I have to congratulate you on your web presence - your site is the first hit on Google when searching for your company, and is very informative! The second hit is even moreso, being a link to one of your many previous attempts to solicit unpaid interns; you claimed hundreds of prior interns, who went on to such ventures as Disney, and you trumpeted your close partnerships with Blizzard and EA. Subsequent searches of that and other forums (from which you were banned, for repeated off-topic promotion of your products, among other things) turned up lots of product announcements, but little evidence of any actually completed and released products from your company. I hope you understand, my artistic friend would like to make sure that any internship he applies for actually has the advertised value for his career prospects; any other prospective intern will likely have the same requirement, and will need far more than vague claims of grand, secretive projects. So, my question stands: do you have any demos, screenshots, or other media of projects involving your prior interns?
Licensing-wise, your entirely undocumented Block Builder 2 download is composed mostly of easily-searchable clip art (Google Images does reverse image searches, you know) which is certainly in violation of the licensing terms of the sites you obtained them from. That's between you and the clip art sites, but you should brush up on open-source licensing and the requirements for using open assets if you actually plan to use art from the OGA community in your projects. I linked to your Gallery page for a reason; I'll defer to others about the legality of your usage of OGA assets to promote entirely unrelated projects, but it seems questionable on first glance.
Finally, in regards to today's Gallery updates: are you actually claiming that Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, who died in 1770, was one of your interns? This raises again one of my previous questions: how long has your internship program been established?
My idea: we seem to have lots of character art here and not as much in the way of spell animations and effects. Perhaps a Silence/Mute spell or status icon?
Otherwise, one could maybe do a locked computer terminal ('ACCESS DENIED' flashing onscreen, or something similar), or other icons or animations related to communication failure..
Perhaps a bit more contrast in the left and right panels? The white font tends to fade into the lighter portions of the background; try either a darker font color, or a light color with a dark outline.
Also, the numbers in the left panel (timer, score, level) seem off-kilter. Maybe try either centering or right-justifying all three, so that they are more aligned. I've found that centering volatile fields like timers can be problematic, unless they're fixed-width font and padded to ensure that the field width stays constant (in order to avoid a 'jittery' effect as the characters change).
Otherwise, it looks nice - well done!
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 15:35
Seems OGA recognizes the <code> element if you insert it with the HTML editor, and uses a fixed-width font:
var thisExample = "This is an example."; print(thisExample);
Doesn't seem to like me messing with the style directly, though - changing the background or font color would require a CSS edit by Bart or another admin.
Updated the download links to the latest version! I've revamped the scoring and finalized the menu/title screen, and it features a new logo courtesy of Elton San Lorenzo.
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/search/flora/1#supersized-search-241072
@ old_school:
Thank you, you've answered my questions nicely!
I have to congratulate you on your web presence - your site is the first hit on Google when searching for your company, and is very informative! The second hit is even moreso, being a link to one of your many previous attempts to solicit unpaid interns; you claimed hundreds of prior interns, who went on to such ventures as Disney, and you trumpeted your close partnerships with Blizzard and EA. Subsequent searches of that and other forums (from which you were banned, for repeated off-topic promotion of your products, among other things) turned up lots of product announcements, but little evidence of any actually completed and released products from your company. I hope you understand, my artistic friend would like to make sure that any internship he applies for actually has the advertised value for his career prospects; any other prospective intern will likely have the same requirement, and will need far more than vague claims of grand, secretive projects. So, my question stands: do you have any demos, screenshots, or other media of projects involving your prior interns?
Licensing-wise, your entirely undocumented Block Builder 2 download is composed mostly of easily-searchable clip art (Google Images does reverse image searches, you know) which is certainly in violation of the licensing terms of the sites you obtained them from. That's between you and the clip art sites, but you should brush up on open-source licensing and the requirements for using open assets if you actually plan to use art from the OGA community in your projects. I linked to your Gallery page for a reason; I'll defer to others about the legality of your usage of OGA assets to promote entirely unrelated projects, but it seems questionable on first glance.
Finally, in regards to today's Gallery updates: are you actually claiming that Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, who died in 1770, was one of your interns? This raises again one of my previous questions: how long has your internship program been established?
@old_school: Some further questions, from a friend of mine (finishing up his last semester in 3D animation):
- How long has your internship program been established?
- How many interns have participated in your program?
- What are some examples of publishers you've worked with?
- Do you have any links to projects featuring art your previous interns have produced?
- Will this internship position get a mention on your website's Gallery page?
@kddekadenz: Glad I could be of help!
I went a similar direction, though a different style: Comm Terminal.
*Edit: Forgot I could display it here:
My idea: we seem to have lots of character art here and not as much in the way of spell animations and effects. Perhaps a Silence/Mute spell or status icon?
Otherwise, one could maybe do a locked computer terminal ('ACCESS DENIED' flashing onscreen, or something similar), or other icons or animations related to communication failure..
@Redshrike: Did you envision him as a playable class, or an enemy? He would make a fantastic storyline villain/antagonist..
Perhaps a bit more contrast in the left and right panels? The white font tends to fade into the lighter portions of the background; try either a darker font color, or a light color with a dark outline.
Also, the numbers in the left panel (timer, score, level) seem off-kilter. Maybe try either centering or right-justifying all three, so that they are more aligned. I've found that centering volatile fields like timers can be problematic, unless they're fixed-width font and padded to ensure that the field width stays constant (in order to avoid a 'jittery' effect as the characters change).
Otherwise, it looks nice - well done!
Seems OGA recognizes the <code> element if you insert it with the HTML editor, and uses a fixed-width font:
var thisExample = "This is an example.";print(thisExample);
Doesn't seem to like me messing with the style directly, though - changing the background or font color would require a CSS edit by Bart or another admin.
-mm
Oddly enough, the first thing I thought of when seeing that was Han Solo.. I like it!
Updated the download links to the latest version! I've revamped the scoring and finalized the menu/title screen, and it features a new logo courtesy of Elton San Lorenzo.
-Moik
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