The Screenshot Thread

[Juan J. Sánchez]

Amazing.

 

[Xilef]

I'm getting a perspective headache looking at that lighthouse and the cliff to the left of it on that first image, is differential shading an option? Or lengthen the height of the cliff steps, after writing that I realised shading probably won't help

 

[Ace of Spades]

^Thanks for the tip. I've increased the height of the cliffs on the left a bit, hopefully it'll help improve the perspective. I know it's a bit off, but in the interest of making progress I'm calling it complete for now.

 

[onzephyr]

Continuing work on my January game for Onegameamonth.com
not a whole lot changed from last week. Shooting to have a demo level done by tuesday.

 

[Xilef]

New lighting flags:

Also: Battle Swirl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VwAu8NAXZ8

This swirl effect is made through rotating, resizing and darkening the video buffer, so I can take the rendered 3D world and chuck it through this swirl effect.

The steps are:
Draw render rotated to buffer
Darken the buffer a bit
Draw a shrinked version of the render to the buffer
Draw the buffer rotated over the render with some fading
Draw the buffer rotated over the render ever further with no fading
If duration of swirl is over a certain time, fade entire screen to black a bit
Repeat

Took a lot of video analysis and testing (Like, lots of testing) to come up with this formula (With no graphics shaders used, not sure if that's a good thing or not).
The only thing it's missing is the contrast increase, but that will require graphics shaders.

Added Cinematic blur as well, which renders the frames at 50% transparency over each other for a cheap motion blur effect, useful for making summons, flashbacks or fast-paced scene look even more awesome.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Jesus, so much talent, why are any of you even using rpg maker anymore, ahahahaha.

Anyway, I brought this, been working on Menagerie and I've done another hours worth of progressive content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDxwjsqRPs
I'm now working on space exploration and tidying up some gameplay stuff, then I'll post that here too.

 

[Xilef]

Jesus, so much talent, why are any of you even using rpg maker anymore, ahahahaha.

We're not, I now consider RPG Maker a limiting factor for those with good talent.

 

[onzephyr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhNzfCxdqR4

Quick video of some of the game play for the January entry into Onegameamonth.com.
Going pretty well so far still got a whole lot to try and finish by the end of the month.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Jesus, so much talent, why are any of you even using rpg maker anymore, ahahahaha.

We're not, I now consider RPG Maker a limiting factor for those with good talent.

Once I finish Menagerie I won't be using it anymore either, its yeah, pretty limited.

 

[decanos78]

@ onezephyr - that game demo looks amazing and so much fun.. whilst watching that demo
I was taken back to a game years old called "Arkanoid", it was a fun game pretty much similar
to your game, cant wait to play this.

 

[onzephyr]

@ onezephyr - that game demo looks amazing and so much fun.. whilst watching that demo
I was taken back to a game years old called "Arkanoid", it was a fun game pretty much similar
to your game, cant wait to play this.

Yup it's a brick break style game. like Arkanoid or breakout or a bunch of others. It's playable right now. it's just lacks sound and a GUI. Well that and it still has a ton of placeholder or missing animations.

I plan on making a WIP thread about it once I have a demo level to play. Which should be soon. Heck has to be as the games deadline is the end of the month.

 

[Zankoku no Yami]

I just finished mapping out the over-world, a couple screens to celebrate.

I... really need to hire you as a mapper... seriously. Been watching your maps for this project and they are amazing. Beautiful.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Thank you for the encouraging words, it's hard to stay motivated on something you've been working on for so long. I recently remapped all the work I had previously done, I'm glad it paid off. At this point I'm trying to make cuts so I can actually finish what I started.

 

[fenryo]

Hi here is some pic of my A-RPG : Aurion : Enzo Kodiodan's legacy

Thats some picture of the "exploration mode" the demo is almost ready (no combat for now) but only in french for the moment

Spoiler

Here is the menu you can check the hero sprite for the batle mode

Spoiler

Thanks to Zeus81 script you can jump from hight in the game

Spoiler

" the -Climb- gameplay, yout must climb fast and manage the timing to avoid tempests"

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He re is the underwater phase where you must manage the air of you and your alllies

I will post the gameplay and complete presentation soon, hope you like the pictures already, thanks :biggrin:

 

[Byron]

I'm not sure if any of you saw, but I announce my game in PWOYM.
I wanted to show some face with it though, so I thought I'd show you what I have got currently.

