We created characters and platforms earlier. And as I said, we will continue now with creating the backgrounds for games. The background we will draw and I will show you how to create is perfect for platform games, but it can be very good for role playing games, and even puzzle games anything you want really, I will show you how to use the tools. Basically this will be a nice drawing, exercise and practice. But also I will tell you the mistakes I usually see in mobile games to the mobile games related to backgrounds and I will tell you how I build a background and how to create as an Inkscape. So first of all, what is a background and how it adds to your game.
It is setting the mood and it has to be related to the corrector. I will talk about this in the next lesson and If you really want to understand how the background is built up, it's you can go back to the old masters and this is a, the one that are above the mist from Caspar David Friedrich, German painter. And you can see how he built up this painting, because there is clearly a foreground where the figure is standing and you see all the little details. Then there is a middle ground with the this fog, the rocks and the trees and everything you can see that's already very far. And in the very, very far background in the distance, you see this even more four year blue, pale mountains, and this is setting a feeling of distance. If you can create this in your background illustration, that then you set the mood that your platform game is not just in two dimensional but he is running in a two dimension but the space behind it is His infinite.
And if we are talking about classic masters, if we go back to Sonic from the Sega Megadrive, this is the Blue Hills or Green Hill Zone Sorry, it's the same thing you can clearly see this is the foreground, you can see every piece of grass and the trees. And this is where the corruptor is running around and this piece is active. And then there is a middle ground, which is the sea and the waves and everything, this little island, and in the far distance, there are the clouds. And then there are the heels. And you know that you can distinguish the background and the foreground. And you know that okay, everything here is active can hurt me or I can jump on it, I can use it as a platform, as everything here in the background is clearly a background.
So that's the difference between a corrector background and foreground. in video games, and that's what already leading us to one mistake, I see a lot of games that they are not in harmony. So the character in the background done drone in different stars. And I see also in games that that they are not matching clearly, and you don't know what is active and what is not. What is the platform I can jump on and what is just a decoration, because clearly when I'm running around with Sonic, I know that this one is out of my reach. But I know that this one I can jump on.
You know what I mean? Always when you draw background and you draw your objects contemplate on this this matter. So this is the this is what I wanted to say about a relation of background and characters, and how you build up your background. And it might be funny that I go back so far as paintings but really guys, you should look up and Google paintings and land Definitely landscapes if you want to create a green backgrounds like this or take a lot of photos you know photos have the same feeling to it there is foreground middle ground and background is very nice landscape photograph. And so in this one in this world first lesson Also, I want to talk about to be the resolution we are working with. The most common for Android is 1200 80 by seven on the 20.
This is just one of them. We have a lot of resolution, the iPhone six has a much bigger resolution. And I just usually use this because this is comfortable. So it's this big, it's fitting perfectly on my screen, I can draw on it and I can do my sketches and everything. And because this is vector, I can modify it easily. I will talk about it later in our in our lesson, how to modify everything and how To create four different screen resolution that's really important for us now in the age of mobile gaming.
Okay, so in the next lesson we will move on to actually drawing a background. I hope you enjoyed this one.