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Wow! Seeing this I think I should browse a bit through the games-in-production thread..

It started quite a while ago, but it's good to see that there's still progress.

1. I admit I didn't quite know, what I was doing there, I just played around
2. The tank was invented before 1946
3. I basically used Welles inventions typical colors. Only non-tank-like things are the wheels and the tubes on the top.
4. The wheels are a bit out of shape. I made it in a hurry.

But I just wanted to post an entry here. It's a pity that such a good theme didn't create a competition.

It's 100x60 with 8 or 9  colors.

If life were templates, we would lose the frustration required to make us learn.

I don't think that learning requires frustration. A template like this is just a good thing to start with and to enhance your ability to animate. No one draws a picture without ever have seen one. And if you want to draw a walk cycle, why not take a look at a ready one? You don't have to draw over it, but that's okay too..

Or use templates like this one from MrColossal and paint them over:

Nice pixelart, Prog.

But if Autopilot isn't too experienced in sprite-drawing it will be a pain for him to animate this I'm afraid.

Ah, but the story of buddy holly is so sad, to die that young

That seems to be a tradition in the music business. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all died with 27. Okay, Buddy Holly was just 23, but it's all quite early.. 

And I know there's TONS of great music out there! I'm just saying I think the world has gone a bit under par with its current taste in music.

I think there's no such thing as a "current taste of music". There has been good music in the past and there's good music available nowadays, but you have to search for it. Fact is, you can't expect good music from radio and television. The mainstream music that is selled and broadcasted is just crap (with some exceptions). Oh, and it always makes me angry that they play new singles the whole day long, but no song that is more than a month old.. But just look at the music coming from the 80s, it's mostly horrible too.

But this:

"What kind of music are you into?"
"GOOD music"

...is exactly what I always say when I'm asked. There's no specific genre I'm listening to and no specific music period or whatever.

Well, the oldest songs I'm listening to are from the 70s, e.g. from The Doors..

The style doesn't remind me of Mickey Mouse comics at all, or they've changed the last couple of years.
It looks more like Morris when he did Lucky Luke (which is good).

Well, the Mickey Mouse artists were very different. I always prefered Don Rosa:





I like the sky the way it is, even if the rest is in comic style. But the mountains as well as the ground definitely need some more details.

I would really like to see a game in this style.

"xargs" isn't recognized...

by what?

The windows console (cmd.exe).

Something like:" 'xargs' is spelled wrong or couldn't be found"..

"xargs" isn't recognized...

Hey, just watched him for the first time. Smart and funny guy.

I've just tested it and it worked well...

Man, there's plenty of time to develop a space shuttle to evacuate the Earth, but would we even have anything to evacuate? I'd rather live in the moment myself rather than really start designing jedi-lazer-swords with which to defend myself when the time comes and I wake from my timetravel tube and am the only person in the world aside from shitloads of robots.

As I've stated previously, TETO (to each their own).  To my way of thinking that's a dangerous attitude to have.

I think the main problem here is not that some people don't care about the future and others do (what you called reactive and proactive). The problem seems to be that we all set different priorities of what has to be done. Some people (like Tuomas and me) think that what mankind does is a much greater threat than the possibility of a meteor hitting earth, at least at the moment. So I think that we have to focus and put our energy on these urgent problems before dealing with something that perhaps will never happen.

As for your statement about us being a reactive species: I sadly agree, especially with regard to what we do to nature. But there again: If we've destroyed the basis of existence we don't have to care about any threats anymore... it's really just a thing of priorities..

This is, of course, just my opinion ... I'm not judging anybody for having their own thoughts and feelings.

Yeah, evenwolf could learn a thing or two from you.

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Well, that is common sense logic.

Thanks, Tuomas, you've written down what I was thinking all the time..

Let's see if we can solve the urgent social, economical and environmental problems within the next several hundred years.

If we do: Well, than let's explore space, have fun and learn about the origin of earth.

If mankind finally semi-consciously comitted suicide: A meteor impact would be nothing to worry about anymore.

Yes, make a sprite with a circle of the transparent color in the middle.

If the rectangle is 400x400 then put in on (mouse.x-200, mouse.y-200) in the rep.-ex section. Then it should be centered if I don't mess up things right now.

[Making coal out of babies]

If you meant dating with rendez-vous and a dead-end street with cul-de-sac, then that's it:





Next: Making coal out of babies

(like Bart described the "evil industrialist Burns" in one Simpsons-Halloween episode)

There should be an area between the ground and the mountains where the grass should get darker, more bumpylike and somehow form the foothills of the mountains.

Ok, I think I will answer tomorrow or perhaps this evening for it will be a long post (and I need time to do that in English). But you could perhaps expand your first answer.

There are impact craters and marias on the Moon.   If you feel that meteors alone are not important... then consider one day that all your descendants will be suffocated by the impact of one.

Ah, that's the NASA "mission" you mentioned..

1. Do you think landing on the mars and disovering ice will help us redirect or destroy deadly asteroids?

2. Do you really think the possible impact of an asteroid is a serious threat to mankind? At the moment? Yeah, perhaps in 2000 years there is one coming towards earth, and then perhaps we have devices to prevent it from crashing on the ground, but should that really matter to us now? And why?

Anyone who feels the urge to say "spend our Earth dollars on this instead" has some perverted idea that Earth money is actually worth something.    The day the first human went into orbit... everything else was merely a notion, an expression.

So your point is: Money doesn't matter on earth, but going to space is important??     

Breaking the threshold into space is more meaningful to the human species than anything else.

And so does it seem. But that applies only to (bored) wealthy people. A man without regular meals or education would hardly be particularly interested in space exploration. But if so, there's something going wrong I think.

I find it incredible that you guys read and watch sci fi films, and are so blind to these concepts.  With all due respect, WAKE UP.

Yeah, wake up. I find it incredible that you are afraid of meteor impacts by just watching sci-fi-movies..


Edit:  Whole point was: The billions spent are NOT worth it (as I said before). And I haven't heard one genuine argument against that statement.