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@ Saberteeth the pic doesn't load (Well for me anyway)

@ kaioshin

Indi feels top heavy to me, his body is as long or longer than his legs...  Also some of the animations it seems that this gets worse some have long legs some have short legs etc.

I will now review each animation in order from the original post I might be harsh so don't read further if you don't want crit. (By posting here I assume you want it )

Walk up : It feels like indy is not walking hes pacing, hes arms feel out of sync with his legs and his jacket feels cut off, it also looks like his left butt cheek is filled with some weird silicone

Walk Down : Feels smoother than the walk up and also slower, his body is static which makes the whole animation feel fake. It also feels like indi is shrinking since the Walk up animation seems to be bigger than the down. (I would rather have a bigger down than up.

Walk Right : Indi is seriously getting smaller, in this view his jacket is also longer, he si very top heavy imo. Hes legs really seem very short. and when the legs are fully extended it looks like he has elf shoes on.

Rotate: This looks bad without up right and up left positions.

Talking 3/4 : the body is too static no one stand that still ever.  Notice the Jacket length.

Talking Down : Body is too still again. Notice the jacket just got shorter.

Talk up ? : Feels like hes bopping his head up and down, or hitting it against the wall. Its way too fast. I don't like the legs at all in this one. it seems odd. Notice the jacket is really short and cut off here.

Arm Cross : As mentioned by Jens the arms are too narrow, I also feel that the jacket pull up should extend a further pixel from the lowest part since this stays static while the other part pulls up. (It should move too in fact more than the back imo)

Hat Adjustment : The jacket feels unnatural at the bottom part here, make it also animate with the up down tugs to the hat. (Add frames to the bottom part of the jacket)

Thumb point over shoulder ? : This is too fast, pace down the animation with an extra frame or two. Timing is crucial in animation (take note of this for all the other animations too)

Hands on hips ? : I would suggest making this more fist like cause it looks weird with his hands out like that. I have no idea what your trying to achieve here. But really go for fists on the hips. Unless its made for a specific comedy part of the game.

What? : So hes like "what?"  Anyway the jacket is static with all that arm movement.. this should not be happening.

General : Indy has a leather jacket not some lounge jacket, so the rounded off parts that look like a blazer or suit jacket should really not be happening. Reference FOA for more accurate reference on the jacket.

Also I noticed now with your sprites & FoY (Which I haven't really looked at yet) that the arms are on the sides with no spaces in them, notice how awesome FOA looked  with the spaces between the arms and body, indy has real "attitude" here when he looks like a choir boy with his arms directly onto his sides he looks like a indy wannabe. The posture I think will be crucial to the believable indy character, along with witty and intellectual dialog's etc.

I wish you luck in all your efforts to create a great game, some final ideas/advice is to get the animations and character gfx down so they blend well with your BG's so remember that your character art needs to compliment your BG and visa versa, you cant have a FoA character and a lc bg.

Bg's take long to make so be wise about the decision & the volume of work.

Enjoy & goodluck, your off to a great start.

Afflict.

 

ROFLMAO Brilliant.

Was a nice little game. Very enjoyable. Nice Graphics.

Best words to sum it up is short and sweet.

Some notes to HillBilly

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I have to say that some parts like the power switches when off the office light is still on and the background lights where the cells are are still on. I think there was one or two more but I cant remember them, the game is really kewl thanks for making it

Made in flash this game would be much smaller Maybe make a online playable version (Will have loads more exposure that way)

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Hey Sektor love the game I noticed some spelling mistakes so far. ( I am gona hide my whole post )

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Where the guy pukes the guy says feel and shoot that should be fell and shot

Awesome game man I love it the graphics are amazing and the story has me very interested.

Let me play further now

Also the thing you use to go down the hole gets highlighted to as a rope ? Shouldn't it stay the same name?

I noticed some graphic errors that are nothing really to worry about where the cords hang from the roof the red cable only twists round the other cord once then it seems to just seems to lay on it.

Also when you first see the guy on the floor before he is a skeleton, when you right click him it says only a skeleton remains.

There is a spelling mistake at the scene where you talk to the guy in the jungle, he said "another mystery than" or something like that it should be then. Also shoot should be shot and belive is believe.

