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Re: [Concept] Quarterly Community Magazine
« Reply #120 on: May 04, 2010, 11:21:07 pm »
If we write such articles, we need to make sure the said projects are very advanced, though, in terms of completion. We need to avoid discussing about projects where only a title screen and rudimentary engine is done, since they still have small chances to be completed at such early stage of completion.

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Re: [Concept] Quarterly Community Magazine
« Reply #121 on: May 04, 2010, 11:34:27 pm »
hmm, @the comic idea:  What if we made the comics as a .8xp program, so you send it to your calc and it will be a movie, or a scrollable picture...
Eh, that'd be kind of a hassle, don't'cha think? I mean, then we'd have to include extra stuff and then people would have to hassle with transferring it or putting it on emu.
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Re: [Concept] Quarterly Community Magazine
« Reply #122 on: May 06, 2010, 06:34:26 pm »
for the comic I definitively think we should do something like a real comic (or maybe XKCD) but instead of drawn characters, they would be sprites from calc games

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Re: [Concept] Quarterly Community Magazine
« Reply #123 on: May 06, 2010, 08:29:12 pm »
A sprite comic, oh fun. This could be interesting.
I would suggest limiting each frame of the comic to 96*64 pixels (though by 'pixel' I mean uniformly colored constant-sized square) and 8-level grey-scale, but that seems a bit too limiting. :P
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Re: [Concept] Quarterly Community Magazine
« Reply #124 on: May 06, 2010, 08:31:40 pm »
mhmm idk about that. The issue would mostly be text, altough maybe the 96x64 blocks could be scaled up and the text be like in normal comics rather than pixelated

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Re: [Concept] Quarterly Community Magazine
« Reply #125 on: May 06, 2010, 08:44:20 pm »
I've seen that done, and that could actually work.
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