Title Screen - A little help from the Players?

[Voom]

Agreed, Zukero! And thanks You da' best! You are the community's foundation, believe it or not.

@ace OMG, those designs are fantastic! I mean they are absolutely terrific, especially the blue one. The last one I think fits AT the most. The logo maybe should be kinda faded out like the previous design, but not that much. Enough to show color. Maybe not we'll see.

[Lady Drager]

I'm confused... what happened? One day of no internet and I'm suddenly lost! So now we're going with a modern storybook design?

[twirlimp]

I'm confused... what happened? One day of no internet and I'm suddenly lost! So now we're going with a modern storybook design?

I don't know but I like the direction we're headed!

[Zukero]

Hehe. As a professional artist you should be used to customers having no idea of what they want until they see it
I'm not settled on anything, but I know what I like and what I don't...
Ideas fly by.
The true medieval look wouldn't work great as a game title screen IMHO. Too complex. Too detailed.
But hey, I like where the book idea is going, but you're free to throw it all away and come up with something else entirely !

[rijackson741]

I like Ace's last red design; I'm not so keen on the blue one. The red background is too flat though. It needs some texture.

I threw out a few ideas, but they are not necessarily compatible with each other (for example the modern spine and the metal corners). We need to convege on a single direction though, and should definitely avoid splitting into different camps.

Personally, I like the book concept, and could live with any good design, as long as it looks reasonably old. I like the idea of a medieval design because it fits with the world of AT. It could be made to look less complicated by shrinking the corners and maybe getting rid of the clasps.

I suggest simplifying the medieval design, then let's decide on the final direction.

[ace]

Thanks for encouragement everyone . I also agree with the book idea because the little hero is keeping log of every quest and it this logbook contains the whole story. But yeah less complicated and impressive.

[Lady Drager]

I have been tryind to send this since 1:40 pm, it is now 3:40 pm.

I was just confused Zuke! Ace's work is good, but we were still waiting on someone to create a better spine. Also, busy and complex is the hallmark of design from medieval through Victorian eras. But if you want simple, take a look at a slight modification to what we've already created rather than scrapping it all:

AT book cover 7.png

[rijackson741]

I think that looks really good.

Of course, I'm biased, because I has a hand in it

[Zukero]

I'm not scrapping anything. I just want to avoid restricting the creativity of anyone with whatever directions I may give.
You're all doing a pretty impressive job.
Busy and complex is fine in itself, but a title screen should be readable and usable beforehand.

[twirlimp]

I have been tryind to send this since 1:40 pm, it is now 3:40 pm.

I was just confused Zuke! Ace's work is good, but we were still waiting on someone to create a better spine. Also, busy and complex is the hallmark of design from medieval through Victorian eras. But if you want simple, take a look at a slight modification to what we've already created rather than scrapping it all:
AT book cover 7.png

I'd suggest maybe lifting the Title & Logo slightly so the button can be stacked vertically instead of grid-like (but we'll have to see both to compare).

I also suggest saving your work on Dropbox so it can automatically sync and you can share easily (including the Photoshop or XCF file that you're using).