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Good guess but nope.

Hope this isn't too easy:

Kung Fu Hustle?

Lol that font didn't leave enough room for the Randy in Randy Savage?

Frost vs Nixon?

Haha I've got to play it!  This looks so interesting. Cool artwork too!

^Yeah good point. And artists who develop a reputation for themselves as being reliable, fair, and capable of quality work tend to snowball demand from bigger and bigger projects and repeat purchasers. One pixel artist I was working with had way more work than he could handle. He was turning projects away or scheduling them for later in the year, which meant clients had to be even more specific with their demands when their turn came around (made for less concept work on his side).

If anyone had the time to measure it, the phenomenon probably follows the 20/80 rule where these business minded artists make up 20% of total artists for their art category but capture 80% of the market.

Wow I would fire every one of those idiot employees. If any of them begged for their job, I'd grab them by the collar, pull them close, and whisper in their ear, "get out while you've still got those pretty eyes." Then get your broken finger replaced by one encrusted in diamonds. Buy a fedora and cane and have the new batch for idiot employees refer to you solely as Doctor Diamond Touch. If any of them even start to screw up a little, get their attention from afar, put a quieting finger over your lips, and hold up a photo of their children. Theatrically drag your diamond finger across your throat and fold the photo up. Put it back in your shirt pocket. Pretend it never happened.

I used to draw elaborate adventure games in notebooks when I was around 10 years old. I knew from that early age that making adventure style games would be a part of my life. I was really happy to find this community back in...2005 I think? To this day, I feel like the community here is more 'my people' than any other group I have been apart of, both in the real world and online. I don't have the luxury of working on games much now given the demands of family and my profession, but I have plans to make it a very central part of my life when I'm a bit older, my kids off to uni, and I'm able to have a bit more time to myself. 

They're sold in packs like icons, and the people who buy them I think will tend to do it before they start a game, and if the pack allows they can build their whole game from that.

OK point taken, but it still strikes me as an extremely niche business model that requires an extreme amount of up front work before the artist gets paid. OP, you're really planning on developing a pack of hundreds of images like this? Wouldn't it be easier to use these preliminary images as demos of your skill and then try to get yourself recruited as a key artist for a game with a production budget?

Old Boy?

They're nice models, but who would pay for this sort of thing? It would have to be a designer that is already working on a game with this specific style, right? Maybe I don't understand the market fully, but I wouldn't expect these to be much in demand, at least not nearly as much as high definition backgrounds or pixel work.

I have paid for a lot of pixel artwork in the past (mainly through fiverr but also through upwork), and I would say your pay scale looks pretty accurate. But why do you write 'just short of professional' for someone with obvious skill and able to charge prices that I assume could become their full time income?

On a side note: I'm in support of more conversations regarding how people can/are using AGS to build revenue models. I mean, we all love developing and playing games. Why should it be taboo to talk about strategies for bridging this into our professional lives?

Yep, starring Jessie from Saved by the Bell.

How about this gem:

Love the art! That's my weekend sorted. Thanks! 

Cool! Going to check it out! 

I see many people have written they want to be "a fully time AGS'er". I guess that means making money from their games? That's great if people are actually able to make a living from doing that!

Wow, I thought I had seen most of Lynch's stuff. Somehow missed Rabbits. The episodes have been strung together on YouTube, if anyone else is interested:

Here's my humble interpretation:

Spoiler

Maybe I'm being too literal, but I thought the entire thing was based on some dark family secret that happened at the hands of Jack. The family is obviously working class and in need of his income, so everyone --including a guilt stricken Jack-- is holding on. The dialogue is partly each character's internal monologue and partly a real dialogue.

I found a completely different interpretation online which is a much more complex story (kind of interesting):


JACK: I need to tell you something. I almost forgot. I have a secret.
SUZIE: Oh?
JACK: I will bet you are both wondering.
JANE: Are you going to tell?
JACK: I am not sure.
SUZIE: When will you tell it?
JACK: I am not sure.
JANE: I'm going to find out one day.
JACK: Let me tell you.
(Seeing that they will eventually learn the secret anyway, Jack tells them his secret.)

