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Now I can have you for me, Chooky!

Come to Ben 

Ah, so it is! Thanks for pointing that out, cat!

It does look very beautiful!

I'd take a look at some Deponia and A New Beginning screenshots.

Both are very beautiful. Neither are released yet.

Australia!

*beats off wild snakes and arachnids that are trying to inject him with toxic venom*

It's the place to be 

Ah, congrats on releasing it! Definitely one of the most polished games I've seen in AGS.

Some good points there ProgZ! I especially like how you did the arms.

Looks better, although I think the way her waist goes in now makes her look a bit too skinny!

Generally with smaller characters, especially when trying to avoid giving them too much femininity for their age with wide hips and breasts, I prefer to leave the midriff straight and merely imply that there is a narrower part there with the use of shadows:





But it looks good, and you avoided my unintentionally noodle-esque arms.

The first thing I noticed was the arms - the way they hang doesn't look natural, and in editing the arms I ended up editing other things that caught my attention as I went.




I tried to keep palette additions/modifications to a minimum, but changed the outline colour for the socks/shirt and the shadow colour for the shoes.

Some things I changed:

-Used hair outline colour to add volume to the hair.
-Added a hopefully more natural pose. You should be able to get away with having this sort of pose as a standing frame and going straight into walking frames, I'd say.
-Made her skirt a bit longer like the prude that I am.
-Made her shoulders a bit narrower.
-Other minor things like mouth and tie adjustments.

Hope it helps

[Ergo Proxy]

6. Ergo Proxy <-- A philosophical post-apocalyptic Anime with intriguing artwork and music.

I did enjoy this, but wasn't expecting quite so much weirdness when I bought it. If you go in expecting it to be anything like the trailer, then just watch the first 3 episodes, I guess. After that... prepare yourself for basically anything 

I would say it would be easier to individually adjust each walkbehind's baseline to achieve what you're trying to do!

The way the graphics in your games are constantly getting more and more attractive, I wouldn't mind if you too introduced a half-naked elf once in a while, Ben.

But no robo/future/space men. Those do nothing for me.

Thanks

I guess all of my future banners will now look like this:

It's pretty much all half-naked elves now (and some robo/future/space men when they can't think of a reason to put a half naked elf in there).

Haha how adorable

Man, games used to be marketed so differently!

SSh is in Singapore, isn't he?

But IndieBoy! And other Scottish AGSers

I usually like to give hard corners, but other than that I usually use the one pixel lines as well. Every now and then I'll have thicker lines, because I want a bolder effect.

So beautiful   :'(

I am totally in there, spamming Vince with nonsense

And also looking at parts of the game I've never seen before

Here is a guide Mike Rose wrote about simple indie games marketing that could be of some use: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelRose/20091212/3798/The_Idiots_Guide_to_Marketing_Your_Indie_Game.php

Oh yeah, that looks amazing

Have you considered downsizing the backgrounds you have, and using the painted backgrounds with pixeled sprites over top?

Other than that, perhaps you could make it all in 3d, and put in FPS elements! Make it like the old Outlaws game