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Hey guys, it has been a while and especially a long while I posted in the critics' lounge some pixelling. I've decided to start work on an old game I released a demo of a long time ago, and to completely start over and revamp it. My main issue at the moment is that I'm out of practice with my pixelling and I am running in to some troubles.

Here is what I have at the moment:



My main trouble is with the captain's coat. What I want to do is keep shading to a minimum hence the block colours, however it is causing me trouble around the collar and the transition between the light to the darker red. Any advice is most welcome!

I need to make them look a little more spacey. I had one idea of his leg being robotic however with this style it would look like he is wearing odd coloured boots.

I really like the simply coloured and blocky look however it is causing more hassle than I like.

Ok I'm sorry for posting this here, but I have been doing a few google searches and nothing has given me as solution. My problem is that after I press a key on my keyboard there is a 1-2 second delay for my mouse to be active again, basically my mouse lags. Normally you don't notice it, but when I play a game where I need to use the keyboard and the mouse together it is near impossible to play. It is a new laptop with windows 7 so I dunno if it is some kind of new settings or something, but I've played with everything and nothing has worked. So anyone have any suggestions?

Trying something simple, but I'm already finding some trouble at getting what I want although I'm happy with the colours though. What do you guys think? I'm very open to suggestions.

So I have been a little unproductive over the past 6 or 8 months. Anything I have done is just some sketching and playing around with photoshop, however pixelling was what I used to love doing. So a little 8 months rustly, but what you guys think?

These aren't going to be the standing frames. I just tend to draw characters standing vertical first; I find it easier to animate them this way.

How is my colour choice, design and usability? I'll post a walkcycle and a few other frames of the guy in the future, but I'm looking for some kind of advice at the moment.

Just since this afternoon I haven't been able to hear any sound from my speakers.  This has happened to me before and was fixed with a quick reboot or a driver update, but this time it's different. I have updated my drivers about 3 times now (most recent, back to factory driver, then to most recent again). Still nothing. I have been restarting Windows Audio in Services, checking for any problems in My Devices, and still nothing. Also I have noticed that when I plug in earphones all you can hear is static, that seems to in time with the CPU and also gets very hot.

What else can I do? System restore is a no no since I've updated my drivers and hence deleted the previous restore points. Any kind of system checker I've downloaded seems to report everything is working fine. Which is making me think it might be the actual hardware that is broken.

Any advice or experience to part on the subject?

So recently I entered BG Blitz and since I don't make many backgrounds I thought I would see if I can gather advice from the wise and wonderful ags community on my entry.

Here is a list of things I have done:
1) Sketched and scanned in my background.
2) Used photoshop to colour my background.
3) Used "effects" such as transparency and gradients for shading.
4) Resized the background and added detail with GraphicsGale.

Is there any YAYs or NAYs in my system? Is there anything you think is dead fugly and I should change?
What I was thinking when I was making this was the Roadrunner landscapes and backgrounds.

Sketch:

Coloured and shading:

Shrunk and added detail:
x2

Any advice would be really grateful. Hopefully I'll force myself to do a few more of these.

You have a 8 days.
You can rotate, scale and/or flip the image.
I'll pick the winner.
All you have to worry about is filling in the gap.

Outline:

[Rules:]

Attention!

I want to try something new with this competiton, and hopefully it will stir up a bit more interest than the previous animation contests. I felt the previous competitions were about making animated shorts than actually animating a sprite and that's why I think there was such a low interest. I do have permission to start this thread and revamp the competition.. sort of.... but if I hear any objections then I will happily hand the cursed competition over to the willing party.

Rules:

• Animate a sprite of your own or of the one given.
  
• The animation must be based on the rules given.
  
• The competition will last 2 weeks and the host will decide the winner/host of the next competition.
  

Theme:

FIRE!

I want to see some fire animations. Either if it is a burning torch, candle, flamethrower, anything as long its an open flame.

Supplied Sprite:

NB: You don't need to use this. I would actually rather see other sprites than this one, although it the quality of the animation that will be judged.



I want this competition to be about developing your own skills. Hopefully the future competitions set will be about animations you are likely to do when you make an adventure game.

Edited by mod: Fixed dates in the subject. Was amusing for a while.

http://wave.google.com/

What you guys think?

I don't know what else to say. I think this is amazing and could change the whole internet. I'm actually really excited to see what this is going to turn into, 'cause I can think of some awesome ideas, but I'm sure the web geniuses will come up with even better ideas.

I really hate doing backgrounds. They are very time consuming and I find difficult to get everything right. But I really need to work on them so I decided to enter the Bg Blitz and force myself to make a background. So here it is:

So what can I do better? I really want to improve.

I don't normally use gradients but I thought I would try it out with the sky, although it does seem out of place. Also this is the first time where I haven't used construction lines or vanishing points.
Maybe I tried to do many new things. 

Any suggestions welcome

Where are the Racially Diverse Adventure games?
Where are the Adventure games with Haggis?
Where are the Adventure games set in Scotland?
"Donald where's yer troosers?"

I aim to satisfy all your desires with:

Blacky McDarko

You play as Blacky McDarko, member of a small village in the Scottish Highlands, and Haggis Shepherd. Until one day notice your prized Haggis is missing. Join in Blacky's search of the missing Haggis. 


Witness Scottish Engineering in action


Fight against the dangourous wildlife of the highlands to get useful items


Play as characters you meet through the game in the quick mini games

Current Stats:
Scripting: 35%
Graphics: 70%
Music: 0%
Story: 100%


Coming Soon... 

