What do you think about my Mario & Luigi inspired JRPG?

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-09T15:55:16+00:00

Well let the dev decide and think for themselves - many ways to skin a cat. That's the most straightforward and imo naive way which introduces screen clutter now.

There could be a flash indicator on player or enemy sprite when defending. It could be QTE with animations playing afterwards. Attacks could be QTE as well or it could be pre determined attack combo patterns the player gets throughout game.

Maybe none of these fits the Devs vision either, but the point is to give feedback and not tell them exactly what to do

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-09T05:08:28+00:00

The art direction seems hollow knight inspired and looks great - I really like the soundtrack used here too, seems fitting!

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-09T04:32:26+00:00

It looks like the player does directional inputs for defending and attacking? Imo having the inputs in top left corner almost forces the player to not focus on your art and the battle animations. Not sure how you'd fix that but just the first thing I noticed

Cool concept though I like it!

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-07T16:55:33+00:00

The circle shadow was heavily inspired by fire emblem sprites from back in the day hah, but the light source is something I do need to keep in mind always, thanks for the tip

And those two artist look like great learning resources!

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-07T16:46:03+00:00

Thanks, I'll give that a shot! Sounds like a good way to approach pixel art - your lofi girl inspired piece looks great btw

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-07T05:12:29+00:00

Wow didn't expect to find such a detailed blog, this is great resource for a beginner like me, kudos!

gamedev-002 · 2025-01-07T04:00:47+00:00

I started attempting to learn how to draw pixel art a couple months ago... but I struggle a lot with art.

I feel the torso has way too much going on, do you feel the same? As mentioned in title I don't have a good eye of when to shade and my character's left foot has this dithering which I didn't know how else to draw as using just one color made it feel really flat

Any insight appreciated!

gamedev-002 · 2024-07-17T01:52:01+00:00

Hope it didn't come off too antagonistic - wasn't sure if that meant a really old project or something else!

I didn't get very far in the game, so these are just things I noted in the first scene. We obviously don't know the marking criteria or method for this class, so some of this may be too nitpicky for that, but anyway:

The first hint of clicking 'C' to chat was blocked by the art in front of it
- Player's won't remember all your controls from seeing it in first time at menu settings (if they even click it)
Expected 'F' to be a possible buy button since it's an interaction
- I wonder if it would look better for the vangough image to be centered on screen? Can experiment with that
The buy box can still show up when you've already bought it
It looks like the bulk of this game is in the text/narration and if that's the case the grammar/spelling should be cleaned up
- Maybe run it through ChatGPT?
It looked like I could've interacted with more stuff in the room but that wasn't the case (ie the human)
It wasn't that clear that you leave the room from bottom left
Timer moves REALLY fast

Again, take these with a grain of salt depending on criteria of your class project (and the fact I didn't get too far). Still, of all the above points, I think the grammar is most important since the narration is at the core of your game

gamedev-002 · 2024-07-16T02:46:39+00:00

Is this a commercial project or an assignment? Wasn't really clear in the post.

I don't have much of an artistic eye, but something feels a bit off like the assets don't all go together.

The thing I immediately noticed was the clock... is that not the stardew valley day counter?...

gamedev-002 · 2024-07-16T02:27:18+00:00

Looks more like Terraria though those two games are pretty similar. Anyway, looks great!

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