{"author_name":"pythong","cat":"LD #16 - Exploration - 2009","comments":[{"author_name":"Maple","time":"December 15, 2009 3:25 am","epoch":1260865500,"text":"You’ve made the new graphics super bad so people will just say to stick with the old ones \ud83d\ude1b well, i dont know what the rules are on that; this is my first LD. But if i find out i’ll be sure to let you know.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 3:27 am","epoch":1260865620,"text":"I guess technically that wasn’t allowed but I don’t really see a big problem here. I think the rule is there to avoid some real problems with fonts that contain very detailed graphics. Anyway that’s just my opinion.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"pythong","time":"December 15, 2009 3:40 am","epoch":1260866400,"text":"Making the graphics worse was really intentional. Mea culpa, mea culpa, and if I would make the graphics better, that would be even worse than having the wingdings :).","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 4:34 am","epoch":1260869640,"text":"My vote: definitely keep your entry in, and it doesn’t bother me if you stick with the old graphics.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 5:01 am","epoch":1260871260,"text":"My take:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 5:03 am","epoch":1260871380,"text":"Oh, by the way, yes, there’s a bit on the wiki saying roguelikes are allowed, but I think that’s inconsistent with the idea of not using “found art” in font form. Better to broaden the scope a bit. In any case, you still can’t use public-domain fonts (since they would count as public-domain art) which aren’t on the target system already, so I think it’s not too exploitable to allow wingdings.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Maple","time":"December 15, 2009 5:16 am","epoch":1260872160,"text":"^^Good thing i made my own font \ud83d\ude1b","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"pythong","time":"December 15, 2009 5:26 am","epoch":1260872760,"text":"thank you for your many comments. so at least for now, I have the version with the changed graphics as an .app available as well","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"samel","time":"December 15, 2009 7:05 am","epoch":1260878700,"text":"For me it’s ok to change the gfx the way YOU like 8)
\n IMHO we are here to enjoy and have fun!!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 9:17 am","epoch":1260886620,"text":"Dude, I didn’t know it’s not allowed to use any font from the OS. I mean… it’s a font. You can’t expect to draw a font in 48 hours manually.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Maple","time":"December 15, 2009 9:34 am","epoch":1260887640,"text":"Meh. Well im not claiming to have done it within the 48hours (although it DID only take about 10 mins to do the characters i used while i was making the font) but i’m just saying no-one can say i didnt make my own font \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 11:41 am","epoch":1260895260,"text":"KungPhoo: the rules call out the fonts with graphics in them specifically,
\n “Fonts are allowed. You’re free to use any font you’re legally entitled to. Fonts are meant for text output, not as base for graphics (so you can’t get around the ‘no clipart’ part by using windings\/webdings\/dingbats and whatnot). ”
\n So it’s not that all fonts from the OS are disallowed.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 12:27 pm","epoch":1260898020,"text":"I wouldn’t worry about it, and I’d think changing it now is worse than leaving it. But don’t use wingdings in the future! Seems like a pretty minor thing since wingdings isn’t exactly high art, not much better than the classic roguelike of just using letters.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 15, 2009 3:44 pm","epoch":1260909840,"text":"I personally think it’s inconsistent to disallow public-domain clipart and allow public-domain fonts, but *shrug* if it works for people, it’s cool. I actually was quite careful to only use fonts from the OS for that reason.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1260864600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"71728","p_author":"pythong","p_authorkey":"717","p_urlkey":"107550","p_title":"Important question","p_cat":"LD #16 - Exploration - 2009","p_event":"LD16","p_time":"1260864600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"14","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"717","us_name":"pythong","us_username":"pythong","event_start":"1260489600","event_key":"2","event_name":"LD16"},"text":"

I have the following question: unfortunately I used Wingdings as enemy graphics, and those are not allowed in the rules. I didn’t know about that, but that also means that I disqualified myself.<\/p>\n

Question: is it still ok to change the graphics now? I don’t want to be a spoilsport, so I have these to offer, intentionally making them worse to indicate that<\/p>\n

\"Old

Old graphics<\/p><\/div>\n

\"enemies\"

new graphics<\/p><\/div>\n

So do you think this is ok? Elsewise I will take back my entry by also deleting the links<\/p>\n

pythong<\/p>","time":"December 15th, 2009 3:10 am","title":"Important question"}