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Greetings. Greetings. I am 'Mickey Mouse'. Welcome to the forums. I "ho ho ho"-pe you have a good time making games and playing games here on rpgmaker.net. Ha ha ha, just a little joke from your friend, 'Mickey'. Welcome to the forums.

Uh? Do you guys listen to music?

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this is my favourite type of music in the whole world. the whole english-people-on-holiday-down-by-the-seaside vibe. i wish i could find my favourite version of this tune (as performed by Graham Dalby and the Gramophones) but it appears to not exist on the internet. after i run by the bank and put some money on my debit card, i'll be sending for a CD that the right version is on all the way from the UK. £19 and a month of waiting for it to slowly make its way through two countries' postal services? worth it.

good lord i'm pretentious

yeah i have been hella rocking the Singing Detective / Pennies From Heaven tv show soundtracks lately which are good sources for this kind of weirdly melancholy old 20s/30s pop music (theyre really good shows too! you should watch them if you like this stuff) and i like it a lot!




also here is an old favourite (complete with whistling solo! the best solo). i actually got the idea for biggles on mars listening to this song but could never find a good place to work it into the actual game :(

pixothello

The white grid in the topleft is the set of 16x16 squares you draw on; zoom in with the mouse scroller (this part takes a bit of trial and error though). Each square corresponds to one of the tiles on the larger grid to the right, which is sort of like the SOURCE GRID where all the tiles are stored. This is what gets exported in .bmp form at the end. If you drag your pencil tool around the first grid you should see some of the ones on the right turn white, which means that since they've been drawn on they'll be part of the exported image at the end.

So basically you just draw in the squares in the 4x4 white grid, then you can tile them and so on by using the Tile Placer tool in the toolbox or by selecting them from the master grid thing on the righthandside.

I'm making it sound harder than it is but it's easy enough to get the hang of if you just start dicking around with the tileplacer tool and stuff!

pixothello

Hey, what a scoop. A cool guy named "teknogames" has released a free tileset tool called Pixothello: http://teknopants.com/pixothello/. It is still being tinkered with but it gives an easy way of seeing how well tiles loop and interact with each other, and all the tiles are by default 16x16 which is the size of each tile on an RM2k3 chipset. Pixothello is very fun to use... I have been using it merely 10 minutes and already I am having fun, making tiles...




Even a dumb guy like me can have fun using Pixothello... Anyone interested in custom art or just having fun at a computer should certainly check out Pixothello... You'd be a fool, not to check out Pixothello...

If you try this program, then you might fine yourself spontaneously approaching strangers to say

"Hey, there is this neat program called Pixothello..."

Who knows what you may achieve, with Pixothello...

Whatchu Workin' On? Tell us!



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Favorite Dr. Who Doctor and Episode?

Whoa hell yeah! Lets have a whochat.

When I was a kid my dad would rent videotapes of old Doctor Who shows, usually from the Tom Baker period. Some were great (City Of Death!) and some were kind of boring but every one had at least one moment which would absolutely terrify me and make me lose sleep. I am of the firm conviction that for everyone who watched old Doctor Who as a little kid there was at least one moment which mentally scarred them for life and I think this is the greatest service that family programming can provide. Mine were

- Genesis Of The Daleks when there's some closet filled with uh germ warfare?? in the dalek base and the doctor walks in and staggers out covered in horrible green seaweed things aaaaa

- Horror Of Fang Rock THE ENTIRE THING holy shit. it was this very claustrophobic thing that all happened in an isolated lighthouse surrounded by thick fog. it was menaced by an electric monster that killed you if you touched it! my chief memory was of this huge glowing green blob slowly creeping up the lighthouse stairs and there was no other way down and they were forced to retreat to the very top. it freaked me out because my room was on the first floor and there was only one stairs down and if a blobmonster rolled up then----!

- The Seeds Of Time: the first section of this took place on an arctic base where the scientists had uncovered this strange plantseed thing which turned them into plantpeople. it was basically THE THING with some david cronenberg thrown in. i was too terrified to finish watching it but i remember obsessing over the back of the box where it showed one of the plantmen looming at the camera and in the background was buckingham palace or something and all the signs seemed to indicate a plantmen takeover of earth!!


A little later the local irish language channel (a haven for bizarre programming choices!) started broadcasting episodes from the Jon Pertwee run. Maybe it was the fact that it was in black and white and that he was older / sterner and the whole thing was part of running plot of the master's attempts to rule the earth iirc but it always seemed a lot grimier and more menacing! there was an appeal to that although i never got to watch a lot of it. it was always incredibly cool to be flicking between channels and suddenly hear insane bbc radiophonic orchestra music pop out too


this is the best. throbbing gristle doff caps in awe jesus christ

edit: ps i have a huge crush on delia derbyshire (who did the original theme song)


this is begging to be sampled in a hiphop song

valedictory gamemaking drive

valedictory gamemaking drive

you can just put it on gamejolt / mediafire or something and post it in this thread. if the thread no longer exists you can take it that the deadline has passed!

edit: also saying the deadline is a month from now doesnt mean the expected time to finish should be a month; thats just the point beyond which it is no longer possible to actually post games here. the idea is to get one last game done before this happens!

valedictory gamemaking drive

sure why not. just as long as you get it out there in time pal!!