I started up this blog in order to have some place to rant about my pet project, Sheeplings; instead I seem to be using it for everything from nudity to nerdy programming stuff. It’s quite about time to talk about the sheep game for once!

So, I found this excellent artist who’s done marvellous things with sheep. Get your mind out of the gutter – I’m talking about this:

After the extremely cute sheep and the lovely background I was a bit disappointed at the map art I received: (Ignore the mad flag placement – those are just levels I use for testing.)

I guess I really shouldn’t complain as long as people do stuff better than I can myself *, but the map didn’t look as good as I’d hoped. It got a bit better when flowing clouds and GUI items and particles were added, but I was still not a happy cynic.

That’s when something funny happened: the map above was an example 600×480 image that I stretched to fit 800×600. After discussing the art a bit, the artist suddenly noticed that  – gasp – there is no 800×600 version! The map was made in a low resolution, and a stretched image isn’t really an option for the game’s map screen. So, it’s back to the drawing board (literally), and I’ll get another version of the map.

Okay, that’s not really funny at all. I meant funny as in “it’s funny how things turn out sometimes.”

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* Footnote: Of course I believe that I have the right to complain even if I can’t do better myself. It was one of my first rants here, after all.

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