Maybe some very simple wooden texute on the sides of the board.

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!



Edited by ceddo - 14 June 2007 at 2:38pm

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.

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.

I like the flashing and glistening. That looks cool. :)

No explosion? 

Have you ever played Pocket Gals(NeoGeo)?

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. 

suggesting another posible death animation

edit: wrong url.  


Edited by Metaru - 17 June 2007 at 1:14pm

That's really good Metaru, I was just about suggest making the pieces brake when they "die".

feel free to use and edit it ceddo. that's the idea.



Edited by Metaru - 18 June 2007 at 11:11pm

Awesome, I love it so far.  

Yeah that is weird....

I like Metaru's Type of explosion! 

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.

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


Edited by leel - 01 July 2007 at 7:13am