Designe and other Rules

[ripper121]

Can we make pleas some Rules for Game development?

Design Rules:
- 84x48 pixel full screen (better smaller full screen size so its place for info bars)
- 64x28 game logo
- 8x8 pixel sprite


Colors (For image design in i.e. Paint):
- Grey R:190 G:190 B:190
- Black R:0 G:0 B:0
- White R:255 G:255 B:255

So its easier to develop software for the community and to modify other games.

[adekto]

i agree we sude use a common color scale as much as possible

although the 8x8 sprite is very limiting

[ripper121]

So we can make a small medium and big sprite definition.
Small 4x4
Mid 8x8
Big 16x16

[rodot]

Why do you want to standardize sprites as every game's needs are different?

[ripper121]

Yes but Colors for the Imagefiles should be the same

[erico]

For a mock screen, maybe.
But in handheld, the gray dosen´t exist, it is black blinking.

I don´t see much of a reason for standards over all games except for a menu screen on gamebuino, like icons maybe.

If for a game that is team developed, then it is a must.

[ripper121]

But for converters its better to have some standards.
Like my image converter, it generates 2 PROGMEM Sprites one for the Black and the other Grey.

[erico]

Oh, I see, you mean to convert a game to another arduino platform?

[ripper121]

No, I mean if we create games in groups we need some rules that it work better.
So i.e bmp images that have 3 colors. Black is r0g0b0 white is r255g255b255 and grey r190g190b190.
So every created image can convert to the Gamebuino format easier.

[adekto]

wait why not just have a color picker if ur just worried on the conversion?
or just give the converted images?