Should be a good year for Fancy Pants Man!
Rural Squiggleville. I’m still experimenting the exact graphic style of World 3, so this is still pretty rough, but I’d love to get some early feedback from everyone out there. The idea is to refine the style and art, but keep everything looking handdrawn, which is no where near as easy to do as I had hoped it would be. I know I’m a much better animator than background artist, but hey, might as well try, right?
And remember, that’s 5 independently scrolling backgrounds there, just like in the swimming videos. Far more work, but I’d say the parallax effect is worth it.
Squiggleville Mark III:
Hi i like to play flash games im especially hyped for the new adventure of fancy pants man
New shot posted, after trying a ton of different styles for the grass, I think it came out like that on accident, but I like it, so…
I’ll make another post tomorrow trying to respond to everyone, just wanted to get the picture up before I went to sleep.
love the new grass, dude!
I’s supposed to look hand-drawn, right? Hmmm. Well, everyone seems to be arguing about the houses a lot. Maybe they would look better if they had a darker outline around the entire perimeter? Just with the paintbrush tool?
I know I really must sound like I have some kind of dark outline fetish, XD,
but…um…well… I don’t.
Anyway. The clouds look a little odd, too. Don’t know how you would fix this one (dark outline’s not gonna cut it!) but it looks sort of weird that the trees have more blur than the clouds do. Maybe making the color of the clouds closer to the color of the sky? Hmm.
Oh, and I forgot to mentoin, the new grass does indeed look awesome.
How would fancy pants man look if he was a nerd B)
I cant wate too run throw that grass:^]
@WJUK: Thanks
Final decisions are still mine, but heck, I’m still pretty new at this. Sometimes you just get too close to the game to actually ’see’ it, if you know what I mean, so it’s good to have a fresh perspective on things from time to time. Not to mention the feedback usually gives me that extra bit of motivation that gets the work done that much quicker.
@greatestguy: I was thinking about having that extra background in front, I might still add one, but first thing’s first…
@john junner: Try not to hit submit until you have all those ideas out there
@DaxterSpeed: Yeah I don’t know, all that usually gets wiped if I update WordPress or the theme, so I sort of stopped bothering to try and get one to work, but if someone can point me towards an ‘edit comment’ plugin that they’re sure works, I’ll try to get it up, um, before World 3.
@bounceboy: All of the backgrounds are pressed as bitmaps, so I’d have to do some crazy stuff to get anything in the backgrounds animating.
@veganpiggy: iPhone apps, I’ve been asked about this quite a bit. Would require quite a bit of work to reprogram the games for that platform (I don’t code in anything other than AS2, and whatever Adobe is working on that lets you export Flash as apps is slow and probably only works with AS3).
@Slugminni: Of course! He’s one of the first people you’ll be seeing, actually.
@john junner again: Hopefully, don’t want to give too much away, though.
@kurodeshiro: Animation tutorials would definitely be more fun to make that programming tutorials, maybe after World 3?
@Electron: I think they were like that, but they really start to get distracting, especially with all those layers. Then again, maybe I’m just staring at them too much. I’ll probably get some more feedback if/when I post some video with the backgrounds all moving
@DrNeroCF: Go to sleep!
@Electron: I actually am a big fan of darker outlines (especially on cartoons for some reason, the more ‘hand drawn’ looking to me, the better), haha. I’m just trying to stay away from them for background objects.
@john junner again again: Probably the same with a handsome pair of nerd glasses.
TLDR
Hey man, loved playing both FPA 1 and World 2. Was looking at your updated screenshot of World 3 and I can’t wait to try it out. I love the free-flowing feeling of running and jumping from each ramp and platform…very flowing games.
Have you ever thought about making the level indicators (Lifebar, Lives Indicator, Collectible Indicator, etc.) as having a slight white glow effect behind it, or flip it to be white text on a slight black shadow effect? It would make them easier to see in certain parts of the World.
Anyway, can’t wait to play | intendedwisdom
@Brad: *hint-hint*. It’s the easiest one. I use it on most of my blogs. And it shouldn’t get wiped with WP updates…
Brad I promis i will triy to post every day=^]
Ive noticed that squiggles have been added to the level. Hopefully this means that it could be completed soon.
Do you plan on using fancy pants in other type games than adventure fun ?
