Post by curtastic in Can I put this frame around my game?

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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.

SuperGamersGames4 years ago

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. :)

curtastic4 years ago

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

curtastic4 years ago

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.

SuperGamersGames4 years ago

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 :)

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