Jeff

Hello eclipse, I come to you in need of your opinions on the following piece of pixel art.  It consists of 2 grass tiles and a tree tile. Everything is resized from 16x16 to 32x32\. I'm not really going for an ancient old-school style, more like chrono trigger era. I'm not sure where to go on the palette. Right now it's a little unsaturated, but I'm not sure whether or not I want to make it more hue shifted or keep relatively realistic hues. Also, I'm more interested in the trees than the grass. I will almost certainly redo the grass tile, but in a similar style.

> UDP would require the entire core mechanic to change though, as nothing is built to account for data loss in Mirage. Yup. Anyone who can accomplish that clearly has enough skill.

If the community is going to vote, I would like someone to do a breakdown of the code, for each one or for a few of the more promising ones. Maybe a couple of people could do it so it goes faster or whatever. As far as engines go, if anyone rewrites the packet system with UDP packets they have my vote, unless they seriously duck up.

> If I add a line break before the canvas it works in chrome… Browsers are weird man... Perplexing. How'd you think of adding the line break?

> You queers are too ducking nice to people. If you sugar coat bum candy and say nothings wrong, how the duck do you think people are going to improve? Sugarcoating doesn't hurt. Usually, it's more effective. If you say "Looks good, but you would be even better if you did x" then they'll likely think you know something and follow your instruction. If you say something like "You ducking retard how did you even manage to duck that up? You need to do at least x in order to make it decent" then the person could either be hurt and give up, or think that you're just some asshole who says bum candy even when it's not true.

> New demo here, since the previous updates, I've added chasms, and world saving/loading. > > [http://services.glac…8f1226be1d1.rar](http://services.glaciate.net/file_host/host/5361b6785a64982f735408f1226be1d1.rar) > > Now, if you see the changelog, you'll find: > > If you experience a problem that's not there, please, tell me. The trees/wood have far more contrast than the ground. The wood doesn't tile nicely. After an MMO roguelike, I expected something more interesting from you. Either way, good luck and all.

> Might as well point it out… bmp is the wrong format. > > You need GIF or PNG depending on version. GIF is never the right type. Use bmp for old EO and png for Eclipse 3.0 and later

Your tiles are a bit dirty, try to take out some colors, and get rid of some noise.

> I do make a mean Spaghetti bolognese… Does it travel well?

Can the players change the key bindings?

Text should have 1 px padding in between lines. Also, use a lorem ipsum generator instead of the same thing over and over again.

> Here's the concept of movement. Not smooth, but it can get you started. This assumes you already have some sort of entity system in place. If you're having trouble with this, I'm not convinced you know that much Java. If you really do know a bit, look into slick, it's what I use and it's very simple. There's plenty of tutorials to help you.

> >not coloring your meme arrows limegreen > > >2012 /thread

I don't like the outline, but otherwise amazing. Almost as good as the stuff slym does.

There isn't enough contrast, I can hardly tell what they are. They're also too saturated, and you should try hue shifting them(making the darker colors more blue and less saturated and making the lighter colors more yellow and saturated).

> I'm British, so the date looks normal to me. > > I'm not changing it. > > Plus it looks cool Put the date in words as well just for clarity.

Do you want to share how you did in case someone else has the same problem?

> I like it. It looks like a side scrolling, improved version, of Realm of the Mad God. I really hope this is better than that one. It doesn't seem to have anything in common with RotMG except that the graphics are resized by 400%.

> It looks really good if you add in the game a sandbox features like in Terraria/Minecraft it will be epic. You know how COD would be better? If you could be a ninja, and there were dragons that you could ride.

> **[Show Off](http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/community/index.php?/forum/34-show-off/)** > > [background=rgb(247, 251, 252)]Show off your **latest work** to the community.[/background] You should've reported it, it would be more effective. I have a shitty laptop, but I believe that for my birthday I will be getting a new, higher end laptop.

> Because complexity is in your field expertise? You must have reached the peak of your judgement during this past sophomore year… 'amiright? I lol'd, but Jungletoe has a point. I'm fairly certain that I could replicate that palm tree on Google Sketchup

> MIT bro. Not as good as Cal tech, but easier to get into. And yeah, go to a technical school if you're going to shoot that high. Cal tech and MIT are the best, at least for learning purposes.

> DFA actually has all the right to put anything he wants there, he was one of the mirage developers once you know. This does not give him the right for him to put up everything mirage based. If I were to just edit a single line of code in the MS4 and then state that he can't use it, he can't use it.

Wow. That's awesome. Are you accepting critique on the modeling, or the design?

> There's a LOT of wasted space, and it is rather monotonous. Some colour, and some shrinking would be good! Wasted space says a lot more than used space. It is very important.The color part he has right, however. Give it more contrast. Make the text darker. Make the buttons darker. If that's your whole window, and there's no windows frame around it, then it needs a border of some sort. I often do a 1 pixel thick border of white then outside of that a 1 pixel border of a really dark color. Your X also looks weak, put it inside of a button. Why is there a snitch in the top left?