I found this collab a few days ago and was pretty excited to join but after I finished my submission I realized that it was an old collab and that I just missed out : (
Well I guess there's next year.
Reviews for "Creature Collab 2023"
very cool creatureas
Pretty cool art collab! It may just be a slideshow of art, but I like the effort in theming the experience by putting all the art in their own test tubes, as well as providing some fun info to read about each piece. Also appreciated being able to go to an artist's profile by clicking on their name: makes it much easier to follow or check out the rest of their art if you see a creature that catches your eye!
If I were to have complaints:
I did feel like the aforementioned test tube theming was a bit low-effort: it all just looks incredibly static and boring, and the creatures don't even look like they're in test tubes, but rather standing in front of them. If you made the creatures color-tinted to match the liquid in their test tube, made them animate to move up and down a bit to simulate bobbing, and put some bubbles to float in front and behind them, then it would look like they were properly immersed and make it look a lot cooler, in my opinion. If you look at Xavier from @Zfert, that's getting somewhat close to what I'm suggesting where it looks like it is properly floating in the tube!
I also found the buttons to be a bit clunky, especially with the way you can hit buttons that are under the info pop-up which doesn't make any sense: you should disable any buttons that the info pop-up is blocking, or reduce the size of the info pop-up so it doesn't block those buttons, whichever works for you.
Nebulate responds:
Yeah… the creatures being static in the test tubes was also pointed out in the discord server. But the imiges was too big to be floating up and down or smth (i wassnt the programmer). Still glad that you found this cool. At least it was more unique than the previous creature collab.
We did good boys, we did good
Nebulate responds:
We truly did.
Comment edited because they added in my previously missing character description! (In my previous comment I added the whole description here, and since it's been added in there's no need for it all to be here too!)
Anyways, even though I joined pretty last minute, this was a SUPER fun collab to be a part of! I loved going through and seeing everyone's entries! It really came out awesome!
Kunaigirl responds:
Oh wow you're right! That must've been added in recently! From my understanding this project was organized through a discord server, and since I was a last minute addition, my description was left blank under a "file not found" pop-up! They must've added in my info for Sammy after I left this comment! I didn't notice they did that yet! Thanks for the heads up! I'll edit my original comment! :]
MSGhero responds:
Not sure what you're talking about, I see the description in the game :P