B.C. Kid - Bonk's Adventure - bonkadv(manipars 11-29-2008)

[manipars]

Bonk's Adventure - Arcade Version (c) 1994 Kaneko

status: RC (this post will soon be updated with more additional info)

This theme slowly transforms/gradient-fades from daylight into sunset after 5sec. like many of the in-game stages. the clouds are hovering/moving etc. This game is known in Japan as "Kyokyoku !! PC Genjin - Special Arcade Version" and in Europe as "B.C. Kid". Cheers

Preview: Pic1=start point Pic2= after 5sec.
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq210/manipars/bonkadvpreview.jpg

[BadBoyBill]

Does this theme flash?

[manipars]

Greetings BBB. Unfortunately not, I'm a "rookie" in the flash-animation area, I'm old school and GIF animations is all I can create =). It's a shame not to be able to use all the possibilities HS theme-engine is offering us but I'm planning to install Adobe flash very soon and hopefully the learning curve won't be quite as steep. Cheers

[mildanti]

love this game and love this theme good work!

[BadBoyBill]

How are you using gif animations when I havent added support for them?

[Dazz]

How are you using gif animations when I havent added support for them?
I think above he is just stating that he knows how to do gif animations and doesn't know much flash.

I think he is just using 2 different png artwork layers, both in the same position. One has the day time image and the other with the night time image. After 5 seconds the second image just fades in appearing to go night/day.

[BadBoyBill]

Oh I get it, thats pretty creative, I never thought of doing anything like that, morphing one pic to another.

[EvilDindon]

Yeah, that's really a good idea

[manipars]

Greetings everyone! Dazz is exactly right it's just a replica of the background fading in (pics below). The current theme-engine in HS is amazing as it is but since we are limited to 4-artwork slots I think that all HyperSpin themers should learn how to create some basic flash animations, then the possibilities will be endless and each and every theme will have a unique look to it. It should of course not be overused. Cheers

http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq210/manipars/bonkadvbgs.jpg

[bodydump]

Really nice, like all of your themes. If you're pulling this off without Flash, I can't wait to see what you do when you learn Flash.

[EvilDindon]

Hi mani,

I was browsing the wheel and found this theme very crisp, except the logo that looked a lil' blurry compared to the rest of the artworks, ans a bit too small.

So that's why I had a playround in 5 min with the excellent vector magic you suggested, and here is the result (png 850 px) :

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9776/bonkadvlv4.png

Feel free to use it.

(I've myself replaced the blurry one by this one)

[manipars]

@ EvilDindon: Thanks mike that is much appreciated, I didn't use vector magic or any tracing on the logo back then it was only a up-scaled logo from the flyer. Your logo looks very crisp and clean, I just tested and added your logo to the artwork and wheel slot and it looks indeed excellent. Now you are starting a good trend, we definitely need to vectorize over 70% of the blurry logos in most of the older user-based themes, perhaps in a different "updated logos" thread but I think remakes would be much better. I still need to learn how to keep the color-scheme and palette intact after a logo is traced or vectorized like you guys do. I always strangely loose the color palette and depth as compared to a bitmap logo. Again thanks for the logo =) Cheers

[EvilDindon]

Yeah it looks good, but I had to edit the xml to move down almost all the 4 arts, and the bonk's head was covering too much this bigger logo, so I had to move it down some more.

And yes, why not starting an "updated logo" thread.