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Assumzaek·7/7/2016

Hey man, thanks so much for the crits!

For the statue I was trying to think how it would be able to articulate all of its joints so it could move around, so I'm thinking that maybe it's whole and intact before you attack it and then as it starts to move it crumbles where there's suppose to be joints, but the whole thing is still held together by the evil magic I guess :D. For the weapon effects I tried to go for something like simple glows, but you're definitely right I think something like particles or some light fire on the blade could look really cool. I'll try to update the image when I have some time. The idea of a huge statue is really cool, but I'm afraid that one of those weapons woud look like a toothpick in its hands haha :D.

I laughed so hard when reading your observation about the studio lighting haha and you're totally right, all of the creatures deserve a cool environment. I just find it so fun to design the creatures that I completely neglect the environment, which definitely would add to the image. I need to get back and add environments to all the images so far.

Thanks again for the tips man :)

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Assumzaek·7/4/2016

Hey fellas made yet another one for the wraith! Check it out here

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Assumzaek·6/28/2016

For the past week I've been working on a concept for the animated statue and now it's mostly finished. Would love to read what you guys think about it!

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Assumzaek·6/19/2016

Hey man, nice to meet you too and thanks so much for taking time to look trough my gallery. The game and anime references you mention are also favourites of mine. I can also definitely see the similarites with the women you mention, although I've just been drawing from photos of random girls pretty much :D

But on to the fanart at hand. Glad you like the scorpio. I'd love to draw it in the demon halls, but before I consider that I'll have to spend a long time thinking how the place would look and the designing it. Hopefully I'll get to that though.

It's really cool to me all the different ways a single piece of pixel art can be interpreted. I've always seen scorpio as having two red eyes, but when I started drawing that it looked like every other generic monster with angry red eyes so I tried to spice it up with that big eye :D

In terms of the colors here, check this link to see some orange versions: http://sta.sh/0xoag1timk0 Tell me what you think.

Without getting too technical, there's a theory called color theory. And one of it's basic laws is that each color has a complimentary color. Meaning that each color looks the best next to another specific color. For example green + red, orange + cyan/light blue, yellow + purple, etc.

Taking that in consideration I'll try to lay out my argumentation. The first example of orange and purple is kind of gross looking. I think the combination will look ok the other way around, but the point is to see the scorpio orange :D

The second one with cyan is a bit better, they are complimentary colors, but the color is kind of weird for a demonic eye isn't it. It doesn't really communicate "demonic" or "evil". When I see this color I usually get reminded of hospital nurses and surgeons.

And the third one, the yellow is also working ok with the orange, but the two colors are very close to eachother and the eye just doesn't stand out as much. The same thing would happen if I combine orange with red, because they are also close colors. Usually sameness in colors is boring. Contrast is what creates interest, but it has to be the right contrast.

That being said, the orange + yellow is the best compromise out of the three in my opinion.

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Assumzaek·6/18/2016

That's awesome man! Do it! This game needs more fanart

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Assumzaek·6/17/2016

Yeah my thoughts exactly, but I plan to make some more fan art in the future and I'll try to stick to the original colors as much as possible

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Assumzaek·6/17/2016

Hey man! Thanks a lot! I painted the image in Adobe Photoshop.

I initially started with an orange color for the whole creature, but the eye wasn't standing out, because it was similar color as the rest of the body. I tried the green version with yellow eye but the result wasn't satisfying to me. I really wanted the eye to be the first thing you see. So I found out that if I make the body pink/purple with red accents it really gives a good result. That is, unfortunately, at the expense of accuracy to the sorce material, but I was already changing the design so I decided to stick with it :D

But maybe I'm just being weird about the colors. Here's a fast green version though http://sta.sh/0wlv4ark45m Do you like it better?

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Assumzaek·6/16/2016 in The game – General Discussions

New Pixel Dungeon Fanart

Hey everyone!

How's everybody doing? I haven't been active in the Wiki for something like 3 years, but I haven't forgotten about Pixel Dungeon. The game's still close to my hearth and I actually finally finished another fan art drawing! This time of a scorpio from the demon halls. I really wanted to share it with you guys right away and see what you think about it.

