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Congrats Dave! IS there a chance you can put a webcam in the place where the ceremony is going to take part, so we can assist? 

I know I should be impressed by that space picture... but I'm not.

Maybe it's because I'm not American, so the whole NASA space exploration thing isn't ingrained into me as something to be proud of (i.e. it's more like "Look at what the American's can do" rather than "Look at what we can do")

I know it's kind of hypocritical of me to preach acceptance and then draw lines between America and Ireland, but seriously -- of all the space missions conducted since NASA's inception, when has an Irishman ever left the atmosphere? It's hard to get excited when my potential of going into space is ultimately zero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kO14AWnOk

Your chances to go to the space are still 0, the same as the rest of the world population except a little group of fortunate men and women, but not because your country does not look to the skies.

Glad this activity worked for you to learn to deal with limited sizes and palletes.

It is valid. The restrictions have been said in post #1, and any further explanation I gave must not be had into consideration.

Forget the LEC thing, thanks.

Oh, then I guess that "A car" guys and Darth, arriving the 14th at 13:00 are free to make city sightseeing the 14th.

Darth, you are also free not to rent your car till the 15th, to save a day of money, I will take you from CDG to Montmartre (our "base") and then, subway, which is the best way to move through Paris.

Hey Obi... Is the Spanish part important? Because it' s awfull, and it you are using this for humour, or just for entertaining, then it' s ok, I am not a zealot of the Spanish tongue, but if you made this game for something that it' s going to receive a note in your college, and the spanish is an important part of that note, I could help you a bit... I guess my English is not perfect, but I translate better than Babelfish. 

My opinion is that you shouldn' t be so emotionally involved in something so banal as a movie, till the point of getting anxious if the third part is going to be directed by a person you don' t like.

For example, I didn't liked Monkey Island 4 at all, so, mental exercise to "take it out" of the saga in your mind, and that' s all... No need to get annoyed, really.

I want height and wide similar to the early 90ies Adventure Games, LucasArts, for instance, but Sierra also.

I don' t care if you go fot a cartoony look and make them with short legs, huge torso, big head with the same size as torso... That is up to you. You have a rectangle of 20X50 to fill it with whatever you want.

If you want to make a weird character, such as the PATAPON, no probs...

Here the bad day is tuesday as well...

As a member of the Spanish Skeptic Society, I don' t really care.

But what's a lucasarts-style sprite? What's wrong with mine?

Nothing... I just meant that I wanted the sprites as big as LucasArts used to do them in a certain period. The "look alikeness" is something that doesn' t matter to me at all. For example ProgZmax would never enter into "looks alike a LEC sprite" and it' still supperb.

EDIT: Guys, to give an example, I am going to explain how I think:

ProgZmax didn' t followed the specs 100%. He added shadows that would probably make the sprites bigger than what I want, he didn' t posted the palletes. I am not going to say "OMFG!!! You cheated! YOU ARES OUT OF MY CONTEST!!!" No... I am not going to download the sprites to count one by one the colours, and I am not going to cut the sprites to paste them in a new image to see if they are a pixel or two bigger that what I asked for.

What I want you to do is to think as artist did in the early 90ies. To learn to transmit volumes, shadows, shapes with a limited space and limited palletes. If you have success in doing that, and both entries so far did, I am not going to invalidate your entries, even if you fail with the restrictions a bit, ok?

And sorry about not clarifying the "LEC" thing. To make it clear. LEC is "LucasArts Entertainment Company". And no... I am not going to to have in mind if the sprites resemble to the LEC ones, and, therefore, I am not going to reward that. I just wanted you to work with the "sizes" they were used to use. Also, I think that Sierra' s sprites of that period (I.E. Graham' s sprite) can't  be much different to that sizes, actually.

EDIT 2: Graham was 17X47, so, my specs are even a tad bigger than the ones Sierra used. DON'T COMPLAIN, Suckers!!!

Well if he wants to see LEC type sprites, then he should of said so in the first post. Its not fair to say such things if you didn't state the correct requirements.

Eeeer... Ok. I was meaning that I wanted sprites looking like the LEC ones as FOR THE SIZE.

And restrictions have been specified in the first post.

So, unless BradN wants to take this to the UN or the Supreme Court, I think we can go on with the contest...

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A vehicle is something to transport something... Your imagination is the limit.

Sorry Matti, I am looking for LEC look alike sprites.

16 colours is a maximum. You can use less...

And come on, Alarconte, I am sure you can still design a spacial pod or something within the limits. 

Inspired by my own victory in the last SJ, I introduce you this week' s topic!

SPRITE RUN

-You must paint a character and its vehicle. 2 sprites.

-I want them tiny! Maximum size for the character is 50(tall)X20(wide). Maximum size for the vehicle has to be 140 X 75. No matter if 140 is tall or wide, so you have room to design weird vehicles.

-You must use 16 colours per sprite. That makes 32 as a maximum. No probs if you use a simillar pallete for vehicle and character and you repeat, having less than 32. Background colour won't be had into consideration, so, don' t worry.

-You can post both (vehicle and character) in the same image, being the resultant image bigger than the sizes specificated, but I will download the images to see if the sprites, per sepparated, fit in the restrictions. You can also paint the character "using" the vehicle, but remember that you must not exceed the 140X75 restriction, and post the pallete of both for me to realise you haven't used more than 16 colours per sprite.

-If the character is not inside the vehicle, or riding it, then it has to be in a 3/4 pose (Like my gang thug). The vehicle has to be allways in platform view (lateral, like my motorbike)

-Remember to post both palletes you used. 16 for the vehicle, 16 for the character. You can repeat colours, but post both palletes complete, anyway.

Good luck!

Oh... Thanks... I guess. I was expecting Misj to be much high in the final classification. Anyway, it's ok.

Opening new SJ asap.

When a pic of ProgZmax?

Ivy and Creed Malay? But we need to know when they come...

I think Creed is travelling with Layabout.

Sorry, I confused Creed with "MILLS".

So, car "B" is, I think, DM, Jess, Eric, Ivy and Mills, no? Come on, guys, start posting (Via PM, I don' t mind) your stimated arrival data.

Hey, I could re-frase that to be 100% accurate in English, but as the judge of this sprite jam is Spanish, I decided to make it in Spanglish, to win extra points! ^_^

Oh, no problem to show them as a sepparate sprite, that was how they were conceived originally...

And of course David has will... Remember Christine, by Stephen King? Well, David also has a lot of respect and friendship towards his owner, Johnny, and will gladly step into some posh' s foot if he annoys Johnny in some way. David also loves Hannah' s pink Vespa (Piaggina), but he' s too shy to roar his motor in front of her.

My flight is the 23th, afternoon, so, I will take to Paris to any mitteneer after the event itself of Mittens. No need to say that people in my car won' t have to pay the price of the car when it' s used just by Lore and me.

Darth... I... Booked for Hostel Montmartre, but just for one night! :S I will fix it. You can book in Hostel Montmartre as well...

Also ... I will be renting the car this week (that's car "B" to those in the know!).  Who will be in the car with me?  Eric and Jess ... who else?

Ivy and Creed Malay? But we need to know when they come...