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I finished it in one sitting! I must say the plot beats me, but the game is great.

Does anyone else feel Yahtzee is kinda drifting towards making interactive movies?

What a waste of talent...

They're both beautiful inc. I'd love to have your touch with pixel detail.

The only thing that kinda looks a bit out of place is the rocks in the first bg. For some reason they seem too... well, "airbrushed".

Or maybe it's because I see blurry when I'm not wearing my glasses.Ã, 

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As for the reference, would these help at all?

And did someone just accuse me of TOO MUCH saturation?Ã,  That's never happened before.Ã,  I'm not sure how to react.

Oh, no!! I didn't accuse you 

I just thought the blue was a tiny bit too bright for a scary fellow, that's all. But I dig the sprite, for sure.

I think you've already improved the facial expression as far as possible. I've given it a go, but as you say there are only two or three pixels to work with.

Other things that may help.

- Add a couple of dark pixels below his crotch. The gap between his legs looks a tiny bit too long.
- Perhaps the color of his clothes is too bright to be menacing. Maybe a less saturated blue would help.
- Also his jacket looks a little too... elegant? I don't know. Maybe get rid of the buttons and make it a round-collar sweater.

I like the background ... I think it's fANTastic!

I particularly like the the Band of Brothers reference with the 506!

The only problem I can see is that the mountains in the background seem so richly detailed that it almost makes the foreground details seem ... unfinished.Ã,  But that's a minor thing.

I love it!

I fully agree with Darth.

Besides that, I'm not quite sure about having outlines in the foreground and no outlines in the background.

But it's excellent.

As usual.

Personally I look forward to Japan's admission to Eurovision.

As soon as Turkey and Rusia become part of the Union, they might as well admit China, India and Japan.

Whoa guys! That's plenty! Thanks!

Yes, that is what I mean. Her nose is very well defined with shadows (in the photograph), but yours does not have this, and I don't think your cheekbones shading matches well with the actual photograph. Is basic shading what you meant when you said minimalistic?

About fixing the hair (at the top of the forehead), perhaps you can also making it look less like a wig by having longer hairs that don't look like they take root just at the fringe?

Yes, by minimalistic I meant keeping detail to a minimum, including shading. I realise your point about the shades defining her nose. In fact, like Nacho points out, I think that's the main difference with the original portrait. making it a bit narrower might help. For the moment I just don't want to experiment too much with shades.

I think you're right about the hair. I'll try to implement your suggestion.

for me, looks like you' ve changed her race... She is caucasian and in your version looks black due the curly and black hair (Maybe you should attempt some browns on her hair?), and maybe because the lips are too big and the nose 5 or 6 pixels too wide, dunno.

Also, the right eye (The left eye, fore her) has too make up shadow, stare at it a moment and you' ll see it, too many black.

I think the nose makes a world of a difference. Hers looks narrower that my pic. I'll have a go at the hair like you say, but I just find it generally hard to draw...

I wasn't too happy with that eye, you're correct.

In a portrait, everything lies in the eyes. Step back and really digest the shapes and shades of her eyes, then try to portray them. This is not easy, this is hard as hell. I wish you good luck.

Agreed. Difficult indeed.

Thanks all for the crits!

It is wonderful, but it doesn't feel like the photo. Its a well don person, but its not THAT person.

That's interesting, actually. I thought I had managed to achieve a likeness, but I must have obviously spent way too long in front of the picture.

You could make the shading more "full" instead of just as outlines? Because right now, the shading under her hair makes her look like she's wearing a wig. Also, the exact straight shading line on the top of the forehead makes her look bald, and messes around with the depth of the picture.

I don't get your point about making the shading more "full". Do you mean shading large areas?

In any case, I agree with the rest of your comment. That can be fixed fairly easily, so I'll give it a go. It still leaves me with the hair problem, though.

