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Messages - tcaud
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General Discussion / Re: Mockup Tools I made
« on: August 12, 2013, 08:55:03 am »
How wonderful. The latest version of Firefox breaks the layout in my addon because it gets rid of the file input box, replacing it with a button and text that bleeds all over the layout. This means war.

Alright I fixed the layout. This next version will allow the imposition of images onto the background, over which obstacles zones can be laid. This way mockups can be converted to games instantly.

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General Discussion / Re: Pixel Art Wiki
« on: August 12, 2013, 08:51:06 am »
My goodness... have you ever looked at a car? It'll gleam white at the reflection of the light and be two shades pretty much everywhere else. It's direct observation.

It's turning out to be a pretty good resource for my benefit... if you don't agree, don't contribute.

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General Discussion / Re: Pixel Art Wiki
« on: August 12, 2013, 02:21:38 am »
As I said before, foundations matter. You must understand the standard before you can begin to rebel against it.

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General Discussion / Re: Animal walk cycle strips
« on: August 11, 2013, 12:20:17 am »
Lookup old games on Youtube with chimeras (like Magic Sword).

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General Discussion / Re: Pixel Art Wiki
« on: August 10, 2013, 11:45:23 pm »
Are you involved with game development? Then or now?

Professionally? Yes and no. (and it's irrelevant to the matter at hand... I can offer opinion if I will, free discussion).

I see problems and I'm looking for solutions.

I guess raising the profile of artists is one way to go about it. Nameless artists have little creative control.


On another tangent, what do you think about this edit?

http://wikipixels.gamestargcs.net/index.php?title=Palettes_Applied&oldid=165

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General Discussion / Re: Pixel Art Wiki
« on: August 10, 2013, 11:17:45 pm »
That sounds like a very good idea... specific attention to portfolios has been missing. Leaving it to contributors to create their own page has the downside of no one but them being able to edit their page. So you're right in that biography should be relied upon, rather than autobiography.

So on the matter of unoriginality, I take it that NDAs hamper artists and basically put a choice in their hands of "draw what we tell you to draw, or go it completely alone". It's a matter of power imbalance between the project leads and their relationships with the suits, and the people who are essentially. When teams were small there was balance between leader and staff, which resulted in the wild creativity of the early years. Now with larger teams there is risk of outright mutiny, so the project lead is given more control and the power to make people do as they are told. In other words, egos with high charisma and low talent are ruining the industry.

What if games were marketed explicitly for art? I've noticed a few Kickstarters around that theme but they don't appear to have been very successful, maybe because they didn't involve many people.

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General Discussion / Re: Pixel Art Wiki
« on: August 10, 2013, 08:29:41 pm »
That's what needs to change, then. If the pipeline can't produce compelling product, it needs to be questioned. This leads me to believe that a free-lance industry would be a stronger industry, if there is indeed a negative correlation between producer control and creativity.

I see three solutions:
- accelerated creativity
- longer-term financing
- broader employment base

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General Discussion / Re: Disappearing pics
« on: August 10, 2013, 08:13:36 pm »
It's also breaking links to the site from other places, because all of those links are pointing to wayofthepixel.net/pixilation

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General Discussion / Re: Disappearing pics
« on: August 10, 2013, 07:32:32 pm »
It's a site issue. The /pixelation folder is gone and now all threads inside it fail to link and, on this site, all broken links fail to appear.

You need to fix that asap. Half the site is offline because of it.

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General Discussion / Re: Pixel Art Wiki
« on: August 10, 2013, 06:42:50 pm »
I look at it this way: we see all this creativity on this forum... but when do we ever see that in a game? Practically never.

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