Recent content by KeyLowVG

The Outer Wall is my personal favorite. It's a bit of a boring pick, but there's a reason that it's such an iconic area of the game. The color palette, background, and music create such a damn good atmosphere. The level design is also quite memorable; I really like the vertical climbing thing.

They're from a game idea that I've had in my head for a while. But that's not something I'm actively making right now (I want to commit to finishing the projects I'm currently working on).

Here are some sketches I made.

Weird obscure games tend to have great soundtracks, for some reason.

Yeah, tile seams have definitely become an issue, especially with Grasstown. I'm not opposed to doing this, but I probably won't do it until the mod is nearly done. Not only would it be a lot of work like you said, but I also don't want to commit to making tile variants before I've made the...

I wanted to have done this on the 20th, but I put up new screenshots and a progress video for the mod! (Mostly because the original showcase video is severely outdated at this point.) You can find the new screenshots and stuff in the main post. The update video shows the stuff I described in my...

I'm back with a progress update on this! I probably should've posted something related to this project months ago, but I never got around to it... Regardless, I've been working on this project a good amount ever since the initial showcase. Not only have I updated almost everything I showed off...

I think it's less a communication barrier, and more the tone you've chosen to take with this thread. From the beginning you've been (from my POV) very accusatory towards the community at large, and essentially saying that problems here are the result of actions/inaction by the community...

I think the main problem is that you didn't really create a clear thesis statement. It's kind of hard to figure out what your main point is when you don't properly explain it. I read the whole post and while I think I sort of get what you're trying to say, I can't really be sure of that...

This may be unhelpful/pretentious, but I don't think there's a single "best" form of media. I think every form of media has things it can and can't do effectively. Video games can do many things you can't do with a movie, but the need for engaging gameplay can greatly change the way ideas need...

It's worth noting that both the DSiWare and 3ds eShop versions of Cave Story both only have the original freeware sprites; the remastered sprites don't exist in those versions (as far as I'm aware, anyway). Excluding Cave Story 3D, the Nicalis text graphics only seem to exist in releases of the...

This was really fun to play through! It does take a little while for the mod to get good, so playing it does require some patience (and a tolerance for obtuse design.) What I really liked about this was that most of it felt very plausible. There's a fair bit of stuff here that could pass as...

Well now I just feel silly. Tried a random monospace font and it worked perfectly, so thanks for this info!

I do plan on going back to a lot of these sprites later. Part of the reason I started this project to begin with is to try and improve my art and asset creation skills, so I imagine that as the project goes forward I'll be able to improve most of the earlier and worse sprites. The art style I'm...

It isn't actually Courier; it's a font called "DejaVu Sans Mono." Unfortunately, I don't have much freedom in regards to fonts. For some reason, if the chosen font isn't exactly perfect, the game will do this to the text: Look at that godawful letter spacing! There is one other font I have...