Feedback on my 2D Videogame Art

[Ocram's Razr 963]

Hello everyone!

I have been working on making a graphics pack based off SimTower with double resolution and full 32-bit color space (partial transparency for windows). Some of my early work was obvious "derivative work" of the original SimTower but I replaced most of those with better-looking, more unique art assets. However, I am working on the penultimate round of art assets before completion of the graphics pack and I have not done much art work this year (I was busy up until mid-August). Offices, Condos, and Apartments are easy. The insides of restaurants (fast food franchises and 3-star restaurants) are harder. I will edit this post to show you what I have done that looks good and what I have recently done that looks very much like the original (with one screenshot of SimTower for comparison).

I would like your feedback in making my artwork more original so I don't get in trouble. I know that Yoot Saito is still around and making games (he made SimTower AKA The Tower and Yoot Tower AKA The Tower II) and that EA owns the rights to the name SimTower.

I have been making such artwork since 2008, back when the first OpenTower project had its first working prototype. That prototype did not work very well with the right software on the right type of computer but is completely unusable with the updated software libraries and is most-likely nowhere to be found. However, there have been a handful of projects that stemmed off from that project (Highrise Developer and OpenSkyscraper being the projects that progressed the furthest) and I used to work with the developers of Highrise Developer to give them almost all of the art assets they used (they made some of their own as well). However, recently HTML5 has become a popular platform for games so I decided in Spring to make my own open-source tower game that can run in a browser. I call it OcramTower.

Here is the GitHub directory: https://github.com/AzemOcram/OcramTower

Here is the GitHub page (with a link to a video and a semi-playable version): http://azemocram.github.io/OcramTower/

Here is the majority of my graphics pack: http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=284130

--Ocram

EDIT: Here is an old screenshot from SimTower (I played SimTower up until 2012)

Here is my new burger joint:

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Very ambitious.  I am very much afraid that this is not my bag.

 

One thing I think most people will agree on is that the pacing of the voice-over in the video is too fast.  It needs to be slowed down from molto allegro to andante at the very least, perhaps even slower.  Don't assume people will know what you are talking about, and will need time to view the graphics.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

Thank you. I think I probably should have provided this link:

http://azemocram.github.io/OcramTower/OcramTower-prealpha3.html

I apologize for the confusion. I am recovering from a bad cold right now so I don't sound good right now so I cannot make a new video any time soon.

--Ocram

[mrsmartman 200]

The revival of one of the greatest building games. Perhaps stuff can be added like a subway station in the basement, helicopter fields on the rooftop and non-rectangular contents. I look forward to the development.