Due diligence, managed to answer my own question

Thanks guys for the help! Much appreciated.

I've got three threads atm going, we can close this one. I'd love to hear any idea's or feedback on the main project page though .

Ha, had a response in length, and ofc page refreshed and deleted it all , rofl.

Thank you guys for the advice, I'll gladly take it. I want a complete set of C2 ready, plug-and-play artwork ready for when the time comes for coding, animation and eventing. I'm glad I asked, as this let's me know I need to change a few things.

Luckily, I do use tilesets. One of the reasons the area was so large, was to incorporate an entire set of say 30-35 rooms before hitting a loading screen. It wouldn't be displayed all-at-once by any means, but rather a small portion of it (whatever room you were in). I thought it might be a good idea in tandem with scaling it down, and using it for a top corner minimap, as well as a inventory screen map, minimizing a little work. Busting the rooms down shouldn't be a problem, to reduce layer size. However, it may create a ton more work, in figuring out a way to break up the layered moving backgrounds for each individual room,

I'll definitely take a look through ashleys guide, and try to do some more reading on correct level design. I also grabbed Rex's awesome plugins before I started, thinking that the canvas plugin might be exactly for that purpose. I could be way off base, and need to read up on it too.

If this helps : (link with project and photo's)

--https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=100433--

Hello all,

I'm on the level design phase currently of my project, and it dawned on me this is probably a good question to ask (lol, probably before I got started). I've been creating my enviroments until now, on seperate layers in Gimp, to keep everything nice and tidy (walls/floors on a layer, ceilings on another, backgrounds on layers 3 until about 8). Makes it a ton easier in fixing problems and creating modular "sets".

My question, is this a good move, and should I work with the layers inside C2, or just compile the image inside of gimp beforehand, putting all the non-moving (floors/walls/backdrop interiors) into one image, then making it a main layer inside of C2 instead.

I could see where it might be a good idea use multiple layers inside of C2 (tying affects/animations to seperate layers), however most of modular levels I've been using, use a size of 3200x3200 (big levels, and to keep the graphics nice on rescaling of the engine). If there is a smart way to go about this while doing the design and artwork, would save a ton of work later, please let me know

the end result being a 2d sidescroll with multiple layers at different speeds (aka foreground trees move by as your walking, at a faster rate, than background trees). Some I'd like to have with up to 10 layers, to give a lot of life to the enviroment without using ton's of animations inside the engine.

I don't know why exactly, but it reminds me of what would happen if Bully : Scholarship edition (PC/PS game), met Simcity, lol. Of course, without the dimeaning act's, a little added humor and some nice fluffy fun graphic work.

I think the premise of a young, maybe cartoon/cell shaded sprite, breaking his way into the industry, could be identifiable on a lot of levels for the player. Humor might be a good weapon!

Great idea, hat's off there, very unique twist. Best of luck with it for sure!

Very cool!

Thanks Cipriux

Darren,

Great work, the tracks sound great!

Bam! Your a 14year old sprite in-game with a longing to make video games.

Question? What in the wold to make? Well, you could :

Populate a list of game types, which have varying levels of required expertise, allowing you to recruit your next door neighbor, the family cat, or the small part-time cello player down the street. Each of these would offer some (delayed time event? time wait in days in-game) stat's to your finished first game, which the improvements could serve to help appeal to different small-time, beginner production companies nearby (in-game also).

Maybe as a side-quest :

You must complete different activities at home or the (levelmap?) (minigames! woo woo), in order to unlock games of the type for creation by your new game studio (in game)

Events, you could frequent them in-game to help advertise your game, giving it endorsements, adding $$$ with with which to buy better "options" to create your first game, then doubly giving it more stats.

Apologies, flooded with ideas, hope that came out legible and was on point lol.

For the love of zimbabwian monkey cats, thanks for this post. Great literature to read up on! Thanks for sharing

Really great info the the layman just getting started!

Thomas,

I can totally understand the apprehension, you are definitely not alone. This is my personal first project with a "real" game development software, stepping up from the likes of rpg maker and 001 engine. Luckily, the time spent with completed projects and games on those engines has given me a little understanding of graphic/musical editing. I'd be more than happy to help you in my free time, with whatever I can. However, I may be a far cry from the level of professional you need

Unfortunately, I'm unable to send you a PM due to reputation limit at the moment, but feel free to drop me a line anytime, and my project page is here :

--https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=100433&p=758496#p758496--

Magix, as mentioned by peterbot above, is a great little program (although a bit pricy, depending on options),

and I believe Fruity Loops has a free version that has limitations. Both are pretty easy to use, but for the layman, will take some time as always (Fruity Loops might be quicker to pick up, harder to master). There's also Acid burn free by Sony I believe, and a handful of other nifty proggies out there (on the off chance you decide to try it out)

Thanks jihun

Thanks nmlucio

I really appreciate the replies! I was beginning to think I was all alone over here, hehe. It's a solo project so far. I was hoping to land that old school meets retro indie look, and I'm not sure of that qualifies lol, but the more I'm looking at it, the more it's growing on me (Been trying to imagine, with enemies/sprites/character/effects going on, what it i will look like). Many thanks for the offer of help nmlucio, that's definitely appreciated. This is my first actual C2 project, and I'm sure I'll have a bazillion questions along the way (I think learning the event/script? system here will probably be the hardest for me, coming from rpg maker and 001 engine.

Thanks again you two.

Hi all,

I recently began working on a metroidvania style game as my first learning curve into the great C2 engine. Over the past week, I've started some work on song tracks and art design's to use in the project, and was hoping to hear some of your great design, art style and music ideas and feedback.

This is a solo project (pshh I don't know anyone here XD), that I'll be working on until completion over the next few decades (lol, hopefully not). With all the wonderful game lovers on this site, and hopefully some SOTN nut's and metroid fan's hanging about, we can get some excellent creation ideas flowing! All feedback is awesomely appreciated .

***also here's a thread link to the project, in case i miss a update here. I'd love to here some concept ideas from everyone, or what you'd like to see. (Remove dashes on links, )

--https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=100433--