King Me! Checkers
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Topic: King Me! Checkers
Posted By: ceddo
Subject: King Me! Checkers
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 12:23pm
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I'm making a little checkers game for multiple handheld platforms, and I need some CC to improve the look of the game! Seeing as there are already so many classic games out there, our release needs to be as unique as possible! Ideas of interesting features to make the game special are appreciated :)
Here's what I've done so far. 
Thanks for your time! Ideas for graphics: - Game logo "watermark", covering the four center squares. - Shadows from top right corner. - Fancy reflections under chess pieces. - Multiple interesting moving animations. |
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 12:42pm
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Maybe some very simple wooden texute on the sides of the board. To make it more interresting, maybe let the player choose out of 4-6 characters. Place the players next to the board.
Example image:
 (of course you should make something like this in your own style)
you can make some frames:
-normal
-lose piece
-kill opponents piece
-lose
-win
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Posted By: soda
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 12:43pm
| Idea: Everytime you move make the last place the checker just was explode! Then it could "Extreme Checkers of Impossibility". |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 2:37pm
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Thanks for the replies guys.
@dragonrc: Made the wooden texture (took a while, but I think it was worth it! Well, the max canvas we can use is 240x240, and we're already at 223x223 with what I've posted. I think we're only going to have space for a small score bar on the top with player names and points won, etc. Good idea though. I don't really understand what you mean by frames :) @soda: Do you mean, after a checker moves from one place to another, the tile on which he was standing on previously disappears? That could be fun, but I think it would be really easy to get your checkers stuck, and the game would always being a tie! Here's the update!
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Posted By: dragonrc
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 2:59pm
It looks much better with that wooden texture
Originally posted by ceddo I don't really understand what you mean by frames :) Yeah it's a bit vague.
For the character above, the losing frame would be:
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 15 June 2007 at 6:03am
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I like it so far. The frame of the checkerboard is really well done.
I think profile pictures of the players looks fun and maybe some reactions to the game. Like if they get kinged they make an excited or kind of "aha!" face. And if they loose a piece them make a sad or ":O" face. And finally if they win they could have their arms out in victory or if they loose they could have their hands cover their face. Those sort of differences are always neat to see. And instead of having just the two checkers on top of each other (like you would for kinged pieces in real checkers) how about you design an entirely new piece... like one that looks like a crown? and if it gets unkinged it could melt back into two or something. I'm not sure if all of these are possible but I thought I'd throw in my two cents. :) good luck. ------------- |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 15 June 2007 at 6:09am
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That's a good idea - again, not sure about the profile faces, but it could be a possibility. Maybe we could add some tiny tiny faces next to the players' names on the score bar.
Off-topic: shocked at the number of posts you made in the WIP forum!!! Aleiav takes over pixeljoint! |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 15 June 2007 at 6:14am
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bwahahahaa..
well if all else fails you could have the top right corner for the blue and bottom left corner for the red.. there should be enough room for lives display score and all that jaaazzz. ------------- |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 4:17pm
Sorry about the late update, I have actually been working on this a lot, but didn't take the effort to post the newest stuff. Anyway, we have a basic checkers game! Now, it's all to adding cool features that make it unique. First off, funky selection animations!
 
And here's a little "kinged" animation - we didn't like the black and white flashing too much (must have been tired when I made it) so the programmer will just code one frame of white screen instead. 
.ceddo |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 4:23pm
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I like the flashing and glistening. That looks cool. :) ------------- |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 7:56pm
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Very nice overall, and the wood grain is excellent. A suggestion I have is that you add a black line on one side of the diagonal highlights in the corners to give the look of multiple pieces of wood joined together and add some realism. Another thing is that the pieces look like they could have some antialiasing from the actual checker into the outline, just a pixel here and there to reduce the jaggies around the highlights. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: soda
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 11:19pm
| No explosion? |
Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 12:09am
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I really like those animations, and the new wood edges is excellent, KUTGW :D
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 1:11am
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Originally posted by ceddo Ideas of interesting features to make the game special are appreciated :) Have you ever played Pocket Gals(NeoGeo)?  ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 8:47am
Is this what you meant? I think it looks pretty nice :P Here are also my numerous attempts at death animations. The results hurt my eyes so much I decided to go for the simple, blinking animation.  
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Posted By: soda
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 9:04am
Ceddo, this is really looking cool. The disapearence of the checkers once they are jumped is awesome. If you submit this to pj, I will fav right away. 
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 9:31am
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I rather like the decorations on the corners. It all looks great.
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 1:13pm
suggesting another posible death animation edit: wrong url. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 2:24pm
| Awesome!! I would definitely use it if I had made it - I'll try to make one using the same concept :) |
Posted By: KrixKS
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 3:27pm
| That's really good Metaru, I was just about suggest making the pieces brake when they "die". |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 17 June 2007 at 6:03pm
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I like the ornate looking corners on the board and the poofy death animation. :D ------------- |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 18 June 2007 at 2:46pm
feel free to use and edit it ceddo. that's the idea. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 3:43pm
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Sorry Metaru, I wouldn't feel good using your animation for a game that will be sold! We decided to go with my first attempt.
On to the spells: "Summon Wall", "Summon Fire" and "Summon Abyss". Names are very 'working names', so suggestions on those are of course appreciated. 
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Posted By: soda
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 6:39pm
| Awesome, I love it so far. |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 8:19pm
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I'll be honest, I didn't read the whole thread, but has anyone yet asked why you can see the sides of the checkers looking straight down on a flat board? Just wondering.. ------------- |
Posted By: Fuzzyleaves
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 8:23pm
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Yeah that is weird.... I like member_profile.asp?PF=9586&FID=8 - Metaru 's Type of explosion! 
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 9:26pm
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Oblique pictorial perspective perhaps...
http://www.engr.ku.edu/~rhale/ae421/06PICT/sld012.htm - http://www.engr.ku.edu/~rhale/ae421/06PICT/sld012.htm
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Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 1:28am
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Originally posted by leel
I'll be honest, I didn't read the whole thread, but has anyone yet asked why you can see the sides of the checkers looking straight down on a flat board?Just wondering.. I was hoping the board would read as slightly tilted towards the viewer. Besides showing the sides of the checkers and other sprites, is there a way I could make it read better? Thanks for pointing that out. |
Posted By: K.s
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 2:36am
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Im not too sure about the oblique perspective, i quite like it how it is tbh ------------- |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 7:12am
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It's perfectly square and doesn't look tilted in any way you try to see it
well you could take the easy way out and just foreshorten the top of the frame, but that probably will look .. i dunno.. like taking the easy way out.. and take off the highlight in the blue on the top. change the pieces then. if you want to ------------- |