The Second Biggest Sandwich I Ever Saw!

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What do you think of this idea so far? And after its been released, did you like it?

Good Mod/Good Idea
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85%
This Lost episode should have stayed lost
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4%
No opinion.
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GARGapplesauce wrote:
Nospike wrote:So, the title screen. Iunno, I think I actually preferred the old one. This one is decent too but feels a little non-keenish since it's divided.
Scarlet wrote:I like both. The left corner one reminds me of axtroxian realm, a sort of dark atmosphere.
Yea I actually agree with Nospike not because of the division necessarily but because of Scarlet's comment. I ought to actually shade the left one in more, it's not exactly the style I'm going for, the mod isn't to be that dark, as much as I like that style, but was aiming for something more in between like the mockup I had earlier in the topic, graphics from which will be tweaked and used in this version. I'll post a different version of the title screen when I get one done...
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And yeah the one troublesomekeen posted is the old one.
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The old one is definitely more keenish, but that doesn't mean it's ok. Something is wrong with it. Like why would you need a fork to eat a sandwich? It needs some things to be changed (including keen himself) to break up a bit the typical Keen series title screen stereotype.

The new one is really nothing what we've seen so far, thus it's unique and cool, but I think it will fit much better into the help section. It look more like a preview actually rather than a title screen.
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Garg, do check the iirc channels, there is much help for mod stuff there as of late. :)
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wiivn wrote:The old one is definitely more keenish, but that doesn't mean it's ok. Something is wrong with it. Like why would you need a fork to eat a sandwich? It needs some things to be changed (including keen himself) to break up a bit the typical Keen series title screen stereotype.

The new one is really nothing what we've seen so far, thus it's unique and cool, but I think it will fit much better into the help section. It look more like a preview actually rather than a title screen.
How does a vacuum cleaner act as a propulsion unit for a rocket ship? Logic isn't exactly the major point of the series as far as I'm concerned, so eating a sandwich with a fork didnt seem like much of a problem, but regardless I'm not disagreeing with you either, for some reason ur criticism made me laugh, and its true as well. The screen definitely isnt as keenish and its different, and the original one is wrong in so many ways (which is why I made a new one) but I don't understand how being like a preview makes it not like a title screen. I always thought that was the function of a title screen.
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:lol um thanks I think. Don't get to used to it, still sounds like it should be redone though...
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The color of the dirt tiles kinda hurts my eyes, even though it looks nice. You should probably ease up on the dithering.
I agree with garg though, "fork and knife to eat everything" feels very cartoony and fits keen imo.
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Or, Judging by the expression of Billy's face, this sandwich is trying to eat him and Billy is trying to defend himself with a fork. Just in case to kill it. "Back off cruel sandwich or I'll stab you with this very fork!" Or maybe he already killed this sandwich and thus that face expression.
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wiivn wrote:Or, Judging by the expression of Billy's face, this sandwich is trying to eat him and Billy is trying to defend himself with a fork. Just in case to kill it. "Back off cruel sandwich or I'll stab you with this very fork!" Or maybe he already killed this sandwich and thus that face expression.
Yeah I suppose that could work, I always just thought it was shock at the size of the sandwich... but honestly his face is the least of my problems with it... I mean how about the fact that the shadows on him are facing the wrong direction? Or that the suns have shadows? Or that he apparently has no teeth? Or that the ComputerWrist looks like crap? Or the fork being the size of his hand? If I redid that screen now I think I'd take the time to make it significantly better, I personally still like the new one but If there's really a strong feeling against it then I'll just work on the old one.
Nospike wrote:The color of the dirt tiles kinda hurts my eyes, even though it looks nice. You should probably ease up on the dithering.
I agree with garg though, "fork and knife to eat everything" feels very cartoony and fits keen imo.
Yeah the dirt tiles can be bad especially when that small, Ceilick offered some suggestions that I was going to implement this time around, he made an example of the somewhere back in the thread, look and tell me if its any better.
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Or, Judging by the expression of Billy's face, this sandwich is trying to eat him and Billy is trying to defend himself with a fork. Just in case to kill it. "Back off cruel sandwich or I'll stab you with this very fork!" Or maybe he already killed this sandwich and thus that face expression.
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Well this sandwich doesn't look big at all :)
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Haha I love the troll fingers
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Glad to see this is back in action. The bottom of the forest background just needs a lot less dithering. I think I put a corrected version of those tiles in dropbox some long time ago.
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