Added a little color variation to the ground. Made some new rock bits to litter the ground.

The ground looked too plain, so I added a slight texture to it.

Would you mind not making the images link to Photobucket? The link makes it very annoying to zoom, and doesn't do anything useful.

Are people meant to give you pixel art feedback on this, or just general art feedback? If you want pixel art feedback, please post the art without zooms/smoothing, as it blurs everything.
The lighter... rocks? seem to stick out of the ground because of the shadows they cast, is that intentional? I can't tell exactly what kind of terrain I'm looking at here, it looks like it's red ground with a mosaic lying on top of it.


Also, I recommend editing previous posts to add more stuff, and only making new posts every day or every other day or so, or after others have replies. Posting multiple times in a row doesn't help you, and just stretches out this thread.

"Wasteland" doesn't answer my question. I meant what is the actual physical surface you're trying to represent? What sort of ground is it? Have you thought about that at all?

I like the newer colours, but I'm not sure I like how noisy it all is, doesn't seem to fit with the sprite in the first post.
The yellow lines in the middle of the wasteland road seem to be on a different scale from the white lines for the town roads. Since the character doesn't change from place to place, neither should the map scale.

Started to work on the road for the middle of the wasteland.

I got a few different effects going on here, but I'm not pleased with the "soft" edges found throughout the road.

The edges that are more defined, mainly under the cracks, is the desired look I want, so I'll have to redo the rest of the road to match.

nice tileset. love how it is low contrast, so interactive items would be easier to read

 ;)

the amount of work in this piece and quality level is more than reasonable,  but anything is always improvable.

for the road feedback...

-I love the darker stains, I would use it for lightning strikes combined with broken asphalt and scattered pieces. (but I would place very few in the game, like landmarks or such, not a very common phenomenon lightning striking a road).

-I would make spots in wich the dirt "eats" it, by growing over it, here and there, frequent or common.

-I would increase the contrast between the land and the outline upper side of the big rocks, and lower juuust a little in the lower side.

-I won't exagerate as much the frequency and shapes of broken pieces of road, and besides the ones scattered in a lightning strike, I would place them very close to the jigsaw edges.
I definitevely would search images of "broken asphalt road" as references.
wheter you continue improving this piece or move on to the next ones, keep up the good work!

Added intersections and Telephone poles. Telephone poles are vital for the player :)

At the moment we don't feel shortening of the roads will add anything to the game versus the time lost to do redo the roads.

The game is slated to have randomly generated terrain, so the more tiles we have the match up without any wonky perspective issues, the easier for us to get done.

Hmmm.... But I do see what you're getting at, and if this is an issue for most people, we'd address it.

One of the main issues is that player driven vehicles need space to move around, and having perspective on the roads would just shorten the space vehicles have when driving past each other. Its not like your car is going to get smaller by driving on the top lane of a vertical road.

I hope that makes sense?

-edit- As an artist I agree with you 99.5%, but as a developer that needs to get things done in a timely manner, this isn't something I have time to do! :(

@Eishiya Before I start "eating" roads up.how is this for a bit of perspective?

The road is still the same size as before, but as you suggested, I just moved the road markings around to give the illusion of depth.

@Dyluck After I get the go ahead with the new roads, I'll make the damage in the roads look more realistic as per the reference for damage asphalt roads you suggested.

So the question is - go with the old road perspective, or this new road perspective?

Thank you very much for the input. I'll run this by my programmer to see if he approves of it.

@Eishiya We've decided to go with the old road width. You skinnier version just doesn't look right to us at the moment. This doesn't mean we can't change it in the future once we start making buildings, etc... and your version may look better then.

Here is the basic wasteland male_hero walking right.