Pixel Joint Forum: River City Ransom wannabe

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Hi, I used to go by Colin Sick on the Pixelation forum (I'm back from
China for those of you who knew).  I'm upset Pixelation is gone , and I'm upset about the baselessly self-important attitude I may've noticed on other pixel forums, so I'm posting this here.

I'm doing an unofficial sequel to the NES game River City Ransom called Brass Knuckles and Belt Buckles.  The
gameplay is dead-on River City Ransom, but with grappling a la
Wrestlefest.  The other difference is bitches with stitches -
girls that fight!

I'm looking for another artist or two to join me in pixelling this
thing. 
You'd need to be able to adopt the Brass Knuckles style, prove yourself
in animation (anyone can pixel a hat: animating takes balls), and be as
equally lazy as I am, but preferably less. 

It's being coded in Flash and I've got quite a bit done already - learning as I go.

Anybody interested?  Do you know anyone who'd be interested? 
Below is an old mockshot and a random selection of unanimated
characters (spot anyone you know?)

More info:  Aside from the opening scene (some neighbourhood chavs
steal your car radio), nearly the entire game is references and
homages, blatant and obscure, to B-movies like They Live, Dawn of the
Dead, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and other videogames like Mortal
Kombat, Double Dragon, etc.

... and here's a Ninja for good measure.  Kick ass!

Edited by Pulp London

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Pulp London Seaman Joined: 19 April 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Topic: River City Ransom wannabe Posted: 19 April 2005 at 8:25pm
	Hi, I used to go by Colin Sick on the Pixelation forum (I'm back from China for those of you who knew). I'm upset Pixelation is gone , and I'm upset about the baselessly self-important attitude I may've noticed on other pixel forums, so I'm posting this here. I'm doing an unofficial sequel to the NES game River City Ransom called Brass Knuckles and Belt Buckles. The gameplay is dead-on River City Ransom, but with grappling a la Wrestlefest. The other difference is bitches with stitches - girls that fight! I'm looking for another artist or two to join me in pixelling this thing. You'd need to be able to adopt the Brass Knuckles style, prove yourself in animation (anyone can pixel a hat: animating takes balls), and be as equally lazy as I am, but preferably less. It's being coded in Flash and I've got quite a bit done already - learning as I go. Anybody interested? Do you know anyone who'd be interested? Below is an old mockshot and a random selection of unanimated characters (spot anyone you know?) More info: Aside from the opening scene (some neighbourhood chavs steal your car radio), nearly the entire game is references and homages, blatant and obscure, to B-movies like They Live, Dawn of the Dead, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and other videogames like Mortal Kombat, Double Dragon, etc. ... and here's a Ninja for good measure. Kick ass! Edited by Pulp London
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 19 April 2005 at 8:50pm
	Pulp London... I love you. River City Ransom is my all time favorite game of all time -- no joke. I wish I could help, but I'm seriously backed up with projects right now. Maybe in a couple of months I can help contribute some art. I would love love love to be apart of your project though. If you need a place to host your project or anything else to help your project be successful please let me know. You've done some fantastic work so far. I'd love to see what you've got going in Flash. This made my freaking week!
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pixelblink Commander Joined: 19 February 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2865	Posted: 19 April 2005 at 8:58pm
	I love your alien from They Live... that movie rocks... I'd like to be involved too but... same as Sedge.. I got so much I'm doing at the moment I can't find time to do anyhting else. Keep us posted and we'll see what happens
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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 20 April 2005 at 9:35pm
	Holy crap, it's Colin Sick! You probably have no idea who I am, since I joined Pixelation about the same time that you left it. Just to get to the point, I'd love to help you with this. Although I'm working on other stuff, I could make time for this. Except for when I go to Seattle for a few weeks this summer. I'm not too sure I'd be able to capture the style of the game perfectly, mainly because I've never played it, but I've seen enough screenshots and various animations from it to get it down decently. I'll animate one of the characters if you're interested in seeing it. AIM is BlackHawkSphere Email is blick149@gmail.com

