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I call this one, "The Underground Transhumanists."  The Scientist and The Artist.

Only have a few more backgrounds to go at this point!  With a few little incidental bathrooms or hallways in change

Do let me know if you're interested in playtesting, I'll be putting up an ad in the recruitment thread I guess pretty soon.

Looks great!  Nice hair there

I'm actually planning to start looking for some testers by next week.  I need to finish up one particular section though, or else things won't be making a whole lot of sense.

Here's an update of officer Jakkenboot.  Now with 75% more indiscriminate state violence!

I have discovered that if I was just two shades of lavender more gay, I would've careerpathed towards becoming an interior designer rather than a game dev.  Because I think my favorite part of the visual art process is lighting

Yeah, that's very intriguing, and looks really great too!  I wonder what the banner says...

Is it possible to have a character in AGS have only two walking loops -- left and right -- rather than left, right, up, down?

So for example, if the character moves up or down, they just play the left or right walking animation, depending on which way they were facing last?

Thanks.

Cool pixel art techniques there, with the noise thing!

@Cassie: Thanks!

@Blondbraid: He's walking forward but I'm trying to do a SWAT cop walk, like he's part of a squad doing a drug bust.  So far I've only done running and walking forward in a fairly normal fashion so this is a new one

Even more walking!

Now in crunch mode, definitely over halfway finished with Neofeud at this point.  I'd better be anyway, or I'm going to be in deep financial doodoo!

Great, thanks for the info!

Hi, I was just wondering if the  type of file that you import into AGS affects the size of the sprite itself.  By this I mean, if you use a PNG instead of a JPEG, would the file size of the game itself be larger?  Or does the game convert either file type into something that takes up the same amount of disk space?

Animation for underclass single-mom robot. Also preggers.

kind of tangential but still on topic here:

I have discovered that I hate writing adventure game stories while creating/programming the game.  I always end up becoming distracted by the minor details in character position, animation, etc.  and totally forget the salient details of the story pertaining to the scene.  Like the character's names their motivations in the scene, etc.  Unfortunately I also have had a tough time taking an existing story and "adventure game-izing" it. 

I guess I'll just need more practice with one or the other method, or hire a bunch of artists, programmers, etc. once Neofeud gets big or I fall into a massive inheritance.

Thanks

I should add that it is more a smirk than a genuine smile in that picture.  It isn't supposed to be warm and fuzzy really.

Krampus?

Nice work!  It communicated the paranoia well there.  You can feel the Stalin coming through the pixels!

@Fitz: Perhaps!  Or perhaps not!  Only time and gameplay will tell.

@AnasAbdin: Thanks   I don't want to spoiler you guys too much but perhaps I'll do a little sample at some point   There are a lot of cyberpunk/dystopic/sci-fi adventure games out there so I'm trying to create something unique and niche in the point-n-click world by going ultra-hi-res and telling the story, communicating the world through a lot of the details themselves, and less through dialog, descriptions, emails, and the like.  Because usually you'd have a pixel-art game -- which is a beautiful art in and of itself -- but you do need to fill in a lot of the blanks as to what the "texture" of the world actually feels like, and it's hard to get in little details like the rust and grime and dents on a prosthetic limb, the esoteric runes imprinted on a chair, and generally the secret histories of objects and the environment itself. 

At least I hope it will be unique and fun.  We'll see!

@Blondbraid: Thanks, that is the effect I was going for!  Is it the antagonist?  I really cannot say at this point or it would ruin the story   Let's just say there's a little bit of Deus Ex in there.  The Illuminati may or may not be involved.

@Selmiak: Exactly!  And I'm glad you like it  

Novus Ordo Seclorum. 

Posthumanity will be feudal.

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You're asking if you should have a big magical ending or a small French ending?

I think this kind of thing really depends on the overall story itself, but generally either could work if it made sense with the rest of the story and is interesting, reasonably well written.  I think if you're going to have magic you might want to introduce it earlier on so it doesn't seem like you just threw some magic in out of the blue at the end because it was the trendy thing to do.  Unless your game is heavily comedic / slapstickish.

Generally, you want consistency, I guess is what I'm trying to say.  Otherwise you risk kicking the player out of their immersion.

Late-stage wrist arthritis from Doom binge, and I need to Stylus-Photoshop two backgrounds and a walkcycle in 36 hours. #gamedev thuglife.