Hmm. This might work:
Not enough range in the palette to go as low contrast as the bg mountains you posted, but now there's a clear distinction between near and far bg at least
In the end I'll just have to mess around I think. I might decide to revert to a less detailed approach eventually, but in a different way than the old mountains. I'm starting to see why they don't work come to think of it
Hey thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it :)
I never cared much for the statues in the first place so that's a-okay :)
Fake tan... that does not sound great lol :o Check out the comparison gif below. It shows 0.50, 0.51, and the current changes:
Between 0.50 and 0.51 there's not much visible change in this scene, apart from Rastan himself. On 0.52 I made the greens darker and more of a muddy yellow in the mid-range to make the mountain highlights less prominent and a smoother blend with the blues, at the cost of a little pop on the lizard folk.
I totally get ya with the mountain range receding into the background. The goal all along has been to try and get the enemies to pop with saturated, high contrast colors and use more muted ranges for the background to give a sense of distance, separate elements by visual priority and all that. It *is* tricky with only 16 colors that I can use freely ofc :) Change one color and you affect everything since they all do double-duty.
I wanted to give the mountains some more detail because I felt they looked a bit crude the way they were. There's been some grumbling from people about the detail levels on Stage 1-1 too, so yeah :)
How does it look? Can't get around using greens completely, but hopefully the current contrast/saturation on em work better.
Rastan is a full sprite now so I got more leeway with him (separate 16 color palette). I'm keeping the color differences between the sprite palette and main palette subtle tho so he can still revert to blitter drawing when needed.
EDIT: Oh, and don't worry about critiquing my stuff. Constructive criticism is always welcome! :D
Small Christmas update!
Version 0.33 revamps level 1-1 backgrounds to bring them a bit more in line with the arcade original. I've also made some tweaks to make that level flow a bit better, and finally proper checkpoint icons.
Sorry about the radio silence everyone! I hit some technical difficulties that made me put the project on hold, and then lots of life stuff happened, as it does sometimes.
I also wanted to say thank you to everyone for your support and kind words. It means a lot :D
I'm working on level 2 at the moment, and updating the project to work properly with the newest Scorpion version. I think I'll release new versions as new levels finish, with a password save system so you don't have to start from the beginning every time.