Like it has smooth running for a ninja game ^_^ or even a soccer game. Thats all i played in fancy pants2.
Oppo
Theres plenty of ideas
What tip of moves will M.r fancy pants have naow that hes in world 3=^]
@Brad: I’ve always loved the music that plays during FPA- could you possibly put it up for download or something?
Brad do you know naw wen world 3 is going to come out
because it’s alredy 2010:-/
John Junner, there was a two-year interval between World 1 (2006) and World 2 (2008). Therefore, 2010 is a perfect release date for World 3. Assuming there are eight worlds total, this also means that the game will be finished by 2020. That’s a good enough time for anyone, right?
Secondly, I asked this in Fancy Metroid, but I’m not sure if Brad checks that regularly: Will there be guest artists for World 3?
I’d explode if I had to go another whole year without releasing a game, heh.
I get updates for all the comments, sometimes I’m just not answering comments cause I’m working on World 3, hope y’all don’t mind that, haha.
Not sure yet, I like working with artists that I respect, though, so I’ll be trying to involve other artists in some way.
Brad, The level is looking brilliant, and I have two questions to ask.
1. How do you get the blur effect on those trees in the background?
2. As CPG is FPM’s little sister was she inspired by your sister Emily?
I notist that FPM on the secand pictur is a-littel bite
strater than the first one:>
Now that I have pretty much completely transfered to the forum I almost forgot about the main site….
Oh and John. That’s probably because of FPM’s standing still animation.
@Wallross: Since Flash 8 there is a blur property, under filters.
WOW! since when did THIS happen??
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i didn’t know brad updated the build?? OMG!!
So… er… Brad, when is the demo coming out? XD
Ah, I kid…
But seriously, what’s happened to Fraser’s Ride? We’ve heard nothing about it for a long time.
Yaa Brad what did hapen to Fraser’s Ride?
Oh yaa bifor i go thanks for ading the glassis
but thay are removabul right:D
I hope we get some nice cameo levels like last time around.
Oh ya, what did happen to Fraser’s Ride?
Slugminni I think the reson Brad updat that one is
bicause if you look at the games thing Fraser’s
Ride is onder the word world 3 so I think Brad
will put it after hes done updating world 3:]
(Brad didnt update that one……………………….:P
(rofl)(Imao)
Brad, can you tell me what day World 3 will come out. (I dont want an exact date, but just its weekday, E.g. thursday)
And John try hard not to triple post and to spell properly.
Please resist in hitting that submit button until youve checked everything.
I would just like to express my thoughts on Fancy Pants.
What I love about the first two worlds is that they’re so uncomplicated. In the first world the plot isn’t even there untill you fall down that hole and land on that penguin.
The best part about World 2 is that there is a plot there and it serves a purpose; to explain. You play level zero and you think “Okay, a rabbit stole an icecream, wow, that is WEIRD” and under the instuctions of the mayor you jump in the golf hole.
And this is where the beuty of it all is; you instantly forget about the wacky plot and find yourself lost in the amazing animation that Brad Borne has dedicated hours of blood sweat and tears into putting together, just for us. It is so smooth you can hardly tell that it is just a series of different drawings. If I was old enough to use PayPal I would donate alot to Brad, just to make him and his games feel appreciated. I imagine that this is why I am writing this, really just to say, Brad Borne, you are my hero and that just saying I love your games doesn’t cut it!
Brad, I hope your games become like Tetris, ported EVERYWHERE onto EVERYTHING so that ANYONE can share the joy that a only a stickman with spiky hair and fancy pants can bring.
Wallross is trying to get his name on the wall in World 3.
But i agree that the games benefit from their simplicity.
Not really, I just want Brad to feel that all his hard work is apreciated by alot of people (at least me anyway).
Well, I too appreciate his work.
I appreciate hem and hes work too:)
Btw, Brad ME2D won Best Action/Arcade Flash game of 2009 on Jayisgames.
http://jayisgames.com/best-of/2009/action-or-arcade-results/
Hi[-(Bye:(
posted using wii internet: preety good
Cant wait for F.P world 3 to come out…im addicted
i cant wait to use the pencil!
Cant wait for FP world 3!! I actually made the firs one of the two pics my background on my cpu^^ And by the way, sorry if my english is bad.