Cool, big difference between clicking and hovering. Okay, so now that I’ve done that, how does the partial comment in that URL supposedly show the original comment before it was edited? The URL for his original comment, for example, shows exactly what it is now. How does that prove anything?

Nothing would have changed if I kept quoting you. Just because I didn’t quote your entire comment doesn’t mean I didn’t read your entire post. You’re just pretty terrible at explaining things, so sorry for asking for you to be more specific. “

What do you mean by “click on a comment.” Click where? There is nothing clickable on a comment save for the reply button, your username, the star, the timestamp (which shows the most recent version of the comment and all replies to it) and the three-dot drop-down menu, and the permalink option in there does not show…

Yes, that is what they did, as others have told me. Reading this article without any prior knowledge of the game makes it seem as though they were trying to show that you could make characters in the game with already existing parts, not that they made the character, custom parts and all, based directly on the drawing.

Yep, that’s apparently what they did, according to others who replied to me. I’m not sure how doing that proves or does anything in particular, other than making the kid who drew the image happy. RappingNinja had it right in his quote in the article abouve:

This article isn’t exactly explicit either way, but the way it reads makes it sound as though they assembled the character with pre-existing in-game assets after seeing the drawing in order to show the capabilities of the game’s character customization system, which isn’t the case at all if they built parts…

“Goes back to my initial post about me asking why you and others were skeptical in the first place.”

“(or someone pretending to draw like a kid)“

“They designed the character off the kid’s drawing. That’s it.”

...Now I know you definitely are missing my point. There is no confusion about them making custom parts and characters based off of some kid’s drawing being a feature in the game.

I think you missed my point entirely, but it’s irellevant now since people are saying that they created the various assets based off the drawing and integrated them into the game in this special instance, which is not a normal feature of the game, of course.

It’s in the details. Sure, ninjas and pirates are pretty generic, but what’s the chances that every item matches exactly? A ninja mask with a rectangular eye cutout and two vertical seams? a peg leg that looks exactly like the one the kid drew, with the same proportions, coloring, fat upper portion sharply cutting off…

So they “cheated” by making the parts based off a drawing. OBVIOUSLY I was under the impression that they were trying to prove the versatility of the character creator, so clearly I did miss the point. Which is what, exactly? Building parts and a character based off a drawing is cool indeed but what point are they…

Thank you for explaining what they did. I was under the impression that they had already created the game assets and then tried building things like what this kid drew and somehow had parts that perfectly matched the character. Obviously if they created the assets based on the drawing, that is totally different.

No, that’s not what I was saying. If they CREATED the assets based off the drawing, that is different than what I thought this article was describing.

I’m not being negative at all. I just don’t like when game creators claim their game can do something it doesn’t actually do, at least not as well as they make it seem.

If they based items in the game off drawings, that’s an entirely different case. The way this read, it came across as though they had already had items in the game made and assembled the character in the game based off the drawing with assets that were already created.

Well if they based items in the game off drawings, that’s an entirely different case. The way this read, it came across as though they had already had items in the game made and assembled the character in the game based off the drawing with assets that were already created.

Yep, they’re full of it. They either created the character in-game and then had a kid (or someone pretending to draw like a kid) draw it based off the in-game character they assembled, or they had them draw it based off individual in-game items before they were assembled.

Based on the fact that the image is way too similar to the in-game model to be mere coincidence. How fortunate that they happened to have every single item, in the right shapes and textures, to match the drawing pretty much exactly.