Lighitng Help: Give the Game Pop

Hi there
I am finishing up a title for mobile. I am quite happy with it, however one last item, that I am looking at is lighting. To me, it looks kind of flat.

I am wondering if the community has any recomendations, given the voxel style art and the and mobile platform.

I think that this post should be in General Discussion or Game Design :slight_smile:

Personally, I think the colors are flat. It’s a simple 2D game, so let’s look at similar popular games:

Crossy road:

Flappy bird:

Angry birds:

So I think your original image shows very bland colors (apart from the logo). Try giving them more contrast and make each color more unique and make it stand out more, take a picture and post it!

@DroidifyDevs
Thanks.

Do you think that the Crossy Road example, holds a single directional light?

That it’s pop, is simply from the art assets combined with the single light?

Yes, I think there’s one light judging by the shadows. Just try making the colors more vivid in your game and see what happens, post a picture so we can see!

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I like your cat (avatar pic).

So here yah go… I played around a bit and came up with these.

Any preference? DO you think there is an improvement at all?

**note, it difficult for me to play with the art since I am not the artist. Also, the nature of the level design is a 2 unit lane, and then open blue sky, vs Crossy Roads, which is a plane of action, on the ground. Various bits running about etc.

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Quite frankly, I didn’t see much difference in any of the pictures :frowning:

After a few minutes in Paint, this is what I came up with:

I mainly made the ground’s colors more vivid, but the tree colors should match as well.

You don’t have to be a great artist to change colors, all you need is to look in the material you’re using and change the color from there. I see Super Race and Crossy Road are quite different, but they have the same pixel-block style. Comparing side-by-side, you can see that Cross Road’s colors are much more vivid and pronounced, while yours are all much closer to white.

Other than that though I think the screenshot looks great! :smile:

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Right,
You are just intensifying the colour saturation a bit.

Thanks.

Look out for it.