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Project: A Man With a Monocle
Project Started: 11th August, 2009 Last Update: 14th September, 2010
Project Owner: Johnny Look Project Members:
Project Type: Adventure Platformer game Project Progress:
More Info: http://amanwithamonocle.neogen2.com Faves: 14

Color !
Posted 17th Aug 09, by Johnny Look  
You guies said the game needed more colors, so here it is:

Image

Personally I'm still unsure if it looks better or not, a part of me says it looks a lot better but at the same I liked the other style quite a lot, so the final decision will be yours, colors or not ?

Posted by OMC 17th August, 2009

Psychedelic. I like it both ways, but if you're going with color tone those trees down a bit.
 
Posted by Marko 17th August, 2009

I think i prefer the coloured version, but very marginally! Looks awesome either way
 
Posted by AndyUK 17th August, 2009

So the black foreground objects are supposed to be black? I can't say I'm a fan of that.
 
Posted by Alexey 17th August, 2009

Colored game will be more attractive for common players, black-n-white variant will look like an arthouse project... so, if you want to help TDC with this game - make it colored for future better selling.
(also, colored sprites you can easy desaturate, but grayscale ones - not at all).
 
Posted by ILIKESCIFI Games 17th August, 2009

great mood. I like it a lot. My opinion: maybe you can do both: b & w and colored, you just have to find a way to explain it. Playing in an old movie (b&w), then there is colored tv (color) etc etc.... whatever you find. I like both things but if i would have to decide...it would be black and white. Itīs a tough decission i know.
 
Posted by Johnny Look 17th August, 2009

thanks everyone for your opinions !
So far most people like both, with marko slightly inclined towards the color version, and jot inclined towards the black and white version, so we have a draw.

Andy: mmh what object are talking about, the ground tiles ? Thanks for your honesty btw.

Alexey: I think that's quite a question, in one side, like you said, most people are afraid to spend their money in something that looks or plays differently and would probably prefer the colors version, but in the other side, the game needs to stand out somehow, and most of the time people download demos based on a few screenshots, and if the game looks like any other one people are more likely to ignore it.

jot: Very good idea, it's surely think about it. The only problem I see so far is that I would need 2 versions of each tileset, but well that's not a big problem.
 
Posted by [DELETED] 17th August, 2009

I don't mind the colours, though they should be toned down a little cause they are quite high in saturation.

On the title drawing, I was gonna colour it but I don't mind if you do I'll send you a high-res version later today!
 
Posted by Johnny Look 18th August, 2009

Well I'd rather prefer if you colored the drawing, I almost ruined it.

And yes, I I'll work on the colors on the game a bit, I agree they are too saturated.
 
Posted by W3R3W00F 18th August, 2009

In all honesty I like it plenty as it is, but I would have to agree with everybody and say desaturate the colors.
 
Posted by Johnny Look 18th August, 2009

thanks
I followed everyone's suggestions and posted a new screenshot with reworked tiles, any better ?
 


 



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