[DAY 34]

DAY 34 - April 22, 2011

• Not much today, just expanded the mask collection on the house from the previous post. If you can guess where they are from you get 0 points, because it should be obvious  

@Retro, Nugsy, Anty, and RadiationBlur

Thanks guys  And yeah, I'm surprised that more people don't follow the D-Pad blog. They are always posting cool stuff there.

Working on a new OpenGL renderer/scene manager for a stealth game prototype:

http://i.imgur.com/EBOeH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/M7Mt9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QaeVY.jpg

Adding security cameras, wall computers, steal-able artifacts and patrolling guards. Hopefully will turn into Deus Ex meets Arkham Asylum.

drool 

[DAY 33]

DAY 33 - April 21, 2011

• Working on some more background art, and improving my pixel art skills as I go. My speed feels like it's gotten about 10x faster in just a couple days.

I've been using them for about 12 years actually.  But mostly for illustration-type things and drawing online, to be honest.  I frankly haven't tried to do much pixel art with it, (not that I think there's anything wrong with that), but I do agree with Jesse: A stylus is never going to be entirely static, which is why I at least insist a mouse still has a place.  I also won't deny that my pixeling -entirely- by mouse might be a smidge unnecessary or inefficient.

Yeah, the hand quiver is definitely true. But that only really affects me when I am trying to draw really smooth raster lines. Since I do pixel art zoomed in really far it's never an issue for me.

Well actually I just meant do anything artwise, pixel art included. A tablet is just a mouse with faster and more precise control. The only reason you would be faster with a mouse is because you haven't invested enough time to adjust to the tablet. Anything that can be done with a mouse can be done faster with a tablet.

I'm a bit confused here, as in my experience: Pointing at and filling in individual pixels is just plain easier with a mouse.  I have to also question what size tablet we're talking about.  A huge one?  Sure, maybe tapping on them pixels isn't so bad.  I don't have a huge tablet though, so. 

I've used both a small 6x8 and a large 8x12-ish one that I currently have, and they are about equal speed. I was actually kind of disappointed with the large one because there is really no difference performance wise.

My point is that a tablet is the exact same as a mouse, except it is designed around the way humans naturally draw/write, which makes it easier to control. I don't understand how you could think a mouse could be better. Sure, it's usable because generally pixel art is like illustration except boiled down into a series of discreet decisions instead of broad, loose strokes, but that doesn't mean its better.

And how much have you used a tablet anyway? What you're saying sounds like something a person who has not used one much would say.

[DAY 32]

DAY 32 - April 20, 2011

• Still iterating on the environment art. Not quite the direction I was aiming for, but I'll keep working until I'm happy with it.

Why would you ever draw anything with a mouse? Seriously this shouldn't even have to be asked.

I just find the mouse waaay faster for pixel work (too much Dpaint use on the Amiga you see)

I think by "draw" he probably meant it in the traditional sense. It's pretty silly to draw with a mouse, but I think most people use one for pixeling. I still do, but I use my tablet for everything else.

I think the more interesting question is, do people generally draw with pen and paper and scan/shoot, or are more people using only digital these days? I'm the former.

Well actually I just meant do anything artwise, pixel art included. A tablet is just a mouse with faster and more precise control. The only reason you would be faster with a mouse is because you haven't invested enough time to adjust to the tablet. Anything that can be done with a mouse can be done faster with a tablet.

I thought we were on good terms Gabby.

We are, just telling phubans what's up 

1) I usually follow any kind of racist joke with "just kidding" and some disarming laughter. My friends note that I can say anything and get away with it because of this And chances are, if it were stuff of a racial nature I would very much be "just kidding" because you'd have to be stupid to take racism seriously.

This is the dumbest shit I've ever read.

Why are you bumping all of my old threads?

He has posted useless shit in every thread on the first 6 pages or so of the general forum.

Looks promising!

Not reading it yet but I just ordered a really interesting sounding book called Galore, which is based on Canadian/Newfie mythology, in a magical realism style influenced by Gabriel García Márquez.

Why so hostile? I'm just sharing my thoughts like everybody else.

jerk

Didn't mean to sound angry, just that most people don't post in every single thread from page 5 forwards in one sitting.

I don't have a small dick so I don't care about levels

This.

If you don't care about levels why did you just blitzkrieg the general forum with worthless posts?

[DAY 31]

DAY 31 - April 19, 2011

• Didn't have nearly as much time today as I would've liked, but I expanded the player house/village mockup some more to get a feel for the entire starting area instead of just the player house. I will probably be using the first mockup as a town hall type building and make the player's house a bit smaller.

Everything is WIP at the moment including roof colours etc. I haven't put much thought into the palette yet.

Also, Vikings on Trampolines looks fucking amazing (i love you snake).

Haha, this looks quite neat indeed 

almost

I've never seen anyone so snobbishly critical over a country as Europeans seem to be over Americans. What's that all about?

Oh, pffft, compared to Canadians, Europeans are pantywaists in this regard. For Europeans, it's just an observation. For us Canucks, it's a lifestyle.

It's true, and it's funny when you consider that Canadians are actually more wasteful per capita than Americans.

The US Office started off as a rip-off

Not even a rip-off, it was almost a word-for-word copy.

Why would you ever draw anything with a mouse? Seriously this shouldn't even have to be asked.

More entertaining is the belief that we are all a giant simulation inside a computer.

Seriously, this, even though it seems cheesy at first glance. But I read an article recently that basically stated if the values for the force gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces were just a little bit different, the universe would either be too chaotic for planets to spawn life, or too "quiet" for nebulous gas to ever form into suns, then it makes you think that someone has probably been tinkering with the variables of reality.exe.

Or there could be hundreds of trillions of parallel universes and we live in the one where all of the gravity and electro magnetism values are at the right number and as we speak there are a bunch of other universes where nothing is happening. I've been contemplating making my first "art game" and making it about parallel universes.

That's definitely possible as well. Isn't a "multiverse" the preeminent theory now anyway?