Greetings everyone! Especially Bravo who knows me from another forum.

OK, I'm writing a game based around the old arcade game STARFORCE (See Here). I've made a start on the tileset:



But I really need help with the 'edging' that goes around the metal slabs. Take a look at this screen grab and you'll see what I'm on about:

http://www.madladdesigns.co.uk/games/starforce/starforce_01.png

It's the green and orange edging that looks like a planet surface, if anyone can help me with it I'd be grateful and of course you'll get credit in the game AND a link.

Ok, here's the specs: it's all based around a 32x32 grid, like the tileset above. Here's the game in progress (don't expect much, I've just started and the ship graphic will change!) if you want to see how it goes:

http://www.madladdesigns.co.uk/games/starforce/starforce.exe

Thanks for your time

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You want us to use the pic above?

Do you want the edging done within the same size as the tiles you have or new tiles made with the edging around?

(I hope you know what I mean)

Oh, and good to see you ND

Wow i have no clue about what it is you want

Right, what I'm after is is the planetry edging that goes around the steel slabs, I can do the steely looking stuff (you're quite welcome to create any of your own ) but the planetary platform I can't:



Does this make it clearer Ez-WiN?

Bravo
You can used the pic above if you wish, i'm using a 32x32 tileset so each block should be 32x32. I just need the edging (no need for you guys to do extra work), but if you wish to create a mixture of tile and edging, perhaps the tile cracking and edging showing through? then that would be great!

Also if there is anything you wish to add scenery wise then i'd be more than happy to include it.

Oh, bloody hell I get it now.

It is a tileable graphic he needs like in the pic in the link (expand it to see it better)

ok but i dunno how to do this so unless U cant do it im not gonna try

Not a finished product by any means, just want to check I am going in the right direction...

This is 3x32 wide and 4x32 high

Actually that wouldnt tile would it...

Need to think about this one....

I've actually tried grabbing straight from the picture but they are in 16x16 and my grabbing still aren't much use (oo-er!)

I think it's tileable, not sure at all lol

Only problem is, its a bit crap

Some of the other artists are better at this sort of stuff than I am, might be worth giving it 24 hours and see what they come up with

Thanks, it's definitely getting there...



I'll be twiddling my thumbs in anticipation!

I've created a template that can be used to create the ground on:



The light grey lines help to line up the scenery so they all fit together.

Actually, just test the tileability of this:

And I came up with this:



Crap I know, but you get the general idea. So any scenery you can come up with would be ideal, thanks.

Yes, they do tile.

Anybody help him?

Sorry mate...best I can do with the software I have...

Thanks for the help Bravo. i had a go and came up with this:



When place on an actual level, it looks like this:

http://www.madladdesigns.co.uk/games/starforce/planetscreenshot.gif

Anyone else willing to have a try?

that is pretty good because i have no clue how you guys did it

Hey mdcowboy93, I need more ground based objects like these:



They are 32 height by 64 width (to include the shadow) and are based around a grey / silver colour scheme. The very bottom-left pixel will determine the transparent colour, so if the bottom-left pixel was black, then black will be transparent. (This is why it's all surrounded by pink as this will be the transparency colour and is not used anywhere else).

Any odd looking structures you can come up with, or if anybody else can come up with, would be great.

i cant work small =D

but maybe ill give it a shot

i tried and it was terrible so ill leave it to soemone else

Fiddled with it a little, and gave you the orange one too...

Thanks!

I've had to do them again as they didn't seem to be lining up for some reason!? (my fault, not yours Bravo). Anyway, here's the game in progress if you want to have a play:

Starforce - 2.18mb - zip

You control the ship with either the cursor keys or A,S,D,W. Control [CTRL] to shoot. You can shoot some of the ground objects and once you get into empty space, the demo is effectively over (you'll just keep moving through empty space). ESCAPE to exit.

Tell me what you think so far.

not bad but wahts the point liek no score or anything?

EDIT- haha just red 'DEMO' so i take its not finished yet rite?

Oh don't worry, there'll be plenty of action, enemies, bosses, things to blow up, scores, hi scores, hidden features, powerups..... At the moment I'm concentrating on the graphics so there's not much to do than shoot a few ground objects, I just wanted feedback on the graphical look. Be patient...

i thoguht it was done i was like wow ... this sucks..lol but the graphics are good

lol! I'd say it's about less that 1% done! Imagine charging £19.99 for that! hahaha....

lolz

Customisable keys would be good...

Or at least SPACE to fire

Over the weekend I might have another go at this, its straight drawing rather than image manipulation which is why it is hard for me personally as I suck at drawing lol...but I will have another go, tis a long weekend off work after all.

I can do any objects you like, because I can model them and simply give you the render

That would be great! There's a post somewhere above about what kind of objects, they need to be in .gif format so I can add them, but there's nothing stopping you from animating them! But no more than 4 frames of animation (otherwise the program will be hugh as there's all sorts to be added yet!)

Thanks to everyone for their help.

I see you're making it in Gamemaker. Awesome. I've been fooling around with it for a while and I was quite good with it untill I had to start scripting, which I didn't really understood back then, I might give it another try.

Yea, any help you need WeeBull, just give me a shout, I'm writing the entire game in the scripting language. Just goes to show what can be done eh?

Ooh, gamemaker,

I have had that program for years, (About 6 or 7 now i think)


Im still not very good with it... I can make the basic games, Space Invaders.. etc
but thats about it

thats cool

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