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Can I put this frame around my game?

A topic by curtastic created Jun 25, 2020 Views: 287 Replies: 6
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Submitted

My game will run in a browser and I want to use this gameboy-ish frame image around the game canvas. https://i.redd.it/ey34dvjdzic41.png

If I'm not allowed to use the image, I'll draw this frame with a bunch of lines and circles and rounded rectangles instead. Can I make an SVG to contain all of those drawing commands?

Host

well, if you made it into a meta sprite and created a script for it then that’s okay, but why do you need a frame?

Submitted

My game will be in a smaller square window than most browsers so it looks better to have a frame around it instead of blackness. It's also nice to have button controls for when you play on a phone and they look like a handheld gaming device. I will try to remake it with a bunch of rounded rectangle drawing commands then.

Host

I hope you didn’t start working on this, but toots is odd exception, but I’ll allow the frame as long as it remains mostly outside the game itself. If people feel iffy about it just link to this. :)

Submitted

Oh good thanks because I just got the original frame working with buttons you can press and I made it work on phones too. I figured I'd use it for the 64x64 game competition anyways. Check it out http://curtastic.com/gbframe/test.html

Submitted

Also another thing you could do is have a rating when judging like 8x8-ness. So that if someone makes a game where all huge sprites stitched together they will score less on that. And I'd be willing to score a little less on that metric for having the frame.

Host

Well, what you are describing is called meta-sprites, smaller sprites stitched together using code to make bigger sprites. They wouldn't score less in that instance due to it being rather difficult to pull off correctly :)