xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

None of this shit would've happened if I didn't had this anti-art attitude during my elementary school years.

My mind correlated art (regardless of it's form) with painting and "no fun allowed" old ladies who took the thing seriously and worshiped a time period that even predates them. Of course, I blame the mandatory art classes that also had professional painters teaching them. I also had shitty hand-writing and nobody could help me because I'm left-handed and have other dexterity issues, but if it weren't for those, I probably would have never gotten into computers in the first place because I had an AlphaSmart because of it.

I can appreciate art now and I realized that it was stupid of me to correlate all art with classical Renaissance paintings. I can draw somewhat, but I can only do full frontal or behind shots. I can't draw from angles. I can also do some pixel art, but working within those constraints is difficult. Case in point 16x16 character sprites.

Octorok-like enemies now shoot after walking a certain distance instead of being timer-based. SFML's built-in timers run with no way to pause which is why you often see them shooting when the player enters a room. This is honestly a better approach to this.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #SFML #cplusplus

>Finally decide to replace the placeholder player sprite in my game with an original creation
>Use a simple, CC0 base character spritesheet from OpenGameArt (link below)
>Realize that I can't draw hair on a 16x16 sprite
>Also realize that I can't pull a Miyamoto and draw hats

https://opengameart.org/content/base-character-spritesheet-16x16

Something to think about:

So apparently 4chan now requires an email address to post. At this point, they might as well ditch the anonymity and just have accounts like a regular forum.