Getting animated characters into your game is more complicated than it should be.  I’m hoping we can put the Sims assets we used for Indie Game Jam 3 online at some point for non-commercial use, since I think that would help people explore game designs that involve people doing normal stuff.

I’m going to probably open source some of my assets and code to encourage people to make games with normal people in them, but it’s all in flux right now, so it’s too early.

Spy Party is looking to be one of the best indie games out there!

I am a fellow game developer starting to work on a new project, which will also involve animated characters. I am curious – what do you use for character animation? (besides your own IK code)? Do you just load animated characters from something like an FBX file? If so, where do you get the animations from? A contractor? Or do you animate them yourself in Maya? Or something else? Would you please mind sharing your own opinion on what would be the easiest way to get some animated characters in a game? I need just a bunch of people walking on a sidewalk in my game (I’m just prototyping at this stage). I will render using either OpenGL or DirectX.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and keep up the awesome work!

Jakub

Sorry for the lines, I will set up multiple stations at pax west this year!