It's almost as if you tried to perfect the girl in the photo. By doing this, you have omitted the details that make her beautiful. You need very little shading to recapture her, in my opinion. She has a pronounced divot between her nose and her lips (it's called a rhinostrum. Isn't that interesting?). Also, her two front teeth are slightly protrusive. Look at the corners of her mouth... the photo has heavy shadows between the front teeth and the corners of the lips. Your image does not.

I quite like those two points you make because they would make her come more alive, so I've tried to implement them.

Unfortunately, the shadows in the corner of ther teeth do not seem to add much to my picture (in the sense that they're barely noticeable). And I just can't get the rinostrum/filtrum/cleptosphyridium right. 

Penguin, that just rocks!

Lately I've been toying with this minimalistic technique (by minimalistic I mean to achive a facial likeness with as few lines and colors as possible):

To be honest, I'm pleased with the result. Still, I know this pic can do with some constructive criticism. Particularly with respect to the forehead hair (and with the hair in general, because I tend to find it very difficult to draw).





Paintovers super-welcome!

Okay, I have to go now, so here it is:

The House That Ate My Soul

cheers
nihilyst

I disagree with your readme file. Neither the story nor the interface is bullshit. Some ideas are actually quite interesting and the gameplay is original enough.

The only thing that kinda bothers me a little bit is the lack of response to some interactions, but I quite like the game overall. Great effort!

I found a fatal bug.

Spoiler

When I tried to use item number 7 outside the house (I can't remember which item it actually was), I get booted out of the game.

There were also some minor bugs, but since you said you probably woundn't fix them I didn't jot them down.

[close]

Once I made a step-by-step tute. I'm not sure if it helps, since it's probably too different from your style, but you may get some ideas.

http://www.geocities.com/pscribetute/

You need to cut and paste that link on your browser, otherwise geoshitties won't find the page.

Your guys are all correct (Scummbuddy, Darth, Nacho and Toumas). There are some perspective issues there that I need to fix.

I suppose I'll give it another go.

If this will be animated I would suggest in some way make the crowd ... broiling ... some kind of movement to show it's not 100,000 people sitting still!

Also (if animated) I would suggest camera flashes.

I've tried the flashes, but I couldn't make it look good. So I think it's likely to stay still.

(I'm at work, so can't do a paint-over!)

That's ok. I can wait til you get home...

It sucks... The seats should be red and blue, being clearly readable "FC BARCELONA" There should be three bleaches in the east side of the stadium, and two in the west one, making a stylish curve in the horizon of the stadium. The scoredboards should be outside of the edges of the stadium, not integrated in the "visor", which should just be in one of the sides of the stadium, not covering it all, making a silly feeling of being in a giant cauldroon.

If I wanted a Roman amphitheatre I would have drawn one

C'mon Nacho, you're good at this, give us some real crits!

Wow, very atmospheric. But I guess, you wouldn't see stars from this perspective.

You're right, those are buildings! 

[Edit:]

It is one of those European soccer stadiums. I guess it's pretty much functional for an intro/cut scene, but I would certainly love some help to improve it.

Thoughts?



Ignore the black frame. It's there for the GUI.

Edit: I've also noticed there are a couple of pixels out of place (where the scoreboard is, particularly). Ignore those too.

Luckily, that's what's coming up right now! ^_^

Just wonderful. Cheers.

Stupid question ahoy: are you still using your pen tablet at this stage?

It is beautiful.

I'd love to see the outlining technique you use for the drawings, like in some of the other threads you've posted in the past.

The food was bad! The referee was paid! The ball was remote controlled! The ladies were distracting! The whole game was set up!

YES!

And even though all these things happened, the Spanish won! YAY! for Spain!

Well, you Greeks are current European soccer and basketball champions. It's about time you left something for the others...Ã, 

Yay for Spain. They've finally won something. Luckily the basketball side has nothing to do with the soccer one. They've earned quite a few medals in the last few years and this is just the big bang they were missing.