[Isugamedev-midworld] new art

[Andres R. <an...@re...>]

here's a bit of 3 am inspiration, check these out:
www.vrac.iastate.edu/~areinot/gamedev/midworld2.jpg
www.vrac.iastate.edu/~areinot/gamedev/midworldmenu.jpg
www.vrac.iastate.edu/~areinot/gamedev/midworldtitle.jpg

This is an idea for the main character (you).  Lemme know what you think.

I'll make the menu in the correct dimensions by tomorrow, and prolly make 
png files of the menu items for plugging in.

I've been thinking about some visual style for the game, what do you think 
about making this game mostly black and white? Doesn't have to be 
completely grayscale, but at least cut down use and saturation of colors, 
and maybe tint everything gold or blue or something.  I'm seeing bright 
white environments, and clean marble-floored foyers of buildings, as well 
as sunny modern cityscapes with entire blocks of ruins from "the War" you 
could wander through and pillage. Also what would be really awesome would 
be innocent bystanders wandering the city, and lots of them.  It would make 
combat a lot less click-n-spray. Anyway that's far off in the future of 
design, and the first step would still be a shoot-everything-that-moves 
kind of deal, but just a thought. Same for the weapon design also, perhaps 
we aim towards more powerful, realistic weapons with ammo limitations, to 
get away from the idea of depleting a health bar, and focusing attention on 
accuracy and tactics, which could be very cool for the style of controls we 
have chosen.

Anyway, it's late and I'm rambling

peace out.

Andres Reinot
an...@re...
www.reinot.com