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I tried drawing a more neutral pose and making the arms more equal, better?

Or download this app called pose tool 3d by alientthink, it's great if you want to do a specific pose, you can change body type from fat to thin skinny muscular, women/man, etc.

I wish I could, but I don't have an iOs, and I currently don't have the budget for any new drawing tools, I'm currently working on freeware paint programs and an older tablet.
I did try looking up some stock photos to compare the anatomy to though.

So, I was drawing a new character for the same project, but I'm not happy with the first draft of his sprite either,
any tips on how to improve the pose and make him look good?

I just wanted to thank everyone who voted for my pitch! 

That's the sort of thing that sounds funny on paper, but would get decidedly less funny once someone inevitably gets a heart attack.

Well it is a horror movie... not a particularly scary horror movie, but you get my point. 

Yes, but people tend to have far more intense reactions to real people jumping at them compared to just seeing things on a screen.

Gröna Lund (a big amusement park in Stockholm) actually had a big problem with their haunted huse attraction that featured employees dressed as
monsters pawing at the visitors as part of the horror due to so many persons reacting to the scare by punching or assaulting the employees. 

A movie experience I did enjoy, that others might not, was back when the Scream movies were popular. During build up scenes that would have you on the edge of your seat a member of the staff dressed up in the Scream outfit would burst into the theater and run down the isle. People would literally jump out of their seats. lol.

Was this a special screening for fans where people might have expected such behaviour or did everyone think they were just going to a normal screening?

It was a normal screening and started out as a joke but ended up becoming popular. Once the word got out people would come expecting it or come again to see the unexpected victim's people's reactions. I was in my late teens at the time so I enjoyed it and found it quite funny. I'm not so sure I would enjoy such shenanigans now though, lol.

That's the sort of thing that sounds funny on paper, but would get decidedly less funny once someone inevitably gets a heart attack.

There's some swear words, so I posted this one under spoiler tags:

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I do understand, though, that you're basing your position on your current Japanese location and cultural factors.  I think I might enjoy watching a movie in Japan!

It's really not much different to watching a movie alone.

Not really, like dactylopus said, you get to watch it on a huge screen in much better detail than your TV at home, plus it's not just the movie, it's everything around the movie. I usually go out and watch movies at the cinema together with friends, and we go out and eat dinner and walk around in the city beforehand and it's all about having a nice evening out together rather than just sitting and watching a movie.

I suppose the expectations on cinema experiences vary too, but in Sweden it's usually considered very rude to eat loudly or talk a lot during a movie and there will always be an usher walking in and telling everyone that you have to turn off the noise on your cellphone before the movie starts. Personally, I've only encountered somebody talking during a screening funny once in my lifetime, and that was way back in 2007 when I was watching Arn and there was a fake-out death scene where some guy swung a sword at the protagonist and it faded to black in the middle of the movie and a kid jokingly said "The end!". That was funny. Blabbering toddlers isn't.

Hello there,

There are approximately 215 to 220 million Portuguese native speakers in the world... So in a way to return the help I'm getting on this forum, if anyone needs help translating their games into Portuguese, please let me know... I can translate English, and french, Italian, Spanish but not German

Thanks

That sounds great! I've wanted to have Commissar's Contrapasso translated into more languages, but sadly the large amount of text has made it hard to find people willing to translate it (it's around sixty pages when I tried counting  ).

Wow, I just want to thank everyone that nominated my game, I'm so happy! 

It grinds my gears when people don't adhere to the age restrictions in movie theaters and sneak in kids too young to see the film.
Case in point, som time ago I was seeing the new Aquaman movie with a friend, and while it was a fun enough superhero movie, much of my experience was
brought down by an idiot dad who brought a toddler into the theater. Aquaman is a PG-13 movie, and for a good reason, there is lots of violence and both humans and animals get killed on screen,
and even if it wasn't for the violence, the movie is 2.5 hours long and everything was in English with Swedish text and there was zero chance that a toddler would follow the plot or be able to sit still
for that amount of time, and much as I predicted, the toddler spent most of the time blabbing, wanting to be carried out, crying and ruining the experience for the rest of the moviegoers.

I genuinely think small children shouldn't be allowed into movie theatres showing movies above their age limit and any parent bringing them in anyway is doing bad parenting. I get being a parent is hard work, but it shouldn't be an excuse for ruining the day of other people who've paid for their tickets (and the toddler forced to sit in a dark room and watch a film they couldn't comprehend), and anyone becoming a parent should either accept that the next five years of their lives will consist of doing activities suitable for babies or find a babysitter.

I think many people want to attribute horrible crimes on mental disorders because it's a way of reassuring yourself with an easy explanation for the violence, and on some level it's easier to reconcile with the thought that crimes are committed by an unknown madman with no understandable human thought process, rather than face the truth that the people doing the crimes were somebody's child, sibling or parent and that most murderers look just like any regular human. It reminds me of the folklore surrounding the Wendigo, a mythological creature described as once human beings who became possessed by evil spirits who twisted them into becoming insatiable monsters killing and eating other people, a myth that appeared as a result of people resorting to killing and eating their tribesmen in desperation due to starvation and famine, and the idea of supernatural dark forces making people commit cannibalism probably was easier to reconcile with than acknowledging that some people chose to eat human flesh.

