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by dott.Piergiorgio
Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:29 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: What drawing softwares do you use?
Replies: 43
Views: 4746

Re: What drawing softwares do you use?

well, everyone here known that I'm a Linux/Opensource extremist ;) so the flagship is The GIMP, and I use also Inkscape, Blender, Xfig, and for the quick'n dirty doodling, one or another of the dozen or so of small paint/drawing program I have around. and also I program in POV and the good old DKBTr...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:15 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Your first ever video game.
Replies: 158
Views: 22550

Re: Your first ever video game.

well, myself being 41 and a historian by mindset & formation pls bear a little patience. the first videogame I can remember playing is an monochrome breakout or invader game played somewhere on a beach along the Domitian Coast, circa summer of 1975 or 1976, I still remember that the coin was a 5...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:51 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness

uhm... what I was conveying with the visuals is that the brief flame of creativity is often followed by the fading away and dusts of forgetfulness, and IMVHO your suggested wording gives the opposite ambiguity, that some day something more or less complete surfaces, when I want to suggest with the w...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What you see looking outside of your window?
Replies: 95
Views: 9552

Re: What you see looking outside of your window?

mh..... I suggest to be really careful in investments &c., what you report is a sure sign that .au will soon follow the bad burst Japan, US and EU already have haved....

Best regards from Italy,
dott. piergiorgio.
by dott.Piergiorgio
Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What you see looking outside of your window?
Replies: 95
Views: 9552

Re: What you see looking outside of your window?

@Mugen: very cool as modern house ;) but this type of interior design can't be applied to my 100+ years old villa, with their thick 1mt. tuff walls)

@ AC: high real estate price in Australia ???? what ?? with all that undeveloped land around ?
by dott.Piergiorgio
Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:13 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness

alex... ahem.... the first two lines are the same lines on the skeleton you get from Ren'py when you create a new project, whose by chance fit well in the picture and message and the actual original line is the last, on which I will like to hear your opinion. And yes, Alex, you have a great good poi...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:17 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Post your photo
Replies: 1176
Views: 159161

Re: Post your photo

@wingzofdarkness: I hope you don't get offended that I nominate you for "2011 LSF bishonen of year" ;)

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
by dott.Piergiorgio
Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Post your photo
Replies: 1176
Views: 159161

Re: Post your photo

Lumen_Astrum wrote: Sheesh, I don't really like posing in front of the camera, so I stayed in the side XD
It's my impression, or seems that you looks a bit unenthutiastic and annoyed in your expression ?
Only a curiosity, you don't need to reply....

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
by dott.Piergiorgio
Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:56 am
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness

because you must look, not read ! :D put it simply, the first screen, with sylvie quickly left, then right, represent the swirling of excitement and expectation, then the still, first sylvie fading to sepia (a colour representing the ancient, past things more or less forgotten) then disappearing con...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:22 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Do you add copy-protection to your game, and if yes how?
Replies: 36
Views: 4296

Re: Do you add copy-protection to your game, and if yes how?

Agree, jack, and actually I have done more, because I apply the Naval saying "the best watertight door is no watertight door", and there are a permanently offline computer around ;)

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
by dott.Piergiorgio
Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:56 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Songs of Araiah [Remake]
Replies: 47
Views: 6954

Re: Songs of Araiah [Remake]

@DrakeNavarone: I will buy this game, but because I strongly mistrust electronic money, at due time we will look on how to send the payment, but what really worried me is that a customer feels entitled to ask questions on tiny details of the background, and I can't say where can led the dictum "...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:38 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Do you add copy-protection to your game, and if yes how?
Replies: 36
Views: 4296

Re: Do you add copy-protection to your game, and if yes how?

meh... Personally I strongly disagree on online playing, even solo, because this will invariably led the dissenting party (that is, the hackers) to charge frontally the online servers, and this not because of piracy or cracking, but because their mindset is naturally against every form of control (c...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:23 am
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: [6.12.2] failure to open offline documentation
Replies: 2
Views: 761

Re: [6.12.2] failure to open offline documentation

Indeed I'm known for being an irriducible Linux supporter, up to pestering authors for the -Linux and -all release ;) and I'm investigating this bug in my spare time, but I haven't find nothing, at least for now.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio
by dott.Piergiorgio
Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:31 pm
Forum: Skill Development
Topic: Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Incostanza: a coffee cup about fickleness

well, I place this in "skill development" because is a proof of concept inspired by: - lordcloudx's "so you want..." teacup KN - the occasional debate on placeholders graphics - the teacup VN idea of lordcloudx - the good results with stock or slight edited well-known sprites and...
by dott.Piergiorgio
Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:50 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Do you add copy-protection to your game, and if yes how?
Replies: 36
Views: 4296

Re: Do you add copy-protection to your game, and if yes how?

hmmm.... my apologies, Jack, for not being 100% clear, but at least you get part of the point when you wrote "work of love and art", because videogames, you known better than me, are content-centered, and this keeps viable the propiertary game market, both big corporations and small indies...