Hello guys, I'm looking for some feedback on this mech suit as I'm not sure what is it that i don't like about it. It would be fantastic if you could point something out that would help me improve the piece.

Thanks for your time!

Edited by Sorsy - 06 March 2015 at 6:49am

Oh, that's it! That looks much better. I will try and improve based on your attempt, if that's ok with you. Thank you very much.
I'm aware the stance is somewhat unnatural and looks kinda how you described it, but it's designed with a function in mind. This mech is supposed to attack by stomping on its enemy. You see, the hands are like jet engines that lift the mech in the air, that's why they are more in the back than on the sides. The knees and legs in general are designed to absorb the shock after landing. I just finished rough outline for that animation and I believe it makes it a bit clearer.

This looks more like he is just landing so I guess it will take some more vertical motion to make the stomp happen.

Thanks again, I appreciate it!

Edited by Sorsy - 04 March 2015 at 7:30am

Hey guys, I have some more progress on this mech suit. I coloured the animation and I quite like it. I will add smoke in a later update hopefuly tomorrow.

Yup, I do. This will be one of tougher enemies.

Not really a platformer -

SHORT STORY
more like stuff goes from sides and you shoot them by touching your android device screen.

LONG STORY
First game I made was Spare Parts Maker. It used really simple graphics and also the controls weren't great - basicaly you pointed at something and it died. It wasn't about skill but about the speed of you shooting, which meant it was about grind because you had to upgrade your rate of fire.
In this next game I want to focus on the skill of the player so the controls will be different. Some time ago I remembered an online pvp top down game I played, Seek&Dread. Instead of your mouse cursor being the gunsight, the sight was attached to the player and it went in circle around you as you moved your mouse. This meant you had to think where the round will land based on line from player through sights and then projected on your target. That is what I want to do in this game. But instead of the mouse you will slide on the bottom of the screen left and right and your character will aim accordingly. It's not really that original and I'm sure someone already used it in other mobile games. It's actually pretty similar to the way the Angry Birds controls, but the player(bird) and sights(catapult) switch places.
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Not sure how that's popular around here.

As for something else I already have my main character done and you can visit him in my gallery and see his idle animation.

Two other enemies are on this image.

Second row, the first one is gonna use jetpack to do big leaps in the air, so something similar as this mech suit, but this one will have different pattern.
Second row, the second one will teleport around.
More enemies are on the way.

I'm afraid they no longer go well together with the suit, I will have to go in and add a bit more depth to them.

Also there is a WIP of the suit. The jets are animated, smoke's not - just a rough sketch:


The gamescreen will look like this(I was trying tile placement in the picture):

Also the game will be in double pixel size, so bear that in mind when looking at these.

I hope it doesn't matter that this topic is no longer about the one and only mech suit. I would rename the topic but I'm not sure about the name of the game yet (suggestions are very welcome! :)

Edited by Sorsy - 06 March 2015 at 11:12am

Well, exactly - he is supposed to be heavy. The delay is there because the engines don't have the power necessary right away and it just takes a while to get there. Also the hop isn't him hopping. It's supposed to show that his legs are carrying a lot of material, meaning they push out constantly. When there is a relief they don't respond right away and push out just a bit longer until they find their "default" position again.
I guess what I meant to convey doesn't show right away which is totally my mistake. I thank you very much for your input but I'm not sure I know how to edit it to look more like I want it to look.

Yesterday I did the puff of smoke the engines generate when they kick off and I gave it a good night sleep to look at it today. I think it looks ok so once again any feedback is appreciated. I wanted the smoke to linger a bit longer and spread out more but it's a game sprite that will be on screen with others and I didn't want them to overlap too much.
One with gray and transparent background.


I think I will add a bit of dust when he lands later.