Thanks for the ideas and the support. I moved the title as you said Jalonso, and add some snow. I will try to make a squeleton of some animal, but I like the tail idea too. I 'll continue tomorrow.

I wondered if I was allowed to do something like this :



I will be forced to draw on a3um's tile because I think it will look strange if my rocks stop is too abrupt...

Edited by JC Denton - 02 October 2010 at 11:35am

Fixed:

I'm working on my tile! Shall post my WIP later on this evening :)

@JC Denton - I guess jalonso meant, that you can't change any pixel that belongs to someone's tile area. Thats why you can't touch any of my precious violet pixels! >:] Here is my quick suggestion for a border:



Also, you can make your tile in a way you want, and then I'll change mine to blend with yours(:

Edited by a3um - 03 October 2010 at 8:03am

This is a sketch of what i was planning... I don't know if its gonna work. Any idea on how to put a fcking tree and a snorlax in it?

Did I hear someone talk about color-theory and palette-design? That's risky when a madman like me is running around in tha hood. ;)

Maybe it's the wrong thread for this...but what the heck, so sue me! ;)

Working with colors in RGB-colorspace is not all that simple & intuitive. Looking at what's going is a bit clearer when viewing HSL/HSV colorspace, that is HUE, SATURATION and BRIGHTNESS (Lightness, Value, whatever...).
But it's pretty important that brightness is adjusted to the perception of the human eye (phenomena I'm exploring a lot). But  I don't recommend that you tweak individual colors using a HSL/HSV model; good 'ol RGB is more exact and probably more familiar.

Smaller and balanced palettes usually have colors of quite similar saturation, so you can focus on the two more important dimension: Hue & Brightness.

When observing the following example I think it's quite clear what a nice tool Hue-Brightness diagrams are for palette evaluation and optimization. (Note that Hue is cylindrical and wraps around).



(I don't know of any gfx program that has really good tools for this, but I hope to include a lot of nice scripts that does the job in the next release of Grafx2)

Obvious improvement. Only thing I think you must do is to refine the upper border of the sea.

@JakerPot; this template is looking better and more creative than the last one.  But imo don't even try to fit a snorlax in :) If you did something distinctive from the outside it would rock. For example, mud or rock outside the dome and grass and a fruit tree inside.

@Jal; Could you please assign me a tile? I've got some ideas for an open tile but none is available at the moment. But still I'd like to do something. Perhaps 16 or 24 or 40? No idea, please gimme something that you'd like to see done.

Also I think there's this pink BG areas left in Pandora's tile on the main picture, is it on purpose?


Edited by Gecimen - 03 October 2010 at 5:12pm

Jal I noticed your whirpool thing and I thought it kinda tied in with my theme of ancient greece. It reminds me of a section of the Odyssey where the ships get swept down the whirlpool. Just an idea... 

I should try something more challenging. #64 please:)

Yes yes! That would be amazing!!! Indeed I have several more-than-1-tile ideas flying around, though I don't know if they appeal to you. And they may suffer from tile avaliability.

Such as C'Thun from world of warcraft;


Millenium Falcon from SW;


A crashed biplane (though it would need to be moved to 1 tile below due to the upper post);


other ideas may be a Rancor vs. Luke Skywalker scene or a volcano.

If you've got anything I'm totally up for it as well.

@Jinn; thanks!


Edited by Gecimen - 04 October 2010 at 9:28am

Ah ok, I didn't understand that this way, sorry.

Gecimen and Jal, why don't you guys make a Castlevania reference?

** edit**

I'd like to claim tile 10!

Edited by Pandora'sSecret - 04 October 2010 at 12:02pm

Quickly WIP, just to not lose the tile and idea.

I think that is what I got for today.

@Jalonso; I'm a PC gamer and haven't really played any of these games but I know a little about them. IMO megaman does not really fit the concept of this collab but as far as I know Metroid and GoW has some real cool bosses. So does Shadow of the Colossus...

So, I've made a small research about underground-themed bosses. Here are several options you may wish to choose from or maybe bring something to your mind.

Game names:

Zelda..............................................Super Metroid..........................Shadow of the Colossus..................Gears of War...............................World of Warcraft


I chose these from hundreds of options I've seen and these are some of the ones I'd love to pixel.
It doesn't have to be a boss though, it could be a vehicle or base or city w/e. Please tell me what you think. I'm not gonna let you dodge this :) (just kidding of course, please do tell me if you don't like to do it).

@JC Denton; very cool improvement. It looks complete except a crocodile tail or w/e.

@Jinn; amazing stuff...

@Pandora'sSecret, #10 is yours but you should probably ignore #3 as he has never posted again and that tile break a few rules. It is salted to be removed on Oct10th.

@Jinn, ooh, nice and green

@Shampoop, thanks.

@Gecimen, hmmmm, dunno yet...another big boss/monster???...why not BigDaddy?...hmmmm...how about Myst?


Edited by jalonso - 04 October 2010 at 3:16pm

@kenpokis, added Jinn's tile to main pic. This should help you out a lot :)

@Gecimen, I know bosses are best. I'm just wondering if this has too many monster/bosses already. Myst just came up randomly cuz I was thinking landscape instead of creatures :/ What two tiles are you thinking of using? Maybe that will help.
I'll add your tweaked tile next update.

@LuckyF; Hmm I was thinking about the interior of Predator's underground lair (or spaceship), and yes an alien lair with human cocoons would be cool but I doubt it's as large to require a multi-tile collab? Btw, what do you think about joining us for a 3-tile thing?

@Jalonso; I'm totally OK with a construction. Or even if we do a boss we can do it with it's surroundings. Which tiles to choose? 4-11; 31-24; 40-44; 40-48; 51-44; 63-53 seem to be all the possibilities. Among these 51-44 is the most free one and they don't neighbour other tiles from either of us.

Maybe i could include some alien eggs on my tile? Make a cave lair...

Hey, what about Cthulhu??

@Gecimen & Jalonso.
 One can do that atmosphere transforming thing corridor and the other will make an alien corridor and then you'll collaborate to make a nice transition between them )

@Gecimen: Nice, but the sphere blends in to the background a bit too well, why not try to find a way to create a better contrast. Here's an example with an outline and stronger glow-reflection. (Such an outline should probably be a bit thinner/weaker than my rough example). Maybe a bit more blue in the shadows could also help separating the sphere from the yellow/red surroundings?

@Jal; I'm happy to do a Metroid theme 2-part thingy with you. How about something involving a Chozo statue?

No boss there, neither a huge artifact filling the whole square. Just a regular cave thing with a Chozo statue and/or some enemies + a metroid?

@Jal; yeah sure, as you wish. I'm gonna bug you when some space opens.

About what it is; I must have missed Jaker Pot's post about Cthulhu. I'd love to add a Cthulhu here. How bout you?

I have a few ideas but I'm holding off for now.  (Working on my color study)  Maybe near the end of the collab or if someone drops out.  See how it goes (still watching very closely though). 

Still waiting for tile 56 so I can make a few changes to #63.

Bla bla bla, everybody knows that tentacles are never enough. BTW, Cthulhu has big badass wings too.
If someone do it, he should be HUGE, like 3 tiles long =p
(like the big tmnt thing you guys made)

I will have to decide what to do in my tile!
Aliens, Pokemon or R'Lyeh?