This is a piece of concept art for what exactly my commercial games’ first level would look like, how is it?
I’m aware of the repetitive tiles, I’ll fix that sometime soon, don’t worry 😉
Also, no, this game isn’t gonna be entirely red. each level will be themed around different colors :)
I’ve spent a bit too much time in Godot and Aseprite recently so that’s why this exists :P
Pixel Art is so much fun to make.
Edit: heres a slightly updated version!
Player characters, movable platforms, enemies, items, items you can interact with, should catch the eye somehow (either via contrast, color or HUD markers), these are basic UX/UI guidelines. Maybe play around with contrast and saturation, playing with different red hues? E.g. make the player neon red while the background has a slightly less saturated red?
Alright, I see what you’re saying.
I don’t really wanna change the skin tone of the character as I personally find the red skin to work well with the rest of the character, but I can add some more details to him like maybe a scarf of a different color/shade or something
In regards to it being “too red”, I can see where you’re coming from, yeah.
I could alleviate this by making the background more orange-y, adding some extra dark red structures in the background like the one in the photo/more BG elements, having some ground tiles be different types of red (like as you said, I can use pastel red, and maybe that’d be used for a dirt tile), etc
I’ll play around with the art to see if I can make this less of an issue.
Also, I think your the only one who says their eyes hurt looking at the image, other people i’ve asked said that the shades of red look nice, so that’s strange lol, It could be a brightness issue, where your screen is able to go brighter then mine, so I could probably fix that if it is the case
Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
