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[1st Place]

Alright, tallying up all the votes, I can announce that:

1st Place - CaesarCub!
2nd Place - Blondbraid!
3rd Place - blur!

But also congratulations to Jwalt and DBoyWheeler for their fine entries as well!

Take it away, CaesarCub! I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next!

[Blondbraid]

Alright! Let's get to voting!

Our hapless travellers are:

Blondbraid


Jwalt


blur


CaesarCub


DBoyWheeler


Unfortunately Amy and Embla both seem to be lost, so I'm afraid you can't vote for them.

Which one of these travellers deserves to win? Cast your votes for the first, second and third place now!

Since we didn't get very many entries, would anyone care for an extension on this?

For some reason, lip sync isn't supported for Lucasarts style speech. It's been asked for a lot but I'm not sure how much of a job it is to change the engine to support it.

[Jade Bindle]

For this sprite jam, you've been given the following challenge:

• You must create a sprite of a protagonist who is LOST, TRAVELLING, or somehow OUT OF THEIR NATIVE ENVIRONMENT, in addition to their TRANSPORTATION or ONE INVENTORY ITEM they would have on them. Please explain HOW they are lost, travelling and so on, so we know the character's motivation!
• These sprites MUST be AGS-ready - no concept art.
• As an additional challenge, you are limited to a screen size of either 320x200 or 640x400. Try to keep your sprites workable within this canvas! No colour limitations this time, just size!

As a reward, I have created these trophies for you:

Every entry will recieve a Jade Bindle, at least.
3rd Place will recieve a Bronze Luggage.
2nd Place will recieve a Silver Map.
1st Place will recieve a Golden Sherpa - a necessary companion for dangerous treks!

The deadline for this jam is April 1926th, which should give everyone a good two weeks to finish their entries!

Thank you very much! I'll have a new sprite jam topic up soon! Congratulations to everyone who wrangled with MSPaint, it is a very tough program.

So, when does the judging/voting start?

Default MSPaint palette, eh? Alright. For added difficulty, it's the paintxp palette. Ugly!

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/BuZkWx3.png[/imgzoom]

I don't think this counts as pixel art, I just painted it like I would normally but in MSPaint.

It has a good, solid base, but there are a few things you need to keep a lookout for. I did a paintover, because I like doing those. I'm sure it itself could be improved, as I only did it very quickly.

[imgzoom]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50882197/crit/face_crit.PNG[/imgzoom]

Firstly, try using less, more contrasting shades of a colour, rather than many shades of the same colour - you don't need that many to get across the shape of a form. This will make it easier for you to keep hold of the form of the piece, rather than focusing your time juggling colours. Once you got the basic shapes down, THEN you can start to make them more defined with more shades, but right now there were too many shades close together that weren't really doing anything.

I also put more greys around the rim of the glasses, bringing them out more and giving them more definition. Some objects don't need that many shades - the eye colour is just two greens instead of three now, and I removed a lot of the colours from the hair. The hair is shaded with more noise than the skin, which is very smooth - the noise hopefully gives enough definition so the hair reads as a different texture to the skin. I removed the lightest colour from the side of the hair, as less light would hit that part of the head directly.

The rest was pretty ok, with just minor tweaks like making the teeth more realistic and the ears more in proportion (the top lines up with the top of the eye, the bottom with the bottom of the nose). I tried to keep it as true as possible to the original though.

It's always good to find a more efficient workflow, pixel art is especially good for making a lot of changes on the fly - traditional animation is way, way more time consuming, I've found. Just make sure not to make too much work for yourself while doing pixel art! It's easy to overcomplicate a sprite and lose track of how to animate it.

If you add a little easing to the movement, you'll end up with a lot more natural movement for his picking up animation. You don't need to do much, just moving a couple of pixels around can create a nice little buffer around gross movement.

[imgzoom]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50882197/crit/indygrab.gif[/imgzoom]

And also, if you really want to make it look natural, he needs to think about putting the object in his jacket before he does it, so his head needs to move to look at what he's doing:

[imgzoom]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50882197/crit/indygrab_02.gif[/imgzoom]

This one's a little harder as you need to make his head move less than a pixel, but at least, in my opinion, it makes him look a little more alive as he's stealing items.

I believe it's:

Code: AGS

if (IsInterfacedEnabled())
{
//Show label
}
else
{
//Don't show label
}

Because:

IsInterfaceEnabled()

Returns 1 if the player interface is currently enabled, 0 if it is disabled. The user interface is disabled while the cursor is set to the Wait cursor - ie. while the character is performing a blocking Walk, or other blocking action.

The background and character art in all of these are really beautiful, like some of the best I've seen. I will definitely play this when it's released.

Though, I didn't want to bring it up, but, I think the character poses may be a little.... static? In all of these you have characters just standing around, regardless of the circumstance, and it's kind of jarring and takes something away from it. Like even in the chase scene screenshot? Everyone is so... unenthused about what is happening, and I can't tell what anyone is feeling in the scene. Is it supposed to be tense, scary, or really dull and pedestrian? It's a real shame because the art itself is so beautiful and it looks really compelling otherwise.

