Bapu: A Warm look at the Life of Mahatma Gandhi

[dbuske]

Sorry I could only get my laptop to save one screenshot.
"Bapu" is an interactive documentary about the life of Mohandus Gandhi.
It's focus is more on the soul of the man rather than a showing of what he did.  Not easy to do!
I am thinking about offering it to the OWN network. I figure Oprah might like it.  It would be cool for her website.
Of course I couldn't accept money for it because it is in honor of Gandhi and not making money.

It will use a green dot to change rooms and a red dot to move to a previous room.  I added a big dot for each room to view a Gandhi quote.
The music for each room is Indian music from the 1920, 1930, and 1940's.
It really is working out well.
I will be starting the dialog for each room this week.  The basic structure is in place now. All the pictures are in place as objects.
I think it is my best work so far.  I still need to get rid of that annoying blue halo around Gandhi's character. Although Gandhi probably has a halo in heaven.  If he doesn't go to heaven who would?

[Darth Mandarb]

Not being able to post two screenshots doesn't mean it's okay to disregard the rules.  When you have another screenshot send it to me in PM and I'll unlock this.

Screenshots updated, thank you. 

However, even though the file extensions say "jpg" those appear to be BMPs.  You might consider converting them to actual jpgs.  They'll load a lot faster for people that way.

[Khris]

On a technical note, why don't you place the button for advancing a room to the right of the button for the previous room? It's counter-intuitive otherwise.
Re: screenshots, the built-in line will overwrite the saved screenshot every time, all you have to do is open it and save it as PNG* before pressing F12 a second time.

*arguably the best format for static web graphics, no matter what kind

On the game:
You call it a "warm look" at Gandhi's life, does that mean the game won't mention the younger Gandhi was a racist who considered Blacks as animals and Indians as infinitely superior, who liked to sleep naked with several naked young girls and who liked to give them enemas to cleanse them?

[kaputtnik]

On the game:
You call it a "warm look" at Gandhi's life, does that mean the game won't mention the younger Gandhi was a racist who considered Blacks as animals and Indians as infinitely superior, who liked to sleep naked with several naked young girls and who liked to give them enemas to cleanse them?

Way to go, Khris, now you ruined it. Dbuske, I suggest a warm look at the life of Batman instead.

[dbuske]

Funny how it is the ones who preach love and forgiveness are the ones who are murdered and despised.

I went by color of the buttons, green is go forward, red is stop or go back.

[Khris]

I went by color of the buttons, green is go forward, red is stop or go back.

I get that, I was asking why green/forward is to the left of red/back, when it's the other way around on every browser, image viewer or DVD player in existence.

Sorry for asking about whether your game is about the complete picture.
And it's not my fault that racist bigots often preach about love and forgiveness.

[dbuske]

Thanks for your replies.
I have put this game on hold for awhile to start another game.
The game subject will surprise you.

[Darth Mandarb]

Let me know when/if you get back to this game and we can unlock the topic.

[dbuske]

The game is in production again.  I had to do some updates for another game.
I am learning all the time, so this game is getting better and better.
I finally worked out how to get the character (Gandhi) look better using layer transparency and png photos.
Once AGS will keep the character size at 320x and not keep flipping back to 640x, it will save me alot of character tweaking.

[Gabriel_Down]

Oh Khris, GOD FORBID that an Indian in 1890 was racist against blacks.

That's why -thankfully- later on there was a superior nation that followed a racist bigot who did NOT preach love and forgiveness. Its all about being yourself on tv.

[ThreeOhFour]

I believe his point was more "Why not make an objective, accurate, comprehensive look at the Life of Mahatma Gandhi" rather than a "Warm look at the Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Which seems to me to be a fair point to make. The title does suggest that the game is very biased - although I don't suggest that being biased is a bad thing, it just ruins something's credibility as an "Interactive documentary".

Good to hear you figured out the halo issue, it really is rather unsightly with that in

[Gabriel_Down]

It also serves no purpose when talking about a global symbol of peace on a video game.

