SEO is really important today :-/Thanks, I hope to be stronger person when all this is done
That said, I have a good amount of positive feedback (and votes). I'm feeling pretty optimistic right now. I'm also sending e-mails to the press right now.
I think you should do both, as Facebook has several page types you can add your company explicitly as company page and the games as product pages connected to your company page. All those pages can be maintained using a single account. You can easily switch between those pages (so you can post as a specific page etc.)
It's also never wrong to have a few more backlinks and content of your company / games spread around the web
FB is garbage. It limits your reach to followers unless you pay to reach more if you use your page as a means for promotion, which is pretty much the point. You can purchase feed space to reach more followers, however.I think you should do both, as Facebook has several page types you can add your company explicitly as company page and the games as product pages connected to your company page. All those pages can be maintained using a single account. You can easily switch between those pages (so you can post as a specific page etc.)
It's also never wrong to have a few more backlinks and content of your company / games spread around the web
I'd stay away from auto-posting from RSS. Each platform has a defined purpose and you should leverage their strengths individually instead of "Hey guys, I have some gre... http://shorturl via Feedburner" as every post on every platform.
Depends slightly on the game, but the industry standard is EFIGS. Beyond that, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Polish. Beyond that, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese (Traditional). Beyond that, uh, I dunno.
Depends on the platform you're targeting. Although EFIGS is somewhat standard, Russian and Polish are probably more important than Italian for Steam.
English 48.11%
Russian 17.53%
Spanish 5.18%
German 4.76%
Simplified Chinese 3.77%
French 3.53%
Brazilian Portuguese 3.35%
Polish 2.39%
Korean 1.39%
Thai 1.28%
Turkish 1.12%
Italian 0.99%
Japanese 0.92%
Traditional Chinese 0.77%
Czech 0.74%
Portuguese 0.73%
Swedish 0.64%
Dutch 0.51%
Danish 0.50%
Hey my first post to gaf! although I have been lurking for a while now.
I just submitted my ludum dare jam entry, we didnt get quite enough time to add sound sadly but other than that I think it turned out pretty well!
you can check it out at:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=7173
We're working on balancing it right now because we implemented waves of enemies pretty late in so we couldn't really test it.
Thanks! Good luck with your new game
Yeah, I think what happened is that the difficulty level doesn't reset when you restart the game...
Thank you very much for your help! Luckily, my uncle is a tax advisor, so I'll talk to him. I'll start developing the game in Unity and then later on I can still compare if Xbone or Wii U would be better suited for me. Why do you say I should stay away from console development if I don't want to make a profit though?
I myself am a console-only player and I want to make a game that I would like to play myself (and only such games, I plan on making more than one game, but never one that I would not like), so I want it to be on a console. Wii U seems to be a comparatively easy option. Of course PC would be easier, I have already made some games (just for myself) on PC, but I just want my games to be playable on a system I myself feel comfortable playing on.
Hey everyone,
You may or may not know me as one of the guys that worked on Volgarr the Viking. (Kris)
I am in the process of ironing out some ideas for something I am dabbling with and would like to get some eyes on what I am doing so far.
It is for a potential action game project/ NOT a 1v1 fighter. However, what I want to do is attempt to hand draw ginormous 3rd Strike style-ish sprites for the project if it goes forward. (3rd Strike Sprites** provided as reference in image)
Without discussing a lot of details, the hat can be lost, changing his fighting style. (Why he is shown with and without hat.)
The sake gourd on one of the poses is because I am considering adding asymmetrical details after doing core animations, requiring unique left and right facing animations for the hero. (basically after animations are finalized, flipping the direction and adding asymmetrical details, should there be time. Note that Ken and Ryu do not have asymmetrical detailing)
I would like some feedback on:
- Do you believe the WIP hero is cool? I am debating whether or not he should be a Zatoichi style blind martial artist (no story impact, just cool or not factor)
- If this art style is something that would interest you in seeing in a game? Would it excite you to see giant quality hand animated sprites in a modern action game?
- General idea is for the hero to be in warm colors tone accents to help him stand out from cool toned backgrounds.
- Any tips or suggestions for the art itself.
- General critique.
Any help is much appreciated. I would like to know where I stand before I attempt to take on probably the most insane art/animation challenge of my life.
(Sorry internet compression is going to make the image look a bit blurry in spots.)
**Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter 3rd Strike and are the property of Capcom.
My issue with these sprites, and it's a problem I kind of had with Volgarr, too, is that they look kind of muddy. You use too many mid-tones in between other shades of light and dark.
Comparing Ryu to your sprite, Ryu uses 25 colors and your character uses 35 colors.
Look at the arms here. The musculature in Ryu's biceps are clear and defined. You use more colors, more shading, but you lose some of that high contrast easy readability.
Simplicity is your friend. Less colors, more contrast. Brighter brights, darker darks.
Another place to compare is the red on Ken's pants vs. the red on your character's scarf. Ken uses a lot of very bright shades of red with a dark outline to imply shadows around the edge of his legs. It makes him "pop" more. You go for much darker shades of red much more quickly, and it makes things look kind of murky.
More colors like that also mean you're just making more work for yourself. Not only would pulling back a bit maybe look a little better, but it would also be faster in the long run.
That being said, I'm not exactly a great sprite artist, so I could just be talking out of my ass. And it's worth mentioning that I do think the sprite looks really good (I like the design), and I thought Volgarr looked pretty good, too.
It's just the brightness/contrast/color count thing is a pet peeve of mine, and I've seen a lot of sprite artists fall in to that trap. Hopefully I'm not stepping on any toes in my suggestions.