Castle Paradox

[TwinHamster]

[PurpleSquerkle]

Fine. I'll take both and just ignore the mocking.

[Rinku]

You also have to realize that the Ohrrpgce community has a 10-year history of people doing exactly what you're doing: claiming to have great ideas for a game and wanting others to work on it with them, without telling them anything about the ideas or the game.

I don't know anyone (in this community or not) who creates really good games every week. I don't think it's possible. I know people who create really good games once a year or even once every six months, but let me also say that the amount of time you spend working on a game often has little to do with its ultimate quality. Talent and experience matter more than time spent, although obviously you do need some time.

I agree that people who like to go out with their friends every single evening probably won't have enough time to make a great game. But what I'm saying is: why should we value going out with one's friends every day as any more (or any less) a worthwhile pursuit than someone who works on on a hobby every day, or someone who does a mix of both? Any of those options can work, depending on what a person wants to do with his life and what they find the most enjoyable.

If you didn't mean to make fun of people, then fine, but you should learn to phrase it better than "have too many skills for their own good", because that sounds like mocking to me.
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[PurpleSquerkle]

Yes, see, the whole point was that I never said having no life was a BAD thing...

Please. Let's just forget about it; what needs to change about my second version?

Oh yeah, one more thing-

[Rinku]

I don't mind forgetting about it, but the very phrase itself implies it's a bad thing; also you conflate having no life with having no social life. If a social life were the only kind of life, then the best people in the world would be upper-class socialites who throw parties all day.

As for that sprite, I'm not a pixel artist, but I suggest using more distinct colors, rather than a vague blur of blue; I suggest outlining it and separating it into segments, giving it some type of eyes, separating its hands from its arms so that it doesn't seem like one mass (pandas do have thumbs). Most of all, I suggest reading over some pixel art tutorials.

Here's two examples of good panda-based sprites:

http://dofus.wikia.com/images/2/29/Panda_mal.png
http://dofus.wikia.com/images/9/98/Panda_fem.png
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[J.A.R.S.]

[Rinku]

Yeah, but there's also different kinds of social lives; there's social lives when a person has a positive impact on other people through friendship and advise, or on strangers through activism or diplomacy, or social life when a person just goes out to drink or to play pranks with friends, or has a negative impact on others through intimidating or abusing others. It can be positive or negative, just saying someone is social itself tells you nothing about any of that.
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[J.A.R.S.]

I didn't picture you as a karma believer Rinku? I am not very a strong believer in the notions of right or wrong. Nor religion for that matter, but that's another story... although quite relevant, but upon which we shouldn't debate in fear of triggering world war III.

[PurpleSquerkle]

That wasn't really the style I had in mind, but wow... I really like those. I may want to start over from scratch...

[Moogle1]

[Rinku]

It's not karma really. I certainly believe in right and wrong, but not in the supernatural sense, in the sense of what's beneficial or harmful to a person's life. Perhaps 'healthy/beneficial/strong' vs. 'diseased/unbeneficial/weak' would better convey what I mean than right and wrong.
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[J.A.R.S.]

I see the nuance, but this is yet a belief that one must accomplish good in his life right? Much say, like Nietzsche? I guess I'm a lil more on Machiaveli's side

[Rinku]

Not that one must, but that life must (or perish) and that one is happiest when one does. In other words, anyone is free to act wrongly if they want, but they shouldn't be surprised when it leads to their destruction or suffering as a natural result. If anything it's Aristotelian.
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[Calehay]

[Newbie_Power]