01-16-2014, 10:13 AM
Though this may be redundant, I feel it would be valuable to share:
[spoiler=Insert brief recap of discussion with personal pessimist flair:]Going back to Koopaul's original prompt, tVGR (doesn't roll off the tongue as well as tSR, if you ask me =P) is less active. This could be for multiple reasons suggested. Efforts to reinvigorate fan-games, support and create sprite comics, and published videos featuring sprites maybe turn out to be useful, but I'd have to predict otherwise.
Spriting, as with anything, is becoming more dated every day, and the things that made it popular (games, in particular) are moving on to other graphical options. Nowadays, any game utilizing sprite art is filled with nostalgia and remembrance of the olden days.
Expecting these forums to still be flourishing would be too hopeful, in my opinion.[/spoiler]
The only way I see to help permanently solve this issue, and not just temporarily until the project is done or the comic ends, is to re-popularize spriting. This is a bit large of a task for the 6 or so people partaking in this discussion.
It would take a lot more than a few sprite-oriented games, comics, videos and project to rejuvenate the forums, or by extent the art form as a whole.
We wouldn't need to hypothetically change the views of the world, but just enough people to find a new population.
That being said, if we started several large projects, a la comics and games and projects, and kept progress moving on them, than something might come from it. But they all need to be large, involved, inclusive and cool. Something hip and poppin', as the youngins would say.
[spoiler=Insert brief recap of discussion with personal pessimist flair:]Going back to Koopaul's original prompt, tVGR (doesn't roll off the tongue as well as tSR, if you ask me =P) is less active. This could be for multiple reasons suggested. Efforts to reinvigorate fan-games, support and create sprite comics, and published videos featuring sprites maybe turn out to be useful, but I'd have to predict otherwise.
Spriting, as with anything, is becoming more dated every day, and the things that made it popular (games, in particular) are moving on to other graphical options. Nowadays, any game utilizing sprite art is filled with nostalgia and remembrance of the olden days.
Expecting these forums to still be flourishing would be too hopeful, in my opinion.[/spoiler]
The only way I see to help permanently solve this issue, and not just temporarily until the project is done or the comic ends, is to re-popularize spriting. This is a bit large of a task for the 6 or so people partaking in this discussion.
It would take a lot more than a few sprite-oriented games, comics, videos and project to rejuvenate the forums, or by extent the art form as a whole.
We wouldn't need to hypothetically change the views of the world, but just enough people to find a new population.
That being said, if we started several large projects, a la comics and games and projects, and kept progress moving on them, than something might come from it. But they all need to be large, involved, inclusive and cool. Something hip and poppin', as the youngins would say.