Thanks sPlKe, you're precisely right with the posterisation effect! good catch!

What puzzles me though is this feedback I got at indiegamerforums about "The textures are very jagged". Does this mean that they are low resolution, as sPlKe also said? Is this noticeable on the top-down (ingame) view also or just when you're too close (in briefing screen)? After all, a resolution 512x512 for the building textures is not enough?

Jagged usually refers to your screen resolution being low and not anti-aliased... that's when you get 'jaggies', but I wouldn't know what they would mean with 'textures are jagged'. There aren't literally pixels visible in your textures right?

A wait, I just looked at the textures again and I think they are referring to how every texture looks pretty sharp and rough with points in them. On your road texture for example you can see quite sharp points, that does indeed look 'jagged',

Cheers

I always like to 'sharpen' my images a bit. Does that mean that I shouldn't do so in GS textures? What's the best photoshop technique to employ so that they don't look so 'jagged'?

Thanks.

a simple blur. however, this is not really visible in the top down view. only up close^^

did you know that there is a game named crime cities already , your game name
crime city is just a singular version of that , i wonder how you got away with
that , for example its like calling a game super mario brother , instead of super
mario brothers

nah, you cannot get a copyright on something liek crime cities. you can, but thats wotn interest anybody. its like copyrighting duck hunt or car driving...
heck, not even nintendo got a copyright on duck hunt...

Correct. Nobody cares about copyrighting a name anymore, 'cause it costs one heck of a lot of money - not to mention that it's an annual fee...

Actually Nintendo had a copyright on Duck Hunt in the past... it was lastly renewed in 1992. It's true that they've recently been denied a renewal because it's a 'generic descriptive' instead of a (unique) name.

( http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77131612 )

Don't worry though, they probably will be able to get a copyright on Ultimate Duck Hunting (Wii) and I don't think people would think about any other company but Nintendo when thinking about Duck Hunt anyway.

Cheers

well either way , on a good note your game looks very cool,i have nt played it
but looks like fun , congrats on it