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Arcade Bones (Marquee & Dashboard graphics finalised)
walls83:
"I went out into the street where my neighbours had gathered for the weekend drinks and I had a single beer. They were headed down to the pub for a meal but with night quickly approaching, I borrowed a real drill from one of them and decided against going. I thought while the kids and wife were out having dinner and the sun was still up (just), I should do as much as I could."
It has begun. There is no turning back now. Family, Friends will all just become a fading memory. WELCOME TO ARCADE BUILDING MADNESS.
Looks great so far.
markrvp:
Bones:
It looks like your trackball is directly over the top of your player 1 joystick.
Have you play tested a mockup to make sure you have clear access to the trackball?
Artwork looks great! How's your daughter's head? :-[
Bones:
--- Quote from: walls83 on April 24, 2005, 09:30:36 am ---"I went out into the street where my neighbours had gathered for the weekend drinks and I had a single beer. They were headed down to the pub for a meal but with night quickly approaching, I borrowed a real drill from one of them and decided against going. I thought while the kids and wife were out having dinner and the sun was still up (just), I should do as much as I could."
It has begun. There is no turning back now. Family, Friends will all just become a fading memory. WELCOME TO ARCADE BUILDING MADNESS.
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I chose arcade building over beer, that is a worry. My trip into Nerdsville will soon be complete.
--- Quote from: walls83 on April 24, 2005, 09:30:36 am ---Looks great so far.
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Thanks!
--- Quote from: markrvp on April 24, 2005, 03:46:36 pm ---Bones:
It looks like your trackball is directly over the top of your player 1 joystick.
Have you play tested a mockup to make sure you have clear access to the trackball?
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Yeah I did mock it up and the trackball was actually moved further left from where I originally had planned on placing it. Using the trackball right handed is fine, using left handed will be difficult.
I invested a LOT of time in the placement of everything. Eventually I realised that I would never be 100% happy and would have to compromise something. I compromised the thing I believed I would use the least which was the trackball. The only way I could fit everything with the comfort that I wanted was to make the CP bigger and I didn't want to do this. The thing is already bloody big enough!
The method I plan on using to mount the CP will make removal a simple process and if I find that I am really missing out on what trackball games have to offer I may consider building a dedicated TB CP.
--- Quote from: markrvp on April 24, 2005, 03:46:36 pm ---Artwork looks great! How's your daughter's head? :-[
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Thanks!
Alyssa's head is fine. It was one of those things that looked worse than it was.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 23, 2005, 09:55:52 am ---
Finally
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Bones:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 24, 2005, 08:56:26 pm ---TWENTY-FRIGGEN-FIVE DOLLARS?!?!?!?!?
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Hmmm... This was an inaccuracy on my behalf. The T-slot cutter was actually $25 and might I add, VERY difficult to find. The spade bit cost around $10, this equates to about $8.00 worth in your weirdo money.
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 24, 2005, 08:56:26 pm ---If you've got Photoshop or some other image editing program, you can just resize your pics and save them as .gif's to have 'em load quicker,
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I have used another program to fix up the file sizes. Most should now fall between 40 to 100K.