Most statistics show that people with mental illness are more likely to fall victims to crime than perpetuate it, and being a murderer doesn't constitute a mental illness. The reason people commit heinous murders or become serial killers vary, but the most common denominator among people who commit crimes like rape, torture and abuse to terrorize a helpless victim do so out of a wish to dominate others and feel powerful by taking away power from someone else. One of the most common warning signs of a person about to become a serial killer is that they capture and torture animals before escalating to humans, but the wish to dominate doesn't just take violent forms. Another tactic is to instead dominate others through mind games, by crafting a pleasant outward persona that makes people trust them and listen to them and take control over people's perception of them, and this is the reason so many serial killers have been described as nice and pleasant persons by people who have talked to them in person. As Mandle said, serial killers are almost always competent people who are able to plan and reason and aware that their actions are illegal and taking active measures to evade the law.

Kholat is free on Steam right now.

Edit: Axiom Verge will be free on the Epic Games store from Feb 7 to Feb 21.

It's not free, it's 80% off, which may be cheap, but not free.

It was free when Khris posted.

Wow, that was a short time-window!

Kholat is free on Steam right now.

Edit: Axiom Verge will be free on the Epic Games store from Feb 7 to Feb 21.

It's not free, it's 80% off, which may be cheap, but not free.

Blondbraid, I didn't mean t suggest that you shouldn't do the game because the theme had been used in a different game,

I would have liked to see what you did with it and would even like to voice-act Thyrm again if you went with it.

A different take on something is always interesting.

@Blondbraid:
I fully agree with Mandle - you and AprilSkies are both great game makers, but each of you with an individual style. I'd like to see your take on the topic.
Of course, if you feel more comfortable with the "My fair lady" theme, that's fine as well 

It'd great to hear that you'd want to see my take on the tale, and I guess my idea would be different enough,
with more focus on Thor and Loki and you'd mostly play as Loki helping Thor keep up the disguise.

Would anyone be up for a collaboration on this entry? Because while I'd want to do a game, February's a short month and I have some other stuff to deal with, so I'm not sure I have the time and energy to do it all myself.

I'll definitively have to put Tales on my To-Play list, it seems like an awesome game from those videos, and good voice acting too!

I'll have to think up a different idea for a MAGS entry though...
I have toyed with the idea of making another game about Roderick Downes, where he

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after hearing of the popularity of Pocahontas decides to scam noblemen by dressing up a romani woman and passing her off as an indian princess

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and it'd be a parody on stories like "My fair lady" as well as the often inept and inaccurate stories floating around about the new world.

Anyone thinking this might sound good and willing to join in?

I'd like to see an attempt to make an adaption of the ancient legend of Thor stealing back his hammer from the evil giant Trym.
The story goes that Trym steals Thor's hammer and demands to be married to the goddess Freja in exchange for giving the hammer back,
and when Freja refuses, Thor decides to get the hammer back by going to Trym's castle himself whilst disguised as Freja...
(Here's a link to the full story)

Anyone interested in a collaboration?

I think anti-vaxing sentiments are a danger to society, because refusing to vaccinate healthy kids will increase the risk of them spreading diseases to people who can't be vaccinated for health reasons,
such as people with immunity disorders and similar.

And not only is the idea that vaccines causes autism proven wrong, it's horrible that some parents would rather face their kids possibly dying from preventable diseases than risk them having autism.
I was diagnosed on the spectrum at an early age myself, and while I've had trouble concentrating in school or making friends for most of my upbringing, I don't consider my diagnose a fate worse than
succumbing to severe diseases and I've been able to have a somewhat normal life with the right training and support, and the implications of what some anti-vaxers have said makes my skin crawl.

An argument I haven't seen brought up here yet is the fact that they are horrible for the environment,
because bitcoin mining takes up huge amounts of computer energy and wastes huge amounts of electricity on a planet already starting to see horrific changes
to nature due to over consumption and using energy from dirty fuels, and that's a big reason I hope it doesn't become commonplace.

Indeed, and I do see the scene differently now once I've seen the full story and understand the true context.

It still disturbed me at the time though due to it looking like the player character was abused at the time, and you're right that it happening to the player character affected me more than
if it would have happened to an npc or movie character, and the fact that you had to choose the answers for your character yourself made it all the more gut-wrenching, and it's similar to how
horror games, at least to me, is much more frightening when you have to avoid getting the player character killed yourself compared to just watching them get threatened in a horror movie,
and this is why I think these sort of warnings are especially important in video games.

And the effect is stronger the more you identify with the character, it's usually why so many horror games have a first-person perspective, and similarly, I find it easier to accept the protagonist in
a game getting involved in dark situations or doing immoral things if the character is a pre-written character with a set name and identity rather than a blank slate you give an identity yourself.

Seems a good thing you don't hurt the russian censorship with your games, Blondbraid!   

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To be honest, I was wondering if the mentions of the commissar's sexuality would risk the game getting blocked in Russia.