Nice Art

I am working to create few dungeon maps myself.

signaljacker Does spriter has vector art abilities like flash? If not then we have to depend on flash to create the vector art first.

What I see till now is that spriter is more like photoshop/paint where we can manipulate the art in parts. I am going through it, will give more feedback soon.

Flash is no doubt universal, while spriter is new kid on the block. I came to know about it only on scirra forums. I believe spriter has a plugin only for construct. In that way it is very limited. I am anyway working with it right now to understand its pros and cons.

I have no disrespect for the software or the developers, nor I am saying it is not worth it, who knows it might be even better than Flash.

I did mentioned above : "Use Adobe Flash if you are going Adobe route". Spriter is not included in Adobe route

I have worked with all major 2D animation software including toonboomstudio. I am also currently writing a book on games and would definitely include Spriter in it if it is worth it. That is why I am testing it right now.

I did send them an email a month back, no response till date. Anyway no hard feelings man, I do hope spriter can pass the test and actually beat flash. I hate Adobe's new cc model.

Tom Thank you , I will contact you privately with the asset link.

skelooth That is why I am putting descriptive text on the asset splash screens and other images.

Sale will start today on game maps.

There is also a special bundle available for a limited time which includes all our current game packs at 60% discount, just for the festival season.

[www.scirra.com/store/bundles/famekrafts-complete-pack-bundle-1-24]

Tom If we put discount on bundles and sale, how are the fees calculated? They will be calculated on the initial fees of single pack or the new discounted fees, say 50% off.

I had my first bundle sale today and I am a bit confused as to exactly how percentage fees were deducted.

As I said Pheonix I am sill going through spriter, so I am not sure about all the features it has and how can it be used.

Use Adobe Flash if you are going adobe route and not illustrator. Illustrator is very clumsy. You can not only create vector art in HD but also animate in flash.

Crazy talk animator and animestudio, have their own learning curves, but if a person knows flash, can easily grasp those two.

I am going through spriter right now, will see how it works. But with flash your assets can be used for any game engine, whether cocos, flash, unity, torque, game salad and construct 2. Spriter is good only if you are working with construct 2.

Tom I am looking for sites where I can upload but most of them are paid sites and there is still no guarantee that the scirra up-loader will actually work with them. It seems to download from dropbox/google drive but resets the % up-loader after a percentage is reached and then after 2 attempts gives a blank page.

For time being if you can setup an ftp that will help, especially if it can work with filezilla etc.

Other game asset store, I am uploading on is also facing the same issue with their up-loader for large files, so they have asked to share the files on dropbox and are manually copying and pasting on their server from dropbox for each client.

Tom I removed some of the files from the zip folder( which was initially about 388 mb). Now the folder is just 105 mb and it is easily uploading. I think the bug is in the site. I had contacted you regarding this for another file as well. Once I reduce the size below 200 mb, it easily uploads.

Please have a look at it because I am unable to provide those extra files to the people who would buy the packs.

edit: now it is resetting at 21%. Do all sellers have any total data limit to what they can upload. I have easily uploaded over 2GB of data on scirra stores. Maybe I have crossed some fixed limit for sellers.

I have removed the cookies as well as tried a different browser. The only thing that fits is that I am not able to upload for some file size limit reason maybe

Tom

I have tried uploading using normal and url method. It just resets after 4 % upload or shows a blank webpage. What should I do? Tried chrome and firefox as well.

As festivals are going on at my hometown in India, we have decided to start a sale for our Game Maps in the Scirra store

50% off for all the game maps, starting from 1st October midnight to 4th October midnight.

Do avail the offer

Here are the MAP links : ( remove the brackets and add www)

[scirra.com/store/royalty-free-graphics/game-map-pack-2d-tower-defense-162]

[scirra.com/store/royalty-free-graphics/3d-game-world-map-orc-world-158]

[scirra.com/store/royalty-free-graphics/under-sea-platformer-map-154]