Pizzagate alone presents more than enough circumstantial evidence to warrant a full official investigation.

Not... really?

The fact that it originated on /r/The_Donald alone should ring some alarm bells, because, maybe there's some conflict of interest there? They are really really stretching to find anything to pin on anybody there.

I mean come on, they're even doing the illuminati triangles thing.

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What? That is literally how human genetics works. There are clear phenotypic and genetic differences between humans which we can classify as races relative to one another. If there weren't we would all be homogenous. These differences are biological, not cultural.

The concept of "whiteness" or "blackness" is a cultural and plastic phenomenon that changes depending on who gets to be the in-crowd, and generally trends towards what colour your skin is - which is something that means absolutely nothing apart from how much melanin is in your skin. You are no more likely to be anything in particular personality or temperment-wise if your skin is a particular colour.

Races don't exist biologically, it's a meaningless concept invented mostly to divide people and give an excuse to enslave them. It would be identical to classifying people by eye colour, or blood type. Yes, it differs between people but means absolutely nothing at all except by the imprinting of cultural significance onto it.

I disagree. By law they are not supposed to be there, and they are taking jobs that real citizens could do. It has nothing to do with xenophobia or racism. It has everything to do with enforcing the law and reclaiming jobs. As long as there are legal ways to become a citizen, I don't see a problem with deporting illegals.

By law you can treat a prisoner like a slave for labour purposes as well, doesn't mean it's moral or ethical or right.

Becoming a legal immigrant is almost impossible for a lot of people. The process is expensive and most of the time they aren't eligable. For some reason poverty in their home country is not considered a valid reason for immigrating, so you'd just be sending them back to live in poverty and probably starve to death.

You can also not round up and deport 11 million people, that's impossible. You can't even be sure who is an illegal immigrant without costly background checks on each and every person, or racial profiling. And let's face it, they'd just use racial profiling and try and deport latinx US citizens.

It has everything to do with xenophobia, by the way, because you're trying to exclude people you see as an outsider from a country, even though countries have pretty arbitrary borders and you should really try and not let anyone die or suffer. If you weren't xenophobic, you'd see them as a person before a foreign national.

[Bonus:]

Some outlets want to conflate his expulsion of illegal immigrants with hitler's treatment of the jews (in their continuing desperate biased fashion), but it's just not the same thing.

It is not the same thing, but it's bad enough.  It's tremendously xenphobic at best, and most definitely racist.  And this is an actual policy, an actual plan he has, not just charged rhetoric.

Yeah, it's not as if Hitler started by deporting religious minorities whom they blamed for a war before trying to exterminate them.

And even if it hadn't been done before, it's a tremendously monstrous thing to do to people. And it was even set out in his campaign plan, and he still wants to do it.


Bonus:

"Darkness is good," says Bannon, [...] "Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."

I give up, I don't have the mental fortitude to keep fighting this. There's a thousand other things I could be doing to help, I'll do those instead.

Until you can accept that you're going to continue to be disappointed and angry and intolerant.

You keep calling me intolerant, but the only thing I'm intolerant of is bigotry. I know what bigotry is, I know the effect it's having on my American friends, and I know that not a single Trump supporter has come forward to say "Hey, I'll fight for the rights of the marginalised, now let's get Trump to not try to profile and deport people".

Okay then, give me how someone else thinks - explain to me their thought processes, so that I know how they overlooked all of Trump's really overt and hateful rhetoric and hiring choices (Like Mike "Gay Kid Torture Legislator" Pence during his campaign) and still think that Clinton is the worse one. Like, clearly I'm incapable of thinking like a Trump voter. Please, explain it to me. I really want to know.

You feel that way. Trump supporters do not.

Give me one thing Clinton campaigned for during the election that is as hateful and murderous as what Trump did every day and appointed people for. Not an economic thing, not the emails thing, but something that targeted a group of marginalised people with murderous rhetoric. Something that made people fear for their very lives and basic human rights. (oh, and it has to be something that Trump didn't say the same or worse about.)

It should be easy, if Trump voters truly were voting for what they believed to be the lesser of two evils, right?

So it almost sounds like you're saying it's possible to support a candidate while not simultaneously supporting all their policies?

I'm saying that in this election Hillary Clinton was by far the least awful option. Trump did have all of her aggression and more against other countries. And what would be the option? Not vote and let Trump get in? Vote for a third party that would only help Trump get into power because of the broken system?

It's like, why the hell would you vote for someone who doesn't even seem amenable to the least bit of criticism AND has more extreme views than the alternative? Yeah, I have my principles, but I'm not stupid. Pragmatically you'd have a better chance at convincing her than him, especially with the awful people he surrounds himself with.

Yes, it is possible to support a candidate you don't agree on 100% with, that's like, every candidate. But you gotta start with the one that is not wholly incompetent and running on a platform of bigotry.

Also, if there are so many people voting for Trump and also supporting people's rights, where are the "Trump voters for lobbying Trump to not start registering Muslims and deporting immigrants" campaigns?