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@CallMeWhatNot Thanks for your ideas, webdon't want to use different pixel size nor hi res UI. The idea is to work with 320x180 and that's it. With that in mind, there are some ideas that could be nice to have but this is gonna be a classic point and click...

@Paninosoffline Out of these, the pre-rendered one look better. You could pixelate it further then the second version might look good. But the last one, the really dated one is not very good. Puzzle games need to be brought back upgraded.

Two styles: Painted-Scanned or Pure-pixel. What do you think?

@akechavalito No tiene un título definitivo, está en desarrollo.

@Paninosoffline Que juego es?

@CallMeWhatNot You're proposing an interface that's completely different from SCUMM

@Paninosoffline Margin rules, font size, beveled buttons, or no buttons at all. Could display objects as text, when you scroll a list visual representation of the object appears in a separate window. Many ways to make it better. Gamepad instead of mouse ctrl in these type of games would be inter

@GamEX_ElecEco We are a team of two. Graphics + coder

@Paninosoffline Right picture! Do you search some programmer to help on this project ?

@EmanuilDinev 🤔👍

@Paninosoffline Painted. Pixelart is too busy.

@CRTOGRPHR 100% true

@Paninosoffline It depends on the goal, the scan to me looks like a late era scumm-type game, They wanted games to look more "realistic". almost like a living painting. the second looks closer to the modern pixel-art approach. cleaner, hand drawn, but actually looks slightly less old-school.

@thisuser 👍

@Paninosoffline pure pixel, don't create a style difference between the background and the characters (is my take)

@bugler Yep, not exactly blur but bilinear reduction to 320x144

@Paninosoffline The one on the right looks better. Better quality of light, easier to focus. The one on the left is more tiring to look at because of all the blur.

@theywilljustdie Both requires similar amount of work

@Paninosoffline depends on personal taste. for me both are nice, so developers should probably go for the less work-consuming thing.

@johnyfblack 🤔

@Paninosoffline Why not both?

@DuckMadeOfWood @myco54896926 In any case it will be free to play and no order of any copyrighted name

@Paninosoffline @myco54896926 Probably he means if you have the rights to make a game from an existing Intellectual Property. Even if Umberto Eco is dead, that doesn't mean the rights are available.

@TwoForDinnerTFD MI2 was painted and scanned and pixel-art-ed by hand at the end

@Paninosoffline Painted-Scanned is more pleasing here. Somehow this is how I remember playing those games (MI2). The Pure-Pixel is too harsh here for my taste.

@DeSerrateGame Bear in mind those are from PC-like era so even EGA/VGA monitors were CRT, scan lines was not the same as consumer tv crt

@Paninosoffline pixelated art will always look better in scanlines

@Retro_Msdos No, estamos lejos aún de una demo

@Paninosoffline No hay aún ninguna demo verdad?

@DuckMadeOfWood @myco54896926 Where is any title or name?

@robcfg Correct, a 3d version... Kinda

@Paninosoffline Oh! Space Quest III:The Pirates of Pestulon, isn't it?

Spatts!

@robcfg 🤗

@Paninosoffline I like both, but maybe the pure pixel one is slightly better. As I said, both are beautiful and won't complain about any of them :D

@myco54896926 Stealing?

@Paninosoffline Are you stealing "The name of the Rose" ?

@CallMeWhatNot What kind of improvement you have in mind?

@Paninosoffline I see no difference, both pixelated. But the UI needs improvement, monkey island was never good at it.

@CallMeWhatNot The two styles differ, but they don’t exclude each other. The first is a hand-painted image, rendered pixelated by self-imposed limitations. The second is an image built by pixels, shaped by those very same constraints.