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by Tyrantauranox
Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:22 pm
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Arachne's Writing Samples (Challenge me with a prompt?)
Replies: 4
Views: 596

Re: Arachne's Writing Samples (Challenge me with a prompt?)

It all looks solid to me. I imagine that some of your visual descriptions would be trimmed once all the art is in place.
by Tyrantauranox
Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:19 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Questions for artists //help
Replies: 16
Views: 2403

Re: Questions for artists //help

It might be brainstorm time! I'd go someplace away from computers with a pen and paper, and start jotting ideas down. This works best if you can drag one of your creative buddies along to bounce ideas off of. Creative superpowers like Pixar do this very thing.
by Tyrantauranox
Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:12 pm
Forum: Other Story-based Games
Topic: Xblaze: A VN without narration
Replies: 2
Views: 1497

Xblaze: A VN without narration

Xblaze- Code: Embryo launched in North America on June 24th. It took me awhile to realize it, but this VN has NO narration whatsoever. It's 100% voiced dialog, with a few bits of monologue slipped in. This approach seems to work quite well, but it's probably expensive on the development side, since ...
by Tyrantauranox
Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:04 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Need tips for finding artists
Replies: 22
Views: 3009

Re: Need tips for finding artists

I agree with some of the others that have indicated that the unwillingness to pay is the main problem. It creates two major barriers: 1) Unpaid gigs are generally put behind even the cheapest paid tasks, and nearly anything else that the artist needs or wants to do. I'd expect an artist to put aside...
by Tyrantauranox
Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Websites
Replies: 5
Views: 2023

Re: Websites

I've used 1&1 for years, and have never had any problems with them. I've never used any of their site-building tools, though.

I'd look into some templates for building a site, if I were me: http://html5up.net/
by Tyrantauranox
Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:41 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Good batch resizers?
Replies: 5
Views: 903

Re: Good batch resizers?

I'll throw in a 2nd vote for Irfanview
by Tyrantauranox
Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:49 pm
Forum: Asset Creation: Art
Topic: Commission prices?
Replies: 8
Views: 1648

Re: Commission prices?

As others have said, your art's worth whatever the market will bear. I don't care if you're 40 or 4, if the goods are up to snuff. To answer the actual question, I'd charge $25, and let someone wiggle it down to $20 if they're nice about it. If someone said something like "young artists don't deserv...
by Tyrantauranox
Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:55 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: CGs vs "cartoonized" or filtered photos
Replies: 17
Views: 2405

Re: CGs vs "cartoonized" or filtered photos

I think well-done photo manipulations can yield decent results. I do a combination of both photo editing and 3D, myself. A building might be modeled and rendered, but common trimmings like bushes, trees, and the sky may be cut out and edited from photo sources.
by Tyrantauranox
Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:42 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: True Endings
Replies: 10
Views: 1904

Re: True Endings

I like how Tsukihime did endings. Most of the routes had at least two endings, and reaching every possible ending unlocked an epilogue that didn't reference the specifics of any route.
by Tyrantauranox
Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:44 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Yousei (Commercial, Murder Mystery, Supernatural)
Replies: 37
Views: 22203

Re: Yousei (Commercial, Murder Mystery, Supernatural)

Ooh, I bought this one at A-kon!
by Tyrantauranox
Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:38 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Guilty Pleasure Anime
Replies: 81
Views: 20718

Re: Guilty Pleasure Anime

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi, for when I don't want to use the brain
by Tyrantauranox
Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:13 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Do you play as same or opposite gender?
Replies: 234
Views: 39452

Re: Do you play as same or opposite gender?

I play as same gender, a lot of people don't, so I wouldn't be bothered by anyone that played as opposite gender.
by Tyrantauranox
Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Love to design games... Can't math.
Replies: 16
Views: 3306

Re: Love to design games... Can't math.

As a game designer, I don't use super-complicated math much. Usually it's not much more than (PSEUDO-CODE EXAMPLE) "Create a black box that covers exactly half of the screen: MakeBlackBox(width = the width of the screen divided by 2; height = the height of the screen) <- This isn't real code! Now, y...
by Tyrantauranox
Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Do you ever feel like your game is not good enough?
Replies: 32
Views: 4703

Re: Do you ever feel like your game is not good enough?

All the time. Fight it off by getting some feedback. I tend to feel much more confident after I've had people test and provide their opinions. (plus a round of edits and fixes, of course)
by Tyrantauranox
Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Lemma is in Austin :)
Replies: 7
Views: 1915

Re: Lemma is in Austin :)

Austin is a pretty fit town, overall. If I wasn't summering in Dallas, I'dve been up for meeting.