Looking for libre artist who can help me make sci-fi buildings prettier. LPC art style
Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 00:00
My major art issue is: I (=programmer) cobbled together buildings. They all look the same and/or horrible. Which is really bad for player motivation in a base building game because all the player ever does is place buildings :)
You can download it here. There's also a gameplay video on the site: http://aussenposten.gamejs.org/
Before you decide to work on a building, beware one thing: the size of the building is tied to the game balance. If you think we need to change the size of buildings, we should talk about that first.
For reference: the current building images are in the "/images/" directory (if you download the source package). I created those by putting together LPC tiles in tiled.
Im no 2D artist, but i can tell you have something solid running there; why dont you show examples of what you want? even if its a photo of some scifi movie, someone may get motivated to expand the LPC with that theme.
That's obviously a good idea.
Now, here's a list of buildings currently in the game: http://aussenposten.gamejs.org/images/techtree.png (the buildings are actually bigger in game! i just scaled it down).
I'm open for suggestions regarding the overall style. For example, I like all of those:
or this theme:
maybe this in steam punk style?:
the next one is maybe too comical for my taste... but if the artist is good in that style i don't care ;-)
The current buildings are tiled together from those two tilesets. I think even with those sources something better could be built. I didn't grok how all those tiles are to be used.