WarDog

keep in mind man, and this is what a college teacher told me, is that anything you plan on marketing as a logo that will appear on boxes for a product will need be done in vector. i don't know if thats 100% true statement, but i would hate to think the dude teaching the class was a moron. like the examples he used were like the pepsi logo, nike swoosh logo, simple vector image to be used for marketing.

capsule theory was pretty cool cut, and The Perdition Repellent was good too. good stuff man

i still think your original one is the best one, thats just my opinion

i think its clever and it says exactly what you do. good job, plus it will work pefectly on a marketing scale, its not to extravagant as a box label.

> Also not sure about the shading on the eternal ore kinda feels like the lower half of it is just black

i like them both, and i would use the first one for one of those parts in the game where you got be fast and in a hurry like in ff7 when it was time to escape after you plant the bomb and the timer keeps running while your fighting. i would defently use the second one for the background music while you were in a bad part of town or some form of slums while your walking around. what i also like about the second one is the woman's voice in it, thats pretty sweet. you think you could do a hero theme, but its for like the anti-hero, hes still the good guy, but does the right hting for the wrong reason. and maybe add some orchistra style instruments into it as well? i couldn't pay you in money, but maybe work something out in trade?

hey dude, i was watching a live stream of LoL and the developers from Riot were talking, and they were showing some of the stuff they use for doing small detail on a large scale. The guys were using a pen that they wrote with directly on their desktop monitors. and it wasn't one of those touchpads, it was a DT MOnitor, and the shit was so beautiful and precise and elegant looking. If you don't have one or not looked into it, do so man cause it look like it cut their workload in half. and they were using it for extreme details that just Wowed people when looking at it.

sorta gives me that zelda feel and who doesn't like zelda?

i feel ya man, and i appreciate the advice. ty i may be wrong on this tho, its not to do with my sketch, but someone once told me awhile back when i was talking about wanting to get into making rpgs and games and what not, and he told me that a good game has a great story and good graphics, but its the music that can help keep that fantasy going. he told me that, when the music is lousy or not so good, its easy to get sidetracked and lose interest in what your doing, but he said you can add great music to keep the flow going so it makes it feel like your apart of the world your playing in. thats just what some dude told me, but in way i get what he saying.

i was checking out his website when he posted it, it actually works pretty well for him. got a good smooth flow thats very readable.

> You should show the walking animation, I wonder if they hop when they walk. the zombies would look cool with a slow left to right waddle, i think it would give them more of that zombie feel.

i like the braw you got on him, defently looks like a knuckle dragger to me. maybe bring his head closer to his body to really give him that neanderthaw look, he kinda looks a little to upright to be a caveman.

dude i really like this one here,  i just love the feel of the color scheme. and the first one with the snowguy and you can see where his feet was dragged through the snow, epic.

> aren't yours generic squares and rectangles with a dragon behind it? true, but i mean in the fashion that im not just gonna put simple squares and rectangles down and say done, i want something to wrap, i want textures, and i do wnat it to pop. I want people who play it to say, "well the story was great, the music kept me hooked in, and the graphics just awed me." Might just be me, but thats what i like to feel at the end of any game i play, wether its online or single player rpg. I just kinda feel like if i go ahead and subsitute for what may be easier and simpler, its gonna kick me in the ass in the long road. wow has so many more game features that they need the extra room to expand for players, in that case then simplicity for order wins out, but for me with so much less to expand on, wouldn't better imagery and creativeness win over since there will be less features to show, all i got button wise so far, are inventory, quest, abilities, settings, save, and exit, then my life, magic, and experience bars with a map. but you know i am a novice at game development, i could be totally wrong about it all.

