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Any feedback on my grand strategy game capsule? (infosec.pub)

submitted 14 hours ago by lmagitem@lemmy.zip to c/strategy_games@piefed.world

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Hello everyone!

I'm working on a sci-fi grand strategy game named Uncharted Sectors and I'm trying to get feedback on the capsule art.

A good capsule art should convey the game's genre in addition to, of course, make people want to click on it. My problem is that "grand strategy" doesn't have clear visual markers (like a hammer for crafting games for example) apart from having 1-5 bossy-looking people and a somewhat elegant title. So I have some trouble finding the sweet spot.

Could I ask you which one you feel conveys "grand strategy" the most? On which you'd be more likely to click on seeing it on Steam or another platform? Which one do you prefer? If you have improvement ideas, or other feedback?

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[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I personally like image two the most. I don't recall the name of the design term, but psychologically, humans tend to prefer uneven counts of things visually. Here I have shown how the order I see things in, and also my count.

A bit of fine tuning might be all you need to do with the ships.

I really like the royalty looking characters you have presented. Quite a bit of regalness to each of them.

The only suggestion I have is to add some facial hair to the fella. I came up with two suggested options.

I personally like the overall design of the background cube behind the title. It's working within the color palette represented in the capsule art. If you take a look at several other Grand Strategy game capsule art pieces, I see all of the well known games holding true to this design rule.

[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

A million thanks for the very detailed answer! Facial hair isn't a bad idea indeed, especially since other people see Hitler's mustache on him haha