AETHERREVIVAL'S PROFILE

Your hand-drawn style is pretty amazing, and it looks really cool when applied to your icons.

I will have to agree with this though:

author=Mirak
Your conversion to pixel art was pretty good, although i do have to mention that the variety in expression in the human character is a bit too subtle.

May I make a suggestion? Maybe using the mouse knight icons that you have below as an example? Because their emotion portrayal is pretty good.

You don't have to exaggerate the mouth, as would be expected with the animal, but perhaps stretching it out a little bit more and tweaking the eyebrows to look exactly the same.


Keep up the good work!

author=JosephSeraph

author=pravact
Pay is negotiable, but really we want people who want to do this for free and for fun.

...No. Don't do this. Please, I mean it. I don't want to be rough, but being paid for your work / being able to eat as you work for a project isn't mutually exclusive to having fun or being passionate.
As a matter of fact the most passionate will not avert spending their pennies in order to bring their passinate project to conclusion.

It's a common thing that people request artists that are passionate and work for free. The thing is, most people have zero reason to be passionate with a work that isn't theirs, especially so it they aren't being financially rewarded ie. the time they're working on this project they're not making money to cover the food, rent and electricity they're using to make it.

We're all adults here with needs and bills, and we all have our own projects. Nothing will stop people from liking your project and wanting to work with you but that was, in my opinion, not only somewhat disrespectful but also slightly alienated of the reality of an adult artist. In any case, this seems like a perfectly valid request and you do seem to have interesting skillsets! I look forward to what you create.

Sorry for being a brag but I feel it must be said.

I can't help but agree here. Especially since you've also asked for high quality. Basically, you're asking people with professional talent, at their trade, to help you made your project grand, for charity. That's also robbery.

I will close this out by saying that you should not expect too many takers, as people whose skill levels are good enough to be noticed as 'high quality' will likely be busying themselves with work that gives them something in return.

I'm not a voice actor, but I've done some work here and there for someone with pretty good voice talent.

He's a Youtube musician who uses quirky voices to sing a bunch of.... 'unique' music. He used to have comedy skits up there as well, but I can't find them on his page anymore.

This link (https://www.youtube.com/user/JCBrickstonMusic/featured) leads to his Youtube page. If you like his work, I would go ahead and send him an email concerning your game.

Funny, I found the first Mega Man to be difficult. I haven't really played it all that much, as it's not my absolute favorite side-scroller, but the last time I played it I think the most I did was made it to the boss. I think I'd chosen the Cut Man board. I wasn't lucky enough to get that far on the other boards, so I stuck with choosing that one mostly.

But, hey, I would definitely suggest banging your head against it again and again. That's the best part about owning an unbeatable game, as long as you don't frustrate the heck out of yourself. When you finally beat it though, it does make you feel pretty awesome.

author=LightningLord2
Ijiis like this on "Reallyjoel's dad" Difficulty - even if you get past the ludicrous onslaught of enemies early on, you can't proceed to the next screen.

There's a computer game adaptation of I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream - the german version cuts one of the scenarios (due to taking place in a concentration camp), making it impossible to reach the ending in it.

That's a bit of something that shouldn't be overlooked on the programmers' part. I understand that mistakes happen, but those are majors errors there..... How could they be missed?

I guess there's nothing that can be done about that, but I do hate it when you find a game that's intriguing enough to keep your attention, only to find that there's some problem to prevent you from enjoying yourself anymore.

I've had these problems before, but usually not because of missing strings.
Somehow, my disks, and/or cartridges, malfunction, and sometimes they find a way to break. It seems that my Playstation and NES titles are the ones mostly affected by this.

author=LightningLord2
Most games in Action 52 are so poorly programmed and partially unfinished that many of them become impossible at one point and others just don't proceed to an ending after a while.

I have no idea how I haven't heard of this. Wikipedia claims that it's notorious among gamers for being one of the worst games due to poor programming.

That's too bad for them. A Mario Party precursor would've undoubtedly become very popular during that time period.

You know, I felt that there should be a thread in honor of the games that we all just can't beat. It could be that we, personally, just stink at the games, or the game's developers just forgot, or chose not, to program the game in a way that allowed gamers to win.

There are tons of games out there that fit either, or both, descriptions, be them old or new. So, share all that you'd like to about it here!


These are the ones (that I can think of at the moment) that have made my personal list:

Friday the 13th(NES): This game panics the heck out of me. There's nothing like running around as a dumpy kid who can't even walk, and trying to stop Jason from murdering everyone. Then, when you get into the house, and the kids thank you, I immediately feel as if I've evolved into Super Wimp. Que death; Game is rigged. Time to move on.

Solstice(NES): Maybe it's the clumpy controls, I don't know, but this game seems impossible. Seriously, have any of you gotten far in this game? I think the only artifact that I've claimed have been the Magic Boots(Or, whatever they're called). I can jump higher, yay. Que death; Game is rigged. Time to move on.

Ghost and Goblins(All of them): Save the girl with a terribly slow guy, who doesn't at all speed up when his armor falls off, and he continues his quest in indecency. I think the biggest problem here is the unpredictability of the monsters. I have to say, I deep down have a lot of admiration for the programmers' creativity. Making the enemies do tons of things that manage to surprise each time you play it is amazing, but....... I think they got a little out of control with it. Also, I can't help but feel restricted and helpless in the face of the massive bosses that can leap, run, fly, shoot projectiles, explode, shoot lasers from their eyes, kill you instantly, etc.

Que death; Game is rigged. Time to move on.

Creature Shock(Sega Saturn): Okay, maybe it's just me, but this game doesn't make any sense. Stuff happens and alien things are everywhere. I don't think I need to even repeat the result.