Need help with Art Direction.

Some of the pokemon comparisons there made me giggle, because I didn't think of them that way normally. I can see Mew and Mewtwo being Fyver and Martyn theme wise, but not so much Rufus just because he's black with long ears. Minor disagreement there.

A lot of them could use some tweaking / updating. Mallow was one I redrew recently in fact...so I'm not against revisiting a few of these guys. The one I've been getting the most comments toward seems to be Van. Think it's the fact that his peach fur looks more like skin. As for the backgrounds they aren't necessarily unique to just one character. They show their birthplace in their world. Originally the game game with 25+ characters which was reduced to 16, 4 of each class. There are more characters who are from where Clarissa is from for example...they just aren't in the base.

Sometimes I don't think I'm much of an artist, but it helps knowing people like it. I work professionally as a graphic designer, where I don't necessarily "draw" very often.

Last night I sat down and started drawing a few characters I really thought needed an update. Right now I have a rework for Saren and Van. Saren because the way he is now isn't very accurate (He's much younger than his card art would suggest), and Van because he's the one I see comments on the most frequently.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IEtd_DX1_D8/UvYqjCgm8jI/AAAAAAAAAPo/VgzWxoTKUr... Saren
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HQxznuBAlYw/UvYyC3ObcdI/AAAAAAAAAQA/8RDkOqiFsk... Van

Gonna work on Sally next since she and Van are siblings...and at least to me there's a noticeable difference in stylization between them now.

This is an alternate version of Sally.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByWVLhRVj0ykeTA5NjFJRGFZU1k/edit

I think she's the last of the characters I'd flat out redraw. All the rest I'd either tinker with or adjust slightly. For now though I'd like to focus on the rules. I had a link posted for the rulebook in this thread, but for simplicity sake I'll put it here again.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByWVLhRVj0ykYVBnZ2g3MDE2QkE/edit

The game is print and play. Right now with the Character card pdf (first post), those rules and this board https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByWVLhRVj0ykOVc4Z0p5b2wxVm8/edit you can print the entire game and play it now. Card art won't be updated just yet. If you do decide to play the game or just give the book a look over please let me know what you thought. I do realize there's a lot of cutting involved...once the game itself is ironed out I'll start looking into getting it made via TGC. With the free version still available on my blog of course.

ON A SEPARATE NOTE how much would you guys actually pay for a game like this? Not giving much thought into pricing yet. When you answer keep in mind that I'd be adding new content (boards, character packs, match types) to the base game after it picks up. For now though we're talking 1 match type, 1 board, 1 rule book, 16 character cards, and character/damage markers.

That'd be great! Let me know what you think...so far there's never been a test without me there. Not that I know of anyway.

For your game you'd probably need this as well https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByWVLhRVj0ykdDNzVjlGMDFQSEE/edit
9 Lives is the first and only unique Match Type for Red. It probably won't be the only one included in the base set though. A quick summary: Each player has a stock of 9 lives (which can be raised or deceased for desired length), victory is awarded to the player who can knock the other's lives down to 0 first by knocking out their characters. Doing so generates XP, which can be used to purchase Items in the Start Row.

NOTE: The link of revised Sally was corrupted, so I had to make a new one.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByWVLhRVj0ykOU9XSmhvam9VdGc/edit

I'm not concerned with it as much as I was before. That said I will keep that in mind while designing characters in the future. In the mean time I'm trying to focus on the rules / balancing out the character's. I may make a separate thread for that seeing how this one is for another aspect of the game.

Quick question!

So I'm bopping around TCG's templates, right? I'm finding good ones for each of the pieces. Nothing exact, but I can edit files to make them fit better. The only aspect of the game I can't seem to do this with would be the cards, the character cards in particular. Right now the printed version of the game play's it's cards at 6 x 4.5 inches...the jumbo card size is the closest to that but the aspect ratio is wrong.

Before I go making separate files specifically for TGC version of the game is there a way to make custom file templates? I must have looked over the whole site for it...if it's there I completely missed it.

This helped a lot. While I was resizing the cards I also sketched up an update for this guy...

Spike https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByWVLhRVj0ykaVlNRVZXc0JNN0k/edit

Definitely like this one better than the older version. Starting to see where I went wrong adding too much definition to some of them.

EDIT

Also! The only template on TGC that has the same aspect ratio as my cards is the poker set. I made a test print of one of the wordier characters at that size, Rufus. Looking at it gave me some very bad flashbacks of reading Yugioh cards. I raised the point size on the cards specifically for the TGC version. If you were to buy this game I might recommend printing the character cards from the free version.

Long time no see, everyone.

I have my own copy of RED in my hands, with 2 copies of all 16 of the characters. The box I bought rounded out to being 50 dollars, which was a reasonable price for me. For the version I want to make for online purchase I'll be releasing characters in packs to lower the price. The base set coming with 4 characters, the board, and the rulebook. Individual character packs / characters can be purchased in clumps of 4, or printed off the blog.

Just an update!