Hooray! This is gonna be fun!

This collab's goal is to make one big "group photo" outta pixels, in which any PixelJointer could add themselves. We will most likely have a background with things you could make yourself interact with, so you could make yourself poledancing on the swingset, if you felt like that's who you are.

Alright, so basically we've got nothing so far. Everything (almost) is open for public discussion, and any ideas you wanna add, add 'em.

-WARNING- I tend to be pushy with my ideas, by no means are they final, if I say they are, remind me that I'm a one and you are a many.

Now that that's been cleared up, here's my vision for the project.

Background:

In my brain, the setting would be in front of the PixelJoint building, if it had a building. Hey, buildings can expand.

I'd love a highly diverse and interactable environment. By this I mean I would like it to in no way restrict how a user wants to put themselves into the shot. The most logical real-life example would be a playground, with lots of places to sit/hang/talk.

It would end up being tiled, methinks. This means there's be an end cap on each side of the background, and a repeating (or many different tiled) section(s) in the middle.

I'd love for it to be elaborate as well. If it does end up a building, I think opening it up to pixel murals would make the peice luverly, even though the murals may be partially or completely covered over time.

People:

There would only be a height restriction. You gotta allow for fat people . Standing would be around 100-150, and sitting would be somewhere around 80-110 pixels.

There would be no limits as to where you could put yourself, and (no?) limits as to how you could make yourself. Pouring every ounce of your creative brain into yourself makes Saboteur smile .

Most importantly, there would be a function of some sort that allowed the viewer to see a miniature biography* of whomever they're holding the mouse over. That, and the full shot of the person, because there will be overlap. And if clicking the person would bring them to the person's gallery.... mmm, that would be awesome.

And submitting yourself to the gallery after you're done is lame.

*Mini bio would consist of Alias (Saboteur) Age (17) Motivation/Interests ( -about a small paragraph, maybe?-) Specialty (Non-iso small icons)

Dimensions:

We could go a few ways here.

-Set height. This means that it would end up being a long wall that would require scrolling as you go along. Well, maybe not right away, but eventually. This does not mean we'd be in a giant line, simply that the background would always be around... lets say... 500 pixels. Probably more.

-Set width. We'd have a base That would evenly fit the screen, and people with wheels on their mouses would get to use them. Seeing as most people stretch vertically, I think this is the wiser option. Plus I'm lazy so I wanna use my mouse wheel.

-Neither set. Free range! This is probably just a bad idea. I think.

DONE!

That's what I think. Please! post what YOU think and what YOU want to see in this! The only stupid idea is the one you don't say!

heh, I did. Here.

That was posted in the collab discussion forum. It doesn't support the tiledness of the background, and I hadn't yet gotten to adding more things to interact with. So really, it would be a scene more than a photo.

And I can't find a group picture (real life) that suits my idea.

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Ryan, did you read the first post all the way through? There are no limits to where you can put yourself.

This sounds like a great idea. Id you need any help getting it set up, I'd be glad to help.

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Haha, no offence, just read a little harder next time.

"It doesn't support the tiledness of the background, and I hadn't yet gotten to adding more things to interact with."

No, not done. And I think it's gonna get trashed anyways.

And if you had read the whole first post (I know, it's long) you'd have read about the playground and how I would like it to have lots of stuff to interact with. Seeing as the example doesn't, I'd say its not done.

And at the risk of sounding harsh, don't post here anymore, at least until people have posted actual thoughts. That goes for all of us .

That IS an idea. It would go well as a different setting.

Well, g'night for today.

I wrote in the "suggest a project" thread, but realized I had to post here -
so:
    I suggest the "Sliding Doors" technique from A List Apart cause you can get variety in the background, and at the same time keep it expandable. A narrow repeating pattern would probably suck.

    Unfortunately, making different 'spots' for putting people might be a hassle, because we should be able to code the project once, and let it grow itself. I am all for an interactive background, but I'll write more about that when we get to that stage.

    I suppose we have to go for set height, because, after all, the idea is to have a school-type photo. Now, we can fit 5-6 people in the height of the page, and the z-index (depth) will probably be determined by -y (i.e. the higher a person stays, the further in the back they are).

    I would really wish to have the icons shuffle, so every time you visit the gallery, people are in different places. Otherwise the later posters will be somewhere at the ends of the 'bench'.

Thank you Ensellitis for visually demonstrating what I was trying to express.

Ahh, schweet! I see!

And I'll be gone for the next few days, so don't expect my opinions or whatev... just go. I'd love to see what we can come up with.

There wouldn't have to be A tile, there can be several...You could have it:

[ Left end cap | Tile 1 | Tile 2 | Tile 3 | Right end cap ]

Since sedge is 99% likely to use ASP, alot can be done.  All that would have to be done is to have, say if div's are going to be used, is to have the script dynamically create let's say a div that is 250px wide everytime the last one is filled...

Don't worry about the code. Coding is easy no matter what is decided on. The background is a big part of the project so it should be done right. 

We could even just place "objects" on a large background tile. Example: if we were to do a park theme we could have a big wall/grass/sky tile and place a jungle gym, a slide, buildings, posters, graffiti, bleachers, trees, fountains, etc as separate small graphics that rest on top of the wall tile to give it some interest. We can't just have a gigantic background graphic... the file size would be too large and the project wouldn't be very flexible. 

First of all I feel like confessing I have no idea how to code a thing like that and I would probably not contribute with more graphics than my own picture (since you're all in such a higher league than me), so I apologize in advance if something I write is just plain stupid or not possible at all 

I think the playground idea is wonderful, and since the coder claims that it wouldn't be hard at all to place objects as background I am positive about it not being repetetive. It would be interesting to see some individuals hiding behind a buch, some other sitting on the swings, and a line waiting to ride the slides. The background (behind the objects) could be a city, which could be easily expanded if someone or some people agreed to expand it when needed.

I'd love to join the PixelJoint Playground Personalities Collaboration

Ok, so what about the scale?  I think it should be somewhat like this...



That allows detail to be put into it...  Once we decide this, we can start doing the background...  And com'on So-Lou, we need your skills on this!

Yeah, that scale size is a nice one. Enough to add some details, but not too big (so that us below the elites will have a chance to still make it good).

the harder they fall

So thats the template then? I'll get started.

Well, I think inside of a gym like setting would be the best bet.  It would be simple enough to create the actual background, and it wouldn't be as busy as a park would. Obviously we want the focus on the people, but the background should still be eye candy, ya know?

Do they have to be ourselves or can we have alter-egos?

Oh, i'd love to work on this. I have no idea what i'm doing though; As soon as someone starts the trend, i'll follow...

Wow, this sounds like a totally different thing to my idea. I guess I'll start mine up now.  I don't completely understand this project, guess I'll have to wait and see what people make to get it.

I think I get it. The will be a scene, there will be different objects in the scene. You pixel yourself in some sort of position depends on what scene we use and then you place yourself somewhere in the scene. Is that what ya'll are getting at?

I would definitly be interested in helping and participating.

Mountains aren't that hard. And pixel what you mean, Zach, I'd love to see what you can come up with!

Really, we just need someone to decide on something and make a cap/tile for it. I think the others will follow.

Wow, I love that idea!  I think that is the way to go right there. 

I think we should stick with normal size...


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I am sorry to say I have no idea (it's something I still need to try), but I just wanted to tell you that your vertical log* sure looks nice

And those houses in the background is somewhat what I had imagined, so great job on reading my mind! But come to think of it, perhaps there should be some sort of a fence seperating the park from the town, don't you think? Don't know how parks are in reality, to be honest..



* tree trunk