One potato, two potatos...
When I say the South Park character generator I said "I must make something similar".
This week my hard disk crashed so I had to buy a new one. Having plenty of free space I performed a full install and after a very long time the "Potato Guy" game was installed on the computer. This was to much, I fired up Inkscape and draw this:
I think is nice, here are some faces created with it:
Next step is to find some use for it, like submitting to OCAL. I would like to find someone able and willing to make a GNOME Potato Guy game with those images, because I'm certainly not able do do it myself.
PS: BRIBE -> if someone want to make the game, I promise to at least two additional graphic sets.
Update: pieces from this image are available in my Public Domain SVG clipart collection (see galleries like "clothes" or "people").
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This always seemed like an obvious project for someone to try and I pondered doing something similiar with a set of fun Shapes for Dia. I still have some partial attempts at South Park characters lying around my computer but I never finished them.
ReplyDeletePotato head never seemed like much fun to me, but then I prefer puzzles but a more generic Photo Fit face making tool like they use in criminal investigations might be a little more useful and at least as much fun. Perhaps with a different set of shapes it could be educational, if used to teach childern about sea creatures the Aquarium set that comes with the KDE Potato game might qualify as more than a simple toy.
In the long run Inkscape needs some sort of a Symbol Library or catalog of standard shapes and clipart so rather than banging out a game using librsvg someone might find a way to use Inkscape as an engine or platform and using extentsion to build their Potato Head/Photo Fit game on top of. If you built on top of inkscape you might be able to do intersting stuff with styles to allow easy colour changes. In theory it should be a case of deciding how much to take away rather than adding a whole mess of stuff.
Intersting idea, hope someone takes you up on your challenge.
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This always seemed like an obvious project for someone to try and I pondered doing something similiar with a set of fun Shapes for Dia. I still have some partial attempts at South Park characters lying around my computer but I never finished them.
ReplyDeletePotato head never seemed like much fun to me, but then I prefer puzzles but a more generic Photo Fit face making tool like they use in criminal investigations might be a little more useful and at least as much fun. Perhaps with a different set of shapes it could be educational, if used to teach childern about sea creatures the Aquarium set that comes with the KDE Potato game might qualify as more than a simple toy.
In the long run Inkscape needs some sort of a Symbol Library or catalog of standard shapes and clipart so rather than banging out a game using librsvg someone might find a way to use Inkscape as an engine or platform and using extentsion to build their Potato Head/Photo Fit game on top of. If you built on top of inkscape you might be able to do intersting stuff with styles to allow easy colour changes. In theory it should be a case of deciding how much to take away rather than adding a whole mess of stuff.
Intersting idea, hope someone takes you up on your challenge.
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I don't had the opportunity to became a South Park fan just because the show does not run on any TV station in my country, but I think such a game should be "themable", so once you have an engine, anything can be thrown at it, even a Photo Fit face making tool you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteFor example for the winter season, something can be made using my snowman (http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/svg/happy/snowman.svg) - changing the hat, the broom, eyes, etc.
Making the potato was for me some fun (not work) in less than one day of one week end, so providing enough motivation I'm convinced I can easily produce several other theme.
The KDE Potato game looks dated to me, just run it on a modern computer with big display and huge resolution. This is why I think such a game should use vector graphics, so the image could be scaled as you like.
I was just looking at GCompris, a collection of Educational software. http://gcompris.free.fr/
ReplyDeleteIt might be an approrpriate place to pitch your Potato man idea and it may be possible to adapt one of their existing projects[1] for the task.
[1] like for example the Jigsaw Puzzle
http://ofset.sourceforge.net/gcompris/boards/boards/paintings_en.html
I am myself a kind of zealot and not interested very much in a solution which is not for Gnome.
ReplyDeleteBut I know about GCompris, they were one of the first projects to make use of some of my images published at openclipart.org