always looks better in game but it never looks quite right not moving haha.

I like how you changed the notice board too.


On looking more rainy: puddles.

There are charasets in the RTP for showing raindrops hitting the floor or water. No puddles though I don't think.

 

[Necrile]

I see a star of david on the sign on the back sign. Is your game set in ww2 germany?

 

[jacen_omas]

Wow, that is really nice, especially the cart.

I always hate rain in screenshots though, it always looks better in game but it never looks quite right not moving haha.

I like how you changed the notice board too.


On looking more rainy: puddles.

There are charasets in the RTP for showing raindrops hitting the floor or water. No puddles though I don't think.

Thanks, I will look into that. Puddles would be great if someone has made some tiles for them. I will have a look around

I see a star of david on the sign on the back sign. Is your game set in ww2 germany?

Ummm, no its not. I think that's part of the RTP. I find the real world religious symbology strange in the RTP, maybe I will edit it out.

 

[Prexus]

It's a commonly used symbol in jRPGs to represent magic or the arcane. It suits a jRPG just fine.

 

[Necrile]

It's a commonly used symbol in jRPGs to represent magic or the arcane. It suits a jRPG just fine.

I thought that was usually a pentagram inscribed within a circle? Regardless, its not a big deal. I was just pointing it out.

 

[Prexus]

here are some puddles they are nothing special but the opacity is low so they blend in and are very subtle.

 

[jacen_omas]

Thanks man, that's really helpful. I will try them out and see how they look.

 

[Ellie]

Holy shit prexus dude, welcome back!

And yeah those puddles are cool, shame they're not animated but combined with other effects it could make a more realistic scene than just filters added out of normal view.

 

[Ellie]

It's a commonly used symbol in jRPGs to represent magic or the arcane. It suits a jRPG just fine.

I thought that was usually a pentagram inscribed within a circle? Regardless, its not a big deal. I was just pointing it out.

It is a pentagram, however Enterbrain being silly have the star of david in at least three places. Hell even First Seed Material mistakenly use the star of david.

 

[Prexus]

The star of david has been used in lots of JRPGs to represent arcana/magic why do I have to repeat myself I know what a pentagram is >8-( rage

 

[Migwel]