Character Choice

Which Character Do You Think I Should Go With? (See Images Below)

  • Ikki

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  • Chip

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Monkey

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Hi guys. I'm making my final year uni project a game for the GP2x. I'm going for a platform game, but I'm still undecided for my main character. I have the two designs below:

Ikki:
ikki.gif


Chip:
bob.gif


The guy marking my work thinks that Ikki is 'cooler', but I personally favour Chip as a character, he just seems more believable as a character to me. But at the end of the day, its your opinion that counts, as your my target market. So what you think, Ikki or Chip?

BTW, heres a screenshot of the game so far with the Ikki character in it, i'm pretty much down to doing the last of the graphical work, but my prototype has to be finished in 4 weeks, so expect a release pretty soon:

screen.gif
 
Chip ... he's got an eye patch, and a big-ass hammer. :)
 
Ikki is the best i think, id rather play as him ... to me, he looks more believeable as a character.

why not have a select at the start so you can choose to play as both, or would that not work with the game?
 
ya, id love to play as ikki just cause hes got a kickass tiki mask on, but chip is a better character all-in-all...LOOK AT THAT HAMMER!
 
I could add a select character screen, but thats a bit more work than I think I can handle within the 4 weeks I have left, as I still have to document how I made the entire thing :( .

As for what the tutor thinks works, as long as I give a good reason for why I choose one over the other it doesn't matter.
 
If I were to choose between the two, I'd choose Chip. However, both lack in the colour department, they're too dusty. Use more vibrant colours for character design, make it stand out. As they are right now, both blend in to the rest of the scenery, especially Ikki.

- Alex
 
For me it will be Ikki because he's cool :)
Half indian, half log ,and he's more "squared" and I like squares.
This game is looking good. I hope to play this soon.

Perhaps you should make his face a little more lighter.
And perhaps the best choice will be to put the two of them in the game.
Player will choose his favorite, then :)
 
i think ikki is based on the moai from easter island/rapa nui...

moai.jpg


closer to chile than to india :D

also mario went on vacation there once:

Super_Mario_Land_(2).png


monkey, that's some nice pixel art. looking forward to playing this!
 
I think you're lucky. My university would

a) Not have accepted a 2d platformer as a sufficently challenging project (one of my 12 modules in the final year had me writing my own 3d engine with a complete lighting model without using any libraries or hardware, and that was alongside the fyp)

B) not given me the copyright over my own work anyway. So the stuff that I did can't actually be released since the uni owns it and, frankly, it's of no use to them.

Which uni do you go to man?

(oh, and I prefer the lighter one - he'll stand out a lot better in the world)

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FluffyPanda posted on Apr 7 2006 at 07:22 PM said:
I think you're lucky. My university would

a) Not have accepted a 2d platformer as a sufficently challenging project (one of my 12 modules in the final year had me writing my own 3d engine with a complete lighting model without using any libraries or hardware, and that was alongside the fyp)

B) not given me the copyright over my own work anyway. So the stuff that I did can't actually be released since the uni owns it and, frankly, it's of no use to them.

Which uni do you go to man?

(oh, and I prefer the lighter one - he'll stand out a lot better in the world)

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Wow, thats discouraging.

How did you go anyway? :p
 
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