Pillage Snowy Mountain Area

Pillage Snowy Mountain Area

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Pillage Snowy Mountain Area



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Title: Pillage Snowy Mountain Area
Pixel Artist: RileyFiery  (Level 9 Federal Agent :: 19057 points)
Posted: 5/11/2013 01:01
Palette: 22 colors
Statistics:  14 comments    13 faves    0 avatars

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1x for those interested.

I was asked to do art awhile ago for a game (description below) called Pillage. I'm actually pretty happy on how it turned out so far. I used Dawnbringer's palette as a base. Feel free to rip me a new one with criticism. I appreciate it, and I learn from it.

Pillage: (As described by my bud Jatz)

"Pillage doesn't really have a "Category" it fits into, it's more a bit of everything; Action, Adventure, RPG, Sandbox Exploration. Players start off in the world with nothing, and have to gather resources to build a ship (or house, or whatever they want). Players can then sail around the world (The world is procedurally generated, and is made up of an infinite amount of islands). On some islands people have set up little villiages, and if the player wants, they can raid them for resources etc. Pretty much, there are no gameplay constraints on pillage, i'ts a "Do whatever you want" kind of game." - Jatz

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Theoden (Level 11 Special Agent) @ 8/23/2013 04:50

I really liked this one!


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RileyFiery (Level 9 Federal Agent) @ 5/13/2013 15:15

Yeah, it looked out of place without being able to see the rest of it. It's shape is a bit different too, so I ended up removing it altogether. I edited the rock a tiny bit by putting a dark grey on the bottom to seperate it from the tile snow. It's meant to be snow covered, so it's meant to blend a tad bit. I'm still tinkering with snow covered trees, I'll post an example when I can of snow on a tree. Thanks for the feedback man, you've been a big help.


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ultimaodin (Level 3 Corporate Drone) @ 5/12/2013 19:46

Hmmmm, it's odd. ONe one hand I like it, on the other I don't. It's consistent of theme, but doesn't add anything and feels slightly off but still the same sense of stylish. It is slightly jarring though so it's probably best left out. I was thinking maybe a blanket of snow on the tree, but that would make it blend in too much with the BG. =/

If crafty means the rock I can see kind of what she means, the top is good but the bottom still blends in and could probably use some darker hues and the grey.

ALso, something I didn't notice before, the thine single line cloud feels out of place. You have all these pretty fish shaped clouds and then that one. Also again, serious love for those fish clouds.


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RileyFiery (Level 9 Federal Agent) @ 5/12/2013 12:10

Are you talking about the snow covered rock majiggy?


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RileyFiery (Level 9 Federal Agent) @ 5/12/2013 12:09

I don't know. It does look a lot better than the way I was trying to add it, but it doesn't feel as good as the other trees. I think it's mostly do to the triangular shape of the tree compared to the square nature of the other. I don't know. Here's your tree in the scene. I think it's just a problem with the shape of the tree in general that throws it off for me a bit.

@Salah, I'm glad you like it.


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CraftyPixel (Level 1 Rookie) @ 5/12/2013 08:01

- Very cute, only complaint/crit is that small tile"cut in half circle?" it blends a lot with the tiles around it -


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Salahkun (Level 1 Intern) @ 5/12/2013 05:39

 nice game dude, i had one for my iphone very likely


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ultimaodin (Level 3 Corporate Drone) @ 5/12/2013 00:25

@RIley - Oh, well then your dressed up sheep makes perfect sense.

For the tree, why not just keep it conformed to the shape of the tree tip like so:

http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp16/TheUnknownArtistJak/rileytree_zps5de5ab61.png


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RileyFiery (Level 9 Federal Agent) @ 5/11/2013 22:22

It is a sheep dressed up as a reindeer.  I was going to change his colors to brown, but then it looked as if I was trying to make it look like an actual reindeer rather than a sheep, so I decided to leave it white. As for the tree, I had the brown sticking out, but it made the tree look awkward since it's not square like the hill one. I'm just not sure on how to add it.


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ultimaodin (Level 3 Corporate Drone) @ 5/11/2013 21:59

One thing that bothers me about the tree trunk is in the hill version you see the trunk sticking out the top and it makes it feel more complete (which is kind of odd) Maybe just try puting some of the browns into the tip.

Also, I thought the raindeer was a sheep at first. Maybe change it to brown. (not sure what you'd do with the antlers though)


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RileyFiery (Level 9 Federal Agent) @ 5/11/2013 18:59

Thank you for your thorough criticism. I edited the cave background tile to be darker, which does look visibly better than before. I changed the color around on the background tiles to make them a lil' stronger. The sky color won't change because it's constant through each piece.

I can't do anything about the rushed feeling you get. I reuse a lot of colors, so there's no doubt you'll find repeating colors used in different places, e.g. , the sky color in the ice and water.


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_Connor (Level 5 Assistant Manager) @ 5/11/2013 18:35

 Need more contrast in the cave/sky. Also need more change in hue between the ice/rocks/sky. The sky is the same hue as the foreground. It should be the same hue as the background, i.e less red more green. Maybe desaturate the foreground rock tiles a bit too? Anyway, compared to your last two sets this one feels rushed.


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RileyFiery (Level 9 Federal Agent) @ 5/11/2013 18:07

I'm glad you like it.

Yeah, I'm not sure on changing the tree trunk. It would probably be nice not having the same pattern all over the place, but it wouldn't be drastically different to be honest. I'll mess with it later and come up with a few more patterns to split of the repetitiveness of it.


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skittle (Level 9 Nidan) @ 5/11/2013 09:04

 I love everything in this except for the trunks for the pine trees. This is looking awsome!


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