Fallen By The Way Adds and Textures

[Holy_Diver]

Wow man very well made!

This is the kinda stuff I like, unique landmarks and objects in 3D games, instead of the same old thing over and over

Personally I prefer generic stuff in games and the same old thing over and over again. Which is why I like this, because a scarecrow is pretty damn generic / re-usable. The less personality the better I say. If people want more, they can always reskin it/modify for their game.

It looks better quality than most custom made stuff, and very indicative of a generic scarecrow. The texture appears to be tearing a little in the shirt in the screenshot however.


I'm not sure if we need a community compact or not. Since we don't really get to license stuff... though theoretically we could form a license for stuff added by the community. I think in spirit at least we should probably be regarding anything that appears in a Som game free to re-use by everyone. The one exception being the maps which are really not very rip-able anyway given just the game output files. This ethic anyway is what draws me personally to Som, and seems to be implicit in the design of Som given everyone was expected to re-use the stuff that came with it, it is communal by design as a platform. Also I don't believe Som games should be stand-alone products. We should encourage everyone to re-use stuff and feedback into the collective pile as much as possible (though it's reasonable if your game ventures into a new kind of setting altogether that may not be an option for you... in which case your project must be very awesome!!)

I think the strength of the Som community will ultimately be everyone feeding from the same trough and iteratively expanding upon the same themes and structures. I can't think of any shared platforms designed to facilitate divergent games or any free/communal media repository building effort for making games which has been demonstratively successful at all. I think Som will be different. And I'm not sure why, but it feels very natural to me.