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Sonic 91 Software
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I'm starting to make a 2d retro sidescroller about a detective, travelling a large world with LOADS of countries, cities/towns and locations in each city/town, based on the Master System text adventure game "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?". The only problem I am having so far are the names of:

1. the game itself!
2. the main character (the detective)

anyone have any ideas? if yours is chosen, your name will be in the credits (with your permission!)

oh, also, any tips on smooth sprite animation, using MS paint to draw the character? I don't have any money whatsoever so i cannot upgrade to paintshop pro, for example.

and also, scrolling background! (so, more probs than i thought!)
EVERY bit of help, no matter how small will be appreciated! thanks!

in the meantime, try this very small, impossible to complete game.

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Sven B
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Posted: 14th Jan 2006 16:45
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Try search in the code snippets or 20liners for "what to name your kid". Or "name".

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Kozo is a cool name. It means "Urchin" or "ragamuffin" in japanese


I'll be using it in my game
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For the sprites try using graphics gale at
http:\\humanbalance.net

its free and really good, you set it up as frames to see the animaton of the sprite.

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Lance Dakota as a name for the detective
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How about for teh detective, Greg Hyatt.


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i'll ponder these and let you know. for now, keep 'em coming!

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IF there is a spy type dude, call him John Smith. (That wouldn't be his real name)


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How about:
The Game: Not enough information for me to place a name for the game
CHaracter: Detective Kahn Lortez
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or Detective Dodic Ivan

noone heard about that name here !

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How about - Infinity, the Jarey Detective Story


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Call him [b][u][i]!K-Flex!

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Quote: "The Game: Not enough information for me to place a name for the game"


the game is about a detective that needs to travel the world to crack a criminal gang and bring them to justice in their own countries. they have stolen hundreds of goods, you need to retrun them to their owners. this is huge, i'll provide more info when i think of it.

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Quote: "Infinity, the Jarey Detective Story"


Huu? huhh? !


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Sam Fischer
Dimone Freehold
Bob Marley

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Eric Clappton

Sam Fisher

George Bush

.... need more ?

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Or even...

George Clapton
Bob Fisher
Eric Freehold
Dimone Marley
Sam Bush


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why don't you download namemage from mapmage.com
it's a free program geared toward dnd players, but i'm sure you can use it for your game. and for graphics, try anim8or at anim8or.com.
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thanks. enough character names now. any game names will be appreciated. by the way, general, i know about anim8or, but thanks anyway.

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How about Rusty Pipes for teh detective's name and for the game itself... Killing Time

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How about Detective Dee Tak Tave? lol, i dunno, maybe there would be more ideas if you posted a bigger demo.
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Quote: "How about Rusty Pipes for teh detective's name and for the game itself... Killing Time"


thanks devastation, your name suggestion for the detective will almost certainly be used, I'll think about the game name but it sounds good. suggestions are only to be taken up until this saturday 4th Feb, so keep 'em coming! can you beat "Killing Time, starring Detective Rusty Pipes"?

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Spyed out or even spider stealth rofl

Fps world of mayhem 10%

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What's the secret number!!! Oh yeah, and there's a bug: if you press enter without entering a number, the 'g' in "guess" disappears.
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Has anyone actually played "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?"? I recently picked it up in a sale at a games store for £1.99 in a buy one get one free sale.

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Suggestions for the name of the main character are no longer being taken. Thanks guys for all your help. The game still needs a name but the main character will be called Det. Rusty Pipes. I'm already thinking of doing a crappy little spin-off cartoon series as well, but we shall see how the game goes.

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Quote: "Has anyone actually played "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?"? I recently picked it up in a sale at a games store for £1.99 in a buy one get one free sale."


I did back when I was in High School... 18 years ago.


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great. i think it's cool but it gets a little complex. still, it's a retro game after all, and we all know that retro games are still the best video games of all time!!

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ive always used my name for the main character in my games. it goes well with anime style or japanese type games.

"Hiroki" pronouced "He rocky

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humanbalance.net (graphics gale) is really good for sprite animation, i would recommend it to anyone, although I haven't started to make any animations yet with it! This is because I have been wondering abouth whether to do the game first and then a cartoon series after, but last night I decided that the game will be on hold for a while, so I can make a start on a simple short series of cartoons: "The Rusty Pipes Story". I'll keep you posted on how it goes, in a different thread. By the way, if i made the cartoon and saved the final exe as an avi file, will it run in windows media player, since saving exes as .scr work as screensavers? If so, can such avi's be burned onto a dvd to play on a regular dvd player?

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