It dawned on me this morning, I'd really like the ability to do back flips, or front flips. Opens a whole wide world of possibilities. Maybe start a circus act with spinach and flips.... fun stuff.
A bunch of Glitches flipping, all at the same time.... the thought is so graceful, too beautiful for words. Almost as if we were back in the old days where we could have Grabber 'sing' in unison....... (you'll understand if you were from FS.)
I think it would be a great feature, but I read the blog too. I'm not optimistic we'll ever see anything more than jump. The process to get to where we are is labor intense, so while the opportunity for interaction and fun is fantastic I doubt the ends justify the means. Same with the little red wagon I want. I just don't see it happening because the capacity for the game is limited. Pity we're finding those limits so early on.
I don't necessarily believe that we have already hit the potential for avatar actions, they have already accomplished a huge amount in optimization and have more tricks up their sleeves so there is the possibility that more facial features and actions are still potentials in the future. On one of the new streets I was looking at yesterday there was something that looked like ropes to climb, which I do believe would require at least some new sprite frames. That was why I stated that I would be willing to let go of Shocked, Snarl ... don't find them especially attractive and personally wouldn't use them on purpose. They take up a lot of space on the sprite sheets that could be used for fun in game actions which we would use a lot more often. And the butt scratching, okay it's funny and kinda cute but I actually feel embarrassed when I am standing and talking to someone and it does that. Stupid I know. Will probably get over it.