As someone who works at and owns/runs a Social Media Marketing consultancy for small companies, I can tell you you're wrong.
Social Media is the future of advertisement and generates massive interest and revenue income from an increase of customers. A comparison of a company is if a restaurant makes some $70,000 in three months of opening and then this drops, to say $20,000 in the next three months, we can safely bring that back up to at least double ($40,000), through efficient use of social media to promote discounts, events and new menu items. It's also a good way for the public to comment openly and fairly on food and business practice, for example one of my clients had a thread start on their facebook page about the recipe for their Fried Chicken menu item, it was astoundingly one-sided that the chicken was dry and the recipe had too much flour, so we fixed that aspect (with my company acting as the social media accounts management relaying the information back to the company hiring us) and they gained a whole star rating in newer reviews.
I believe from a personal standpoint that a company who interacts with and appreciates their customers on a discussion level, above merely "buyer and seller" level, they will succeed- the customer is ALMOST always right and in the UK we have no such thinking that the customer is right. I've spoken to companies that have been openly combative with their customers over social media and they close down within a year. No one wants to patron a rude asshole if they can help it.
Social Media is not overrated at all, if anything not enough businesses use social media to keep in touch with their customers and attract new customers. That's where my company comes in. Social Media is highly under-appreciated. I'd advise you remember that in the future should you decide to start a business and if you ever want a company to manage the social media aspects of your company, including content population and customer interaction, pop me a message and we'll sign some papers to officiate the deal. :)
I also thought the 31 pixel alignment was strange. I haven't aligned these to a 32x32 grid but I have made all the tiles 32 wide instead of 31 wide, so with some fiddling you can align it yourself. I also made some wall tiles that you can modify and such to create building connections as you like by copy/pasting.
What I found particularly strange about this style is that it seems to have been made in 16x16 and was then scaled up to 32x32 where work then continued on it, which creates this visual style that reminds me of Fire Emblem in it's style. I haven't come across this style of doing things before and the shading style itself almost seems to defy the laws of physics with regards to lighting, which made/makes it difficult for me to really complete the wall and make it look entirely consistent with the buildings without having a full understanding of what was going through the OP's mind/what rules he/she had defined for the tiles. As you can see.
Do you have a version of this without the mechanical/cyber sounds?
So it's just pure ambience?
As someone who works at and owns/runs a Social Media Marketing consultancy for small companies, I can tell you you're wrong.
Social Media is the future of advertisement and generates massive interest and revenue income from an increase of customers. A comparison of a company is if a restaurant makes some $70,000 in three months of opening and then this drops, to say $20,000 in the next three months, we can safely bring that back up to at least double ($40,000), through efficient use of social media to promote discounts, events and new menu items. It's also a good way for the public to comment openly and fairly on food and business practice, for example one of my clients had a thread start on their facebook page about the recipe for their Fried Chicken menu item, it was astoundingly one-sided that the chicken was dry and the recipe had too much flour, so we fixed that aspect (with my company acting as the social media accounts management relaying the information back to the company hiring us) and they gained a whole star rating in newer reviews.
I believe from a personal standpoint that a company who interacts with and appreciates their customers on a discussion level, above merely "buyer and seller" level, they will succeed- the customer is ALMOST always right and in the UK we have no such thinking that the customer is right. I've spoken to companies that have been openly combative with their customers over social media and they close down within a year. No one wants to patron a rude asshole if they can help it.
Social Media is not overrated at all, if anything not enough businesses use social media to keep in touch with their customers and attract new customers. That's where my company comes in. Social Media is highly under-appreciated. I'd advise you remember that in the future should you decide to start a business and if you ever want a company to manage the social media aspects of your company, including content population and customer interaction, pop me a message and we'll sign some papers to officiate the deal. :)
May I ask what soundfont/VST you used for this?
@kleinmat
The mountains are arranged in a 3x3 grid, use the middle tile and it should come out fine.
This is really well done.
That is some programmer art if I've ever seen it, haha.
I also thought the 31 pixel alignment was strange. I haven't aligned these to a 32x32 grid but I have made all the tiles 32 wide instead of 31 wide, so with some fiddling you can align it yourself. I also made some wall tiles that you can modify and such to create building connections as you like by copy/pasting.
What I found particularly strange about this style is that it seems to have been made in 16x16 and was then scaled up to 32x32 where work then continued on it, which creates this visual style that reminds me of Fire Emblem in it's style. I haven't come across this style of doing things before and the shading style itself almost seems to defy the laws of physics with regards to lighting, which made/makes it difficult for me to really complete the wall and make it look entirely consistent with the buildings without having a full understanding of what was going through the OP's mind/what rules he/she had defined for the tiles. As you can see.
I hope someone will find this useful.
Why not upload them as a singular pack? Or is this a recurring series?
Fantastic as usual Kenney, as a pixel artist, it does make me a bit jealous how quickly you vector artists can churn out work. :P
I might be wrong, but I think he used the light objects in the Intersect engine.
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