Character Choice

[Monkey]

Hi guys. I'm making my final year uni project a game for the GP2x. I'm going for a platform game, but I'm still undecided for my main character. I have the two designs below:

Ikki:

Chip:

The guy marking my work thinks that Ikki is 'cooler', but I personally favour Chip as a character, he just seems more believable as a character to me. But at the end of the day, its your opinion that counts, as your my target market. So what you think, Ikki or Chip?

BTW, heres a screenshot of the game so far with the Ikki character in it, i'm pretty much down to doing the last of the graphical work, but my prototype has to be finished in 4 weeks, so expect a release pretty soon:

 

[Sonistar]

chip definately looks better

edit - PLUS hes a pirate!!

 

[nickspoon]

Indeed. Random bird things FTW!

EDIT: Oh, and he's got an eyepatch! He DESERVES to be in this game!

 

[Huxley]

That's looking good already Monkey, I look forward to playing the final product.

Oh, and I voted for Chip but maybe you should listen to what your tutor thinks

 

[TelcoLou]

Chip ... he's got an eye patch, and a big-ass hammer.

 

[Paradox]

Ikki is the best i think, id rather play as him ... to me, he looks more believeable as a character.

why not have a select at the start so you can choose to play as both, or would that not work with the game?

 

[Sonistar]

IKKI blends too much into the background, it would be hard seeing him on the screen.
Thats from an artistic and animation point of view

 

[skate2live92]

ya, id love to play as ikki just cause hes got a kickass tiki mask on, but chip is a better character all-in-all...LOOK AT THAT HAMMER!

 

[Monkey]

I could add a select character screen, but thats a bit more work than I think I can handle within the 4 weeks I have left, as I still have to document how I made the entire thing .

As for what the tutor thinks works, as long as I give a good reason for why I choose one over the other it doesn't matter.

 

[Sonistar]

say my idea, that ikki is too hard to see, and hell ge quietly back into the corner and sit ^-^

dude if your strugling for time i can help with backgrounds or whatnot,,,

 

[Alex.]

If I were to choose between the two, I'd choose Chip. However, both lack in the colour department, they're too dusty. Use more vibrant colours for character design, make it stand out. As they are right now, both blend in to the rest of the scenery, especially Ikki.

- Alex

 

[virusx]

For me it will be Ikki because he's cool
Half indian, half log ,and he's more "squared" and I like squares.
This game is looking good. I hope to play this soon.

Perhaps you should make his face a little more lighter.
And perhaps the best choice will be to put the two of them in the game.
Player will choose his favorite, then

 

[Wolfspirit]

Wolfspirit starts chanting: Ikki..Ikki..Ikki!

 

[Jarska333]

I'd pick Chip, because of the hammer. But, could it be possible to have you play as the other in different levels? If you have a level structure.

 

[Paradox]

Ikki reminds me of that mask in crash bandicoot...

 

[rokdcasbah]

i think ikki is based on the moai from easter island/rapa nui...

closer to chile than to india

also mario went on vacation there once:

monkey, that's some nice pixel art. looking forward to playing this!

 

[QuasaR]

As a standalone character i would favorite Chip, but Ikki better suits the (great) style of your game!! Just take Ikki!!

 

[AcidiC]

Ikki looks like he would fit in with that game's graphics more.

 

[FluffyPanda]

I think you're lucky. My university would

a) Not have accepted a 2d platformer as a sufficently challenging project (one of my 12 modules in the final year had me writing my own 3d engine with a complete lighting model without using any libraries or hardware, and that was alongside the fyp)

B) not given me the copyright over my own work anyway. So the stuff that I did can't actually be released since the uni owns it and, frankly, it's of no use to them.

Which uni do you go to man?

(oh, and I prefer the lighter one - he'll stand out a lot better in the world)

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[AcidiC]

I think you're lucky. My university would

a) Not have accepted a 2d platformer as a sufficently challenging project (one of my 12 modules in the final year had me writing my own 3d engine with a complete lighting model without using any libraries or hardware, and that was alongside the fyp)

B) not given me the copyright over my own work anyway. So the stuff that I did can't actually be released since the uni owns it and, frankly, it's of no use to them.

Which uni do you go to man?

(oh, and I prefer the lighter one - he'll stand out a lot better in the world)

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Wow, thats discouraging.

How did you go anyway?