Nature works in mysterious ways, fumbling about in the dark. Sometimes it digs a hole for itself.
Or as Kinoko said: Anything that has evolved but is doomed to a short life due to bad "planning".
You don't have to restrict yourself to existing/extinct organisms.
Size: max 200 x 200 and 16 colors. Please include description/text/thoughts. Use your imagination. Everything organic, even plants, count. Godspeed.
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8969/rock7ja.png)
2x
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8969/rock7ja.png)
Heh, its a pebble well actually its wee pebble from a long line of decending rocks. So yeah
hes got a complex but makes for a great adventure game hero... LoL
my entry
Unfortunatley, due to high visibility the swamp dwelling "boolsai" was made extinct exactly twenty one second after its emergence into the womb.
(http://www.trepidation-band.co.uk/spritesjams.png)
Zooty I think mythic creatures was the last sprite jam ;)
// Edit
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1975/spritejam8xm.png)
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1975/spritejam8xm.png)
Lol sure you can figure out what that is, its the real sprite jam...
Oh and BTW ZOOTY : HUH?
Get proof it wasn't real, then we'll talk.
i didn't really understand the topic, but i saw the word "plant" somewhere in there, so i did a plant:
This plant is a meat-eater. For him to catch meat, he has to soar through the sky, like a hawk, to spy on his innocent prey far below, and then swoop down to catch his surprised prey. There is one problem which evolution didn't take into consideration. Being a plant, it is rooted firmly into the ground, and therefore can't move. Making his wings useless, and him unable to catch food. Unless an unsuspecting adventure character gets too close to him, of course.
(http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7764/plant5pj.gif)
(http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7764/plant5pj.gif)
edit: hmm, he probably needs a few more darker shades.
I must admit, I'm a little unclear on the topic...
Do you mean something that kind of seems organic and plant-like? Or just anything that has evolved but is doomed to a short life due to bad "planning" (rather like Zooty's target guy).
Quote from: Kinoko on Tue 14/03/2006 01:33:13
anything that has evolved but is doomed to a short life due to bad "planning"
I guess that's it. At least that's what I got from the title... the explanation on the topic is a bit vague.
Quote from: Kinoko on Tue 14/03/2006 01:33:13
I must admit, I'm a little unclear on the topic...
Thats why i drew a rock...
Maybe figuring out the topic is all part of the challenge!
Possible leads:
Nature
Hole
Imagination
Plants
Organism
Reality
The secret to the topic may lie in some combination of those nouns. If only we could connect them!
I was going to spend more time on this but I don't have the time, and so, in c-64 style, 100x200 and 10 colors I present
(http://members.cox.net/progzmax/humans.gif)
I had a bit of fun
(http://members.cox.net/progzmax/humans2.gif)
Er, ProgZ, just a minor heads-up: A human is a Homo sapiens, with an S. Not Homo sapien. That's a very common mistake; a lot of people assume the "S" is just a plural ending, but it's not--it's part of the name. There's no such thing as a "Homo sapien".
Quoteanything that has evolved but is doomed to a short life due to bad "planning"
Yes. Think giraffes without treetops to eat leaves from etc. It can be completely imaginary/extraterrestrial.
Quote from: Alun on Tue 14/03/2006 09:00:59
Er, ProgZ, just a minor heads-up: A human is a Homo sapiens, with an S.Ã, Not Homo sapien.Ã, That's a very common mistake; a lot of people assume the "S" is just a plural ending, but it's not--it's part of the name.Ã, There's no such thing as a "Homo sapien".
Plenus stercoris es
Quote from: Wikipedia
Homo sapiens is Latin for thinking man. As with all Linnaean species names, this is singular in Latin (plural would be homines sapientes) but it is generally treated as plural in English, with the corresponding singular back-formation Homo sapien.
Wikipedia is not an infallible resource. It's generally pretty reliable, but sometimes it contains misinformation. I'd consider that an example. The fact that many people misconstrue "Homo sapiens" to be a plural doesn't make it correct.
