While enjoying yet another of my frequent insomnia bouts I sat down and played through 7DAS for about the umpteenth time. For some reason I had an interesting idea concerning everyone's favourite supernatural entity, Mr. John DeFoe - we all know what his adventure game sprite looks like, but what would he look like as a top-down RPG character?
Like I said, I got bored. Please excuse the pixel blurring, PhotoBucket doesn't like bitmaps and converts them into jpegs.
Drew the sprite from scratch, then cross-referenced it with the full-size sprite from 7DAS. I used this to correct the biggest problem; that being that I'd made the welding mask far too light and shaded it incorrectly. Aside from that (and the fact that from the front Mini Welder looks like a robot or alternately, Ned Kelly) I was happy with it.
And then I got bored again.
The table I took from a screen capture of 5DAS. I was going to draw some kind of background... "KillerCon '07" or something but didn't as I thought the stark white background suited it better; and I can't draw outside of pixels anyway. You will also note that my sense of humour utterly sucks; although I have to admit seeing a little kid running around dressed as the Welder would be rather awesome.
I'm also working on making a RPG-style sprite of the Caretaker. Funny though, all of my attempts to replicate his torn robe makes him look like a woman in a sleeveless dress.
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I got bored... Agony of the Mind, anyone?
#3
Posted 10 July 2007 - 03:10 AM
It's like the gnomes in Discworld: they have no more aggression in them than all the other races, but they're only six inches tall, and the same amount of aggression is compressed tenfold within them, making them more explosive when people try to screw around with them.
Anyway, I really like this RPG Maker-version of the Welder, well done, Legion. Perhaps you could rip Trilby's sprite from the C&T comic and make a top-down RPG-comedy-fangame-stuff.
Anyway, I really like this RPG Maker-version of the Welder, well done, Legion. Perhaps you could rip Trilby's sprite from the C&T comic and make a top-down RPG-comedy-fangame-stuff.
#4
Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:32 AM
Awesome, another Discworld fan.... remember Koom Valley!
And, double points to David-Kyo for guessing the reason I made an RPG Welder. I'm actually on the staff for one of the bigger projects in the rm2k community (although typical said project went arse-up ages ago).
In regards to getting the Trilby sprite, I'd love to do just that but naturally I would need Yahtzee's permission. Besides, I'm not sure my sense of humour would be up to the task. Unless everyone just wants ridiculous and/or obscene, in which case I'm your guy.
And, double points to David-Kyo for guessing the reason I made an RPG Welder. I'm actually on the staff for one of the bigger projects in the rm2k community (although typical said project went arse-up ages ago).
In regards to getting the Trilby sprite, I'd love to do just that but naturally I would need Yahtzee's permission. Besides, I'm not sure my sense of humour would be up to the task. Unless everyone just wants ridiculous and/or obscene, in which case I'm your guy.
I'm not pessimistic; I've just realised that the light at the end of the tunnel is an incoming train.
#5
Posted 10 July 2007 - 02:15 PM
You might want to know that being a Discworld-(Pratchett-)fan is supposed to immediately strike you off Yahtzee's love-list. I've been here for a while so it doesn't hurt my renomé any further.
Anyway, there are certain guidelines in which you have to operate when making a fangame, if you manage that, you should be OK.
Anyway, there are certain guidelines in which you have to operate when making a fangame, if you manage that, you should be OK.
#6
Posted 12 July 2007 - 07:09 AM
QUOTE (David-kyo @ Jul 11 2007, 05:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You might want to know that being a Discworld-(Pratchett-)fan is supposed to immediately strike you off Yahtzee's love-list.
Ah...so having that kid liking Pratchett in 5DAS was his way of dealing with not being able to stick Pratchett fans into haunted houses in real life?
#7
Posted 12 July 2007 - 07:14 AM
Yeah, perhaps. I wonder what Yahtzee's problem might be with Pratchett though, because while he usually explains his hatred toward certain people in his rants, all he said about Pratchett that he was a dick.
Maybe because he is immensely popular in his genre, I guess.
Maybe because he is immensely popular in his genre, I guess.
This post has been edited by David-kyo: 12 July 2007 - 07:15 AM
#8
Posted 12 July 2007 - 09:58 AM
QUOTE (Yahtzee @ Nov 24 2004, 20:50 PM)
Pratchett's books have been becoming very samey lately, and his writing style has an air of smugness about it. Also, I've heard some personal anecdotes that paint the guy as a dick.
I agree with all of that; I vaguely remember someone telling me about him refusing autographs or something.
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