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Aye, Evil, those are some cute sprites! =D

This is not a game, just an experiment, but I did some b&w stuff earlier, and you need to have a while outline around characters so they can be ssen on a black background and such. That is really iportant.

Danman: Yes, some characters look a bit dated, must be all the afros flying around here. =)

To tell you a secret, the first guy looks like that man from Sin City (the movie) and the nail-admiring lady is a char drawn from memory from Wu-Tang: taste the pain/shaolin style (playstation1 game).

Maybe I'll do a background, who knows?

Made the legs a tad longer. Added a girl admiring her fingernails.

If you mean scaling pics in AGS, it can be done several ways. If you want to scale a pic without it, any decent graphic editing software can do that, besides MsPaint.

Here's a list: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32234.0

If you are going for Lucas-style talk, you need to set it in the general settings, and assign a speech view for the character also in the characters tab.

Heh, I forgot to tell you, this isn't a game, but a game concept and practice of my line art.

Scarab: Elongating his head makes him look weird, but I fixed his back and it now looks better, thanks!

Evil: Bah, you fool, your characters are worthless! I would never use them or draw something similar myself.

You can all observe I made 4! new characters from thin air now.
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It's the boogie-man, a long time friend from Santas prison days.

Sorry, I had to chop off some of the outline.

I'm posting way too many images here.

Aded some touch-ups.

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I mixed it all up, making it piece by piece from your suggestions, also added this tall, big, Jamaican b-ball player.

EDIT: #5 got a new shirt neck line, and I fixed some stray pixels on the baller. Also earlier, I gave some growing pills to #1 and a new cap for #4
I think I'm doing good for now. Maybe the ball could be better...

Thanks Ilyich, the breast look better, much better now.

On another note, pixelart without colour is really hard, because you can't have many lines and still have a easy visible image. Those brasts would be a piece of cake, if I could draw a shadow under them. My advice: doing b&w requires a bigger resolution, unlike with colour pixelart whee many pixels equals more time at drawing thus more work. Yes, you'll draw more b&w pixels also, but it's easier/simpler to do so.
Making the resolution smaller, b&w becomes almost impossible.

Offcourse, I'm learning all this the hard way.

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Thank you all for the praise, you are spoiling me.

Anyway, I need criticism, please. Nitpick a bit! Do some edits! (haha) Should  I add colour? How to fix the breasts? I played with the breasts many times  but I couldn't make them look better. The leg is quite bad, I know, but after 20 edits you just lose perspective. =(

I'll try a few new ideas, maybe they'll work.

Think I saw his name on AGS wiki.

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Like this? Is it any better? I'm to subjective to see.

EDIT: is it my browser, or this image now has grey pixels? (they shouldn't be there)

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I'm sure there is room for improvement. The right-most one is pretty bad, especially the left leg =(

Can someone point out what my eyes don't see, please?

Firstly, excusse my hangover.

Well, you lack entries IMO, because you lack appeal in the competition. Why would anyone want to make an entry here then?

I hosted one competition and I can say, although it was my first, that it was a succsess. I plastered Mr. Matti's (sp) name on the topic, even if I don't know him, just to try to make him make an entry. I pissed of Angelic Charon to make an entry, and it worked. I made a wooden trophy which is still flashing about in a sig here on the forums. It worked also. I got dunno 6-7 entries. I went on IRC pleading and gunning for entries. That worked also. I promised a trophy for all entries. Don't get me all wrong, that compo wasn't all stars and stripes, but it's my only expirience.

Look, I'm not some, dunno, guy who made all that happen, it sort of happened by itself, but I did try my best to get some entries and I got them.

This competition lacks flair man. I think you need to make enough fuss about it, so people want to make an entry. Offer something unique, go individual, grab sleeves, kick butts, show some grit! Put some effort in it!

This is the hardest competition on the forums, you should be aware of that. Make prizes in proportion to the effort. Make it a 15min compo. Make it a 2hour compo. Ask a mod or CJ to make a practical joke (April s fool thing) to make the compo have more appeal. Be imaginative. Offer to ship your old socks via mail to the winner. Blackmail someone to make an entry! =P Make your sister do an entry even if she doesn't know much about AGS. Offer your art/scripting services for a limited time as a reward. Make a template they must use, but make it unique. Cities? Who are you kidding? Is that all you got? Where are your balls?! What do you think, it rains entries around here? Put some backbone in it and push! Make the winner hand all of you prizes. Bribe Dualnames (example) to make an entry, by offering him an interview with someone interesting. Make the competition about Itally to make bicilotti want to join. Insult me to make me make an entry. Suprise everyone by making 3 different entries by yourself in less than an hour. Go individual. Make a song of it all and record it. Make it a prize. And a million other things you can do.

And what do I see when opening up the HG compo topic: "Cities." and that's about it. I'm sure you can do better than that.

Don't missunderstand me, I'm not criticising NsMn here, but the lack of effort. Things don't get done without effort. You need to work at it.

Again, this post is gonna look stupid later when I come to my senses =( sorry

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         AGS IS A SUCCESS!
« on: October 31, 2009, 05:20:37 pm »   

AGS is the highest technologie gamemaker site ever,it allows you to make 3d games,platform games,everything else,the link to it is www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk
every topics you post here about your game MUST have a link
it does'nt mean every topics here must have a link,it means only the topic that you made about your game


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         Re: AGS IS A SUCCESS!
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2009, 03:37:49 am »   

This looks cool.
But be careful online on these sort of sites, they can contain viruses or sexual behaviour.

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That made me laugh. =)

Well, I can offer some suggestions if my thoughts on the topic matter at all.

Real men use MSpaint.

If I recall correctly, 1500 px high and no limit on width. You can make a room higher than that but the pathfinder wouldn't work properly.

for you more gifted computer graphical desingers out there

lol, I really wished that I belong to this group.

I'm pretty old-school and abuse MsPaint but I need Gimp when tracing images. Also I just started with Paint.Net and it's pretty good, but, dunno, MsPaint has something magical in it. =D

Heck I even know how to make custom brushes and colour replacing in MsPaint. Pathetic really =)

Dunno about Symbian but j2me has:
-ZXSpectrum
-C64 (slow)
-GameBoyColour
-Nintendo Entertaiment System (Famicom)
-Sega Master System
-Sega Game Gear

You can maybe find a ColecoVision emulator if you try hard, but it's still a beta so don't bother.
Speccy has loads of text-adventure games, if you can get around the akward (sp) manner of typing on a mobile phone.

PM me if you need these emulators.