(Also, note that the actual Wikipedia article on humans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapien) consistently uses "Homo sapiens", with an S, throughout. The quote you gave is from an article on back formations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation), and IMO it's misleading at best in suggesting that "Homo sapien" is a correct construction. If you're going to turn to Wikipedia to support a point, it's better to at least turn to an article that's about the subject under discussion, not one that just mentions it in passing.)
[EDIT: Never mind about Wikipedia's inaccuracy. In fact, there's nothing wrong with the article you quote; the problem is that you're quoting it out of context. If you read the entire article, it makes it clear that back formations are not always considered standard English, and that the examples of back formations it gives aren't necessarily "correct". As a matter of fact, earlier drafts of some articles in Wikipedia apparently explicitly addressed the incorrectness of "Homo sapien", but it never made it into the final articles: see, for example, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human/Archive1) (scroll a little over halfway down, to the part beginning with "My Latin is weak".)
For pages explicitly addressing this matter, see, for example, here (http://unauthorised.org/anthropology/sci.anthropology.paleo/may-1994/0181.html) and here (http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mplurals.html).
And to avoid cluttering up the Sprite Jam thread more than we already have, if you want to discuss this further we should probably take it to PMs...]
[EDIT2: Actually, I should have done this through PMs in the first place. My apologies for cluttering the thread. Moderators, feel free to delete my messages here; sorry.]
Quote from: Alun on Tue 14/03/2006 10:51:28
The fact that many people misconstrue "Homo sapiens" to be a plural doesn't make it correct.
Langauge is defined by its use. Therefore, if lots of people use it like that then it
is correct.
Out of interest, would you describe
Homo Sapiens as a primate? Because primate is a back-formation from the latin primates. English is not latin.
Just so we don't get to OT:
(http://www.shoptender.com/giraffephant.JPG)
Homo Sapiens being a pluralÃ, ;D LOL that's a good one. I'd never think of that, becase in Czech no plural form ends in -s. But for a english speaker this might be confusing.
It is true though that some plural forms end in -is or -as in Latin. (But never in -ns).
BTW The full name for a modern human is 'homo sapiens sapiens' which doesn't allow for mistake.Ã, ;)
Homo is a name, and sapiens is an adjective. The plural should have been (not sure if you must declinate adjectives in latin), but at least "Homi" in spite of Homo (and then Sapiens, or its plural).
Sapiens means "intelligence", in Spanish we have "Sapiencia" which sounds very simillar, even with the "s" sound (-cia = [seea]).
So, "Homo sapiens" is singular. The plural should have been something like "Homi Sapiensii" or something like that.
And now, go on with sprites.
"Homines sapientes", to be more precise. But that's OT, and I am ashamed for that. Please forgive me. I just could not look at "homo sapiensii" without correcting. Sorry, Farlander ;)
cheers
nihilyst
Thanks for the correction. As said, I never claimed that mine was the correct version, just that it was "better" than saying than "Homo Sapien" is the singular of "Homo Sapiens" :D.
Never seen the word "homo" used so often in a single thread before.
No stopping progress.
I think you're all wrong and right.
Most people probably use "Homo Sapiens" as a plural, which means the dictionary is simply outdated.
The dictionary doesn't make the language, the language makes the dictionary.
Just because it was originally "thou" doesn't mean "you" is inaccurate.
Anyway, I'm sure that was a good 10 minutes of our time wasted.
Let's stay on topic now.
Will be posting a sprite pretty soon here probably...
Sus Aveoformis Sus aveoformis (per Ivy's advice ;D)
(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/5623/letprase2ng.gif)
Being intelligent and agile flyers, they flee instantly at the sight of a fast-food restaurant...
LoL I designed a similer pic ages ago Its called the PIGASUS!
