Backgrounds!

Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:30 pm

I like Thalros's edit more, personally. Just make it a little bit brighter, and we're set.
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Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:34 pm

Tha's the brightest I'll go, although I much prefer my darker one.

Shivering Isles Resident Joined : 26 Mar 2007 Posts : 9698

Hmmm... do the backgrounds have to be spriteified too? If not, I can make my own ^.^
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Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:19 pm

I like that version better, Thalros. :)
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Shivering Isles Resident Joined : 26 Mar 2007 Posts : 9698

Maybe if you selectively darkened it, Thal, it would have a light that illuminates only the terror but leaves the rest in darkness...
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Pleasure Specialist Joined : 19 Nov 2007 Posts : 1312

For it not to look BLAAAH we would have to light and shade the characters that way as well.

If not it would just be a red picture with sprites moving on it. It needs color. And more life. Stages are characters in and of themselves. The music, and the overall look and feel must mesh with everything else we put together.

I personally, have faith we can make much better backgrounds than this. This one is spooky for sure, but it lacks a lot of something. Plus it would have to be consistent with what our artists come up with, otherwise it would feel really out of place. Maybe a secret level, but not something you want out in your plot.

I am sure we can put our heads together and come up with a much scarier place to do battle with the villain than this.

Consider for instance, if all of our backgrounds are made from scratch then then this pro painting shows up with a red filter over it. It does not mesh. Would ruin whatever look and feel we were attempting to aim for.

Lets use the concept. But not this right here. Lets make our own.

Think about it. Do we really want to throw some random concept art in the game and call it a day, or do we want to really try and make a beautiful stage something with some heart put in it. A real effort of the will.
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Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:30 pm

You'll run anything and everything by me. I want final say in Devourer's background. Besides, as I said, I would like that background to be animated so it twitches and such.

As for selective highlighting, I'm working on it. It's a difficult process, though.

Pleasure Specialist Joined : 19 Nov 2007 Posts : 1312

What I am trying to say is, we should make our own instead of using that picture. We can do better than "OOOH hands."

I don't think of hands when I think of a devourer. I think of a gaping emptiness that swallows hope and manifests deepest despair. A place of true and perpetual gluttony and and avarice. No rod is spared against the soul of the wicked, and the blind lead the blind and hell itself is torn asunder by the mere mention of the place's proper calling. Pure unrestrained chaos. The walls bleed, DOGS GETTING ALONG WITH CATS! MICE WITH UMBRELLAS! PURE CHAOS!

But yeah. Hands. They're red too.
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Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:42 pm

You know what, I'm going to make my own background. I'll draw something up and scan it onto the web. The way Devourer looks requires something really horrific in the same light. I have no doubt in the programmer's skill, but I want something REALLY evil. Something mindblowingly brutal.

At any rate:

Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:45 pm

I really like it, Thalros! :D

Although the white near the bottom seems a bit out-of-place for me for some reason, but it's not really a big deal anyways.
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Shivering Isles Resident Joined : 26 Mar 2007 Posts : 9698

How about we have it be the Medival version of hell? Various souls in torment, devils everywhere, fire and brimstone and agony.
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Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:14 pm

*shakes head*

I have ideas, hard to describe them, though.

...

Cannibal Corpse comes to mind...

Subject: Re: Backgrounds! Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:54 pm

If you don't mind Thalros, I'd like to mess around with it before we add it.
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