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Please criticize this:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/23304312/

So I've been working preproduction phase of this game for a while, just got this walkcycle worked out.  I've done several backgrounds already, but lately I've been thinking I should redo them all and have them just be a 2-d sideview.   This isn't just out a desire to avoid the back and forward walking animations, I also think that a sidescroller would reflect the heiroglyphic style of the comic the game is based on.  But I'm not sure how exactly to make this sidescroller backgrounds, with building and tables and such.  Does anybody have any advice on doing sidescroller adventure games?  Or should I just draw the walkcycles and use the standard three dimensional rooms?

I just worked out the bottom half of my main character's walkcycle, and I wanted to get everybody's thoughts on it.  I'll have a full animation in a few days.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/23119700/

http://www.deviantart.com/view/20795705/

My host crashed and now I can't log into my ftp, so I had to upload this one onto my dA site.  I think it turned out pretty well, what do you say?

Bearing in mind everyone's kind advice, I redid my main character sprite.Ã,  I think the change of skin tone makes a big difference.  What do you guys think?
My only concern is that it might be too big for the game.  Do I have to scale him down to match my backgrounds or is there some function of AGS that does that for me?  I still don't really understand how all this stuff works yet. 

So one of my fellow cartoonists at Gutterflycomix just started up Mozhaets, which is this really heavily stylized scifi comic done in something like purple watercolor.Ã,  It's shaping up to be really cool, and I thought everybody on the boards might get a kick out of it, so I'm giving it a quick plug.Ã,  I don't know if anybody on the boards really reads webcomics, but it seems like some of you might.

My main character, Amensedreses.Ã,  I'm going to try animating him walking next.Ã,  What do your guys think of him so far?Ã,  feel free to paint over if you want to show me up:)

This is a mock up of the first room for a game I'm planning called Near the Delta, set in ancient Egypt.Ã,  This is the main character's bedroom, the game begins with him in bed.  The columns are supposed to be in the foreground.Ã,  It's going to be sort of a side scroller, with two dimensional backgrounds, there's going to be a garden you can walk to on the right and the interior of a house on the left.Ã,  I'm very new to AGS, so if yall would tell me what you think of it, I'd appreciate it.

So I'm trying to get together a team for a game I'm designing based on my webcomic.Ã,  I plan on doing the backgrounds and animations myself, and I have two friends in town who will be covering the writing and music.Ã,  Which leaves me conspiciously short of a programmer.Ã,  But I scanned the "offering services" thread and didn't see one recent post by a programmer, so I'm wondering if I'm ever going to find one.Ã,  Are there just programmer floating around out there who aren't attached to any teams and want to join a project, or would I just be wasting my time?Ã,  If it isn't, I have sketches and a pretty detailed outline that I could post, but would I be wasting my time?Ã,  And if so, where am I going to find a programmer?