When you study einstein in high school you don't study the mistakes he did when he was 9. Even if this was a 3 hour documentary I find little purpose in wasting a minute for this stuff. If he was making a history book for university level students then yes I would totally agree with you, and it would be very informative and usefull to know why he changed his mind later on.

However this is an ags game and it's called "a warm look".

Edit: sorry for being off topic. *stops*

[Khris]

What Ben said.

Gandhi was actively stirring up racist sentiments against blacks while he was living in South Africa of all places. To my mind it puts him in a very different light that he was an asshole pedophile during the first half of his public life.
Its just something I think should be mentioned in a publication about the life of Gandhi as opposed to his later years of peaceful resistance or whatever.

Just like Mother Teresa, the evil bitch, and the Dalai Lama, Gandhi is regarded as a saintly figure by pretty much everybody and I think that would change if everybody knew about the negligible slip-ups of his earlier years.

[Ultra Magnus]

I kind of agree with Khris that the more unseemly parts of people's lives shouldn't just be ignored so easily, but I reckon it's fair enough to only present one side of an issue if you clearly state that that's what you are doing, and from the phrase "a warm look" it should be pretty clear what it will and won't cover. I wouldn't expect a positively biased documentary to cover the bad stuff, just like I don't expect a negatively biased piece to focus on the good stuff.

However, claiming to focus on "the soul of the man" does rather imply that it'll be pretty all-encompasing, and I think this is Khris' point: there is a fine line between "focusing on the positive" and "pretending the negative doesn't exist". Just be careful you don't end up with the latter.

[Gabriel_Down]

A person is judged historically by it's surrounding society. Saying "Ghandi was racist" is telling half the truth.



And your last sentence is exactly why I wrote here. Well done dude, I hope you get your chance to prove everyone that legends are human and hey, we're all crap. I on the other hand don't give a tiny rats ass if ghandi was a rapist. Now he is insipring people to do good things and that's what matters more than your truth.

[Ultra Magnus]

Saying "Ghandi was racist" is telling half the truth.

Yep. And saying the he "preached love and peace" is telling the other half. Together they make a whole.
That was kind of exactly my point.

I on the other hand don't give a tiny rats ass if ghandi was a rapist. Now he is insipring people to do good things and that's what matters more than your truth.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I do agree to some extent, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that I'm definitely right and everyone should be kept ignorant of anything that might lead them to disagree with me. Educate people and let them draw their own conclusions.

[Khris]

Exactly; that's precisely what my initial reply was about. When I first heard about what the young Gandhi was like, I thought to myself "if only I had known this earlier" and then "why doesn't everybody know this."

Now he is insipring people to do good things and that's what matters more than your truth.

That's bullshit. Show me a person who does good things only because there was an Indian guy who ate much less than is healthy and I'll show you a seriously delusional person; then I'll show you thousands of people who do good things because they simply have compassion for people who are suffering.

Take any person who gives money to the homeless or donates to charity, etc. As soon as they say they do it because of Jesus or Gandhi or whomever, they have immediately lost all credibility, because they only do it to please somebody, imaginary or real, not because they simply want to.

[Ultra Magnus]

See, I do believe much of what he preached later in his life to be admirable, and his advocacy of passive resistance, for example, directly inspired the likes of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who themselves have similarly inspired countless others. But that doesn't mean he should be revered as some kind of infallible demigod. As I said before, give people both sides of the story and let them decide for themselves whether he is worthy of their respect, don't just tell them that he is. After all, everyone's perfect, if you ignore the parts of them that aren't.

[Atelier]

As far as I understand Bapu is a targeted game looking at the good things he's done. In which case (seriously), I'm looking forward to 'Bapu 2: A Dark Look at the Life of Mahatma Gandhi'. That would keep the yin and yang in check.

[Darth Mandarb]

Sheesh ... I go away for a few days and look what happens!

Let's get back on target here and keep the off-topic stuff to PMs (if you're so inclined to maintain the discussion).