Hype Up Your Game Thread

Mystic · Post by **Mystic** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:00 pm

One of the major goals for my game is to make sure everything is my creation. That means no ripped graphics, sounds, music, (hopefully ideas...), and even...

the font. Opinions?

Blue Train · Post by **Blue Train** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:10 pm

some of the lowercase is harder to read, such as the "z" and "g"

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:19 pm

Try to make your letter spacing nice and evened out, as well as letter size being consistent. A lot of OHR games that use a custom font don't do this, so their fonts end up having a disjointed look that makes it less pleasing to read.

Mystic · Post by **Mystic** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:40 pm

Okay, I took those ideas to heart and came up with this:

I like it. But, also "I-made-this" syndrome.

camdog · Post by **camdog** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:19 pm

I think it looks pretty good, personally. Where's the question mark, though?

Mystic · Post by **Mystic** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:01 pm

Oh right! I did draw it, as well as the rest of , . < > / ' : ; { } + = - _ \ | ` ~ but I didn't post them. They were all pretty straight forward, to be honest. I don't feel like making another image at the moment.

The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:21 pm

The thick exclamation marks/periods/colons look really bad with the otherwise thin font. The lowercase k looks... odd. Everything else is fine I guess, but I don't really see the point of making your own font if it's going to look so normal, even if you are just going for originality. It doesn't look as good as the default font.

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:44 pm

I'm with surlaw on this one. I really don't see the point in making everything yourself. Because, honestly, you can't. There's lots of stuff that is built into the engine that you can't change. So making things yourself, just for the sake of making them yourself, is kind of a wasteful idea.

That said. The font is readable. That's really all that matters.

RMZ · Post by **RMZ** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:08 pm

<a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/ ... _Vlad1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/ ... _Vlad1.png" border="0" alt="House Heroes Finale"></a>

Making some good progress on this. Trying to finish it up, heh. I think this is the only safe screenshot I can show you guys without giving away who won.

Blue Train · Post by **Blue Train** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:08 pm

What is... hamster?

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:35 am

Blue Train wrote:What is... hamster?

What are you referring to?

RMZ · Post by **RMZ** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:09 am

It's a Castlevania/Dracula joke.

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:41 am

I got that.
It's Bob the Vampire right?

Uncommon · Post by **Uncommon** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:43 am

Vlad. It's Vlad the Hamster. He's featured in some early Hamster Republic games.

RMZ · Post by **RMZ** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:04 am

Tonight is the night I killed Vlad the Hamster.

The finale is roughly 50% or more done now.