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October, 2005. Ben304 gets a new PC that can actually run new games! Then, having spent all of his money on the computer, cannot afford to purchase games to play on his PC so he goes online to look for free games.
Finding the two Apprentice games and loving them, he thinks "Hm, I wonder if I could ever make a game?". Knowing that making a game would be a childhood dream come true, he turns to this mysterious Adventure Game Studio used for the Apprentice games and downloads it. He jumps in feet first, with no knowledge of graphics or scripting other than the 5 minute 'movie' he once created in BASIC on his TI-83 graphics calculator and some small projects on the TI-83 that never got anywhere.
2 weeks later he emerges with a rushed and buggy game about finding breakfast cereal by means of various unlikely puzzles, which he titles "Hungry". 8 people play it and comment; he feels famous. But now he wants to make a bigger, better game. Much bigger. Much better. More people will play it!
Exactly 3 years later, Ben is still looking to make that bigger, better game. There have been a few games along the way, of course...
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Wow, it's been 3 years since I started trying to make games. Who would have thought? To celebrate these three years, I've dug through my extremely messy My Pictures folder and found a sprite from each month that I was working on games in the past three years, dated for your enjoyment, of course. I think it shows an interesting progression through styles - take a dig into the past and see where my mouse and pixels have taken me :). Hopefully you can see some improvement from the first to the last ;)
7 comments:
Hello Ben,
As no one has commented on this posting yet, let me be the first.
Your graphical style has come on leaps and bounds in the past three years. Having seen your beautifully crafted work done with a tablet in the AGS forums, I'm sure it will become even better.
Might we be seeing some of these characters in future games from you, I wonder? ;) :) Perhaps we will...
paolo
It's really great to see how much you've improved over the past couple of years. I think it was pretty evident in the 'sketch' thread you just posted.
I'm still waiting on that short-up-in-the-clouds with amphibian-type-green-characters-game that you promised to release!
I think paolo knows something we don't know...But I also know something you don't know!
For example, that slightly glum clown could well be featured in a slightly glum game within the next, say, 2 years. And the little police officer also seems very familiar to me.
There is but one thing I was wondering about: Does that guy in April 2006 by any chance present a self portrait?
Paolo - thanks, and I have to agree that I feel I've improved a mile since back then. Perhaps we'll see some of these character - you'd know the answer to this question better than most, I'd say ;)
TheJBurger - Thanks for the nice words. Lode is coming. At some point.
I promise.
Sebastian - How the hell did you know that character was a self portrait? You are correct, by the way.
Mystery version: I am one of very few persons ever to have lived on planet earth who are blessed with the gift or numeral synaesthesia - I have envisioned the number 304 and immediately felt the strong resemblance.
Mundane version: I have seen your tablet practice in the forums and read your remark that this could well be a female version of yourself. Subsequently, I used deductive logic.
Even more mundane version: I noticed a 30 squarepixel photgraph of you on your MSN messenger profile page. (*insert sad fanfare here*)
Note: The post above has been deleted because it contained spelling errors of unforseen proportions.
Heh, I had forgotten that photograph. If I recall correctly, it was taken 5 years ago. Oh, what fun we had back then.
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