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tommy j4sun Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 128	Posted: 20 April 2005 at 10:01pm
	good job man! well, i could help you do more celebrity/ movie characters. like predator, arnold from cammando, and like, krats from the god of war game. oh, and who's that last guy? and i love the "they live" one. you should make a bruce campbell. Edited by tommy j4sun
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 21 April 2005 at 12:01am
	Sweet. I'm glad an excellent pixel artist like Blick is a potential contributor. Good luck fellas and once again, let us know if you need anything to help this important project!
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Pulp London Seaman Joined: 19 April 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 21 April 2005 at 4:39pm
	sedgemonkey: Thanks for the offer. I just might take you up on the webspace when I've got something done worth playing :) tommy j4sun: Who's the last guy? The last guy is supposed to be the girl from the Korean film "My Wife is a Gangster 2" I bought it because the chick on the cover looked so cool - movie doesn't live up to the cover though... Blick: I remember everyone. I've got your banana portrait on my HD. It's okay if you're busy, I really just need to join up with someone to bounce images off of and kick my ass and tell me I'm lazy and threaten to do more on the game than I will :) Plus, making games is lonely. I'm interested in seeing your animation. Animate whoever doing whatever. You can post the animation here or send it to me! pulpbeijing at hotmail.com Edited by Pulp London
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iSTVAN Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 626	Posted: 21 April 2005 at 6:34pm
	Although I dont have much of a history with this particular game (I think I mightve played it once, or atleast something similar!) I'd definatley be keen to help! Plus Id only be wasting my time pixelling other things. I feel I can adopt this style, I like using limited colours and youve set a pretty neat template already. Ive also got experience in game making, however not in Flash. Aaaarh, check out my pixel joint gallery to see my work, here, especially the 'Black Hole' characters around the 3rd and 4th pages. Theyre animated in a simple style, and are the only thing I can think of that Ive done that would suit the River City Ransom style. I am however willing to learn, as I havent played this game as much as most people here. Im very keen, so please consider me! Goodluck either way.
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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 21 April 2005 at 9:12pm
	I've got your banana portrait on my HD. Wow, I didn't expect that anyone would ever go through the trouble of saving that thing. Who can resist the pelvic thrust? I'll post a serious animation tomorrow. By the way, what's the magnification you have the sprites at out of the magnification? It's an awkward zoom, to get the sprite to 1x to make it easier to handle, I had to just remake it rather than going to zoom 50% or any other common number like that. Actually, looking at it now it looks like 6x zoom...

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Pulp London Seaman Joined: 19 April 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 21 April 2005 at 9:45pm
	The first pic is x2, second is x3. Here's the four basic bodies for dudes to help you out - all have just minor differences in the head structure. As a note, usually I just use 2 shades per colour, one being 25% darker than the other. tommy j4sun, I'd like to see you take a shot at predator or Ahhrnold like you said :) And nothing adds more dramatic effect to any situation than pelvic gyrations. There is no rebuttal for it. Edited by Pulp London
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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 21 April 2005 at 10:01pm
	3x, 6x, same thing. Thanks for the bases. Will make it much easier to animate.

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iSTVAN Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 626	Posted: 22 April 2005 at 2:16am
	I noticed the funny scale thing aswell. Would it be too much to ask for a palette of the colours youve already used? Cos I tend to choose much lighter shades, but I want to keep it consistant when fiddling.
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Pulp London Seaman Joined: 19 April 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 22 April 2005 at 8:06am
	Don't worry about the colours. I swear I'm pretty much mentally handicapped when it comes to palletes. I have no concept of colour, and I pixel on a faded laptop screen. I usually just, um, borrow colours from other people (oh, the shame! the shame!) and hope they look fine. MR.T looks a little dark. I haven`t quite marked out a set pallete yet. You can just eyedrop the colours from the pics above if you like.
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 22 April 2005 at 10:32am
	That pelvic thrust animation is the sh*t. I've always wanted a thrusting Mr. T.
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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 22 April 2005 at 7:19pm
	Hmm... Didn't expect my mom to be so... eh... bossy, let's say, today. I'll get an animation up tomorrow, rather than today.

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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 23 April 2005 at 8:27pm
	Quick guys, if we never use our left arms, they'll never figure out how to block us!