I can check the whole file for you if you can send me the text in a file. I am just picking up on some mistakes as I am playing now.

lying should be laying

edit : I forgot to add all the new ones just remembered about my post here anyway ;

There was also a fault with the You in one of the cutscenes not sure where, but it cuts of and looks like Yo.

in the ship where they talk about the sun, wormer should be warmer

The game is awesome let me load and select the second option now

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Downloading

I think they are awesome post them at a larger size though like 3x so we can look at  them nicely

It's awesome well done!

I think the arm on the bag should move as he walks too. I don't feel as if hes carrying any weight however I think the way he walks is slightly uptight (as the others called it feminine) but recalling beauty and the geek awhile ago he walks more like the geeky dude with the manbag. 

Awesome Job.

Shading like cobra said is the main issue. Protostar if this is for a game and your going it alone try and keep things lite cause overdoing it will just have you spending more and more time on characters and the game might never get out there.

Hey Joe, pretty creative. My suggestions are (Not knowing the theme obviously )

* Make it more like an old lamp post used in London back in the day.
* Then make it almost like a stained glass effect, this will give you the colors you want on top and the glass panels needed on the side to light the surrounding area.
* Put the pole on a diet like darth mentioned.

Alternatively just slim down the pole, keep the top but add glass panels on the sides where the lights can come out from.

Love the new flame its brilliant. 10/10

Buloght that is indeed a masterpiece. I will suggest one or two extra frames for the fire.

ProgZ as per usual did an amazing job especially on the river but always exaggerates the effects Especially the fire this time. But I think he does that for people to learn form it which is awesome I love the way he animated it.
(I personally will study how he did these cause its very well done)

I really cant wait to see these pics in the game, I like the idea of animating some branch / leaf movement altough it might push it over the top.

Anyway my main concern is the lighting on the character wont be possible. which might look weird.

But yeah back on topic my suggestion is purely to add some more frames to the fire animation, and keep the lighting out of the characters walk way, so that it makes sense that its not falling on him.

You did a awesome job of keeping it out of the characters way Buloght.

Thanks Mr Colossal for showing me that there is already such a thread. Anyway I started us AGS score board at the http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD game. My highest so far is "Your score has been added to the database at position 3954 with 7106 points." on medium.

Ok I recently started playing this game... well I can't help but trying to get a higher score all the time!

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/

I want to start a AGS scoreboard which will be pretty kewl, if any of you are interested who ever plays next from the forum can just submit the score and submit to a custom scoreboard that the website will create for you if you enter a name not used yet.

I hope you guys enjoy the game.

Later.

I saw on discovery somewhere along the line that, children that pick their noses built up a stronger immune system.
Getting sick less than other kids... Since the other kids got sick from the nose picking activities Ok just kidding but not kidding about the immune system thing.

Due to he bug in GFG4 I didn't finish the game... The only one I didn't finish & the one I enjoyed the most.

I have to agree though that I would rather, just have the walk through to see the game progress.

I have to say for me even thought the initial problem that caused the stress is still their I can now go (Revived) and deal with the problem where as before I was stressed out and not focussed I now have focus without the stress to re-asses the problem.

@ Terran Love the new Av.
@ Voh Tssk Tssk, pick a excuse. I didn't even realize my spelling msitake on that this morning.
@ Boyd I have to say that kids today stress themselves out so badly about utter BS which to them is important. To us we go WTF? I guess most of us in our youths were not running with the "popular" kids but had real friends (I am assuming this because every "popular" kid I did hang out with was superficial and skin deep. I then decided that it's not worth my time to try and fit into their "standards" and be a victim of the constant he said she said BS. Granted that this is about 10 years ago but lucky for me I was a very open minded & don't give a crap about what people think kind of kid.

The problem is (I know I have family that is still in school) They want to hang with the popular kids it's sort of a life or death situation if they don't make the cheer leading squad & they virtually starve themselves to try and look like all the photoshop celebs in the beauty mags... I also have the complete opposite of this in my family, where the kid has turned completely introvert and doesn't even want to communicate to normal people outside school. He has started home schooling just to get away from the kids in school. Luckily his parents are cool else he would of been pressured and forced to stay in school push high grades & would probably do something hectic in the long term.

Thinking about it now its people that would drive people to commit crimes, using the guy as an example he doesn't like violence yet he is one of the bigger kids. He never stands up for himself, yet when a kid threw a teacher in her face with a paper ball he beat the kid up. My point being this, being pushed beyond his kind believes will simply push him over the edge no matter what you to do him won't. Altough I am sure he beat up the kid for all the other times he didn't beat up the others.