Take a look:http://assumzaek.deviantart.com/art/Pixel-Dungeon-Scorpio-615751713 I've also added a description explaining my motivation for the changes I made to the design. I'd love to read what you think about that too.

Cheers!

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Assumzaek·1/8/2014

I find that going to sleep and leaving the run for tomorrow is not the best for me as I always skrew it up in the morning :D

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Assumzaek·1/6/2014

That's crazy man! :D

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Assumzaek·1/6/2014

I have recently installed the last version of BlueStacks and Pixel Dungeon doesn't seem to be working for me on this one. :/

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Assumzaek·12/13/2013

Don't understand me wrong they are quite nice suggestions. I just feel that now with the additional armor enchatments that are comming the pets need to be more simple. But anyways that's just my opinion on the subject.

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Assumzaek·12/12/2013

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Strategies? After quite a lot of games I think the best and only viable strategy is to find plate armor before crabs make mincemeat of me, either them or goo ;)
Seriously, while the game is fun as hell, it is all about getting great loot in first few levels. There is not really any strategy involved as there are certain encounters where you have to have good armor (and later, dodge) or you will just die.

Not always. If you get a good weapon or just upgrade on of the more weak ones you can still get pass crabs and goo with leather armor. But afterwards you shoud find at least chainmail because skeletons are going to smack you.

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Assumzaek·12/12/2013

I think they shouldn't be as complicated as Mr Pixel said but the idea is great. I think a good candidate for a pet would be an alpaca. They are known to rome in the dungeons. Trust me.

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Assumzaek·10/14/2013

Skill.

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Assumzaek·10/11/2013

A C P L wrote:

Quite nice idea mate!! I really like how this pack is going. Just one thing. I can see that for the pimp suit you've used smaller pixels for buttons and the cane. This is not really realistic as the image for the game requires 16x16 and there won't be no room for this smaller pixels. Sometimes with pixel art you just have to make compromises. But that's also the great thing about it because there's a lot of room for interpretation as you can see from Oraticus' post :D

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Assumzaek·10/1/2013

Dworvin wrote:
Be cool if you had more of a choice before entering the dungeon.
You start in a town that is well known for its dangerous dungeon.

Cool idea! A town... or a tavern. :D

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Assumzaek·10/1/2013

EgotisticalMe wrote:
I want to gouge my eyes out, based on the poor grammar and fragmentation displayed in the above 2 posts. Just a thought.

No need to be rude.

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Assumzaek·10/1/2013

Kirbykibble wrote:
crap, this is turning into youtube....

Indeed you're right my friend.

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Assumzaek·9/26/2013

EgotisticalMe wrote:
If this thread is still alive...
I've played a few pixel-RPGs, and a few roguelikes. With the dedication and innovations that Watabou is putting into the game, I can easily see a wildly successful expansion, or even a second game using the same mechanics, but on a larger scale.
I don't know if anyone has played Legends of Yore, but it is an excellent pixel-RPG with a large world. However, it's system feels very rudimentary.
I think that if Watabou wanted to put forth the effort to work on somthing similar, it would be one hell of a game, and just seeing the "Watabou Inc." as the dev would make me buy it instantly.

... As long as he made sure to release it on both Android AND Apple iOS, to cover a wider audience, and allow me to retire my android tablet for good >_>

Hey man! I haven't realised this thread has become so ancient. :D I had the same idea about the the big overworld. I too think about LoY. But here is the complication I see: Dungeons in LoY are oversimplified and that's for a reason - they are so many. So if watabou makes a huge world with many dungeons that are complicated something must go away in order the game to be bareable and playable. The only thing I see that could go away in this case is the permadeath, but that would remove a lot of the fun (and the frustration) :D.

In any case, however, such a game would be awesome because I really would like to see this interesting world expand.

Oh and it definitely shoud be on iOS too as long as he don't make huge differences between the releases. :D

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