Eine Verschmutzung really captures the "modern PC game" feel with the three patches immediately following release.

What, the Zelda dungeon map? It worked fine for me.

I just made a clean copy and patched with 3 and nothing happened (nor should there since it includes everything the past patches did)... Though I hear of another crashing bug during the ghost scene, but I can't reproduce it either. I can only toss it up to some really, really bad code of mine somewhere I don't know of or verge being funky.

God.. fucking.. damnit.. here we go, maybe this time it will work.

He needs to send me one for that to happen! :o

Hyptosis is the one responsible for that amazing tile art? He really does need an avatar :D

Quote:Originally posted by Hyptosis

Yeah, the grass was a bit too bright, I'd intended a shaman, healer, type person to have lived there. And they go out and clean up the garbage around their home.. but we didn't get that far =D

I'll send an avatar. =D

It looked impressive enough for me not to question how out of place it looked.

One thing, though. being the terminal take-it-to-bits-and-scrutinise-it-bit-by-bit-type-person that I am, I noticed you got a bit lazy with minimising your art to the lowest number of tiles possible. VERGE now has a maximum limit of over 1 million layers (or something silly) so it's always a good idea to organise art to make the most of that and to identify recurring patterns and variances in particular areas of a map in general (like the tiled roofs, for instance.).

Quote:Originally posted by rpgking

I'm fairly confident that he did the buildings and other structures completely in Photoshop and not on a tile-by-tile basis. That would explain the tiles that look repeated, when in fact they're probably not all that similar if you get down to the pixel level.

Still, it's possible with some thought to get the number of tiles to make a roof down to very few indeed. They *look* similar - even if they're not - because they CAN be the same if you sit for a minute or two and work out how to arrange them.

In fact, getting down to the pixel level on the roof tiles and you actually notice that some are indeed virtually the SAME.

Plus of course, managing your tiles effectively helps keep download sizes down and reduce the amount of video memory V3 uses, reducing the possibility of people with crap computers not being able to play certain VERGE games.

don't mistake all of it for laziness. I was in a hurry, and also, I prefer to have several of each kind of tile, to reduce the tile effect. The roof was an exception in many places, but I still smudged black spots on some of them to make them unique.

Er...I can see the city quite well. It's just that the parts near the player are well-lit while outside the cone of light the city is darkened.

Light also comes out of windows...and I think a lampost too. It's not too dark.

Fix that contrast :D