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[jiujitsu]

It's HALF man HALF bear and HALF pig. Manbearpig.

Anyone else catch that?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Looks p. cool, I'm getting large Wiz8 vibes from this

Also, the 'drama points' thing looks like a very gud way to discourage save scumming to some extent.

But...


WHY ONLY FOUR CHARACTERS

 

[villain of the story]

He should get a Prosper artist.

Fixed.

 

[Monocause]

Anyway I wouldn't obsess over the art. If you get the game play right, people will like the game. See Minecraft for an example of ugly, but people love it.

It's not about ugliness, it's about cohesion. Imagine Minecraft but with neat GUI icons stolen from WoW and some objects being fugly blocks they are now and some with nice and sterile textures as seen on these FK screens.

My point is that the game should have a cohesive style/art theme/whatchacallit and stick to it. It can afford to be ugly if it's controlled ugliness, worst thing is if some things are fugly, some sterile neat and when you mix it all with character portraits reminiscent of webcomics.

 

[Oriental European]

Minecraft is not ugly, it's simplistic. Like Lego.

 

[villain of the story]

It is simplistic, like Lego, and also ugly, unlike Lego.

 

[Davaris]

It's not about ugliness, it's about cohesion. Imagine Minecraft but with neat GUI icons stolen from WoW and some objects being fugly blocks they are now and some with nice and sterile textures as seen on these FK screens.

My point is that the game should have a cohesive style/art theme/whatchacallit and stick to it. It can afford to be ugly if it's controlled ugliness, worst thing is if some things are fugly, some sterile neat and when you mix it all with character portraits reminiscent of webcomics.

Oh I do understand what you mean. It has the hallmarks of programmer art. However it is one thing to be able to be able to look at it and say, it is not coherent. It is another thing to be able to achieve coherence, using stock art and random artists, you hire from the internet.

If he had lotsa money to hire an artist, to oversee the entire game's production, his art problems would disappear like magic. But he doesn't have that kind of money yet, so I think he should put all his efforts into design.

People will recommend a fun game, in spite of how it looks. They will not recommend a badly designed game.

Edit:
In short, until a lot of people were raving about how good or addictive one of my games is, I don't think it would make good economic sense to spend up big on the art.

 

[Metro]

Meh, it's something they can work on for the other games if this sells well. Not a deal breaker. Warband has one of the most low budget UI's I've ever seen -- looks like it was done in about two hours with MS Paint -- but the game is still good.