Tutorial Game Aesthetics 2017-02-16

[Aki]

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Game Aesthetics - Make everyone swoon over your beautiful screenshots

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[tab=Quick Mentions]These aspects also reflect your aesthetic style!

• Your personal mapping style; Do you like trees in straight rows, or staggared? Are you the type to place small decorative tiles everywhere, or keep things simple?
• Overall UI design; is there a certain color in every UI? Is it going for a modern look, or a certain pattern or texture?
• Screen size; can be more rectangular, a square, or imitate a dual screen.
• Anything regarding speech bubbles; using...

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[Sereza]

On Palettes: How does one find the various color palettes from the main games? Or determine what they have? I tried googling color palettes too no avail

 

[Aki]

On Palettes: How does one find the various color palettes from the main games? Or determine what they have? I tried googling color palettes too no avail

Huh, I'm not sure I've ever seen a specific breakdown of any palettes (besides maybe gen 2 because it's so limited lol). For my example I just did a direct 1 to 1, grabbing a grass and tree color. I will say there are a couple things I'm aware of when you're trying to dertermine the palettes: gen 4 has two completely different looks for the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and HeartGold/SoulSilver games. The other is that gen 5 has a lot more color variety than anything before it because of the changing seasons.