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Loving the antique shop front scene and the sign language idea, but I cant help but feel that the overall shop looks massive in comparison to the two characters in the foreground. for example, to me, the lanterns hanging above the door and at each side of the shopfront look to be a similar size to the character, wheras in my mind I would imagine the lanterns to be about the size of a football. The door looks huge too and In general, the whole scale of the shop. Maybe its my eyes as its getting late or im misreading the scene but I thought I would point it out .

Hey Monsieur OUXX , Glad to see you are still moving forward on this game. Can you PM me back about the stone cogs project please? Ive sent several messages over the past 4 months but heard nothing back. Im wondering wether there is an issue with the PM's so ill try contacting you here. Im not hassling you about the job, Im just confused about why contact suddenly stopped after I got back from my holiday in June. If you have changed the game and nolonger need me, then I wont be offended, I just want to know whats happening.
Hope game production is going well.

Great comp Grok, and great entrys all. Well done to our winners

Btw Grok, im not sure if you noticed but I put your trophys in the thread for my bb. Same applies to Mamdle and Sinsin if you are reading

glad you liked it Sketchess, I heard it was nice to use. Now go make a pretty BG before the deadline

Ok guys, thanks for all your feedback, its really appreciated . Im just worried because these days , it is impossible to be original, and also impossible to really know if you are being original. You can come up with any name, idea, design etc, and almost guarantee that sometime, somewhere, somebody has done it already. And just because you cant find it on a google search doesnt mean its not still out there.
these days, so many people will sue you just for the money if they get the slightest of chances. Its this sort of situation that has caused health and safety to go ridiculous, and politically correct to do the same.

When all is said and done, I just want to create my project as I envision it, without somebody raining on my parade because his company is called Bloom and my Game has a company called Bloom and we both have Grandmas called Elsie so I have to pay up £150000 for being so inconsiderate.

I have been working on a game for a few years now, and Im at a point where both the game name, and some companies/products featured in the game need to start getting put into the visuals. This means I really need to get some answers to some naming concerns I have, as I am planning in the long run to make this game commercial.

Basically, are there any restrictions to naming a game, Ie copyright/trademarks?
My working title is "Colourblind" although it may get added to or changed, but if I named my game colourblind, and there is another game out there with this title, would it get me in trouble? Especially If my game goes commercial?

I can never understand the whole copyright thing, I get that if you created a brown drink , and called it coca cola then yes you are blatantly ripping a brand off, but any product/title that is a single word from the english dictionary... how can anybody copyright or trademark that? Or cant they?

Secondly, I have a company in my game called Bloom INC , and they manufacture a drink called Bloombrew , now again, if there is a company out there called Bloom INC , or a product called BloomBrew, can I get in trouble for it? And If I can , then how can I ever be sure that there is not one? I mean, not everything can be found on google.....

Thankyou in advance to anybody that can shed light or offer advice on this.

Sketchess, also maybe check out Krita, its free and a lot of people on a Concept/digital art forum that I am oart of, say it is brilliant. Might be worth a look?

GROK , MANDLE AND SINSIN , here are your trophys as promised , let me know when you raed this and get them as I will mail them to you if not. Well done again!

GROK - 1st Place  :

SINSIN and MANDLE - Joint Second place :

No worries, Im back from Holiday tomorrow so ill put your trophys up at the weekend .

WELL DONE EVERYBODY!

A great competition and dammit I made a bronze 3rd place trophy for nothing.....

Im on holiday at the moment so Ill put up the silver and gold trophys when I get back but I can happily announce:

Joint 2nd place goes to Mandle and SinSin with their headache inducing , super tricky submissions
--INSERT SUPER AMAZING SOLID SILVER JEFF HEAD HERE--

But our winner is Grok with his artistically brilliant scene of Comic Sans Pedro/Paulo/some mexican name beginning with P lets not split hairs Mandle....
--INSERT SUPER AMAZING SOLID GOLD JEFF HEAD HERE--

So take it away Grok , oh and Jeff is on his way around to your house now With your bag of loot, which looks suspiciously big, empty, black and zips right along its length......

Ok sorry ,and Thanks CassieBsg for clearing it up. This is the first forum comp I have ran

I changed the title to include "Voting" , and then updated the first post to include the voting rules and voting deadline. I assumed that would have bumped the thread up but maybe not? I also posted the comment about extending the competition deadline on the 18th so that had already bumped it up the night that the voting should have started. Nevermind , im new to all this


As for voting rules, I posted the categories for votes on the first post with the rules, but if you guys just wanna vote for fave then its up to you.

So err... nobody voted

Im going to extend the voting for a week then in the hope that we can get some votes for our great entrys. So voting will now end on Saturday 25th at 11.59pm GMT. Ill be away on holiday then but ill have my tablet with me to announce the winners

I Wont have time tonight to arrange the submissions for voting, so I will do them tomorrow night, that means if anybody wants to get any last minute entrys in, you have approximatley 22 hours from now before voting starts.....

Great suggestions everyone! , Adding to the flicker topic, I feel that you would get the actual colour of the flame in the areas highlighted by it, like in Darth's example above, you can see the yellow of the flame on the areas affected by it. your scene has got a lot darker now, so it looks as if the primary light source is the torch, but the colour of the overall scene does not match in my opinon. Just needs more yellow/orange, especially in the flicker affected areas. hope this helps

Wow Mandle, that is certainly very tricky....to the point that I have failed ......

Ill keep looking though well done

Anybody else going to enter in the last couple of days?

Cat , I believe you said you would try, did you find time? No worries If you did'nt though

Time is running out...... how are the other entrys getting on ( if there are any)

Thanks Sketchess , you should put an entry in, theres still plenty of time

Speaking of entrys, hows everybody getting on?

Wow , I love that CJ-74 , its a really cool design. Would love to model that in Blender
Great job , loving All the updates bud

Great thanks again Khris. Going to download AGS and try to learn enough to maybe make a room with one of my renders, with a character and the camera flythrough to the next scene. If I can get that working then from what you have said, I cant see any other issues that would prevent me from using AGS aslong as I can get somebody onboard who really knows what they are doing, to do the tricky stuff.