(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/7618/aliena38pu.png) (http://imageshack.us)
10 Colors and 64x103
His only flaw against the human race was to come in peace! :'(
(http://xs72.xs.to/pics/06112/duck2.png)
(http://xs72.xs.to/pics/06112/duck3.png)
A duck. But no ordinary duck. This duck has lethal venom if it breaks your skin. If you disturb this duck, he will first bite you and inject you with venom, and/or swallow you whole.
Only problem is, he has no teeth, and he's way too small to swallow anything whole.
ah crap, someone already did the flying pig ;D. Looks better than mine, seaduck. Don't worry I'll do another . I guess I got owned.
NOT AN ENTRY (will make a new one) (3x)
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6708/buloghtpig4kk.gif)
Quote from: Farlander on Tue 14/03/2006 15:16:14
Thanks for the correction. As said, I never claimed that mine was the correct version, just that it was "better" than saying than "Homo Sapien" is the singular of "Homo Sapiens" :D.
It's really EL HOMO!
it's raining pigs!
nice one, grape. ;)
Quote from: seaduck on Tue 14/03/2006 16:42:21
Sus Aveoformis
Oh, that's horrifically inaccurate!Ã, If you're going to use the Linnean system for naming this organism, it should be in italics.Ã, Also, only the genus and not the species is capitalized.Ã, Whew, sorry, when I see a threat to science, I just have to act.Ã, Ã, ;) ::)
Ok so heres my real entry thought i'd finish him up...
Thanks for the PM's really appreciated.
(http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/7402/alienfull22li.png)
The thora race died out because they came in peace...
Still only 10 colors...
200x200 Some of its see through.. ;)
2X
(http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/7402/alienfull22li.png)
Homo stupidens raveriens
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/spriteJam_raver.gif)x3, 15 cols
Excessive drug abuse and unability to mate with homo sapiens sapiens will lead to a constant decrease in brain size from generation to generation, until not only motoric but finally all basic deductive functions will cease to work properly.
Extinction is inevitable. I hope.
Heh, that's great, KhrisMUC.
They're all great, really. Well, most of them, heh.
Hello!Ã, A newbie here, with a first spriting attempt ^_^
A boa constrictor that cannot unhinge its jaw:
(http://crabshack.bythegoddess.com/misc/Snake.gif)
16 colours
I realized when I was done that it is very similar to Grapefruitologist's!Ã, Sorry 'bout thatÃ, :)
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/dedender1_GIF.gif%3Cbr%20/%3E)
The lesser running-tufted duck of the subclass beardorama
or Dorcas malorcas eventually became extinct due to only ever eating prunes and there never ever being any restrooms on the way (don't you hate that).
Lesser running-tufted duck migrates south for the winter and is always in need of bathroom facilities. There were reported sightings of these precious creature up until 1940, but D.malorcas has since dissapeared. Scientist believe that if the species could have just held out another couple of decades - the rise in the number of convenievce stores (7/11, Circle K ect.) would have been able to see a surge in their numbers, possibly to epic proportions - but who knows ? or cares?
- Dr. Phrisby PHD
Man, that's bad GIF compression...
I see nothing wrong with it.
Quote from: Zooty on Mon 20/03/2006 17:28:48
I see nothing wrong with it.
Its walkcycle... LOL
Its a sprite competition anyway.
It's l33t ducky but it's no critic lounge so why bother ??
When does this close?
Man this was hard. Many entries were surprisingly even, great ideas/concepts balanced out shoddy spriting and I changed my opinion several times.
If animations are allowed, ProgZmax 2:nd entry is the winner. Artwise, it's fantastic.
Else, the trophy goes to Afflict. Purely regarding nicest sprite Seaduck would have been the winner, but
Afflict's use of the topic (Pacifism as a shortcoming was just genius) won my heart.
A honorable mention goes to dr Frisby, Mordalles and Zooty as well.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a pleasure.
Thank you ;D I will post a new sprite jam soon...