Art Feedback - Break the Bank

[TheMaskedMan]

Hello,

My first app, Break the Bank, is currently in the iPhone apps store. I've never been very happy with the quality of the artwork. I'm currently in the process of trying to find an artist to reface the game. I'm interested to see if anyone has any ideas for possible themes for the reface.

Here is a link to the game with some screenshots

http://appshopper.com/games/break-the-bank


Thanks.

[Kazejin]

You need better graphics.

More refined, less blurry pixel images.

Better cohesion on level of detail, style, get a pallet in there.

For a reskin, I think you can break the grid image and just have rows of objects, better font, a cohesive style and sharper images.

[Junkyard Sam]

The art has a lot of problems, and the lack of quality is going to hurt your sales. It may very well be a well-coded game, and if so it's sad that it doesn't have the proper love an artist could provide.

Did you do the art yourself? If so, it's pretty good for programmer art. It shows what you're looking for such that an artist could easily re-skin it and make it beautiful.

If you paid for the art, the artist should be fired and have his artistic license taken away. =)

Partner with a good artist if you can. Are they really that rare?


I hope this doesn't sound harsh. I just see that and wish I had time to clean it up and make it pretty. I've gone through so many hoops trying to get my first games completed. It hurts to see a product actually ship that was just an artist away from looking great.

[Nexic]

I'm guessing is a lot of your art came from either a stock photo/image site or you just stole them from google images. The white pixels on the edges are a dead give away. The piggy bank has obviously been scaled up from it's original size.

Overall - yes get a real artist asap.

[DayDream]

Ok... after all the suggestions to get an artist I won't repeat it... it's a given and you already know that by the way you posted.

I had a look at the screens - I didn't buy the app [which now that I am writing the reply I am wondering why] - so I can only guess the gameplay... Besides the art issues I find the theme rather uninteresting... and going with the golden lettering and the old fashioned background it just doesn't stand out at all... "breaking the bank"... mmmmh... I get to see a couple of piggie banks... can this be fun? Enough thinking out loud... You asked for an idea for different theming... Here's a quick - after-dinner - mock of the 1st screenshot.



I tried to add more variations for the game elements and it would be cool to animate them and have a cool effect when you "mutate" a blob with the injection...

[Dyno Kid]

Daydream just blows me away....amazing.

Darren.

[ChrisP]

You really cannot go wrong with animated googly eyes on juicy blobby creatures. Just ask 2D Boy.

[Nexic]

Btw, just whipped this up while I was sitting on the john:



Of course it's only a rough draft...

[Cevo70]

Hahaha, yeah needs some fine tuning but the basic idea is nice. Some more naked dudes with spears would be cool too.

[JGOware]

Btw, just whipped this up while I was sitting on the john:



Of course it's only a rough draft...

fk...funniest thing I've read on this forum in years. lol!!!!

[DayDream]

Wow... that was a good laugh in the morning, thanks Nexic...

[Ratboy]

Of course it's only a rough draft...

I can see you got a little mental block on costume design there

[Junkyard Sam]

another daydream masterpiece.

I am just stunned, completely blown away.

The before & after is insane.

[DayDream]

thinking about it, Nexic... I think the artist struggled with the true essence of the scene and it really should have been like this:

[JGOware]

omg... classic. Print that one out folks.

[manunderground]

Wow that is hilarious, so good! I love the poles with the little hands on them! Seriously, OP you should pursue this path because art like this will make people take notice and try your game!

[Zollo]

HAHA! I vote this thread the best on the forum! I love the baby blobs on the floor!

[Dyno Kid]

I'm not sure how long the yellow one can keep them apart lmao.

Brilliant!

Darren.

[HDL]

HAHHAHAHAAAA! Words cannot convey how much I'm laughing just now. Hahhahaaa!

[tfernando]

Nexic's picture is of course, Jacques Louis-David's, The Intervention of the Sabine Women. Which makes the googly eyed alien verison EVEN MOAR AWESOME!!1!
-TF

[Reactor]

This thread is worthy of a LOL, indeed Great work Daydream... oh and you too, Nexic.

[AnthemAudio]

yeah, now where's the guy who asked for the feedback?

<crickets>

[TheMaskedMan]

Thank you all very much for the feedback.

The art was originally done at 240x320 and 16 color. It was meant for a regular cell phone game which never shipped. I resized most of the gameplay elements to 480x320, tried my best to make it less pixelated and supplied some of the art myself (the bonus round).

Daydream, you truly are amazing. Very creative. I like your vision of a company logo.

Thank you all very much.

[Nexic]

Epic lulz =D

Extra words so I can actually post this.

[nino_rajacic]

thinking about it, Nexic... I think the artist struggled with the true essence of the scene and it really should have been like this:

LOL

...ehm, are those blobs naked? If so you have to put this on that painting:



Hilarious thread!