I am trying to run a script when the mouse is over a listbox GUI. So what I tried to do was this:

Code: ags

if (gActions.X<=mouse.x<=gActions.Width && gActions.Y<=mouse.y<=gActions.Height)
    {
      TC=0;
    }
 else
    {
      TC=1;
    }

Which doesn't work.
Why can't I treat GUI.width/GUI.height as an int? I am changing the size of the GUI as I am adding more things to the list box, but this code is in repeatedly_execute so that shouldn't matter. Or do I need to make a seperate gui_x, gui_y ints and keep track of the width and height myself? I know this would be possible and a little annoying to do, but I am a little confused why I can't use GUI.width/GUI.height in the same manner?

Unless I am making a very silly mistake with my script..

Well my grandad hasn't been well since november really, but within the last month he has really gotten worse. And today he/we got told it is only a matter of days, a week if we're lucky. So well what came to mind is what would you do if you only had a week left? I mean nothing mad like skydive or something, I mean realistically if you were stuck in hospital, or in the middle of nowhere with no water or food and there was no hope, what would you do?

Personally I would write my thoughts down. I dunno something my family could keep hold of, or something to represent my life. But what would you do? Would you end your life? Would you re-read a favourite book? Would you just sit or something?

I just can't bare to think that by next week a man's life will end. End of the book. Surely you would want finish giving all you can in life, before it ends.

I was creating a custom GUI in a blank game template, which I have two inventory windows shown always visable. I tried to name one of the inventory windows, which I accidently named the same as a label which I got an error message saying I can't name it that. I clicked again to change the name and this error popped up.

Code: ags

Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Version: AGS 3.1.1.67

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at AGS.Editor.GUIEditor.bgPanel_MouseMove(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseMove(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Okay I'm going to try a little experiment on this colouring ball.
Rules:

• Colour the shape.
  
• You must break the outline with something hence expand the canvas. I want you to give some depth to this simple 2d shape, how you do this is up to you.
  
• You can copy, rotate and even expand the shape if you like although keep it within the same perspective.
  
• The only other limit is your imagination.
  
  Bring on the Oblique loveliness!

Just spent the last little while trying to draw some sexy women and gosh it is hard.. TO DRAW. Basically everything and anything I pixel is square, blocky and masculine, and women are the complete opposite of all of these. So I am looking for some useful comments and help in pixeling the female body. Here is what I have so far:

I'm not very happy with the legs, hands, feet, head, boobs, shoulders...


I am not a pervert, I just want to learn these skills because of the game I have in mind I need to have a sexy female character. Maybe I should stick to pixeling naked grannies.

[FEELINGS, EXPRESSIONS AND EMOTION]

How are you feeling today?

Theme: FEELINGS, EXPRESSIONS AND EMOTION
In any game the best way to show personality to a character is through the character's reactions and expressions. I want you to show me some feelings!


Restrictions: NONE
No limit on size, colour or subject as long as the sprite is usable in a game. Also extra points for back story and showing multiple expressions of the character.

Only I apologise that I am drunk when writing this, BUT I AM OUTRAGED!

Basically my friend decided to leave a pub for a breather and to enter again in 5mins. Well about 15mins past no answer on his phone so I decide to go out to find him. Basically he is rejected entry cause his ID doesn't match himself. But it does. The ID was a passport(hard to forge) which included his date of birth and his photo. The only different was his photo he had a skin head(terrible I know) but now he has longer hair. And he says that this picture looks like a brother that is older. They bouncers wouldn't look at any other forms of ID such as bank cards and national Insurance proving his name sake(not picture Identification). Well he was rejected so I speak to him for about 5mins and try to re-enter to tell the others what has happened and we were leaving. Now I have been rejected. My Id wasnt checked. They would not look at anything I produced and said I was rejected for the night. Now that is discrimination. I explained I only wanted to go on to find the others and was happy for one of them to escort me to do so. But the fact that I spoke to a "seemly" under age-er I was now not allowed to enter.

Now my problem ... The fact no one looked at my ID as I was willing to show about 4 different sources, 2 of which had photos and 3 of which ahd my date of birth. I was labelled as rejected as my friend was because I spoke to him. Now what if I was was about 20years older
obviously over 18 and doesn't needed to be ID'd. Or even If I was a parent trying to get their under age child to go into a pub. They wouldn't personally be rejected. Never.

I think this is ridiculous and the main reason for this is that the police was present about 3 time tonight at that pub. For unrelated criminal offences. And they would not let anyone who seemed under 21 in. Now that is prejudice. I have a right to drink there and have been drinking there for a long time (well since I was 18). It seems rather ridiculous.

Now I understand they don't want to cause a major conflict, but even when I explained my intentions and showed my various forms of Identification and even was open to one of the bouncers to escorting me to my friends(keeping an eye that I would be away from the bar) I was rejected entry. Hence the pissed off state I am in presently.

I feel like I am totally out of touch with the lives of the great AGSers!(YOU)

Now don't get me wrong SSH's Blog is awesome and he should get a massive thank you from each one you individually. Although I can't just get my AGS hit from a blog. I just don't feel I see the same creativity of the AGS community as I used to. I used to love reading the forums, getting thousands of ideas and totally impressed by the talent we have in the community. I was proud to be "part" of this community. Now you could call me a hypocrite for not posting as much others, or call this is as my own creative block and my individual problem. But I can't be the only one that feels that the forums could be so much more. I'm not demanding the monkey to dance, but I feel the community has lost its connection (as a whole).

I just wondered if anyone was feeling the same way?