Ask the people who keep funding the development of Dwarf Fortress.
Feeling you've contributed to something getting made has value, has it not?

Yeah, being good at one thing is a poor excuse for being bad at another.

Life isn't an RPG where the programming class can't equip the paintbrush, and where if you put all your points in art you are unable you upgrade your logic.

I don't know why you're making a big deal out of that. I bet most video game fans can't give you a clear definition of "game" either.

OK I tried for several minutes and I can't figure out what you're trying to say.

Or better yet: go run with a piece of cloth in the wind and try to replicate that. Perfect sine wave scarves are a bit cliché and boring imo.

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=25429.msg719558#msg719558

thatshelby died.

May his outtards rest in pieces.

For a moment I thought that was going to link to a post where he announces his departure from the forums.

No such luck.

What do you use to make gif animations of gameplay, a-la Hempuli!?  ?

Most engines should let you write the frames to a series of BMP files. After that, just import them with your image editor of choice and export them as an animated GIF.

Also, I'm kind of starting to wish there was a way to turn off usernames. It feels like I'm judging people's posts by who they are- A good post from a low-level no-name is just looked over, while a high-level mediocre post is enjoyed.

I gauge people by [average post quality] * [post count], which leaves high level posters who consistently make bad posts the worst off.

For the record, the member two posts above this post has held the title of Worst TIGForum Poster for over a year now (the post itself not helping the situation in the least).

v1.0
waiting for updates to install

It doesn't feel nearly as wrong as the fact that those rays of light aren't parallel or even converging!

the main reason I buy stuff from GOG is the fact all games are pre-patched or pre-configured to work with dosbox or whatever. any game, no matter how old, you just install and play.

Although for both games I got from gog, I had to find patches from other sources to get to run properly on my computer. I'm sure they do the best they reasonably can but it's no guarantee.

Pretty neat, but what's with the awful nearest neighbour scaling?

Did you guys know that Nausicaa was the main inspiration behind the lesser-known but fantastic (my favorite) cult-hit on the NES, Crystalis?

It also inspired parts of Captain Commando

Publishers will soon truly be obsolete.

haha who am I kidding they'll find a way to make crowd sourcing illegal or impractically cumbersome

The Nausicaä comic is Miyazaki's best work to date and any fan of his should read it.
related picture

Sort of hoping Ghibli will go back and make a series based on it and show the full story.

Ronald Reagan: Fist Fuck President?

wrong

@RAMINATION: I read this article by Matt Barton a while ago, and reread it just two days ago. I don't know if I agree with your and his point, but you might enjoy it since it seems to be exactly what you're saying. In any case it's pretty interesting.

(Or maybe that's where you got the idea in the first place??)

One idea: colour him like a regular robot master, but constantly cycle the palettes.
Though I guess this is probably tough to do with game maker, and better suited for Chrome Man or something :P

Another Idea: Play on the sprite flicker. Compose him out of many overlaid sprites but don't display them all at once.

no, a total of 6 + transparency. Since each sprite palette has to include transparency.