AoW Spriting Thread

[Rotflturion]

**Heya!

In this thread I will post the latest screenshots of our project - the Age of Wizardry.**

TIA for all the comments. **CONTRUCTIVE** criticism greatly appreciated.

**- General:**

The graphics are top-down style

Northland cold area sprites [snow, mud]

**- [WIP] Tutorial section:**

First room - where the new players log in
[don't mind the blue teleport thingy. It was changed already]

Second room - fighting in practice, and explaining a little the item usage system [key example]

[wip] Third room - trap spikes, cave walls and slightly edited locked doors]

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More will be posted as the project continues.

**WARNING! AHTUNG! UWAGA!**
This is **NOT** a mapping show off - most of the maps are put together only to check, how are the sprites going to look in-game.

[Medleyy]

Looks nice, and I appreciate the house style, but I'm confused about the walls of the houses in relation to the sprites. If I were you I'd double the thickness. It's pretty cool though. An interesting angle instead of the whole generic RMXP sprites and tilesets everone rapes.

[Rotflturion]

Thank You for Your comment (:

About the walls - they are the 'wooden plank' style. Player can walk very close from every side, as I did not use the 'block' attribute here, and instead just directional blocking. If I make them any bigger, they will overlap with player sprite - besides I felt weird making 'whole block' wooden wall P:

[Biohazard]

Wygląda całkiem nieźle, ale śnieg razi w oczy :D.

[Byson]

Wooo….my mud floors there :D....you didn't show me that screenshot before though for the northlands....looks good

[Kusy]

@Slime:

> Wygląda całkiem nieźle, ale śnieg razi w oczy :D.

Angielski - urzywaj go.

Well, this could work better if you'd remove the tile movement and used pixel movement instead.

[Rotflturion]

I don't think so.

And it's "używaj". (:

[Fuu]

These graphics are fantastic. Only thing I see is yes, the plank walls are looking a little thin, and the snow on the dirt looks a little strange.

OH, and what if you added shadows? ;D

[Rotflturion]

@FlavourMang:

> These graphics are fantastic. Only thing I see is yes, the plank walls are looking a little thin, and the snow on the dirt looks a little strange.
>
> OH, and what if you added shadows? ;D

Thank You (:

About the wall - it's wooden, it should be thin :p
I might see how would it look with a slightly different perspective [still top-down but showing a little of the sides, like the new dungeon brick walls]

Here. Just a slight edit, but I think they look a lot better this way:

About shadows - I would gladly add shadows and lights to everything, but sadly this engine does not support transparency.. If it would use PNG files [which are WAY better in everything than BMP] then yes, but adding pure-black splashes and expecting player to think these are shadows and not void is not what I want to do. ):

[juvanio]

Looks nice, so It's like a Maze game? The Sprites for people doesn't look like it's a person.

[Rotflturion]

@Juvanio:

> Looks nice, so It's like a Maze game? The Sprites for people doesn't look like it's a person.

More or less. The game will feature normal towns and areas like forests and so on, but the main challenge will remain deep underground - mazes, ancient ruins, dungeons, caves and so on - all full of riddles, traps, pissed monsters and of course loot (:

What do You mean about the characters? This is a top-down [true top down, like in early GTA], so You don't see the sides of people.

[beckymegan]

I love these maps! Good job guys, I'm pretty picky xD

[Murdoc]

The game looks quite nice.. the graphics are eye candy.. the maps are well done and the perspective is uniquely cool.. well done

[Rotflturion]

@Becky:

> I love these maps! Good job guys, I'm pretty picky xD

@Murdock:

> The game looks quite nice.. the graphics are eye candy.. the maps are well done and the perspective is uniquely cool.. well done

Thank You friends. (':

Hearing such a good opinion always makes me want to work even harder and make stuff better <3

[Bcm27]

Well, we will just have to keep on loading on the compliments then. :P I love the perspective, reminds me of some shooters I used to play.

[MrKris]

Topdown is always a fun style to mess around with :) Look's pretty good to me, keep it up.

[Rotflturion]

Uhm, did some water.. This took me like an hour of experimenting - the bottom of the river should actually be darker than the sides, but then it either looks like crap [non-dimmensional], or (if I make it too dark) the water over it is not visible.


**Previous tries:**

>! First one, doesn't look like a river at all
>! Second one - too dark

[Kusy]

Loos fine, I dunno why but your graphics feel like bird's eye Tibia.

[Rotflturion]

Thats probably because I played that game for ten years, so I got used to that kind of style P:

[Kusy]

@Rotflturion:

> Thats probably because I played that game for ten years, so I got used to that kind of style P:

That is kind of sad actually.

[Rotflturion]

And what is so sad about that, given I was spending like 1-3 hours daily there? (;

[Kusy]

Playing Tibia for 10 years. Wasted 2 and was sad enough for me.

[Carim123]

I like the second screenshot in the spoiler…also, the first screenshot can be used for the likes of puddles, etc.

[Rotflturion]

@7:

> I like the second screenshot in the spoiler…also, the first screenshot can be used for the likes of puddles, etc.

>! Yes, the first one might be used for such stuff - for now I need a river tho (:
Isn't the second one a little too dark?

@Kusy:

> Playing Tibia for 10 years.

>! You got what I like to call a 'Haters mindset'. I will not go into detail, but if so, then go and tell football star that playing football for 10 years is sad. Go tell a chess master that playing chess for 25 years is sad. Because basically it's all about entertainment, fun and hobby - doing something You like. I presonally like MMORPGs and You are nobody to tell me if it's sad or not, as long, as You don't know me in real life. :)
>! And also, I love kids who "hate" Tibia [and other stuff] JUST because everyone hates it. These people are like sheep - everyone say that 'xxx is bad', so it must be true! (:

**ITS:**

Some more nature, stones, flowers etc. stuffed behind the 'First bank of Somewhere'

[zade_o]

The transition tiles are too straight edged for my liking, especially with how non linear the tree edges are.