Sprite jam! from Feb.20-Feb26 Useless heroes!

biothlebop · Sun 26/02/2006 14:20:39

I was ripping of the Flying Dutchman and the Million monkeys on a Million typewriters thing with that. As I thought it, even if he blew his head with a stick of dynamite, there could be a possibility that after a thousand years his remains would have randomly restructured themselves and become a thinking lifeform, (or several) that once was human.
Also, if you were the last person on earth, and you built a temple that stretched halfway into the moon, would it matter if no one was there to see it (what would you do if you were alone in the universe, had a eternity to yourself, but could not create life ?).

I could see it even work as a adventure game (go Haddas), you could be equipped with that sword of his, and every time you use it on your self or plainly die (short of falling in lava), the game cuts onward in time and yor main character and the enivroment has changed.

You could either have a limited amount of times doing so, before not waking up anymore, example: Everytime he dies and regenerates, damage is done as well. As time progresses, his thoughts become less clear, in the end he doesn't even know why, or who he wants to avenge, it is just a animal instinct to kill the first living being he comes across. You (the person behind the computer screen) might even know he is the last person alive or suspect it, but he doesn't, and that keeps him moving onward.
If you play well or poorly, the outcome is the same: His thoughts fade away in the end as the last part of humanity in him disappears, but you can influence in if he ever learns the truth and gains a peace of mind.

If there are other people still roaming the earth, if he ever meets one, and blames them for the murder of his closest, If he learns the truth while he still understands what it means, and if that makes him give up the ghost or shape the world so it could be inhabitable in a few hundred thousand years, it's up to you. The idea can and should be evolved if someone makes a game of it.

Helm: I read it as garbage man, thinking he was a living thing made of compressed cubes of garbage. That would have been great, still good though. You, Mr. Colossal and Progzmax got the palette/sprite skills.

Edit: This is a sprite jam after all, so here is something for the topic.

I recently used my industrial espionage skills to find out the ending of Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth. So here is the plot of the epilogue scene.
Indiana jones has just returned from his quest for the fountain of youth which was not exactly a fountain, but a heart formed of highly radioactive plutonium. It keeps him alive indefinately however.
He arrives at the Barnett college to resume his teaching, but faces difiiculties as the plutonium has caused his skin to melt off, and thus has trouble speaking. The students face difficulties concentrating as well, since it is hard to write down notes when you are coughing up blood all the time. Needless to say, Indy's career comes to an halt, and his office as well as classroom are quarantined off, since he leaves traces of radioactivity behind him. Brody sends him out on a quest of items, and indy does the job well, unfortunately they cannot be presented in public in the next couple thousand years.

It's one pixel too tall, and was not done in that res from scratch.

Neil Dnuma · Sun 26/02/2006 22:43:47

It's Bunbabe!

Finkenstein · Mon 27/02/2006 02:22:05

Ok, man, this was really really REALLY hard to decide, and therefore I have three winners, the first runner up will of course do the next sprite jam, the other 2 are just personal favorites o' mine.
::drum roll::

1. Mr.Frisby's Coat check man made me laugh with my whole belly, well played sir, well played, and a class A sprite at that.
2. Ivy's Impossigirl stole my heart from the begining!!
3. biothebop's sprite was definetly an awesome concept and entry

Eric's Puma Man sprite was indeed radical, though he totally broke the rules of being origional, and sleeping with the judge does not a winner make.

and everybody made totally awesome sprites wait a' make life hard for me guys!

MrColossal · Mon 27/02/2006 04:43:02

I didn't know Grundislav was the judge of this!

Gilbert · Mon 27/02/2006 05:19:18

* Gilbot V7000a has his lower jaw fallen off. :o

The Ivy · Mon 27/02/2006 06:16:47

Hey, thanks Jess!

I admit I checked out your web site, and I think my sprite was kind of influenced by the colours and themes of some of your work.Ã,Â You're definitely the kind of artist I aspire to be.

(For the rest of you, this doesn't count as sucking up since she already named meÃ,Â

).

Oh, and congrats to Mr. Frisby, CCM was very unexpected and funny. :-,

Kinoko · Mon 27/02/2006 07:44:03

Yay!

What an awesome sprite jam this was. I didn't join but I am really getting into these things now so I'll start doing more sprites.

SpacePirateCaine · Mon 27/02/2006 09:15:29

This has to have been one of the best sprite jams I've participated in to date. Lots of really tight competition, and just a great theme with a lot of imagination from all ends. I know I had a blast - I'd also love to see a game that involves these not-so-superheroes.

Congratulations to Mr. Frisby - I was giggling at that one, too. You're a weird guy, and I like it. Definitely looking forward to entering your competition.

Corey · Mon 27/02/2006 09:50:46

yeah this sprite jam was really fun to watch

Mordalles · Mon 27/02/2006 09:53:01

congrats to all. buloght, excellent sprite again. technically the best!

iamus · Mon 27/02/2006 13:23:58

Well done guys!

There's been some really great looking, very funny stuff here.

Grapefruitologist · Wed 01/03/2006 02:53:12

Agreed.

biothlebop · Wed 01/03/2006 17:56:10

Until a few days ago, I didn't even know of the existence of a movie called Puma Man. Thanks to Finkelstein, I realised that everybod else here probably has a copy of it framed on their wall. This place is like the puma man fan club. Thus I have decided to see it before I die.

Mordalles · Wed 01/03/2006 19:32:35

there is a movie called pumaman?

Afflict · Wed 01/03/2006 19:40:31

Yeah its really old! 1980 Pumamans avatar is one a pic from the movie

http://www.stomptokyo.com/otf/puma/puma.htm

Darth Mandarb · Wed 01/03/2006 20:08:41

Perhaps we should change the name of this board from "Competitions and Activities" to "Tons of Chat oh and some competitions and activities in there somewhere completely lost in off-topic ramblings"

Tuomas · Wed 01/03/2006 20:15:50

I agree with Darth, oh, and btw, did you see that movie last night? Boy that green thing scared the shit out of me. Which is only good since I've bee in need of a lymphotheraphy for a while now.

Nacho · Wed 01/03/2006 20:21:23

And to show you agree with him, you go on with the chat...

This is just ridiculous, you have to scroll all the page down to see sprites. Please, leave the competitions threads for the art. Maybe you are new and you don't remember the old sprite jams, but scrolling down and see aprite after sprite was enjoyable. Try it next week and agree with me.

Mordalles · Wed 01/03/2006 20:24:03

farlander, i think tuomas was joking.

Nacho · Wed 01/03/2006 20:28:55

Quote from: Mordalles on Wed 01/03/2006 20:24:03
farlander, i think tuomas was joking.

Pheeew... How do I go on with this without being hypocrite? Let's imagine I am doing this for the pleasure of seeing clean future sprite jams...

$:-\$

Ok... here it goes:

PLEASE EVERYBODY KEEP THE NEXT SPRITE JAM THREAD CLEAN!!!