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Interactive comis - A call to pencils!

A topic by Jordgubben created Sep 19, 2016 Views: 354 Replies: 9
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Short version
I am looking for people who may not want to do a whole jam, but fancy drawing a comic page or two.

If you're interested, reply to this post.

Slightly longer version
My regular way to approach a jam is to spend 90% of the time coding and then possibly cram some graphics into it at the very end. This time I'm taking the 'Unfamiliar Discipline' rout and making an interactive comic.

But thing is I usually work alone, so to up the stakes a bit more by inviting complete strangers (like you) to join me.

The basic idea is to have a comic that does not have a predefined storyline, but that branches out from a predefined first page. New alternate routes can be added from any page by any artist. The story will evolve organically.

Note: This is 'Unfamiliar Discipline', so I do not expect you have drawn a lot of comics before (but I'm also not excluding you if you happen to be experienced ^.-). I will spend the entire weekend on this, but you do not have to. Every page is appreciated.

If you think this sound interesting, post a reply to this thread. Further instructions will be provided.




Host

Wow. Cool idea. I still don't know what I'll do but I might be interested.

Submitted

Do make us the honour.
If you think of something cool, then do it. The nice way with this idea is that accountability is scalable all the way from "maybe I'll draw a single page or two" to "I will spend 48 hours drawing non-stop like the fate of the world depends on it".

In other words, contributing a little here should not stop you from making a more traditional jam entry as well.

Submitted

Demo
I've cheated a bit and written the bulk of the games code ahead of time.

http://superattack.se/games/no-comfort-jam-2016/te...

This illustrates how it's going to work, but this is not the real story. I will draw the real first page at the start of the jam (once I've managed to get home from my day job).
Any one who wants to contribute is welcome to do so once the first page is in place.


Submission guidelines
Every page consists of one image, with an alt-text for screen readers.
Dimensions: 1000x600 px
Format: PNG, JPG, GIF
File size: < 250kb

I'll need to know what page it's supposed to follow after and what the selectable option (brown button) should say. I may take liberties with the exact phrasing to make the options stand out from each other more clearly.

Not that I think it will be a problem, but I reserve the right to refuse anything that I find pornographic or xenophobic (my hosting provider has rules and I want to make the world a more inclusive place).

Page(s) should be sent to: no-comfort@superattack.se

Host

Oh, I like that. A friend of mine did something similar with text a while back. That went pretty neat. I can see a comic working even better.

Submitted

The first page is up!

I uploaded a sketch and not a cleaned (and spell-checked) one because I the rest of you to be able to start drawing as soon as possible. I will clean this one up tomorrow morning (it's sort of late over here).

I would like to take this occation recommend anyone interesting in participating to make at most 1-2 pages before your first page has been integrated into the game. This is to make sure that there are no misunderstandings about how this is going to work.

I will integrate pages and upload new snapshots in intervals between drawing my own pages.


The latest game snapshot can be played : http://superattack.se/games/no-comfort-jam-2016/snapshot

Submitted (2 edits)

New snapshot:
http://superattack.se/games/no-comfort-jam-2016/snapshot
(The same URL will be reused throughout the jam).

Total number of pages: 3 (1 first page, 2 different second pages). At least one more page is apparently on it's way in from one of my collaborators. It's another (a third) second page.

I should probably start working on a first third page, preferably from a second page that is not my own.

(edit: consistent nomenclature)

Submitted

New snapshot (again):
http://superattack.se/games/no-comfort-jam-2016/snapshot

There is now a total of 7 pages, from 4 different artist (including myself).

Submitted

Just a heads up. I'm going to submit this in an hour or so. The jam ends in 23 hours, but most of those hours are either sleep-hours or day-job-hours in my time zone.

If I get any more pages during the night, then I'll add them and update the entry tomorrow when I get home from work.

Submitted

Submitted!
https://itch.io/jam/no-comfort-jam/rate/87373

This was a real ride. Will most likely continue on this comic at some point in the future.
But now it's time for some well deserved rest and relaxation.