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How to create a board game path in Illustrator
You could create a custom Pattern brush, and apply it to a path.
Create a rectangle filled grey, no stroke, and and draw a single white stroke on one edge
Group those, drag and drop it in the brushes ...
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What genre of pixel art were MS-DOS and NES games? How to draw them?
Short answer: This specific example is (low-resolution) EGA pixel art (with the default CGA palette), and that's what I would call the style if I saw it. NES pixel art is identified either as '8-bit ...
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How to create a board game path in Illustrator
You can pick the Pen tool (p) to draw your path, then use the stroke menu (click stroke left of the stroke width box) to make a dashed line, as seen in the following picture :
About path spliting, ...
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What fonts are used in the video game Hades?
They are located in the folder {game install directory}\Content\Win\Fonts\en
We can see the package listing for the game via steamDB: https://steamdb.info/depot/1145361/
I think they are all open ...
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Pixel art software for Windows 10
What you are looking for is MagicaVoxel
It's an 8-bit voxel modeling and animating program that's free and open-source.
The software is still in its infancy but there are a small amount of tutorials ...
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Design a map for a 3d game similar to Discord's style in SVG with Affinity Designer
If you want a good product, work with a designer.
You could spend hundreds of hours learning how to work with a program and how to optimize the workflow.
Just imagine a designer asking how to start ...
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How could I make halftones like the example in this image
This would really depend on the software you are using. Since you haven't mentioned any, I'd suggest a vector image editor. For example this can be done in Inkscape which is free and Open Source. ...
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What genre of pixel art were MS-DOS and NES games? How to draw them?
While dedicated sprite editors are handy, I'd recommend using Illustrator (or other vector editing software) to draw pixel art. That allows you to retain the look of pixels but gain the benefit of a ...
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Creating advanced Healthbar Texture for Game UI
You could use GIMP (which is free) to create such a texture. No need to buy anything! Since you have no experience, here's a very simple method:
Open a new image in GIMP using File > New, and set the ...
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Creating video game textures is driving me to insanity
That looks like a pretty typical well-packed game-ready UV to me.
I would say if you can't comfortably work with that texture file and those UV alignments, you'd need to take one of two approaches:
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I am an experienced programmer who wants to learn how to design 2D game art. Is this achievable?
The kind of artwork you like, takes years of study and practice in some quite different disciplines. How long it takes of course depends on the individual.
But being able to create graphics like this ...
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Pixel art software for Windows 10
I really like Aseprite. It is not free though (unless you compile it yourself). It costs about $15.
For at free alternative you could try Piskel, which runs in the browser. Also a good program, but a ...
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What fonts are used in the video game Hades?
The body text font is a humanist sans-serif but not one I recognize. It looks like some Erik Spiekermann families like FF Meta and Fira Sans. Although it isn't either of those, they might be good to ...
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What genre of pixel art were MS-DOS and NES games? How to draw them?
Most people will just call this 'Retro', 'lo bit', or '8 bit' but Vincent's answer provides good detail about the specifics of the palette.
There is no such thing as asterisk shaped pixels -- a pixel ...
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What sort of noise is this?
Photoshop: Filter > Render > Clouds, or Filter > Render > Difference Clouds.
Holding down the Option/Alt key when selecting one of the filters increases the contrast of the filter.
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How these game illustrations have grayer background?
I don't think the colours are greyer or less saturated in these examples. The backgrounds appear to be lower in contrast, but still pretty colourful. The foreground objects also have distinct outlines ...
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Software to reduce colors to optimized 512-color custom palette
Okay so turns out - the answer is actually free software, Krita.
Krita can use Filter Layers (basically Adjustment Layers under a different name) and one of these is Palettize, which posterizes colors ...
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How do you make such 2D assets? (absolute beginner)
I will attempt an answer here, but the question is really very broad. It's almost asking how to draw which is far too broad a topic.
It's possible to create such images using a scanned pencil or ...
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How do you make such 2D assets? (absolute beginner)
This will not answer your question, but probably will solve your problem.
Do not waste time learning stuff that takes YEARS to do it properly. Focus the time to polish your programming, story, ...
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Should I get Adobe Photoshop for graphic design, graphic illustrations, illustrations, art and painting?
There's a lot of misinformation/urban myth about Photoshop. You'll often hear people say things such as "That video was photoshopped" when referring to incredible cgi effects, or basically ...
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Advice picking colors for a videogame interface
You are doing good work. The green and wood look nice.
The buttons could be simply transparent and black. Probably you could use a transparent white in some places.
One thin border could work in some ...
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Advice picking colors for a videogame interface
It looks pretty good to me- only thing, maybe darken all the wooden boards to match the ones around the red stack of face-down cards (or under the "dubito" button). That way there is more ...
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Tools to help with 2d game design?
I don't understand why you ask for special tools for creating screenshots when you are actually linking to such a tool: AppLaunchpad. Why isn't that app suitable for you? It seems to do exactly what ...
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Creating cinematic for an app/Question about 3D Models
Realistically speaking you can't do this on budget, yourself. Even with free software it is still not doable without a significant commitment of resources.* In other words your own time and effort.
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Ways to practice design as a student without a subject or project
I want to practice designing UI for games but how do I design a UI for
something that doesn't exist?
How about a UI for something that does exist?
There are several games in early access that are ...
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I designed a game that makes my eyes tired
I see too much detail, and this combined with some movement (That depends on what pieces of your game moves) could make some flickering. Take a look at that.
Find a methodology. Make a test without ...
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I designed a game that makes my eyes tired
I think that your elements are too realistic and detailed which is overloading your brains image processing. Try using simpler elements (leaves for example).
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