(Jane has her own secret, too. The next day after Jack's revelation, she also opens up.)
JANE: There is something I would like to say to you, Suzie. No one can know about this. It happened like that earlier. (referencing what Jack experienced and his revelation about it) I was speaking about the other night. I have known since I was seven. (There may be an age discrepancy between Jack and Jane)
JACK: Since then? Who could have known?
JANE: I saw it too.
JACK: It happens all the time.
JANE: It happened to me only once. I almost forgot.
JACK: When did you go out? (and the demon got in?)
JANE: I went earlier, when it was just light. And then, there it was.
SUZIE: Where was it exactly, do you remember?
JANE: I was near the harbor after it happened. It was raining.
JACK: I knew that was what happened each time I thought about it. (Probably back then, Jack felt that Jane experienced possession, but he didn't dare to talk about it until today, when Jane herself opens up.)
JACK: Where was I? (Why didn't I try to protect you?)
SUZIE: You could not do anything? (to Jack, kind of blaming him)
JACK: No. Nothing.
SUZIE: Why? (again, questioning, as the only person who has not yet experienced possesion)

JANE: I do not know where Jack is.
SUZIE: He goes to work each morning, and then he comes back home each night. It has always been like that. (The two women are naturally worried about Jack's state when he is not at home, the only place they feel safe.)

(Jack comes in and we hear loud applause, because he managed to come home safe and sound one more day!)
JACK: Were there any calls?
SUZIE: There have been no calls today.
(The devil gives them occasional calls, reminding them of their utter doom and they are anxious about these calls.)

(The they hear noises outside the door.)
JACK: I hear someone.
SUZIE: I heard it too.
JANE: I could hear it also.
SUZIE: It must be the rain. (trying to soothe/deceive herself)
JACK: It is the rain. (acceptng the soothing illusion)
JANE: I do not think it is the rain. (facing the reality)
JACK: Quiet.
SUZIE: It was the voice of a man. (finally verbalising the feared thing)
(Jack goes out to look.)
JACK: It was a man in a green suit.
(The man in the green suit of course is the devil, just dropiing by to disturb them.)

SUZIE: There was a call for you, earlier in the day.
JACK: Who was it? (Suzie does not answer, because the caller's identity is obvious.)
JACK: Did he say anything? (Suzie does not answer, maybe the caller didn't say anything at all, or said things too scary to tell.)

(But the phone rings once again! Jack answers this time, after a long pause of hesitataion.)
JANE: Who was on the phone?
JACK: It was the man in the green coat. (Two calls in one day?!) It may have been a coincidence. A coincidence. (Again trying to soothe the women, but Suzie's doom is close.)

JANE: It is still raining. (trying to break the silence, but the others remain silent) I said it looks like it is still raining.
SUZIE: When did you say that? (I wasn't even listening to you.) It is still raining. (saying the same sentence as Jane, pointing at the fakeness of this attempt to break the silence)
JANE: All day. All day. (twice)

JANE: Do not forget that today is Friday. (Do possessions take place on Fridays? Probably. Jane warns Suzie.)
SUZIE: What time is it?
JACK: It must be after 7:00 p.m.
SUZIE: Is it that late?
JACK: It may even be later.
SUZIE: (after checking the time herself) It is 8:35 p.m. (Do possessions take place late at midnight? Probably. That's also why whenever the time is mentioned, we hear a laughter, which points to the doom getting closer and closer. The clock is ticking haha!)

JANE: It is 11:15 p.m., it is dark outside.
SUZIE: And getting darker. There is no moon tonight. (Suzie starts getting really afraid.)
JANE: Well then, it must be very dark. I do not think it will be much longer now. (Get ready, Suzie!) I was wondering when Suzie was going to do that. (She is the last one and her time finally came!)
SUZIE: I wonder who I will be. (The possession turns you into someone/something else, Suzie wonders what her transformation will be like.)
JACK: Do not forget what I have told you. When it happens, you will know it. (As an 'experienced' friend, he gives advice to Suzie.)
SUZIE: I am going to get them. (She is desperately hoping that she can battle these demons in some way.)
JANE: I only wish that they would go somewhere. (She is more hopeless. Rather than battling, she just wishes that they would just go away.)
JACK: We are not going anywhere. (Jack is possessed at this point, and it is the demon inside him talking, telling Suzie that they are not going anywhere, so stop battling!)
SUZIE: I have heard those things being said before. (I don't believe you. I can manage! I can resist!)

SUZIE: It's past midnight! (The time for me has come!)

SUZIE: There is something here! (confronting her demon) Where was it? (It is gone, probably because it is inside her now.) I have misplaced it. I am sure of it now. (misplaced = within herself) Where is it that you think I meant? (What I meant is inside myself.)

JACK: Were you blonde? Suzie? (during your possession?)
SUZIE: It did not happen that way. (So different people experince it differently.) It was red. (explaining the red color coming inside when the door is opened by itself and we hear the characters screaming.)

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