Hi!
Great write-up, but I'm still not entirely clear on whether my team's idea will be alright, so I hope it's ok to ask here, mainly in regards to these rules:
- feature a character with expression changes and other alterations analog to sprites
- feature simple crowd silhouettes, or suggestions of people without identifying details
We're going to have a big "painting" and have the camera zoom into different parts of it to tell a story (this image will be in place of sprite/BG). The story only features one character, but it's in separate moments of her life (childhood to adult). Her father/mother will be shown but without clear detail in their faces. If it's the same character but at different points in life, does it break the rules? If it does, can we "circumvent" it by making her features unclear in these small images?
(As a side-note, the idea is very inspired by this game from last year which used camera movement and a single sprite to create more than one character for the story, while still only having one asset!)
Ultimately, the camera will zoom back to reveal the whole image, revealing that it's a pinboard of different images. In the middle of this we'll have a high-quality version of the character.
Does this follow the rules? :) hoping it does because we're so stoked about this idea lol
And if it doesn't, how can we tweak it to make it fit?
Oh, another question! In regards to "no changing of the title menu". Can the title menu change if the image on it changes to the one from in-game, or is that still breaking the rules?
Thank you! :)