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Hey, speaking of removed scenes, when I beta tested your game, once I used room change debug function to jump around the game, and stumbled on a scene with the animated lighthouse. Was that supposed to be another scene from part 1, or some future part of the game, or just an experiment?

[character artist and animator]

I am looking for the character artist and animator.

There's a very small project I started about half a year ago, but it was totally forgotten (I recall a character artist/animator was too busy to continue working with me, or something). Now I became desperate about not being able to finish anything on AGS for a while, so I decided to ressurect the old game of mine.

The project is the "remake" (or rather fixed version) of my short MAGS game "The Deed". You can check project thread here:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=40009.0
(But please, do not post there, or moderator will lock it, it wasn't updated since February )

To make things more clear: it should be same game with character art and GUI totally replaced (and certain fixes).

Only change in plans is resolution: I was going to change it to 640x400 (all backgrounds fit that perfectly anyway).

Additionally, here is some artwork done by previous artist:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/aichnnyn113ab32/TheDeed_Art.zip

You may or may not use these; I am ok with either way, as long as sprites are nice and fit the game.
I am not sure about previous artist's opinion on using his work though... but unfortunately I cannot get his response for some time.

(BTW, Vukul, if you are reading this and you want to continue your work, you are welcome )

Just FYI, I also had some thoughts about making a longer game based on the same story with better graphics (read - better backgrounds) after I finish this remake.

Feel free to PM me anytime if you want to work with me on this.

Regarding sprite scaling: I agree. Perhaps next chapter goes higher res. We'll see! I am having a hard time making up my mind on that issue actually.. So many pros and cons.

I think there's another way, without making hi-res game. You can make extra set of sprite frames for distant views and close ups (one like the insides of plane scene), which would be scaled up/down manually. This will require extra work, ofc, including scripting view changes, but you won't be needing a switch to hires.

I totally agree with Khris regarding sprite scaling. At first I wanted to mention this when was beta-testing, but then I thought it's far too late to fix this, taking total production time into account, so I did not.
Well, perhaps you may consider fixing this in some future "deluxe" version.

Also, I really hate to say this, but

Spoiler

I actually liked the older "beta" soundtrack more, especially "Bad Boss" theme and "Makenas dinner" theme.  

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I must notice -what struck me most is that on these pigs' front sprites their tails look like they are holding them in their left hands.

no,i am not the same person as mog.net,I hate when people compare me to other people!

but before I get upset for no reason...why do you say that

Well, I was just curious, because your posts are in similar style, so to say.
I don't mean anything bad here.

However, I still don't like the background. I'm ok it should stay simple, but IMHO it should be smoother.

What do you mean by "smoother"? Like less contrast and/or less hue amount?

[Ali]

I like it. I don't know if that white thing is meant to be snow... if so I have to say it really doesn't seem snow.

Yeah, I know, it looks like melted icecream 

Ali, hmm, yes your example looks interesting.
Only thing, I was trying to keep the grass in the garden abscent of snow, since magic protects it from colds... but then again, I am not sure people will understand the idea from the first glance.
And ofcourse different amount of snow on sunlight and in shadows - that's what I completely forgot about.

Any inspiration to do another picture in a similar style? What does the rest of Olgrad look like? What about Fröken Björk's flower shop?;-)

Maybe, one time

Erm... sorry for offtopic, but are icey games and mog.net actually same person? 

Few weeks ago I have drawn this for Background Blitz. Back then I was quite proud of my accomplishment, but when I look at this picture now I feel it lacks life somehow. Maybe lighting is bad, or shadows too soft, or something's missing... I need suggestions, because I want to develop this style of art.

I always get an error message - it's missing d3dx9_41.dll - when starting the AGS Editor...

I had similar problem on my job recently, where we used Ogre engine; but I forgot the actual reason why this dll is not predent in the system. I suppose it belongs to either DirectX SDK, or to older version of DX, or something like that.

Anyway, you can get one here:
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?d3dx9_41

That's neat, let's just hope people won't overuse 3d-ness to create silly boring games with fashionable graphics

There was a time I wanted a Dungeon Keeper style strategy made based on Diablo setting, with all those fancy monsters and spells.
(OTOH that's rather crossbreeding games)

Interesting...
Why Troica? Is it only because it has 3 parts, or there's some ties with the plot?

I don't really understand why should these characters be related to existing ones? If I see ths correct, their sprites are totally new. Only things left are their names. But Amber, for example, is quite a common name (of sorts). So what's the point?

That Pacman trailer isn't funny as well

It made me smile a little... but this is rather a strained kind of humor, in my opinion.

I tried, but... I see pretty much visual difference between quality 0 and 1,but other quality levels simply lower the effect, as it seems (while downgrading fps). Is this an expected behavior? Sorry, do not know much about Bloom.

Why do those called "particles"?  :

Anyway, my ole AMD Turion 2 Ghz laptop manages about 450-500 thingies, beyond this limit severe lags take place.

So. Where's next background blitz?

[WTF]

WTF = When Turrets Fight.  

Okay, that is more a title for parody game.