you know i didn't give very much detail about how i was gonna do this one, it was very very late when i finished and scanned it. the size is undetermined so far because i do want to do like slym said and leave as much of the game screen to be as clean and uncluttered as possible, its hard to read but it does say at top of sketch that the quest window will collapse and expand by clicking the center jewels, and im gonna make all the panels do that for a clean slick look. it will be centered at the bottom of the screen and the size is gonna be a litte tricky cause i want it to be big enough for people with large monitors but also not to asborb to much of the screen for people with smaller monitors. if you ever played diablo 2 on a small monitor then on a big one you will see exactly what im talking about. this is just a road map, things will probably change, even the dragon himself could take on a new form and be repositioned in a better way. The whole thing could eventully change but maintain the same idea just with better images. like Jaiden said: > It's pretty and a nice way to stray from all of the other generic interfaces on this website. i noticed a lot of people were not impressed by most of the other GUI's i been reading on the forum, most people said same thing just generic squares and rectangles. And the name of my game is Epic Myth: Cursed Dragons. So whatever GUI i do end up using i want it to reflect the theme of the game so players can enjoy the game beyond a simple generic buildup. anymore feedback please keep them coming, i really appreciate the comments and info. =)

dude thats pretty sweet, no matter which direction it goes, its a forever expanding forest.

This is a partial GUI Sketch, its the main screen interface. I still need to come up with the options, inventory, abilities, and a few other interfaces, but i want to get a theme going and build the panels off of it. This is the sketch im leaning towards as my GUI skin, but was looking for some feedback before i explore it any further. I know the sketch isn't that great, but try to focus on the idea of what im doing.

will do, and if you think of anything else in the future please hit me up, i can use any and all writing advice as possible.

hey i like that a lot. a lot of great imagery and it had me locked in on reading it too. ya im not much of a writer at all, i have no real background in it, but i do love to read. when i was writing that scene, i was trying to imagine a actual cut scene of a game, with like the train moving across a desert, a boy looking through a car window, cut to the inside of the car where hes sitting with his grandfather, then cut a view out the window of the outlaws in the distance, etc, etc. the approach you wrote tho was pretty good eye catcher. i felt like in the first couple sentence i was taking to long to describe the area where this was taking place. i also felt like i was trying to explain to much of the game within the first couple sentences too. like i got four names there Jodoca, Vanora Region, Alakari Desert, and Ancreta. Does this sound a little better? "The Great Alakari Desert, the barren lands of Vanora and home of the Outlaw's highway. A wasteland shuffled between the jewel harbor city of Jodoca and the nationss capital of Ancreata. A steam train is heading to the coastal city carrying passngers who are looking to endulge in the exspensive luxuries only Jodoca can offer. As it moves towards its destination across the scorched deslolate lands a small boy watches out his car window at the dunes passing by." Let me know what you think.

i think it may look better if you take the top gui bar and do like AmSamuari said and drop the name, level, title, gold amount, and exp bar. redo your inventory GUI if you haven't done it yet to support those things like most games do. alot of time gold and exp can be viewed through your invetory and character panels. that should free up some extra room at top that makes it look cluttered. you could then move your health and magic bars to the middle of the screen to give it a more neat look, and maybe even create a smaller bar for your exp with an offset purple and have it centered at the bottom of the HP/MP bars with minimum space used and leave them all three setting on a background like it is now(altho you would have to change to size of the actual HP and MP bars to comply with it). that should free of some space at top and give your GUI a more slick and clean look. As for the color, i would experiement with some earth tones to give it that more natural and a less of a pop look that will pull your eye away from the game while playing.

Did some Revision on the Background Story of the first post, gave it a much cleaner and better read. Areas of the story may also change due to a very early writing stage. A good portion of the information and story is underdevelopement. Left the opening scene script untouched.

throw a hockey mask on the guy and its looks like the dude from Road Warrior. >! 

if you can give me to middle of next week i can get some sketches or simple designs out for you, i just have to work sat-mon before i get my next day off, so if you can wait i can at least give it a shot for ya.

Hey dude, I really hope you don't mind, but I love your Tree Boss idea and I had to do a concept art one myself. I really liked your root idea on the first sprite and i think it would animate very nicely as an attack through the ground that isn't coming directly from him, sorta like in my sketch how i have it drawn. I think the root is a pretty good idea to abandon early. so instead of making them shoot from him, try to make them look like their coming up through the ground instead. Again hope you don't mind me doing a sketch of your tree Idea, but it was a good idea I just wanted to explore more of the concept. And if you see anything on the sketch you might like feel free to use what you want. My Tree Sketch >! [](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/690/treemonster2.jpg/) EDIT: Edit for Grammar

you could probably use a little bit of shadow underneath his head, its pretty good size and towers over the shoulders.