Does my character fit the role?

DakeDesu · 2005-06-23T15:22:36

Sticky please? Well, 1) On a few other sites, the idea of having one thread compared to several millions on a subject that can be grouped together is normally the prefered method. 2) For the first month of this contest I expect to see more "Is this a pirate", "is this a ninja", "is this a robot", or "is this a zombie". It is a trend already getting established. So like that there is a rules thread, and there is an inspiration thread I figured this thread is appropiate. I am requesting it be stickied so people notice it and we don't have the garbage of "oh! There is already a thread for this"... well, less garbage anyways. Once the trend has lessened, I request it gets unstickied. (Just to have it easy to find while it is still appropiate) Anyways, this thread's purpose is for people to present characters and they think they are a certain element. People comment and criticise the idea (constructive criticism, please). The idea with this thread is to group together the posts, in a environment where the thread can get to thirty pages in length, and they don't have to worry about reading anything other than the first and last pages. If something important keeps getting mentioned, an FAQ could be posted in this OP. edit edit edit: I am not sure if I didn't make this clear. The point of this thread is for anybody to ask about their characters and how they fit their roles. -=- I'll start off with a few that have been bugging me (for an example set of questions). 1) In my game, if you get into the story line, you learn that all the characters in the game a characters living in cyber world. Their origins are from various interactive multimedia. IE: They come from games. Some from ROMS. Others from ISOs. Heck even in the comic my Title Character to this game, even stars in a flash game. They are all fragments of computer programming that have become full computer programs in themselves. Could this possibly make every body in the game a robot? 2) The Title character, a ninja, if you follow the plot is Jewish. Now, some people might have a problem with this... is it a real problem? Can a character be both Jewish and a Ninja (I seriously doubt it, but then...) 3) One of the bad guys in my game is a corrupt sprite . He is missing important code, and continues to live by feasting on the living. Not so much like a vampyre as Corrupt GI Guy mainly goes for the code of the sprite. Which the code is like the brain of the sprite... and Zombies eat brains right? There is even one scene in my game where GI Guy (currently fused with a character that went into obscurity in the comic) is consuming an NPC. Could I call the characters based on Corrupt GI Guy (GI Radd2 and GI R-bot2) Zombies? 4) My main character is a robot--er--even in the game he is from, but I am trying to do a sprite that fits either 40x32 or 48x32. I have decided for "use of technology" for my entry to limit itself to the GBA technology so that a greater portion of the game can be ported to GBA later (so far in this contest nobody has presented a GBA emulator that has a license we can use). I also want to keep the characters similar to the characters in the comic I am basing it off of. So I won't be making many 64x64 sprites, except for cinematic stuff. However when I tried to sprite Guybot, , he just looks like somebody wearing psuedofuturistic clothing. Could I put it off as him being like the enemy robot from Terminator II (I believe his name was T1000)? Or is liquid silver robots a bad thing? [Edited by - DakeDesu on June 17, 2005 4:41:26 PM]

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Started by DakeDesu June 15, 2005 09:56 PM

10 comments, last by superpig 19 years, 2 months ago

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June 21, 2005 11:19 PM

my main character is a computer program that is basically a computer virus reprogrammed for good. he resembles a robot and doesn't speak. does this qualify as a robot?

in my game there are corrupted files infected by HLLP's (high-level language parasites) basically the equivelent of headcrabs. these corrupted files are driven by the desire to spread the HLLP's to other programs, they no longer function in their original purpose. would this qualify as a zombie?

also, i have ninja like viruses and hackers. would a hacker/software pirate be considered a pirate?

superpig

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June 23, 2005 03:22 PM

Mr krispyw said it best:

Quote: Original post by ricekrispyw
I think basically what's been said is that, if an outsider, unfamiliar with the contest, would say "Yeah, that game's got [insert combination of character types here] in it." then it's OK. Otherwise, it doesn't count.

At least, that's how I unsderstand it.

I should see about getting that into the FAQ...

Richard "Superpig" Fine - saving pigs from untimely fates - Microsoft DirectX MVP 2006/2007/2008/2009
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