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Byond icons11/23/2023 ![]() ![]() All in all, equipment overlay systems turn out terribly, and shouldn't be attempted without good reason.ĭon't: Players shouldn't have to squint to see your icons. 3: All players at the highest level will have found the best armor, and will then look exactly the same. 2: Players that want to look like knights (but can't afford all the dragon armor) don't want to look like a cross between a bishop, thief, and warlock. ![]() 1: Players rarely have all of one set (Example: all dragon armor), so almost all players look like walking piles of garbage, because the warlock gloves don't fit with the thief coat or the colors on the bishop's hat. Before we move on, there's a couple more problems with the equipment overlay system. Which of the two guys in the image below looks cooler to you? Which do you think the average gamer would rather be portrayed as? One is a Knight in resplendent gold armor with sword in hand, ready to kick ass. If you at least equip new characters with cool looking clothing or armor (and it's important that this happen before anything else so that they never see diaper man) then they may stick around long enough to play your game. The most important time to show players that they're cool is right at the beginning if they log in and are shown a bald naked guy, and told 'this is you', they will leave. These are fantasies people play video games because they want to be a big muscular guy with cool armor and a giant sword, something that most of us can't be in real life. Though this sounds like a good idea, it is rarely done well (in fact, I haven't seen it done well on BYOND). An innumerable number of games on BYOND show their character's equipped items as overlays. First, we'll start with some commonly seen graphics problems on BYOND.ĭon't: I don't want to be a bald guy in a diaper, and neither do your players. This article is a simple list of dos and don'ts, with explanations. Likewise, anyone can spend hours making graphics, just to end up with junk, if they fall for some very easy to make mistakes. Anyone can make good game graphics if they just keep in mind a couple simple principles.
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