Raiders of the Lost Ark - Tanis

quo_sp · Thu 07/04/2011 11:44:52

Well, the translate of the sort demo to English hope will be ready for next week, while Iâ€™m working in the extended demo.

By the way, after the room map chapter, Indy will have to put his wested leather jacket again, so thinking in the future I have planed to remade the original FOA sprite to make it a little more raiders, using originals capture of the films and parts of the FOA sprite (the face by example).

This is a sample comparing FOA sprite (left) with mine (right).

The pose of my sprite is based in this capture of the temple of doom.

By the way a few characters that in part will appear in the extended demo. From left to right, Belloq, Dietrich, Gobler and various soldiers of the dig.

I have advance more backgrounds too. In order to make it the sand lees grainier I have working in to improve the texture, this is an example of the left side of a new background.

cianty · Thu 07/04/2011 16:11:39

As usual this is some stunningly beautiful stuff. The soldiers look great!

I also like your new Indy sprite. However, I think the head should be moved at least one pixel back - right now it looks like he's.. dunno... it reminds me of a hen..

quo_sp · Thu 07/04/2011 16:50:48

Thank you cianty.
I think that in this other frame the "hen effect"

is corrected.

Mati256 · Thu 07/04/2011 16:51:09

Those soldiers look better than the original ones. :o

cianty · Thu 07/04/2011 18:02:56

Yep, much better indeed.

theo · Thu 07/04/2011 19:54:55

Characters look awesome, man! Specially like Dietrich. Not sure why though.

Good job:)

nads · Fri 08/04/2011 02:25:02

Looking awesome at the moment. Loved Raiders. Can't wait to try out the demo next week. Keep it up!

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Fri 08/04/2011 02:50:17

With your skill I'd rather see you draw these in your own style but at least you're not stripping the sprites and using them directly, so that's good. Personally, I think you could do better than the FoA sprites based on your work so far but if this is all about nostalgia then I understand the desire to have it 'look' a certain way.

Torsten · Fri 08/04/2011 08:11:38

Hello.

Sorry for my bad Englisch. I would like to ask something. Is this game somewho connected to this project?

http://www.adventure-treff.de/artikel/features/lucasfan_vorschau.php

BaptisteTheFool · Fri 08/04/2011 09:28:05

Quote from: Torsten on Fri 08/04/2011 08:11:38
Hello.

Sorry for my bad Englisch. I would like to ask something. Is this game somewho connected to this project?

http://www.adventure-treff.de/artikel/features/lucasfan_vorschau.php

No, that's the game that was supposedly cease and desisted. Thanks! I've never seen those images!

Does anyone know if Torsten's link is recent? I couldn't find a date and I don't speak German.

Quo: Brilliant as always! Next week can't come soon enough!

quo_sp · Fri 08/04/2011 09:55:53

Thank you nads and Theo, Dietrich character is based on Kerner of FOA.

ProgZmax is a question of time too, I can develop the game more fast if I use other base sprites, but after I can replace it if necesary

Torsten, it is not conected, I never seen this captures either, thank you very much

it looks awesome.

The Last To Know · Fri 08/04/2011 12:39:14

Quote from: BaptisteTheFool on Fri 08/04/2011 09:28:05
Does anyone know if Torsten's link is recent? I couldn't find a date and I don't speak German.

Adventure-Treff posted this on April 1st 2011:
http://www.adventure-treff.de/kommentar.php?newsid=5266

Matti · Fri 08/04/2011 13:04:35

To clarify: Yeah, it is a recent post.

LucasFan announced the game 6 years ago (on the AGS forums too), then disappeared for years ~~and seems to be back now, with ten different projects he has been and still is working on.~~ Damn april fools indeed!

BaptisteTheFool · Fri 08/04/2011 15:15:40

Quote from: S-Made on Fri 08/04/2011 12:39:14
Quote from: BaptisteTheFool on Fri 08/04/2011 09:28:05
Does anyone know if Torsten's link is recent? I couldn't find a date and I don't speak German.

Adventure-Treff posted this on April 1st 2011:
http://www.adventure-treff.de/kommentar.php?newsid=5266

Glorious! Two incredible Raiders games in the works!

--pardon me, though, if I'm more excited for Quo's.

Edit:

Ah, wait.

Posted it on April 1st, though. Gah, now its veracity is suspect! Damn that day!

quo_sp · Fri 08/04/2011 16:02:47

I have revised the sprite, left old, right current revised, the old sprite seemed a bit thin.

BaptisteTheFool · Fri 08/04/2011 16:24:20

Quote from: quo_sp on Fri 08/04/2011 16:02:47
I have revised the sprite, left old, right current revised, the old sprite seemed a bit thin.

My one comment is on the nature of the brim. It seems to curl rather violently-- more like a cowboy hat than a fedora.

...but with so few pixels, that's really just nitpicking.

cianty · Fri 08/04/2011 16:43:28

Quote from: BaptisteTheFool on Fri 08/04/2011 15:15:40
Posted it on April 1st, though. Gah, now its veracity is suspect! Damn that day!

The comments (also by the author) suggest that it is not a joke. The poster (not LucasFan himself) even mentioned that he is personally involved in the music for that specific Raiders game.

@quo: The new sprite look better indeed. I think I agree with Baptiste on the hat, but it still looks good (and not like a lame copy-paste job). By the way, I like your screenshots for your RotLA game much better than those others. Keep it up!

quo_sp · Fri 08/04/2011 17:16:36

Thank you Baptiste and cianty.

I have revised the hat.

BaptisteTheFool · Fri 08/04/2011 17:24:54

I actually like that less...

Gimme a few minutes to try and muck around with it in Photoshop...

Daaaaaamn, this is hard... still mucking...

My goal was to try to lower the brim of the hat, create a clean sweep from front to back and try and distinguish the ribbon from the brim.

Ultimately I only ended up moving two pixels (compare to yours), but I think it helps some. It is fantastically hard to do with so few pixels, and so once again quo, my fedora goes off to you.

quo_sp · Fri 08/04/2011 22:49:16

It is not easy,

This is a new version, I think is a bit better, it seems more fedora I think.