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Thanks a bunch for the tips, Vertigoaddict.  Shopping pics makes perfect sense.  I'll see about some kind of future-Gucci bag perhaps.  A lot of jeans and light tops there!  It's like the transglobal G-7 leader equivalent of the Sisterhood of the Travelling pants!

I've got a bit of decision paralysis trying to figure out where to go with this character's design.  She is supposed to be the daughter of the equivalent of modern royalty.  Like a cross between Chelsea Clinton (Bill Clinton / Hillary Clinton's daughter) and Princess Kate or the Princess of Denmark.  Character traits I'd like to convey are that she's daughter of the super-rich, but with a rebel-streak.  Self-described as "begrudgingly a media personality, a recovering politician, and an aspiring-revolutionary". 

Anyway, I was thinking about what sort of dress she might wear on an average day (not necessarily to the coronation day, her mom's inauguration, the 2033 Academy Awards / Grammys, but just on a regular day).  It should still be something essentially unattainable by the common people, but not trying to blow the socks off the media / paparazzi and potential Neofeudal suitors.



It's super rough, so don't worry about shading / proportion / color issues, just some style tips, or just whatever pops into your head thinking about the character?  Thanks!

Hm, I see what you're getting out, like pulling the surface of a balloon out and then letting go (except the balloon is the fabric of spacetime, hehe).  This isn't actually the final animation at any rate, it will actually be longer in game as this is a particularly epic and pivotal scene altogether.  Thanks for the suggestion, Mathias!

The biggest animations I have are around 700x700 or something like that.  There are some scenes with two or three sprites like this.  There are both visual and audio glitches (music skips) often.  I remembered something about using multithreading to help with the audio glitches. 

Thanks Dualnames and CW for looking into this.

Crazy Epic!  So pre-ordered!

Also, that soundtrack really pops; reminiscent of the Primordia motif, but run through a Clint Mansell prog-rock filter.

Ok thanks!

One other question: how about pre-loading backgrounds?  This also seems to be an issue at 1366x768.  I've been considering just switching through each room in the intro before the game even starts so that the backgrounds are already loaded in memory.  Would that make sense?

I have some very large animations and backgrounds that need to be played without slowdown, and they pretty much always do if the sprites are not already loaded. 

Once an animation has played, it seems subsequent plays happen without slowdown.  What would be the best way to go about getting all of the sprites and such loaded into memory before even starting a scene?  Would it be best to just make an object and have it iterate through all of the necessary sprites?  Or some other method?

Thanks!

Neofeud now contains 1.21% more time travel.

Testing and voice acting auditions continue!  Feel free to drop me a line if you're interested!

Time to hack the uplink to the download.

Ok, thanks for the tips, Wyz and Kumpel!  I think this will help out a lot.

Is there a simpler way to do a series of events that occurs without using many different timer events?  Like for example, there is a gun fight going on as the player is supposed to be doing other actions to get away.  There are many (20+) events that need to happen at different times but the player also needs to be able to move around and interact during this fight, so I can't have blocking or waiting.

Is there a way to do this without a lot of timer checks in the repeatedly_execute functions?  If not I can probably manage but if so, thanks!

Silver Spook Games is seeking voice talent for a variety of voices for Neofeud!  For a more in-depth look at the game have a look at the Neofeud Thread or the Neofeud Site on IndieDB.









Quick Synopsis:

2033 - We create AI. Sentient robots arrive, but not as our Terminator overlords or our Singularity saviors -- conscious machines are humanity's unwanted bastard children. A few are geniuses who design flying cars, beat cancer, invent teleportation, but millions of defective prototypes roll out of factories -- mentally challenged, motivationally-challenged, criminally-inclined. Legally conscious, but unhirable, these "Defectives" are shuffled through public housing and welfare assistance, straining the already overburdened back of the meager social safety net. The robots who don't end up in prison are dumped, as a last resort, into a massive landfill known as "The Pile".

Humans engage in perfection of their species -- or at least the powerful and well-connected -- genetically engineering children with the human and animal DNA. The failed eugenics experiment "Frankenpeople" are discarded into "The Pile" as well. The new dynasties, 'Neofeudal Lords', live in towering neon glass castles, shuttle around in pristine nanotech-enabled pods, minds and bodies full of cyberware, spending most of their time taking selfies and "optimizing their monetization schemes". A race of supermen concerned only with their own status, their prestige, their success. Where machines have become all too flawed and human, people have become flawless, perfect, cold machines.

Karl Carbon is an ex-cop, dishonorably discharged from Coastlandia PD for disobeying an order to shoot an unarmed sentient humanoid. Karl is exiled to "The Pile" as a lowly social worker. There he counsels gangbanging foster-kid robots and confiscates chimera-children from deadbeat half-wolf parents. Till one day a case goes horribly sideways and and Karl is drawn into a sordid conspiracy that could threaten the strained fabric of Human-Robot-Hybrid civilization -- or save it.

Disclaimer: Coarse language is involved.

In particular, we're looking for:
-actors/actresses capable of doing "street" accents - L.A. street, London East End, New York blue-collar, Johannesburg ghetto. 
-Ebonics fluency a plus.
-Upper Crust / Royal British accent

These are not requirements of course, all are welcome to apply!

In the next episode, you guys should get into a really big fight argument to increase listener counts. 

I'd help you guys out with the topic deficiency thing, but it will have to wait till after February and perhaps the Ides (Middle) of March at least, what with the release of Neofeud to take care of. 

Look forward to more gold-star reading material for the breaktimes soon, so do keep churning it out, friends!

What's interesting about the Bernie Sanders campaign is he's making most of the Alex Jones talking points that were "Conspiracy Theory" fifteen years ago.  New World Order cabal of billionaires, Global banking cartel controlling America and basically 1% being bastards and destroying the health, income, and lives of the rest for profit.  Except this guy is neck-and-neck for the Democratic Party's Presidential ticket with Empress Hillary Clinton.

It's nice to see that the alternative truth is becoming the mainstream truth.  It's telling when Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein calls Sanders, "A dangerous man" and "A threat to us all" (subtext: he's going to pull a Louis XIV on our* financial, if not literal heads). 

*The Royal "Our" - as in the Kingdom of Wall St.

I'm right now listening to CNN smokescreen on about Sanders lack of experience warmongering in the Middle East and other bullshit quibbles, and it's hilarious.  Still waiting on the million-dollar war-chest contribution from Goldman Sachs for Hillary giving a pep talk to the Wolves of Wall Street.  Lol.

That's one buff Giligan, eh?  Nice job there!

I think the subtext of the last three posts, Anas, is that you need to hire on Pixar, or at least Matt Damon and Ridley Scott and upgrade Tardigrades to a blockbuster 2001-esque space epic, for Occulus Rift. 

Yes, Neofeud has honest-to-Fox-Moulder aliens.  Maybe.  It's classified.

Other news: if anyone is interested in some voice acting, send me a message! 

Is there a way to set the Sierra dialog text to be aligned with the bottom edge of the speaker's portrait, as opposed to the top?  There are some scenes where a lot of the dialog is running over important on-screen action and I can't figure out a good way to handle this.  Thanks.

Long titles are pretty trendy nowadays with the hipster crowd