As Macklemore said in 10,000 hours:

[quote:nznukp9k]The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint

The greats were great cause they paint a lot

I used to think I was terrible at art, too - but it's just a matter of time spent doing it. Different people just have different levels of initial talent and interest. For me art comes really slowly, but I enjoy it. When I don't feel i have the time I usually just prototype with free art, or occasionally with assets I buy from different places around the internet.

My ultimate game is one that has been rattling around in my brain for years. It would be set in an underground lab and you would start off my creating a very simple monster that would begin life in an incubation tube.

You would choose from a list of basic abilities and would be assigned a random weakness and try to escape the lab. Every time I see a monster in a movie that is just human science gone wrong, I always sympathize with the monster. People made it that way, then they keep it locked up and experiment on it!

I would love if the game would start off small, being played mostly as a sneaking game, and end up a huge city-levelling Godzilla romp.

My math is all messed up, but I think this is something like what you are looking for. Obviously you would need to get someone to adjust the formulas so that the function matches the physics engine.

Okay, so I just made a quick example using two top-down characters using the default 8-direction control. One of them is set to the default arrow controls, and the other one has default turned off and is using the keyboard + simulate.

Okay, I don't have a great solution for you. This one works but it's a bit of a cheat and it isn't as smooth.

I used a particles object and zeroed out all the random behaviour, gave the particles gravity, and then positioned it to my draggable circle.

It takes a bit of tweaking to get it to work right since the particles and the physics engine use different scales for velocity and gravity.

Oh! One other thing. Right now the player has to be overlapping the turret for it to work.

Okay! New version inbound in t-minus 5, 4, 3, 2......

BLAM.

So move your character with the arrow keys and jump in or out of a turret using the space bar.

I'll see what I can do about this today.

I put two turrets in there so you could see how the min and max values could be set on a per-turret basis.

Okay, here is an example that allows you to place a turret anywhere on the screen and have it limited by min and max rotation range. It's saved as the latest beta version.

Auto fire, or by key press?

What type of control do you want? Do you want the turret to point at the mouse or turn with the keyboard?