Some of you surely have noticed that the crickets are missing in the youtube video ... they have been deleted accidently and have been added already again.

After the Video, here a Picture of the Meteor Police ( Beta Version )
[IMG=http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6063/police3.jpg][/IMG]

I love it, the video looks great. But the animation needs some improvement. Nobody can float around this way. The body moves a little bit during each step, not only arms and legs. This applies also for cartoon worlds.

The walkanimation is actually close to the original
animation in MM. (the feet dooing this funny circle walk)

But in the original the head is bobbing a bit too,
and the character moves faster forward.

PS, the entry to the basement should be more covered by the
bush, its too easy to spot.
The letterbox is hard to see (more contrast)

Maybe you can make the characters always look to the player
when they stand idle.
(like in the orinal when they stand and look at the player)
Either by turning the head or the whole body to the camera.

Hmmmm the "Watching the Player" thing, sounds nice. Lets see whats Pegamode things about it. The other things u sayed are in the Making. As i sayed befor, the video szene is still beta. But Thanks for your Thoughts, maybe in the final Version, the Kids will look at the Player, becouse of this forum entry. Who knows. Critics are always welcome

Currently all characters walk on the same path and with that they also walk through each other. That's something we don't want to have in the final version.

It is planned that the inactive characters leave the main path and then look into the players direction.

We have some ideas how to move the inactive characters away from the main path, but maybe there's a way we didn't think about yet. So, maybe we can discuss some ways here (to do not push your thoughts into the direction we think, I'll post our ideas later).

Regards,
Pegamode.

I hope you mean "interactive" and not inactive chars


But cool game - please don't take part at the competition, and give us a chance

No, I mean the "inactive" characters.

The active character should always be on the main path, but the other two "inactive" characters should not stand in the way. So they have to leave the main path when they get inactive (inactive = player switched to other character).

Oh, sorry, I never played maniac mansion and I don't know the concept - sorry

You never played Maniac Mansion ... that's a shame :-)

So maybe you play our version when it gets released ;-)