Comments on: MiG Madness

By: Alan With Tea

Alan With Tea — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:08:06 +0000

Ha, I laughed at that line. Don’t feel too bad.

Yet again, it seems like an untested or minimally tested game. It doesn’t require recruitment of a dozen friends for five-hour play sessions to just sit, play for ten minutes and go “Ugh, sometimes the bullets are hard to see”. The dev can do that alone. Bah.

By: Adman

Adman — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:24:44 +0000

It wouldn’t surprise me if the developers did all their dev and playtesting with a solid black background, and added backgrounds very late in the cycle.

I think you bring up a really insightful… insight. All the parts of your game need to work together in concert. Even though static background graphics might seem totally removed from the actual gameplay and mechanics, it can still have an effect.

By: Starglider

Starglider — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:41:25 +0000

Perhaps it would benefit from a custom full-screen postprocess shader, doing contrast and sharpness enhancement. Alternatively just have a simple adjustment of sprite brightness when an RGB conflict (based on preset average colour) is detected.