Second iteration of the level mockup Developing a character
However, for now let’s move on and focus on our character. While still selected, flip it horizontally by going to ‘Selection -> Flip horizontally’.Īfter planting some trees and bushes across our level it’s already starting to look much better! I will stop here but you can add as many elements as you wish to populate your game world with. You may wish to draw one side of the tree, select it using the ‘Selection tool’ and drag it to the other side while holding Ctrl key.Make sure that each part of the tree is contained within a single tile bounds.The ground colors of the level can be used to make a tree bark texture.You can sprinkle the top-most pixels with the brightest color while bottom-most part should be painted with your darkest shadow.Place some “leaves” on a given level of the branches with a color of the upper one.Use three shades of green from your color palette so that upper branches of a tree gradually transition from light to darker tones.The “ brightest highlight“ color, which will be used to give some more accents to elements most affected by global light.This is going to be a color of tiles that are exposed to the global light the most. This is going to be the base color of our tile (e.g. Every part of the tile that is going to be affected by the shadow and global illumination. We are going to use it to create solid distinctions between the environmental tiles (e.g. The “ darkest shadow“ color, which is the deepest shadow possible in your level.In addition, I usually create these blocks in the following order: At the end of this exercise you will end up with a nice color palette. What I like to do is to draw little squares ( 3×3 pixels) with individual colors and put them next to each other. You have to think about what kind of colors these objects have and how they’re going to look like under the affection of global illumination. That mainly includes walk-on tiles but also close background components such as bushes, trees, signposts and so on. To be more precise, I’m talking about the foreground elements your character is going to interact with. However, to keep things simple I’m going to prepare a level taking place outside, on a sunny day with clear blue sky.Īfter you set the scene the second thing you need think of are… the platforms. You can go completely crazy with your artistic style and prepare mockups of levels from deepest parts of the seas, different planets or even another dimensions. However, what you need to keep in mind is that the color of your tiles will be affected by the global light (sometimes called “global illumination” in the literature). Is the action going to take place outdoor or indoor? Am I going to make it day or night? Is it going to be sunny, rainy or perhaps during a sandstorm? This process is iterative and usually need to reflect the scenario of the game. What I like to do first is to think about the global lighting of my scene. This is the stage of the development where you need to think about what kind of environments you want to create. That way we can not only limit the number of colors we are going to work with but also ensure the cohesive look of our game world.
Instead of drawing our tiles with random colors, let’s begin by defining a color palette.
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