By "remove the box effect", do you mean make it look more natural, and not as tiled?  Well, one thing I think you can do to improve the transition between the rock and grass is erase the half-rocks on the edge of the tiles.  Hope you don't mind my edit.


Also, the hero is pretty hard to see.  I would either make him larger, or make him lighter, or give him a stronger outline.

Thanks for the idea. I updated the picture here.

I need some perspective help on the end of the castle and the end of the moat areas. I don't want to cut it off with just a single line or something, but I'm not sure how to "round it off" or whatever.

To me, the grassy area is pretty much a pain to my eyes :P

That's mainly because you made it with black outlines, and white inside. Try using gray instead of black, and a light gray instead of white. (just lowering the contrast)

I love the wall though, good job on that :)

Ahh, much better.

Alright, I only see it now that you say it though. If you want it to make it look more like water, i would make the cells bigger. As it stands now, the small foam cells you made (i'm assuming those are zelda-style foam cells?) look like leaves from an area with high grass or vegetation.

I can imagine how hard it is to differentiate water from grass in grayscale...

Edit: you could also use the classic gameboy way of representing water! Those tiled jagged shades of gray... Here's an example from Terley's avatar on pixelation:



It's colored, but it was the way most gameboy games did their waterfalls & rivers, so more people will know that it's water than if you continued the way you're doing it now.

Edited by ceddo - 16 November 2006 at 1:01pm

I'll pass Jalonso, thanks for the offer.

I may post another screenshot I need help with in awhile, maybe mountain cave walls.

Thanks for the help in the meantime.