I enjoyed playing this! I've been a sucker for this kind of game ever since I first laid eyes on Alien Breed, but good homebrew examples are kinda hard to come by. Many developers seem to manage to put way more effort into it and still get the basics completely wrong.
Looks like about half the sprites and tiles went unused.
That doesn't happen for everyone. You would be unlucky if it happened for you :-( It could be that for some people, the two skills compete for the use of the same part of the brain. There is a lot of individual variation in how people learn skills! It's possible that could be happening to you, but it doesn't seem very likely.
Generally the limit for the things you can be good at is just the limit on the amount of stuff that you can do regularly. There are only 24 hours in a day and most of those are already taken up with the basics of just being alive, so there's only so much stuff that you can regularly practice. If you don't do something for a while then you will get "rusty" on it and lose some skill. However, for most people, with something which they have once really gotten into and gotten good at, if they come back to it after years of not doing it, they will start "rusty" but then they will fairly quickly get back to the skill level that they were at previously. I've gone years without doing art sometimes.
Looks like it would go with a minimalist, abstract style based on unshaded coloured shapes. For that purpose I guess it might be more useful in vector form, or at a much higher resolution. I'd also add a few "stars" very close to the edges (but not crossing them), so that it wraps better.
How expensive is it to create an NFT from a piece?
If the cost isn't significant, then somebody is right now running a crawler bot which is making NFTs of every file that it can find on the web. Also, all sites (especially ones like OpenGameArt) will eventually run code that automatically NFTs everything uploaded to it.
Basically, right now somebody can sell an NFT of a piece of art that they don't have the rights to, and there's very little concrete to stop them. But as it says in the Forbes article linked above, "caveat emptor" applies. Just like anyone who fences stolen goods, the thief is not just stealing from the creator but also from the buyer.
If the piece later turns out to be actually valuable, a digital art historian could come along tomorrow and use the Wayback Machine or other internet archives to prove that the seller didn't have the rights.
If they've laundered the money effectively then they'll be long gone, and the buyer could easily wind up out of pocket, like anyone else who buys stolen goods. If they want to keep this bit of their wealth then they're going to have to try and bully the system into retroactively and unfairly giving the rights to them - there are various nefarious ways that they could go about this.
If the seller hasn't laundered the money effectively, then they run a pretty high risk of copping consequences; their identity is right there in the ledger, and it might be much easier for the buyer to go after them than to try and squish the original creator. What's more, this could happen even if the piece is never really worth anything, because then the buyer can potentially get some of their money back by proving that the seller never had the rights. They might actually hire the art historian to do so.
This was 12 months ahead of its time...
Enjoyed this! Looks like the boss sprite is missing, though?
I see that you had some more interesting ideas that never made it in, like that caterpillar boss.
You can do a 3x3 's' character like this:
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I enjoyed playing this! I've been a sucker for this kind of game ever since I first laid eyes on Alien Breed, but good homebrew examples are kinda hard to come by. Many developers seem to manage to put way more effort into it and still get the basics completely wrong.
Looks like about half the sprites and tiles went unused.
That is looking quite cool.
That doesn't happen for everyone. You would be unlucky if it happened for you :-( It could be that for some people, the two skills compete for the use of the same part of the brain. There is a lot of individual variation in how people learn skills! It's possible that could be happening to you, but it doesn't seem very likely.
Generally the limit for the things you can be good at is just the limit on the amount of stuff that you can do regularly. There are only 24 hours in a day and most of those are already taken up with the basics of just being alive, so there's only so much stuff that you can regularly practice. If you don't do something for a while then you will get "rusty" on it and lose some skill. However, for most people, with something which they have once really gotten into and gotten good at, if they come back to it after years of not doing it, they will start "rusty" but then they will fairly quickly get back to the skill level that they were at previously. I've gone years without doing art sometimes.
Looks like it would go with a minimalist, abstract style based on unshaded coloured shapes. For that purpose I guess it might be more useful in vector form, or at a much higher resolution. I'd also add a few "stars" very close to the edges (but not crossing them), so that it wraps better.
It's the intro to a song that Dimmu Borgir never wrote! :-P
How expensive is it to create an NFT from a piece?
If the cost isn't significant, then somebody is right now running a crawler bot which is making NFTs of every file that it can find on the web. Also, all sites (especially ones like OpenGameArt) will eventually run code that automatically NFTs everything uploaded to it.
@Malifer It could potentially happen either way.
Basically, right now somebody can sell an NFT of a piece of art that they don't have the rights to, and there's very little concrete to stop them. But as it says in the Forbes article linked above, "caveat emptor" applies. Just like anyone who fences stolen goods, the thief is not just stealing from the creator but also from the buyer.
If the piece later turns out to be actually valuable, a digital art historian could come along tomorrow and use the Wayback Machine or other internet archives to prove that the seller didn't have the rights.
If they've laundered the money effectively then they'll be long gone, and the buyer could easily wind up out of pocket, like anyone else who buys stolen goods. If they want to keep this bit of their wealth then they're going to have to try and bully the system into retroactively and unfairly giving the rights to them - there are various nefarious ways that they could go about this.
If the seller hasn't laundered the money effectively, then they run a pretty high risk of copping consequences; their identity is right there in the ledger, and it might be much easier for the buyer to go after them than to try and squish the original creator. What's more, this could happen even if the piece is never really worth anything, because then the buyer can potentially get some of their money back by proving that the seller never had the rights. They might actually hire the art historian to do so.
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