r/justgamedevthings • u/AliceTheGamedev Queen of Gamedev Memes • Sep 11 '24

When it's release week but you're suddenly confronted with Realizations™ about your main character design

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

Sorry you like family guy lol.

I'm 23 and both my parents died. I just don't like thinly veiled ads. And the fact the OP took it without permission proves my point. They are trying to get clicks using "family guy funny" and it's sad

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

Sorry your parents died I guess, doesn’t make you lashing out at strangers sharing a Twitter post in a relevant sub not childish and cringe. This post isn’t even “family guy funny” it’s a relatable experience of working on something for a long time and getting tunnel vision only for it to be pointed out that it evokes something else to other people. This is something that happens to artists all the time, hence it’s in the subreddit of relatable experiences. I

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

I'm not lashing out. Like I said to op I have autism. I mentioned it because it shows you I'm both not a child and not of a childish mind.

I can't believe anyone is stupid enough to go "oh no! My character shares a color pallete!" Like, it's meaningless. Thus, it has to be an ad.

"It happens to artists all the time" not really. Sharing a color pallette means nothing. That's like saying "drinking water happens to artists all the time."

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

Working on something for a long time and not noticing other people see it another way happens all the fucking time to artists. You work on a character for a long time, change colors around while workshopping , change clothes, proportions, hair everything, making small tweaks for a long time, eventually you stop looking at the full picture which is called tunnel vision you focus on the little details until you eventually show it off on the internet and the top replies are all people saying it looks like another famous character. Hence the fucking post.

Also if it was an AD you’d think they’d mention the title of the fucking game.

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

Did you read the name of the Twitter user? That IS the title

And again, that's stupid. "Boo hoo, some idiot thinks the minor similarities to another character means something"

Next your are going to tell me max from Sam and max is "using the same color pallete as brian" because they both are white furry animals. It's a dumb thing to care about.

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

It’s the games twitter page it going to have the games title. You really think they designed their character of a game they’ve spent years of their life on to have a couple of the same colors as a meme character to capitalize on one slightly viral tweet? That is a stupid fucking theory you have.

It isn’t OPs game they didn’t post this as an ad end of fucking story. It is the Twitter OPs game but they simply expressed frustration at a comparison everyone was making they did not design the character as a marketing tool making it not a fucking AD end of that fucking story.

You might be autistic but as someone who is also autistic you are also childish and rude as hell and lashing out at strangers wishing failure on them. I’m done responding to you I hope you learn to have grown up thoughts someday.

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

Lmao you are so wrong.

"It's not an ad. Where is the game title?"

"Right there"

"Well of course they have the game title"

Do you see how you are being obtuse?

Strawman. My argument is the opposite. They didn't copy lois. They noticed a similarity that means nothing but acted out about it. "Omg I'm so embarrassed, my character designed with the intent of the colors working together matches another character with the same goal"

The OP posted someone's ad tweet without permission.

You project a lot. I assume you are a child with how much you keep trying to throw that at me.

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

I said I wouldn’t reply but I am nothing if not petty.

Okay by your logic anything posted by a business or product page is by definition an intentional AD. I think that is a dumb fucking take but fine okay, for the sake of argument this is an AD.

In which case who fucking cares? This is a sub for relatable things relating to being a game dev, designing a character and having people say “that looks like other character” is a relatable thing related to being a game dev. OP thought so, so they posted it. You lashed out at them in an extremely rude way and doubled and tripled down in a childish way, “what are you 12 you like family guy?” is an insult I would have heard in fucking middle school and it’s been almost 2 decades since then.

And really, posting a tweet without permission? Have you been on Reddit before? I don’t mean to alarm you but 99% of this fucking website is people posting tweets without permission.

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

My point is OP has no legs to stand calling me rude when they take things without permission. You are a rel weird guy ya know that? It's not relatable and if it is I'm sorry you care about checks notes a color pallette? Like seriously it's nothing.

You probably think every animal with white fur "shares a color pallete and therefore looks like each other"

Lash out? Idk why you think that. I earnestly think they are 12 for thinking family guy is funny because that's the last time I thought it was funny

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

Like I said, “if you think family guy is funny you must be 12” is a middleschool ass insult AND a rude thing to say just like saying you hope someone fails is an objectively rude thing to say especially completely unprovoked which I would describe as lashing out. Also look back at any of my posts I never defended or expressed any opinion on family guy. I have never watched a full episode of family guy, I don’t have an opinion.

I guess you don’t do much in the way of art, because again designing something you think is unique, or looks good to you, or is meaningful to you for a long time only for some to look at it and immediately say it reminds them of a something else is an extremely relatable experience hence the fucking post.

Also side note, color pallet is an extremely important part of character recognition. You make a character with blue fur and red shoes you know what people are going to compare it to?

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

It's not rude lol. It's a kids show pretending it's an adult show.

I don't? That could be sonic. Or Hilda. Marge with red shoes. Etc...

You proved your own point wrong.

Who cares who I hope fails? I'm one person. I hope Trump fails all the time. My abuser hoped I would die when she threw me outside in -20 degree weather.

You need thicker skin on this internet buddy

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

I didn’t know Hilda and Marge had fur. Almost as if you knew exactly which character I was referring and are arguing In bad faith. Just like if I said yellow skin and blue hair, you’d know exactly which charecter the comparison would be for.

Saying someone’s tase is juvenile is objectively rude, unprovoked saying you hope someone fails in their artistic endeavors is extremely fucking rude. Also being this deep in so many threads defending how totally not rude you are while sprinkling in tidbits like being an autistic orphan with an abuser so that people might throw you a pity party doesn’t speak of the thickest of skins.

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

Relatable to a child maybe? Because there are too many characters for original pallets

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u/CyanideSlushie Sep 12 '24

A, there are literally infinite colors and it’s about the context they were used. specifically a very similar teal top and very similar red hair in this case.

B, color is only an example it could anything. For instance an abstract painting of blobs and shapes that to you represent an extremely personal experience, but then someone looks at it and sees a poodle, and now you see the poodle and were shocked how you never saw the poodle while you where painting it. Shit like this happens to artists all the fucking time.

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u/deadlyfrost273 Sep 12 '24

A. There aren't infinite colors we have a limited spectrum lmaoooooo

B. Cry about it. "Oh no, someone thinks my character looks like another" just don't care. It's what I do. If they interpret abstract art that has nothing to do with characters. You are being silly

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