Thread "Welcome to all Harko-fans" in forum "Harkovast- the forum "

Posted at 9:12PM, Dec. 6, 2010

As far as sprite comics go, I quite like 8-bit theater. Evil mages! It's evil, a parody of Final Fantasy 1 (which I have not played), etc… but hilarious.

Here ya go!

http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-going-where/

Take a look, I like it.

Posted at 4:12AM, Dec. 7, 2010

8 bit theatre is almost certainly the best sprite comic around…but I still don't like it much. The humour just never got much of a chuckle out of me.

However, what itsjustaar is talking about sounds interesting. A sprite comic where the authors actually make an effort to make the thing look good or include animation? Isn't there some kind of law against that?
I assume so from the crap most sprite authors seem to put out.

Posted at 4:12AM, Dec. 10, 2010

Well, no. If it's a fan-fiction or a fan-art or fan-anything, it's under the fair use license agreement, I'm certain. I'm sure Square wouldn't mind the use of using sprites they haven't used since the 80's, especially if it's just silly good fun. I see no harm in it.

But yeah. A sprite comic would be epic if the sprites were built from the ground up without needing a reference; highly-detailed, and maybe animated, if possible. I reckon it wouldn't be too difficult to do animated comics - me and my pal Ivan made a manga using animated panels, voice recordings, and stuff like that. We had to stop due to more complications with the Flash program we used, but Ivan's still got some old material over here: http://itsjustkek.deviantart.com/gallery/

Posted at 4:12PM, Dec. 10, 2010

I think an animated comic could be really awesome, I'd like to see that.
Even using sprites, that could be something really interesting and unique.

Posted at 12:12PM, Dec. 16, 2010

i bet there are some semi-animated comics out there, might just have to google it.

Posted at 2:12PM, Dec. 16, 2010

Well there is MS Paint Adventures, but I got really sick of that a while ago.
The giant blocks of text just got a bit much.

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 4, 2011

problem sleuth was good, and homstuck was cool for awhile, but then it got tooooo convoluted, and hard to follow. it seemed almost pretentious at times. I've considered going back to it, but do i have the time?

I've also read one called Lizzy. it's a cyberpunk/anarchist story, with an interesting setting, semi-animated panels, and sound. unfortunately, it seems to have died. I would have loved to have learned more about the setting too.

Posted at 12:04AM, Apr. 6, 2011

A lot of people rave about homestuck and how it is miles better than problem sleuth.
Personally I just didn't find it as engaging.
All the stupid devices and game mode stuff just seemed boring.
Is the significance of remembering the card numbers of items or the shape they make on the totem laith supposed to be interesting or meaningful?
I just one day realised that I was skipping more of the text than I was reading and gave up.

I have too many commitments these days, so a comic needs to be really really awesoome for me to stick with it regularly.

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 7, 2011

Homestuck? i stopped reading that as soon as the first one of those playable pages appeared, I loved problem slueth even at it's most convoluted but that was down to problemsluth and it's predecessors being an interesting combination of webcomic and text based adventure.

Once MS paint adventures started turning into a videogame they'd gone too far into the joke for my taste, also theres a difference between showing someone a snapshot of some insane stat system that somehow does somthing and makes the protagonists win as a joke, and doing all that and expecting your readers to understand how that worked.

PHEW, that feels better…

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 7, 2011

Duck Inspector I totally agree regarding the stats thing.
The games statistics stated to be treated like they meant something and like I was somehow supposed to care and appreciate them.
Perhaps I just didn't fill my imagination stat enough to appreciate them.
*consumes whisky from flask and retreats into fort make of cushions*