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Abduction Action! Box Art

12/27/2009 Tags

Abudction Action!

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As Abduction Action gets closer to release (Febuary!), I've spent some time updating the box art. While there is no physical box for an Xbox Live Indie Game, having a good box art is really important. It is the first (and often only) glimpse a gamer sees of an XBLIG, so you need to make it interesting enough that they will take a look.

Latest boxart as of 1/22/2010.

Revised Box Art based on comments from this article.

Original box art:

Any thoughts / comments / suggestions on this box art would be much appreciated. The 1/22 version isn't likely to change much, unless someone gives me a really good suggestion.

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Stegersaurus

12/28/2009 4:37:49 PM

Don't use bicubic or bilinear rescaling algorithms when trying to upscale low-rez pixel art. The fuzziness is a real deterrant and things can look better as blocky ham-sized pixels. If you do want something smoother I haven't tried them myself, but look into hq2x/3x/4x filters for your low-rez pixel art as they often can look pretty solid for upscaling low-rez pixel art.

Also, consider adding some back-glow to your beam behind the people. Right now they blend into the planet too much and you want them to "pop" more, so having a back-glow on the beam should obscure the planet a bit more allowing the people (once uprezzed in a nicer way) to stand outh="0" h

Kris

12/29/2009 5:44:05 AM

Thanks for the suggestions! I was definatly thinking about resizing the pixel-art stuff with a different algorithm to maintain their blocky look... I'll try that out for the next version.

I like your suggestion about adding something behind the tractor beam too, should help make them stand out more.<

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