VCG Game Boy Palettes Project | Studio Spacefarer | Page 1

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 12:54 AM

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Alright, so speaking of Game Boy stuff I got a question, and I feel like I've talked about this before but I did a search and came up with squat so I apologize if any of this y'all have heard before:

I've made a bunch of 4-color palettes for use with Game Boy or GB-esque projects and I think I'm at the point that I want to package them up and release them, but.... what do?

I need a good way to show them off, but I can't make a custom image for every single palette (25 total atm). I've got this sample file that I've been using to test the palettes as I go, but I feel weird using screens from existing games? Or am I overthinking that?

What would be the best way to entice you to download these and give them a try? Both in presentation/sell but also deliverability (all as one giant pack? packs of 5 by them? individually?)?

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Also IDK am I even thinking straight in doing this at all would anyone actually want this or get use out of it?

sinful mason Sep 17, 2022, 2:09 AM

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I like the idea of it but personally can't imagine myself buying a palette

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maybe that's a thing and I'm just not familiar with it

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would it work to make a smaller pool of sample images that each get reused a few times? like for 25 palettes, maybe have 5 samples?

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also what is that game in the top-right I need to know

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 2:27 AM

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not for purchase, to be clear! sorry I should have specified that. I just want to put them out there in a pleasing way. If I host them on itch or something I would do a "free but PWYW" sort of scenario just in case folks wanted to do donations but I know this isn't the sort of thing folks would pay for (nor should they, in my case at least)

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 2:28 AM

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sinful mason also what is that game in the top-right I need to know

"Batman Forever"! A game I owned as a kid but literally didn't know how to get past even the first screen cool_crying

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great aesthetic but horribly obtuse

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 2:29 AM

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sinful mason would it work to make a smaller pool of sample images that each get reused a few...

Five samples would be much more manageable definitely. From there I'd have to ~~figure out five samples~~ that would work well across all of them 🤔

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 2:51 AM

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Think I may have figured out my five samples actually lol

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Not showing everything just yet but in case anybody needed/wanted a more visual example of what I'm looking at so far

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blazing coral Sep 17, 2022, 4:29 AM

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when it comes to trying palettes, i am pretty indiscriminately grabby (i will probably grab these as well) & often don't even look at samples too closely
but that's just me! i think they're definitely helpful to have anyway

sterile pond Sep 17, 2022, 9:19 AM

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One time I wanted to make a program that can display your palette in an image

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Saw it once for 4 colour palettes, but I couldn't find that site since

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Would need to involve making a set of images with particular number of colors and then just swapping them

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 9:24 AM

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That would be extremely cool to play around with

tropic turret Sep 17, 2022, 3:14 PM

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I’m intrigued by these palette names, I can’t wait to see what they look like 👀

blazing coral Sep 17, 2022, 5:51 PM

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i guess this is slightly off-topic & more of just a fun toy, but pixage FX has this palette quantization thing that works pretty nicely

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 6:41 PM

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oooo yeah that's a nice lookin tool

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such a great portrait too

blazing coral Sep 17, 2022, 6:46 PM

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ah thanks! ❤️
there was another bird art challenge last month, but i didn't really have the energy for it this year. so i just made the goldfinch for Day 1

Pixage is a nice little hidden gem. it has some really nice pixel conversion tools as well, even for whole gifs! i think i have an example somewhere i can dig out;;

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ah found one, so this someone's turtle character that i did a model of:

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and then i ran it through Pixage:

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(although typically i have to do a bit of cleanup myself)

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(oh & here's the actual size: )

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round rune Sep 17, 2022, 6:54 PM

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Seems like a great thing to mimic stuff like the Donkey Kong Country pipeline

blazing coral Sep 17, 2022, 6:58 PM

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yeah it definitely has that vibe, haha
kinda looks like that gameboy color port of DKC

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 7:09 PM

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Making some stained-glass frames to use for my previews. The part with the gradient is going to house the fake game screenshots.

Which do y'all like?
White or color-matched text?
And text within the frame? or outside of it?

tropic turret Sep 17, 2022, 7:17 PM

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I think I like white text better; is that for the palette name? The stained glass approach is beautiful

blazing coral Sep 17, 2022, 7:18 PM

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hmmm i think the left two? for text outside
color i am undecided on, it kinda depends what the screenshot looks like i guess kitten_think
but they're looking good!! 💯

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 7:24 PM

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tropic turret I think I like white text better; is that for the palette name? The stained glas...

palette name, correct!

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 7:25 PM

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blazing coral hmmm i think the left two? for text outside color i am undecided on, it kinda d...

you're right should have just went ahead and used one of my existing test images, sorry about that!

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and in a different palette just to help with potential differences

blazing coral Sep 17, 2022, 7:44 PM

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oh no worries! ❤️
hmm tricky
aesthetically, i like the colored text
but i assume the white would end up being better for readability? kitten_think
i personally have no trouble reading the colored text, but everyone's different

round rune Sep 17, 2022, 7:56 PM

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yeah I think that's what I'm going to eventually bank on is just max contrast so might as well do the white

round rune Sep 18, 2022, 12:59 AM

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alright I think this might be the final structure for the product page

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thanks again to everyone for the help so far!

round rune Sep 27, 2022, 4:01 AM

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Was gonna change the title of this but I can't figure out how lol

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anyways here are the first three mock-ups I'll be using for my palettes. Please let me know any feedback you might have! That’s feedback for both pixel art but also architecture and gameplay too!

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sinful mason Sep 27, 2022, 4:05 AM

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round rune Was gonna change the title of this but I can't figure out how lol

if you're on desktop, right click it in the channel list and Edit Post

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also... you know I wanna play all of these now right

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you've brought sadness upon me

sinful mason Sep 27, 2022, 4:06 AM

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round rune

is this like a match-3 (match-5?) poker fusion?

round rune Sep 27, 2022, 4:17 AM

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round rune Sep 27, 2022, 4:18 AM

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sinful mason is this like a match-3 (match-5?) poker fusion?

it's exactly that! match-3 mechanics but you're scored based on how well your "hand" is constructed each match, rather than simply matching the exact same tiles together

sinful mason Sep 27, 2022, 4:20 AM

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that sounds rad

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and also a lot more complex to keep track of lol

round rune Sep 27, 2022, 4:28 AM

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that's why, in theory (obviously, I haven't coded this, much less playtested anything), it would be simplified poker rules based on just suits, not numbers

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but that would still mean this is probably a "match 3 for poker players" rather than a "poker for match 3 players" type of game I guess?

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