Topic: Pixel Art

@irken: i'm pretty sure that's the ugliest couch i've ever seen... not sure it qualifies as pixel ART...

I'd say that's your best art yet, StarBoy! Great job!

@irken: Wow... for some reason... I almost want that couch!

Dear everyone,

Recently Flash ticked me off with its ugly syntax, so I decided to try something new. Namely, Lua and C. All went well for awhile, but I gradually learned that Lua has great limitations and that I hate memory management in C. Therefore, I will be finishing up my Ninja game and possibly making another platformer either in Flash or Python (aka, downloadable game) next.

Cheers.

I vote Flash.

@pix: lol, i see your love affair with Lua has cooled rather rapidly :3

also, i wouldn't mind playing a downloadable game from you, if it means you'd be able to get it out to us any easier and/or quicker. i know you hate flash, lol.

Fun fact: I made a Metroid-style platformer in Python in a single day.

@Adam: If I make it in Flash, it'd be fifty million times harder to make a level editor.

Give me this Metroid game.

No!

_{a) it's not that great, and b) I'd have to boot up my broken Windows and compile it for you, which I'm not going to do!}

If it's not that great, then saying you made it in one day is perhaps not something to brag about. I prefer Flash because it's cross platform (assuming the prospective player is not an iPad user, but in that case, who cares about him) and someone with only marginal interest only has to click a link to play and find out if he likes it. I know I only download a game if I'm near certain I'll like it.

But you should just finish the current game and think about this later. This is no time to be distracted!

Thanks, pixelsbuddy.

@Adam: From a coding standpoint it's impressive, mostly because a lot of the functionality is there and the code is super-clean. It's just not polished (no title screen, for example), there are only 3 different enemies, the art is bad, and the level design isn't the best out there.

Plays just so he can see the death animation

_{yaaaaaaaaaaaaay}

Pix!! There is work to be done! You're not getting paid unless I see progress, now stop dilly dallying.

_{grumble grumble flash sucks grumble mumble.}

Agreed, Python > Flash.

Also, I've found that you can substitute just about any programming language for that first variable, and the statement will magically still evaluate to true.

Flash may still be the best way to get a game online for cross-platform playability in any web browser, but the future will hopefully lie in the direction of new standards like HTML5 and related technologies (for which Google has effectively ported Quake just for fun, albeit in a form that only one or two browsers can currently support).

@warioswoods: Ahh cool, so you program? I didn't know that. Do you make games or what? :3

I'm appalled at how badly Flash's syntax is designed. It's easy enough to learn, but it's tedious and looks messy. Python = <3

Oh and,

@pix: i'm not gonna lie... i'm loving the monochrome look you got there... the screen, especially the last... does look pretty busy and rather hectic, but the style... pretty cool.

Thanks bro. :3 I just made it a little less busy.