Homebrew Icons and screenshots for developers

[newo]

It makes the game look like a 2d top down shooter, probably because of the picture of the spaceship that you used. And the shadow kinda blends into the word shooter

 

[JoostinOnline]

It makes the game look like a 2d top down shooter, probably because of the picture of the spaceship that you used. And the shadow kinda blends into the word shooter

Okay, so should I scrap the ship, or replace it with a more 3D-ish one? Do you want me to change the colors of the font?

 

[newo]

Naw, you can keep the font and probably use a ship from one of the screenshots or the image folder in the game.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Naw, you can keep the font and probably use a ship from one of the screenshots or the image folder in the game.

I'm probably overlooking it, but I can't find any pics of the ship in the image folder.

 

[newo]

It maybe easier to try to cut it out of one of the screenshots on the wiibrew page. The images folder contains backgrounds, the ship is a 3d wavefront obj file unless you have a 3d tool you wouldn't be able to open it.

 

[JoostinOnline]

It maybe easier to try to cut it out of one of the screenshots on the wiibrew page. The images folder contains backgrounds, the ship is a 3d wavefront obj file unless you have a 3d tool you wouldn't be able to open it.

That made it a lot easier. I downloaded a program to view the obj files and took a screenshot of the ship at an angle. Tell me what you think:

 

[wiisixtyfour]

I don't mean to steal your job Joostin but I also made an icon from the screenshots:

EDIT: I ran out of bandwidth on my site >.> changed the image source.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I don't mean to steal your job Joostin but I also made an icon from the screenshots:

You thieving SOB! I HATE YOU! Lol, j/k.

Different style than me, but a very nice icon.

@newo: I will take absolutely no offense if you choose to use wiisixtyfour's icon instead of mine. It's not like I called dibs on the Newo Shooter 2 icon, lol.

 

[newo]

lol, no in fighting! i will use Joostin's first then wii64's but I still have started coding yet so there is a good about of time before it gets put to use . I am thinking of dropping the "2" since its really just one game that gets replaced each tame I change it, lol. Anyway Merry Christmas!

 

[JoostinOnline]

lol, no in fighting! i will use Joostin's first then wii64's but I still have started coding yet so there is a good about of time before it gets put to use . I am thinking of dropping the "2" since its really just one game that gets replaced each tame I change it, lol. Anyway Merry Christmas!

Lol, how often do you change the name? Here it is without the 2, although I think it looks rather empty:

 

[newo]

Naw I don't change the name at all, I just increase the version number so that is good enough for now. Thanks much

 

[JoostinOnline]

Anybody else?

 

[kylster]

I got a suggestion could you take the SNES & NES emulators and make a icon for the cover-mod versions? this way those who want to have both can distinguish between the two.

Thansk for this consideration. I was looking at the front page and I have the cover mods witht he original icons. LoL

 

[JoostinOnline]

No problem. Would you like me to make new ones, or just put "Mod" on these?

 

[kylster]

These look fine but if MOD could fit someone on their it would make it super!! no seriously though these are fine but MOD would make it a little more distinguable

EDIT: I forgot to say thanks

 

[JoostinOnline]

These look fine but if MOD could fit someone on their it would make it super!! no seriously though these are fine but MOD would make it a little more distinguable

Alright, sounds good.

Btw, I based my icons off of matriculated's style. Take a look at these: http://www.nubecoder.com/hbcicons/

 

[kylster]

Awesome! I did not even know about that page Might have to get a few from their and update mine own LoL

 

[JoostinOnline]

Awesome! I did not even know about that page Might have to get a few from their and update mine own LoL

Yeah, he was a genius. He seems to have left the scene, so I figured I would pick up where he left off. I'm not as good as he was, but I've gotten A LOT better since I first started. In the beginning I had no idea how to add reflections or the shine on icons, lol.

Just a few days ago (when making the Hijill GUI icon) I found a way to prevent the shine from overlapping the feathered areas (notice that the pixels at the edges of fonts are semi-transparent), which was messing with the smooth appearance. It's been a flaw in my icons that has really bothered me in the past, and even though it takes longer to do this, I'm still glad I figured it out.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I thought these would turn out better than they did, but tell me what you think and I can change them:

 

[Fox888]

some really good looking icons you made, Thanks