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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 24 April 2005 at 12:11pm
	So, is this game going to allow you to pick up all the random objects (including people) and use them as weapons like the orginal?
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Pulp London Seaman Joined: 19 April 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 24 April 2005 at 2:50pm
	I emailed you Blick. iSTVAN: Anything? sedgemonkey: Yeah. I've got chucking things like people and trashcans animated satisfactorily, and whapping people with baseball bats too. The "being whapped" animations aren't up to snuff yet though, and the grapples a la Wrestlefest give me trouble. Edited by Pulp London
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tommy j4sun Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 128	Posted: 24 April 2005 at 7:01pm
	hey, maybe you should make predator
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pixelblink Commander Joined: 19 February 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2865	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 10:27am
	I finally grabbed a ROM of this game the other day and realized I totally forgot how awesome this game was. The only I noticed that sucks bigtime is the stupid password thingy. It's a million miles long. So, if you want to start where you left off from the last time you have to type it in perfectly or else you're screwed. Maybe this version will just have a simple save game system put in place?
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Pulp London Seaman Joined: 19 April 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 11:33am
	tommy j4sun: I thought you offered to pixel Predator or Arnie from Commando - give it a shot. pixelblink: I wouldn't have the first clue about coding a save system in flash. Maybe it could be stored in cookies - I dunno. I actually wanted to include the password system, just because it's so ridiculously long and inconvenient it's funny in itself :)
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 11:46am
	*Originally posted by Pulp London* tommy j4sun: I thought you offered to pixel Predator or Arnie from Commando - give it a shot. pixelblink: I wouldn't have the first clue about coding a save system in flash. Maybe it could be stored in cookies - I dunno. I actually wanted to include the password system, just because it's so ridiculously long and inconvenient it's funny in itself :) You are such a sadist! If you wanted to host the game at Pixel Joint we could store passwords in a database. We could also store all sorts of other personalized goodies for the gamers too. Just a suggestion.
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pixelblink Commander Joined: 19 February 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2865	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 11:57am
	*Originally posted by sedgemonkey* *Originally posted by Pulp London* tommy j4sun: I thought you offered to pixel Predator or Arnie from Commando - give it a shot. pixelblink: I wouldn't have the first clue about coding a save system in flash. Maybe it could be stored in cookies - I dunno. I actually wanted to include the password system, just because it's so ridiculously long and inconvenient it's funny in itself :) You are such a sadist! If you wanted to host the game at Pixel Joint we could store passwords in a database. We could also store all sorts of other personalized goodies for the gamers too. Just a suggestion. You're such a pixel philanthropist Segde. That'd be sweet. I've avoided playing RCR today just becuase I don't want to spend a half an hour putting in the password
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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 2:29pm
	Sedge: That would also make it so you could only save and load your game when online though.

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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 3:58pm
	*Originally posted by Blick* Sedge: That would also make it so you could only save and load your game when online though. You're absolutely right Blick, but if it's a Flash game on the internet you would most likely be connected for the duration. If it's a downloadable Flash game being designed we could have it load from local XML files. I could do all the Action Scripting coding to get the config data into Flash if y'all need help with that. Edited by sedgemonkey
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Blick Commander Joined: 21 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 389	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 5:48pm
	I don't understand most of what you just said, but I bet you're right.

