The Great Colour Question: Do you like non-black backgrounds

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Do you like caves with non-black backgrounds?

No, it's ugly
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69%
Yes, sometimes if it's a dark-ish colour
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23%
Yes, I like all sorts of bizarre colours
1
8%
 
Total votes: 13

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The Great Colour Question: Do you like non-black backgrounds

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I like to use them here and there, but I avoid them if I want the caves to have a 'classic' feel. I also find it works best with dark colours - brown, grey, red, etc...
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I picked no, because I think it's ugly. I like to pretend that colors 1 and 2 don't exist...that takes care of all my problems :twisted: .
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I used to do that religiously, too. But I decided to experiment with it in one of my games. I just made sure the colours didn't clash or were too bright.

Here's one of them:

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This level was inspired by Arno, by the way :)
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Well...the BG's not too bad, but I'm not a big fan of the border color - It just kind of ruins that "darkness at the end of the screen" feeling. :)

[Edit] Now that I look at it more, it kind of makes the cave look like it's underwater! :goldfish:
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You have a point with the border thingy, actually... Maybe I'll try putting the borders back to black.

Yeah it does look underwater 8) . In the Crazy Light CK there is a bubble element so you can actually make really underwater-looking levels :)
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The colouring misses that black bit inbetween the stats and the playfield. That's another reason to take it out I guess.
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Sendy wrote:Maybe I'll try putting the borders back to black.
Try making the border blue, just like the BG. I might look really good! Too bad I can't edit my vote now... :oops:
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Post by Arno »

I picked 'No', because most of the times I find it ugly, and it may disturb the character of the cave set by the usual 3 colours.

Also in my own games I hardly use any background/border other than black. Only for Santa's Boulder Dash Party I've used a few blue background colors to get an impression of daylight.

Bordercolors I would never use unless it's black or the same as the bg color.

[Edit] The underwater-look is a nice idea. Or even better when combined with the Atlantis graphics set, or the new underwater-graphics set that I'm still planning to release some day....
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Post by Simon »

I voted 'no' because I don't like non-black background colors in BD at all. One exception may be a kind of underwater look, but then I'd prefer a black border and just a dark blue background.
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Post by ravenxau »

I voted 'no' - the black background lets you concentrate on the important things that aren't black. Also, traditionally Arcade games had black backgrounds (Space Invaders, Pacman)... but now i'm showing my age :)
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Post by paul_nicholls »

I voted 'no' too, I really prefer the black backgrounds too...
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