late 1st anniversary suprise

[MarcMegavoid]

Here it is the very first Amary Case Cover Inlay.
I hope nobody will have to use the phrase, "It's better than it looks like!", too often.


So far I'm thinking it serves it's purpose very well.
If you always wanted to give away "Aquaria" as a birthday suprise, but have hesitated because of the lack of a decent packing, you now could do it^^

Derek and Alec you two really did something very touching, in sound and paint with Aquaria. I can't remember a game that was more thrilling. And I hope, Alec, your next project, will reach the same level of pathetic story telling. As well as you will find a nice way how the puppet will get a dynamicly way of motion, as Naija, when she travel throughout the waters.
I would recommend in case, you want to have the Inlay look like "on screen", go to your next copyshop that has an inkjet printer with at least 6 colors.
If anyone is uprised that the text is actually german, I tried to get a decent translation, in two language forums, but there were no replies...
In the case you can translate just that text in a sophisticated way, what I can't, hand me the translation and I will make the english Inlay Cover available.

full resolution Download here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FWBS065P
Cut it at the crop mark!

[Chibi]

Very well done, MarcMegavoid. You should post your work in this thread. (Original Picture)

[Alphasoldier]

Both links are to the same location, Chibi, the picture.
 Either way, that's a very nice cover Marc. The only downside I see is with the rock that has the symbols on it, on the front side. Seeing that's certainly nowhere in the game (the rock I mean, not the symbols).
Nonetheless, again, very nice, I certainly like the back.

[Chibi]

Thanks for the heads-up, Alpha. I can see why the rock would be a problem - players would waste hours searching for it in vain. ^^

[Align]

The front bothers me. In-game graphics look prettier.

[MarcMegavoid]

Well, digital painting really isn't my domain...but it's not possible to bring ingame images up to a decent quality to cover a whole DVD case front!

[Chibi]

Well, digital painting really isn't my domain...but it's not possible to bring ingame images up to a decent quality to cover a whole DVD case front!

See my first post.

[MarcMegavoid]

Yeah, I saw it....see my last comment!....

[Chibi]

That's not up to your standards, I guess. *shrugs*  With version 1.1.1, it is possible  - if you switch the x and y of the in-game resolution.

[MarcMegavoid]

Yeah hmm, that would at least allow me to widen the view.
To increase the resolution wouldn't bring me much cuz my TFT is only able to display 1280x1024.
Since the zoom-in, I think, is part of the mipmap functionality, I would guess the original resolution of the drawn doesn't exceeds the 1400x1050.
So I guess I would end up with a Naija image that's about 8% bigger. Doesn't make the difference.

The only thing that would help me is, to get to know how the mipmap in-game is suppose to do the scaling and if, as you said, it is now possible to set the screen resolution for the game - then I would need another TFT 

But the Naija character wouldn't get bigger than the 8% I mentioned.
Take a look at the screenshots I made, especially the one in the upper right corner, Naija would grow ~8%, still not much of mentionable difference...

[Chibi]

If you wait for a while, the window zooms onto Naija - that increases her size threefold. I've no knowledge of the technicalities involved in changing the settings, but other forum members will probably be able to help you.

[MarcMegavoid]

Hmmm, well the thing is, Naija is pixel art, that means we wouldn't get her bigger than 400pixels high, anyway.
So there isn't much that can be optimized...

[Chibi]

Naija isn't pixel art unless you define "pixel art" as art displayed on a computer screen.  Pixel art is something entirely different - like this or this. As for the size, the fan art on the Bit-Blot page is the best resource for large pictures.

[Alphasoldier]

It's just small, not pixel art, like Chibi said.
Aquaria does have high anti aliasing, so Naija still looks good when zoomed in pretty close. You could also bring finishing touches to it with Photoshop.

Also, if you make your own mod, you could make your own surroundings, making a perfect 'neighbourhood' for your  front. You can also put down nodes and name them "zoom 1.5" or 2, this'll make it zoom in automatically.

Eventually, if you want spots from the game, I suggest downloading the Native mod, so that you can edit small parts if necessary and add your zoom nodes.

[MarcMegavoid]

@Alpha
Brining in Photoshop with a Naija that has only dimensions of not even 200pixels height would be cruel and look so.

But maybe you can tell me what the standard zoom factor is?