[Tyhm]

Start with stolen graphics/ganis (Era and Kingdoms). This will give you the opportunity to focus on more important things like scripting; then when you're ready to get reviewed, you can go back over it and fix the graphics (particularly replacing it all with the same style).

Also re: the reactions to The Hunger Bar - that's because people are used to the default (Classic) where you Don't get penalized for going too long without eating. So go the other direction: if you don't eat, whatever, nothing bad happens but you'll be behind the curve. Filling up your Tummy-bar gives you a temporary bonus heart, surge of energy, temporary carrying power (enough to drag a full T-Rex corpse into town yourself by the tail), whatever.