There isn't much to look at in the actual game since I have yet to get a spriter and someone to work on some tiles.
Instead I'll show you the events page and talk about what I'm planning.
So without further ado, I present the events page of Drægon: Unlikely Hero

Spoiler: it's a big image

So I've got basic movement and NPC movement down. I've also got character attacking there too.
What I'm working on currently is enemies attacking, I'm finding it somewhat difficult though, so if you have any idea please let me know.
I'm also going to start work on the zelda type scrolling after that. The ones that Coyotycraft and onzephyr (I think) suggested to me are good and I think I'll take elements from them, but try to tailor it to more something I feel comfortable if that makes sense.
The list of other features I will have in the game is not yet complete however I have a general idea of what I want.

Spoiler: The list. (This could ruin some elements of my game for you...)

I want the general zelda items such as Bow, Hookshot, shield. I might get rid of the boomerang since I've never seen any point in it...
I want to add another item. A magnet that can pull metal things towards it. I guess I'll have to give everything that is metal a variable called "Metal" and set it at 1 or something.
When magnet is equip > "Metal Objects" var "Metal" = 1 > Pull towards Player
&
When X pressed
Something like that.
I have a boss already set that you have to use the magnet for, it's a load of metal balls around a "Core." you will have to use the magnet to strip away these balls and slash at the core.
I'm planning 3 main types of enemies:
Random: Those that shoot randomly
Turret: Monsters with a turret behaviour.
Walking Turret: a moving monster with the turret behaviour
I'm also planning to have NPCs walking around in dungeons that can either help or attack you.
That's all I can be bothered to write right now. Lemme know what you think.

If you would like to help, please contact me.

 

[Trujin]

Hey guys =) I'm trying to get some feedback on this on diffrent forums and I thought: why not post it here. I wasn't sure in which topic to post it, so please excuse me if this is the wrong one. I'm working on a menu in rm2k3 and thusfar I didn't have to duplicate any event "scripting". All the dynamic selectable menu's you see are based around one common event which I load the data in. After loading it it just forms the menu according to those variables.

Big thanks to Cherry and all his patches, without them I could not have made this, so big credit to him. Next to that, the screenshots are all in-game material (no mock-ups) and as you might notice I'm still pondering about the setup of certain menu's (wheather to put key items in the inventory or the quest log section for example). The character graphics (faces and portraits etc) are still temporary though, I got them from my old game folder (lol to marle and vegeta edits).

Anyways, feel free to comment on layout choises etc. I'm still thinking about changing the abstract backgrounds to normal tiled backgrounds again (it's a modern/futuristic game btw).

 

[fenryo]

Trujin I don't see the difference between the pictures... only that in some there is one man and others there is 3 (the same guy)

[update 5 min after] ha ok I see the differences now... isnt'it a little bit "charged" think that you are someone who don't create your game it can be too much detail. the guys in background take all the "oxygen" of the menu I think. You already take the "black path" for the ambiant color so make some "aeration" of all that # I know my englis sucks I am french speaker in fact lol

 

[Trujin]

Trujin I don't see the difference between the pictures... only that in some there is one man and others there is 3 (the same guy)

[update 5 min after] ha ok I see the differences now... isnt'it a little bit "charged" think that you are someone who don't create your game it can be too much detail. the guys in background take all the "oxygen" of the menu I think. You already take the "black path" for the ambiant color so make some "aeration" of all that # I know my englis sucks I am french speaker in fact lol

Sorry for replying so late. I don't understand exactly what you ment, so I'll just reprase what I got out of your post and if I was wrong, please correct me:

1. The different placing of characters based on the party size seems a bit to much detail for people who didn't create the game:
Awnser: Allthough without any patches this would take loads of time to achieve, the picpointerpatch makes it possible to do this with 3 conditional branches.

2. The character pictures are colourfull and stand out a lot compared to the rest of the menu, which is darker by nature.
Awnser: They are temporary, the later design will be much darker in colour and style.

Thanks for the feedback! =)

 

[Desbrina]

From lightning yellow. its a functional pal pad, as well as the start of a new gts

 

[Daria]

Testing out some overhead ceiling effects. If I did use them, it would be sparingly, not in every map. Maybe even just this one. Anyway I need some opinions, which looks better:

Small beams

Large beams

No beams