Hi everyone!
That was intense...
this totally deserve a proper response, so I have come with a solution!!
ahah, No, this is not going to happen, we’ll keep the original one
I will explain why, but first, thanks to every one of you for taking the time to comment, (I would really like to respond personally to all of you, like I usually do, but this time it’s going to be impossible ^_^U),
The reasons why I’m not going to use this is because someone could argue that is not physically possible to remove your trousers like that
and, now the real reason; because the personality of the character is not this kind of clumsy, Guybrush's jokes.
She is more like Ripley/Sarah Connor ( but way sweeter ) who doesn’t care about people seeing her legs. She does it because she wants to. Also, this is kind of a tribute.
Having to explain all this bothers me a little, (I guest at this point it's necessary) because I'm the kind of person who prefer telling stories where each one can imagine the character whatever way they want. Fuzzy context, I think they call it.
Same goes for the panties... I drew panties, not a tong, but if someone wants to see a tong that is up to him/her and I’m totally okay with people imagining what they want ... pixel art at this scale is wonderful to achieve this.
Now, for the intro we thought about showing her in the bed reading something on a tablet (the classic “push start” screen) but now we are thinking about showing her fixing something with tools and stuff, so people can understand better who she is y why she is wearing those clothes from the beginning.
And finally, to be honest, I’m not totally happy with the timing of the original animation, I think this can be improved, she must jump in the moment that the trousers touch the floor instead of waiting that long, but this is only the result of my limited skills as an animator, nothing more.
Now, my personal opinion about all that have been happening here xd
This has made me a bit sad, because we put a lot of work and love into all the scenes of the main menu, and now, it seems like it’s the whole panties-issue that is catching peoples’ attention..and of course, this wasn’t planned, we are not that good
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I’m going to avoid responding to prejudices and offensive comments which insinuate wrong things because I just don’t have the need. To become obsessive about what people say about your game is not productive. And I’m not going to start arguing about what is okay and what is not, we all here have our own ideas.
But as you can imagine, in this case, I don’t agree with some of the opinions expressed here. I mean, I understand the point about how females are treated in videogame (and in many other contexts too) but I feel like people here are fighting at the wrong place, using 6 pixels to make a point of principles that doesn’t have anything to do with our game. It’s exaggerated.
Speaking for myself, I have no problems with the human body. And 6 pixels of pornographic humiliation of women, for me it’s more related to beauty than sex. She is not making silly sexy poses or dancing, she drops her pants to be more comfortable wearing the armour, nothing else.
This game is about killing demons (in their majority naked :O) not by showing tits, but by crushing them with a, not at all sexy, servo-armor.
To summarise, we really appreciate the feedback and all the opinions, but in this case, as I have already said, we are going to keep it. I think if someone has anything more to add to this debate it would be super cool to open a new thread only for that purpose
Now, I hope we can move on with our lives (sigh)
If you are still reading at this point
, I want to respond
@RealityShifter Thanks!Yep, agree with you, the scale of Risk of rain was a bit risky, we are going to try something like the mock-ups
@Netsu Thanks! Yep!, the game will also on linux
Thanks again for all your support guys, at the end of the day, all this means that people care about the game, and for that I'm really grateful to all of you.