Gardenia - Character Creator
Gardenia Character creator
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Feedback on the character creator will be highly appreciated!
Gardenia is a project inspired by another game I've made with the same name, but this time I planned to make things more complex. This time I added a character creator, mostly because I wanted to learn how to make one, but also because I wanted to add more in game rewards, in this case, additional character design features. I'm still not satisfied with the way the character creator looks which is why I'm opening it up for testing. I do feel like some design choices were made in consequence of the fact that I'm a solo dev and artist and others because I was in a rush to start working on the main game cycle. By releasing the character creator first I can get feedback that will help me fix details and provide better additions to it (while I focus on making the core gameplay loop).
Any feedback is welcomed and appreciated, if you feel like there should be any additional content added you should also feel free to state it. You can use the comments here to provide it or contact me directly through bsky. This will take a while to update as I'm working on other things, but rest assured that everything will be taken to consideration.
I am using godot to develop this game.
Feel free to download your character image and use as pfp or other.
I shouldn't have to say this but you don't have any commercial rights over the image you create with this game, so no selling, no putting it on other games, putting it over products to sell, putting it through AI generators, etc. It's personal use only.
This character creator will not be always available to play, I may close it for editing or testing other gameplay features.
Comments
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This looks really cute! I think my main feedback would be:
- More variety, especially with facial features, ability to have different expressions, plus some afro hair options
- The Details category should be in the Body section of the creator rather than clothes.
- The music feels strange and kind of puts me on edge a bit? But I'm not knowledgeable about music so I couldn't tell you why lol.
Colour stuff:
- Perhaps more of a medium colour for the character background (or the ability to change the background colour) as with darker hair or skin the character can get lost in the background a bit.
- All the skin colours look a bit oversaturated. I think maybe the bright pink shading on the lightest skin contributes to this because the shading colour clashes oddly with the more yellow/orange tone of the skin. Similarly on the middle skin colour, the bright pink/red shading stands out on the shadow under the chin as being the deepest, most saturated colour in the whole character and only looks cohesive if you have a character with pink hair and/or eyes.
- The shine highlight colour on the brown hair is way higher contrast than all the other hair colours. So bringing it more in line with the soft highlights on the other hair could be more cohesive (This is a very small nitpicky thing though)
Looking forward to seeing this develop!