Pokemon Style Browser MMORPG MonsterMMORPG V2 Started

[Hoeloe]

The top right monster is completely out of style with the rest.

Also, it bugs me that all the art is so dark - it's really hard to make out a lot of features on some of them.

[Bombshell93]

I'd hate to pry at this but its such a glaring issue, you really need to standardise the games graphics.
The overworld is pokemon, the monsters are dark final fantasy, the HUD is windows XP, the spew of styles isn't working in its favour.
if you want your game to be taken seriously (I'm betting you do given the effort thats gone into it) then you'll need to go that extra mile.
getting the game too look like a whole as opposed to splices will drag your game away from looking like a cheap fangame. (no offence intended)

you can say time and money are an issue, but clearly your still spending time on the game and you obviously have artists capable and willing, at the very least you can try to get things looking like they belong in this game as opposed to looking like a franken'game.

[Blob55]

Too many cool looking Starters. There should be a way to capture the rest in-game, but maybe after you get the rest of the monsters.
BTW, are you looking for ideas for new monsters? I have quite a few.

[MonsterMMORPG]

The top right monster is completely out of style with the rest.

Also, it bugs me that all the art is so dark - it's really hard to make out a lot of features on some of them.

well we have mixed style. you should check monster dex

http://www.monstermmorpg.com/MonsterDex

there are many not dark style art monsters

we have mixed style because that many monster would require huge money if i were happen to get them all comissioned

I'd hate to pry at this but its such a glaring issue, you really need to standardise the games graphics.
The overworld is pokemon, the monsters are dark final fantasy, the HUD is windows XP, the spew of styles isn't working in its favour.
if you want your game to be taken seriously (I'm betting you do given the effort thats gone into it) then you'll need to go that extra mile.
getting the game too look like a whole as opposed to splices will drag your game away from looking like a cheap fangame. (no offence intended)

you can say time and money are an issue, but clearly your still spending time on the game and you obviously have artists capable and willing, at the very least you can try to get things looking like they belong in this game as opposed to looking like a franken'game.

you are right. i am planning whole web site redesign
though i am planning to keep mixed style monster arts

but i don't have dedicated artists. they are almost all volunteer

Too many cool looking Starters. There should be a way to capture the rest in-game, but maybe after you get the rest of the monsters.
BTW, are you looking for ideas for new monsters? I have quite a few.

sure write all of them here

[Bombshell93]

mixed design is fine, but mixed style is a problem, you could keep all of your monsters designs but at some point or another it'd be highly recommended to create a criteria for the pallet line art and shading styles. E.G. pokemon sticks to bright colours thin lines, and minor shading

[MonsterMMORPG]

mixed design is fine, but mixed style is a problem, you could keep all of your monsters designs but at some point or another it'd be highly recommended to create a criteria for the pallet line art and shading styles. E.G. pokemon sticks to bright colours thin lines, and minor shading

yes but it requires team of artists which costs a lot of money
Nintendo have millions of dollars

[Bombshell93]

but it doesn't require lots of money, your games content is proof of that, you have a community willing to work on art for you.
I'm not telling you to sit them in a chatroom and tell them they must redo all of their work again and they need to do it by a deadline.
you could easily and politely say,
"so we're cleaning up some graphical aspects of the game to try and get things looking more polished.
all the monsters are looking great but over time we hope to get them looking like members of a single and vast world."
etc. etc.
it would take time and not everything would get done but with a defined style (your best off picking from the works you already have so large chunks of the work will be uneffected and it'll lessen the amount of work this implies)


all look like their from the same neighbourhood, minimal lines, bold colours, and detailed lighting.


these 3 also look like their from the same world (though a different world from the other 3), thick lines, medium detail and lighting focused on the big features. (design to a degree too if you look at the proportions but I think that can be worked around)

anyway long story short, this doesn't have to be a sudden change, it doesn't have to be the work of a team in crunch time, it can simply be a gesture, a suggestion, something that may happen over time when your artists feel like it.

[Blob55]

How about a Black bird Monster? (Black birds are different from Crows/Ravens/Rooks), as there aren't that many song bird Pokémon and I was hoping you'd have some. There's a few other songbirds I want too, like European Robins (the American Robin is related to Crows), Blue/Great Tits, Wrens and Finches.

[MonsterMMORPG]

How about a Black bird Monster? (Black birds are different from Crows/Ravens/Rooks), as there aren't that many song bird Pokémon and I was hoping you'd have some. There's a few other songbirds I want too, like European Robins (the American Robin is related to Crows), Blue/Great Tits, Wrens and Finches.

nice suggestion

i am planning to hire some cheap monster artists soon

i can tell them to draw

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@Bombshell93 i understand you but those are paid artworks and each one i paid 15$
i don't have that much money right now to pay but they worth it definitely - filter by artist and select narsilion
those are paid ones

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Version 2.0.4 Beta Change Logs

* Blocked players page recoded:
http://www.monstermmorpg.com/BlockedUsers.aspx

* When you are PVPing, if enemy player miss to use a move for total 5 times, he/she will be automatically counted as defeated

* There are a bug at exp gain system. It was multplying isntead of stacking. So now you may see a bit exp decrease if you have expert leader

* At chat screen when you type @username it will become a link

* All monsters on maps re-assigned

* All NPCs on maps re-assigned

* Effective Healing ability now increases Orbs healing rate to 15% from 10%

* 150% EXP & Gold bonus event started for weekend

* Moves descriptions improved

* A lot of bug fixes
*** Experience armor bonus will be displayed correctly
*** Some moves were not working correctly and fixed
*** Unread mail error fixed in some rare occasions
*** Move Relearner was not working correctly for the very first move and fixed
*** Invisible NPC trainers bug fixed

11 New monsters added to the game

[Dazz]

I find if funny how you pretty much ignore every comment people make unless it's positive.

[MonsterMMORPG]

I find if funny how you pretty much ignore every comment people make unless it's positive.

i am seriously not ignoring but there isn't much i can do

anyway here the new version and event


MonsterMMORPG updated to Version 2.0.5 Beta

www.monstermmorpg.com

* 29 new monsters added to the game
* All monsters on maps re-assigned
* All NPCs on maps re-assigned
* Fixed annoying new line problem when sending a new private message
---- It was happening at firefox
* All links will be automatically parsed when sending private message (if you are at top 10,000 rankings)
---- Make sure that you add http:// to begining of link
* Abilities description improved
---- http://www.monstermmorpg.com/AbilitiesList.htm
* Special weekend bonus event started 200%

Here the new monsters

[Previous]

I've been thinking about it for a while and I decided that it's time to lock up.

While it's a great piece of work you've got here, I still don't see this as anything else but free advertising and I do not think there should be made an exception to the rule just because the advertised product looks interesting. If it was an active community member doing this, it would be more acceptable, but that's not the case since there's nothing being contributed to the community at all besides these adposts. It might also be alright if the topic had a further purpose - getting feedback in order to improve the product - but it's pretty obvious that this, too, does not apply. There's no point in having a topic here to discuss the product as constructive comments are just being shrugged of with how much things would cost (which is an arguable point). I don't see any use in further discussion, I can only see the same points being iterated over and over, draped with special weekend bonus events.

To sum it up, I don't see why this kind of advertising should be allowed.