Crystal Towers 2 - New Display

The only thing worse than not updating for months is pointing out that you haven't updated in months. I'm thinking of just merging all the posts in this back into my standard journal under a tag, actually, as they're so few and far between that it isn't really worth the bother of logging in and out to post in it!

Anyway. The thing that I'm really excited about at the moment (and you'll think this is pathetic) is the rearrangement of the counters and icons around the play area.


Before


After

It's amazing just how much a few blue boxes can bring the look of a game together and stop it looking like a load of counters plonked onto the playfield. The best bit is the score and health displays - they expand to give room to each counter as they need them! No one's ever going to notice, but it's the little things that do it...

After that I went on a transparency spree (even though I did think that it made it look a bit "Crystal Towers 2 Vista" at first) and did a fade-in/fade-out that I copied from FFXII for the pause menu as well instead of filling the screen with really quite ugly scanlines that I copied from Kingdom Hearts.