Another case recently in the news here in SA is where two boys took an axe to another boy. Chpping him into bits, here is the thing, (Manhunt would probably been to blame) if the kids were not rural kids. They grow up in a shack they have no tv or pc, and they get basic education at the local school.

If they were rich kids or even middle class kids that had a tv, or pc and played games. The Games would for sure be in the firing line on this brutal killing. The kids are 8-10...

This topic is beginning to become serious food for thought.

Downloading, looks awesome! Btw Congrats on your first release & I hope to see more!

Nice one Candal it's not wasting resources at all. You obviously know your low poly modeling... Still something I wanna do soon.

@ joelphilippage The character look likable but the way hes now he is a bit defunct, also try and textre him a  little better. I like the Bg's too.

Will definitely make for a nice adv game.

Hectic.

Where are the good ol days when playboy relieved every bodies stress
LoL @ TerranRich and his implants & at a couple of really other kewl posts that I am to lazy to refer to now.

Ok let me start at the really weird rape game. I have no issue with it, very concerning? Yes Why? Because this seems to look more like a god damn trainer on how to rape people. Honestly I don't give a crap how many people play the game as long as it settles that inner urge and they don't rape real people, they can rape polygons and their hand all night long. Heck I'll even let them rape their hand the whole day long.

A couple of things need to be made very clear, when A game is absolute mindless carefree violence I say sell it to the mass market and save some lives.

By playing these games you cannot ever blame the game and say the game made me do it, that's like saying I playes chess and now I am off to kill the King. It's like I said in my prior post in case anybody skipped it, since the first murders were blamed on games it's become a more popular excuse. Blaming something or someone else is easier than facing the music.

It's like MrColossal said, they hide behind any medium but where do we draw the line. Technically I should be the guy with the highest frag rate on the planet if these were indeed the facts. I mean I listen to rap sometimes, I listen to death metal, and rock. I watch the most violent movies I can get my hands on. I play the most violent video games on the market, and I study martial arts.

So in the event of anything unpleasant happening I am going do the following. In no specific order until I hit a bargain that reduces my sentence to psychiatric therapy and house arrest.

Blame Bill Gates

Blame MegaDeath & Rob Zombie

Blame 50 cents

Blame every motivational book for teaching me how to take action.

Blame Every Possible Video game starting from Rush & Attack & Golden Axe. (Depending on my specific crime) Working my Through to Grand Theft Auto, Man Hunt.

Blame Bruce Lee for developing Jeet Kune Do If that doesn't work I'll work my way down to my Sense for letting me train full contact.

Next up we have Brainscan (Movie) that I was dreaming I was playing GTA & when I woke up I had blood on my hands! Or some BS like that. BTW watch Brainscan cause its awesome (Well was when I was like 8) In the event it is not murder or the like I will blame it on oceans eleven & every other Heist movie I can recall. & if all else fails blame Pulp Fiction & Gummy Bears.

Next up I will blame the arcade shooter games like house of the dead * any medication that I conveniently would of taken before my hectic masterful crime.

Blame CSI & Bones & Medical detectives for making me want to test the system.

If all else fails I will pull out my Rubiks Cube and Blame it and tell the officer that it has indeed pushed me over the edge, and bestow the glorious cube to him.... in which I will have at least 24-hours before he shoots me for giving him the unsolvable cube (This will only work as long as you have the local cops cause the FBI guys might actually be able to solve the cube, but either way enough time to escape will be available)  to plan & escape... and in the event of recapture I will blame the Great Escape (Pc Game) & The Rock (Movie) For planting the seeds to my Jail break.

I mean really wtf? Seriously we can blame anything, and as humans I know that 99.9% of humans blame something in some area of their lives that didn't work out 100%. When really the problem is within ourselves.

Like I said if anything influences you to go and kill someone, well then call the cops to fetch you before you even commit the crime, and seek help. Cause then you must have your Keyboard and your mouse wires plugged into each others ports...

(I am pretty tired ATM and no I am not going to proof read the post, so in the event of repetitive content read the blame list and pick one, and that will be my excuse)

Sorry Guys was giving you some time, Maverick asked me to choose the winners, he is out of town. The Lucky Guy is on holiday (Well deserved though)

Well The winner is ... Vertigoaddict!

Grab yourself that Shiny nice 1st place trophy!