Comments on: Graphics Matter

By: eka

eka — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:15:13 +0000

how this article conciliate with “You Donâ€™t Need Game Art In The Beginning of Your Game Project”, i think graphics matter even at the beginning of your project as inspiration.

By: Kloonigames » Blog Archive » Postmortem: Jimmy’s Lost His Marbles

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:47:18 +0000

[...] 4. Good graphics For a prototype done in three days, the graphics turned out to be rather good ones. Or at least good when considering they where made by a programmer. One of the reasons why I never got myself to test any prototypes was the graphics. Even if the gameplay was golden I never ended up downloading them because the graphics looked like something a 5 year old mutant child would draw in MS Paint. As Juuso pointed out graphics matter. This is one of the things guys at Experimental Gameplay Project changed: games done in few days donâ€™t have to look like shit or Grid War. [...]

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:03:46 +0000

@Ville: I think the problem with videos is the size… if you can compress them so that they are fast to watch I guess they are okay. But if video is bigger than the game download, why bother?

@Jake: comment font now bigger ;)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:40:01 +0000

yeah sad but true. My last game looked OK on the screenshots but it was much better in action. Thing is with videos is the compression can make them look jerky and slow etc when the game is really smooth in reality.

btw this comment font (when typing) is TINY!

By: Ville

Ville — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:31:39 +0000

And the problem is even more complicated. A game might have excellent graphics, but look lousy in still shots. What do you think about videos? Does anyone watch them?

But I must admit that even I look at the screenshots first for every game, and I’m always furious when the screenshots cannot be immediately found or don’t even exist. Good screenshots are what make the downloads.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:20:07 +0000

I agree. Graphics are very important when it comes to screenshots. Once the person plays the game they don’t matter. So, it’s kind of sad that you are spending so much time on graphics just so the game looks good in a screens gallery.

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:05:56 +0000

Hmm, Rob – are you looking the right site? I see no exclamation marks… Did you click some other site from there? (P.S. Ask Tim – at Indiepath … he’s the guy behind PRToday.net :)

By: Rob Mason

Rob Mason — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:55:06 +0000

Why does PRtoday have a penchant for exclamation marks? Almost every pargraph has one a the end! It’s just too much!

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:27:03 +0000

Thanks. Fixed!

By: Ondrej

Ondrej — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:51:34 +0000

Definitely! When I come across some game or even application I check the screenshots first. Because I can pick up what’s going on in the game or what is it all about and if the graphics is bad, I do not bother downloading.