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Saboteur Commander Joined: 29 January 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 888	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 8:08pm
	Ugh. I tried to make the spy vs spy guys, but alas, my computer likes to crash. Be back on... maybe tommorow with em :P And maybe I'll make the wacky jacko do a dance, if I've gotz the skillz. -edit- EEW! turned out gross. scratched the project, on to another idea. Give me about ten seconds :P Edited by Saboteur
	"I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business."
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tommy j4sun Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 128	Posted: 25 April 2005 at 10:09pm
	i tried making a little predator for your enjoyment. im soon going to make an arnie from commando and terminator 2. edit: lol, ever heard of the batman vs. predator comics? Edited by tommy j4sun
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pixelblink Commander Joined: 19 February 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2865	Posted: 26 April 2005 at 12:07am
	that's a pretty dope looking predator dude... but what about the shnick schnick of his claw weapons? Or his staff thingy? Would look more complete with that. And yeah, I own a copy of the Batman vs. Predator graphic novel
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grave Commander Joined: 27 November 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 127	Posted: 29 April 2005 at 8:08am
	yay, you got the 3 storms :D but not ash from evildead :(
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tommy j4sun Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 128	Posted: 30 April 2005 at 8:38am
	chainsaw or no chainsaw, thats teh question
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tommy j4sun Commander Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 128	Posted: 02 May 2005 at 7:48pm
	is this thread going on still? come on people! don't let this fall into the pile of dead threads!
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B2thec Seaman Joined: 14 December 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 12	Posted: 20 July 2008 at 12:44pm
	I know this post is pretty old but I have been looking for someone like you for a long time. I am also working on a River City Ransom game. Although my characters are just based on friends and I kept with the same color scheme as the NES. I was going to put Spiderman in mine but my god man, the three dudes from Big Trouble in Little China. Amazing. We definitely need to collaborate on something. Check out my gallery to see the animations I posted. And I would love your actual email.
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BlackDragon Commander Joined: 13 May 2014 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 729	Posted: 20 July 2008 at 5:41pm
	Start your own damned topic instead of bumping this ancient one. Under "Job Offerings" Hate to break it to ya but I doubt that this guy even comes on anymore, let alone help you with your game. Edited by BlackDragon - 20 July 2008 at 5:42pm
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B2thec Seaman Joined: 14 December 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 12	Posted: 20 July 2008 at 9:12pm
	So sorry, I couldn't find any contact info on this guy anywhere. I thought, hell, he still might get notified via email that someone replied to a post. Sorry, didn't know I was being such a rude a$$shole. I am sorry for taking up possibly 2kb of space from your server, I will try to not let it happen ever again. God, I feel like such a prick! You guys do make people feel pretty welcome around here.
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B2thec Seaman Joined: 14 December 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 12	Posted: 20 July 2008 at 9:14pm
	Plus I didn't know "we should collaborate" meant "help me with my game". Jeez, I am a jerk.
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bacon Seaman Joined: 21 July 2008 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 2	Posted: 21 July 2008 at 12:55pm
	Ahhh man, Imagine my disappointment when I found that this thread was a necro... cause I was sort of looking for "Colin" As I spouted off and worked off the coding for such an event. Damn this thread for making me sign up for an account all premature like. Wonder if he is back in london...
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Oltar Seaman Joined: 28 May 2008 Location: Spain Online Status: Offline Posts: 5	Posted: 22 July 2008 at 3:34am
	Very cool pixel art. The B.A it´s badass. I´m love it!
	My english sucks!
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eyeball Midshipman Joined: 21 July 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 41	Posted: 22 July 2008 at 5:10am
	I might try to make Gordon Freeman? But it's a game star not a movie star (if you don't know him hes from HalfLife)
	Cheers, eyeball.
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Saboteur Commander Joined: 29 January 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 888	Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:40am
	@b2thec You're necroposting from like 3 years ago. You could post in the off-topic thread asking something along the lines of "Anyone seen Colin Sick/Pulp London around and know where I could get a hold of him?" In this way, you could sound a lot less like a childish prick and a lot more like someone worth "collaborating with". And for the record, being welcomed is a two-way street. Coming into someone's house and peeing down their staircase ain't gonna get you any warm hospitality. Edited by Saboteur - 22 July 2008 at 9:41am
	"I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business."
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BlackDragon Commander Joined: 13 May 2014 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 729	Posted: 22 July 2008 at 7:45pm
	*Originally posted by B2thec* So sorry, I couldn't find any contact info on this guy anywhere. I thought, hell, he still might get notified via email that someone replied to a post. Sorry, didn't know I was being such a rude a$$shole. I am sorry for taking up possibly 2kb of space from your server, I will try to not let it happen ever again. God, I feel like such a prick! You guys do make people feel pretty welcome around here. Wowowow buddy, I'm just trying to help out. I may seem a little blunt at times but if you knew proper Internet etiquette, then I would not have been so mean sounding. If someone as not shown up in two years, consider him gone. Starting a new topic looking for other people would have been better because of three good reasons: 1. The chances of this guy showing up and helping you or collaborating with you are slim to none, as stated before. 2. It is not proper to necropost, making you look like a... noob if I may. 3. More people being asked to recruit gives a higher chance of working with that person. Because you showed such immaturity while handling this situation then I don't think anyone will be willing to wrok with you until you start showing some basic internet knowledge. Again, I'm sorry if I offended you and I don't want this to turn into a ridiculous, unessecary flame war. I'll let the mods handle it from here. Cheers. Jeff
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