[BETA] New runestone sprites
The colors and shading on the new runestones make them difficult to differentiate visually, especially with low screen brightness or night mode. I often play on low brightness at bedtime and it's really hard to see. There needs to be more contrast between the color on the stone and the stone itself.
Stylistic comment: the new sprites for runestones and seeds look like eggs. Too perfectly round in their shape
Question to Evan: what's your preferred way to provide beta feedback? This is my first time getting involved in beta even though I've been playing for 10+ years
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Unfortunately Evan has proven immune to constructive criticism and only ever doubles down when given feedback that isn't unqualified praise, so don't expect anything to change 🤷♂️
They definitely are hard to distinguish with low screen brightness. I like that they look like gold inlayed in stone. It just needs to be a brighter color of yellow.
What I don't like about them is some of them look too bold. Like, why is the question mark so fat? Same with the exclamation mark. The star on the stone of enchantment looks like a little person. Like a meeple from a board game, and not like a star at all.
I also don't care for the fat gray border around all the stones. None of the other items have such a strong border. The color of the stones themselves is great, with nice shading, and then there's this flat border around them that just looks off.
Most items have the same style of border. It's black at 40% opacity
It just seems way too fat on the stones. I would have sworn the border was actually wider, but I think it's just because, on the stones, the border pixels are all adjacent to each other, and on things like potions they only connect diagonally. Plus the stones have shading where the darkest parts are actually darker than the border, and that makes it look even worse somehow.
Here's an enlarged screenshot for comparison.
I like a lot of the new sprites but agree the runestones are difficult to see.
These sprites feel not pixel dungeon like but from some reddit indie game about to flop. Just not the same vision, and too much shading.