+Stephen Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 here is the potential title screen... Looks awesome. Let's see how long it takes for emkay to complain how much better it could be if the G2F bugs were fixed Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) well, I'm back from my trip earlier than expected so I'll get back on to the title screen tonight. The colours are dark again on that WIP! I'll have to lighten them again on the final pic. You can hardly see the green grid lines at all. I must stop messing with the G2F palette. Here's closer to how it will look...... Edited July 10, 2009 by Tezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Godzilla Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 rooting around... looking... searching... AHA! found it! There's that old can of worms. (can-opener-noise,) Ah, now it's open again. SOoooo.... That sure looks like a title screen a C=64 couldn't do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 well, I'm back from my trip earlier than expected so I'll get back on to the title screen tonight. The colours are dark again on that WIP! I'll have to lighten them again on the final pic. You can hardly see the green grid lines at all. I must stop messing with the G2F palette. Here's closer to how it will look...... I need some explanations for that picture What is this black "Dognose" and why has it a blue part? Why is the grid green, while it's red in the game? Why is the "Jet" blue while ingame it's green yet? And, finally, why did you remove the "fire" that could have been print on a game's box? I looks much more professional than the red/yellow. But this is up to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) Belonging to the colours... The older one looks like coming from the Amiga, while the newer one looks like coming from an older computer. And the colours are "wrong" Edited July 10, 2009 by emkay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) The image is entirely based on the original box art Emkay. I believe the "dog nose" is the characteristic nose section of a harrier jumpjet or some type of similar jet Here is a photo of an actual jumpjet with a quick google search : http://myoops.org/cocw/mit/NR/rdonlyres/Gl...chp_harrier.jpg Yes the palette is set wrong. Yes the colours of the pic don't match the colours of the game but well that'll take all of 10 minutes to correct The original box art is here on Lemon... http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//w...26coverID%3D669 Edited July 10, 2009 by Tezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 i am keeping everything near to the original so we should use the original "green grid" artwork imho... the player sprite does not look like the harrier... so what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 i am keeping everything near to the original so we should use the original "green grid" artwork imho... the player sprite does not look like the harrier... so what? Yea, I can only guess the box artist wasn't briefed fully about the game and came up with the idea of using a jet fighter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) The image is entirely based on the original box art Emkay. OK. Found it. http://www.mobygames.com/game/gridrunner/c...eCoverId,34991/ But, for sure, in the box art the "fire" fits more to you 1st picture and the "dognose" has reflections on it, that look like it got broken in your image. To prevent from this, you really should stick with the same colour and different brightness at the "Dognose". Or, you could do some colour variation as I did with the "sea" in my Pirates conversion.... This could help to differ the colours of the reflection from the torso of the jet. The rest of the image is well already. Edited July 10, 2009 by emkay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 yep, it's still wip. I will normally make those type of final tweaks of the colours at the end when I have everything in place to work around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 The thing I'd change if possible is the © 1982 Yak to hires - use PMGs to do the wingtip parts that live on the same vertical area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 The thing I'd change if possible is the © 1982 Yak to hires - use PMGs to do the wingtip parts that live on the same vertical area. I was originally going to do that at the top but left it unchanged. I will do that on the final version to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym00 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 well, I'm back from my trip earlier than expected so I'll get back on to the title screen tonight. The colours are dark again on that WIP! I'll have to lighten them again on the final pic. You can hardly see the green grid lines at all. I must stop messing with the G2F palette. Here's closer to how it will look...... Great job on that, I think that looks absolutely fecking ace ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) ...The original box art is here on Lemon... http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//w...26coverID%3D669 Yes, but still don't like the font in conjunction with the title. It's the font for 'HES-Ware'-titles (used also for e.g. 'Retro Ball'), but it appears totally out of context here. CU Irgendwer Edit: Just done a quick mockup for an alternative style: Edited July 11, 2009 by Irgendwer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Yes, but still don't like the font in conjunction with the title.It's the font for 'HES-Ware'-titles (used also for e.g. 'Retro Ball'), but it appears totally out of context here. Yeah, got to agree with that; the name of the game was chosen based on the Blade Runner logo on a movie poster and the font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I reckon the one in use looks better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) hmm, well it is absolutely right that Jeff wanted to create a bladerunner type font for the game and I believe this was the first thing that Jeff did when he was creating the game. The box art really should have had the same logo/font as the game but it's easy to gather that as with the rest of the box art, it looks to have just been created from a loose description given to the artist and the font is due to the reason explained above. I remember it was pretty common for box art to barely resemble the game. What does everyone think? should I change the current font to a Bladerunner inspired font such as Christians example above? or just leave it as is... Edited July 11, 2009 by Tezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 hmm, well it is absolutely right that Jeff wanted to create a bladerunner type font for the game and I believe this was the first thing that Jeff did when he was creating the game. The box art really should have had the same logo/font as the game but it's easy to gather that as with the rest of the box art, it looks to have just been created from a loose description given to the artist and the font is due to the reason explained above. I remember it was pretty common for box art to barely resemble the game. What does everyone think? should I change the current font to a Bladerunner inspired font such as Christians example above? or just leave it as is... Personally I like it as is. I immediately thought of the box art when I saw it. Just my opinion - guess it's really up to you and Heaven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarian63 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 btw. what do you think of the title screen? ;=) it's my new avatar pic. It's really great! Nice Job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 What does everyone think? should I change the current font to a Bladerunner inspired font such as Christians example above? or just leave it as is... I prefer the original box-art font, even if it's not the right Bladerunner in-game font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 11, 2009 Author Share Posted July 11, 2009 my opinion is the original box art but well... it is up to Tezz... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the replies with your opinions. It seems that it's prefered as it is. Here's the latest with some changes... Edited July 11, 2009 by Tezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Tezz, the dognose isn't grey in the box art! It is actually some kind of violett. You easily could do a colour shift to resemble that, including the correct reflection on the dognose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I'm intending to play around with the colours tonight in the final stages to see what works best. I'll take a look at your suggestion too Emkay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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