Josh 'Cheeseness' Bush Thanks for sharing! It's nice to get this early glimpse into the project and your perspectives at this point. I've been curious to see how you'd approach tech terminology for characters vs characters, tiles vs tiles, etc., and a little happy to find that I'm not the only one who stumbles with that stuff. As you were talking about the animation challenges you were facing, I was starting to wonder if treating the head and body as different objects and animating their relative positions (I notice that you don't have movement constrained to the character-tile (charxel?) width), but that feels like it would also work against the kind of it-has-to-feel-like-ascii-art goals you have. I'm looking forward to seeing how you tackle that as you hone in on your art style/aesthetic.

July 1, 2015 06:41:19 · Reply

Aubrey Hesselgren "Walking is a series of controlled falls." Classic.

July 1, 2015 09:07:10 · Reply

Christopher Just a thought on your art-making process - have you tried parsing external images and collaging them together? It might help to introduce some of those glitches and weird character uses naturally, rather than trying to force it. Or maybe run your characters through the ascii parsing process a couple of times and see what emerges? photocopy of a photocopy type of stuff.

July 1, 2015 10:29:13 · Reply

SNDTST I have a boxed copy of Novel DOS 7 and actually had it set up in a network in my house. I remember it had some network multi-player game (kind of like it's version of QBasic's nibbles.bas.

November 2, 2014 00:00:25 · Reply

Alyxx Sad story about Gary... he was a great guy but not the best businessman...

November 2, 2014 12:21:10 · Reply

Dennis Andree Damn - LGR, I became a Patron because of your game reviews, but I stick around because of stuff like this. Great video! Tech Tales is a great new series in your portfolio. Seriously, you should think about making a full-sized documentary about stuff like that. Great work, thumbs up!

November 2, 2014 17:37:11 · Reply