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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

55 (71.4%)

We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

17 (22.1%)

I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

5 (6.5%)

Total Members Voted: 77

[Lolfail0009]

New release, I believe.

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MIGHT BE SOON!!!!

[Splint]

Yeah, new release and even then it'll be once it's stabilized. That way we can iron out any chinks the release will cause and add the needed tags and such to what needs them.

For example, trash golems don't strike me as being good climbers while spawn would swarm up and over improperly readied defenses.

[Splint]

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Some crude scribbles of recently discussed stuff.

Top Left: Tin Tyrant, based off the original drawing. Largely heavily riveted except at the arms, neck, and head. The head is largely a big metal bowl with its edge hammered and wleded over the edge of the neck, with a mouth and nose riveted/welded to it to give it a rough imitation of a face. Within is both the machine's (after all this time likely greatly diminished) awareness and one of two power supplies, providing it with the eyes it uses to see both friend and foe.

Top Right: Trash Golem; bits of nails and scraps of paper as well as bent and torn metal plates cling to the semi-ooze of the rest. This particular one uses an old rough gem inside bits of broken glass and suspended by wires to "see" its surroundings.

Bottom: My interpretation of Asea's Pulse Rifle, mostly modified to make it look less clumsy to use, and having that wire fixed to ones side securely rather than dangling where it could get damaged or yanked out, as well as what I assume is a spare battery pack being stored with its... Prongs I guess, upward and inside the stock to keep them from getting dirty/damaged and a spot included for a laser pointer or a flashlight.

EDIT: I wanted to include a gnoll but I can't draw animals to save my life.

[CaptainMcClellan]

Yea, they look really great. Especially your Tin Tyrant. The Trash Golem might need some work, and the rifle looks exactly like what I'd figure based on the description.

[Splint]

I went with what I did for a recognizable face... Or uh, something approaching one anyway.

[CaptainMcClellan]

Yeah, but that's the thing, it doesn't look like one at all. I can tell by the shape of the head that you meant for it to be a face. But it doesn't look like a face. That's why I said it could use a few tweaks.

[Splint]

The whole point was for it to be a crude imitation at best, not actually look like anything resembling a "proper" face. Like something just kinda made a sort-of head shaped lump and stuck an eye made of broken glass and such in it; those aren't retinas or anything, just wither wires or cracks in the glass, whichever you prefer.

[CaptainMcClellan]

Oh. Ok. Well can you use a saw or something to make a semblance of a mouth? It'd make it easier to see.

[Mr Frog]

@Talvi:

Believe it or not, I was actually intending on giving them variations in body structure (although they all would keep to having a fleshy lower body and metallic upper body) but I decided to focus on getting the default form through worldgen before putting in any others.

[Propman]

I like the tyrant's drawing mighty well. Also, perhaps there should be a hermit-crab variant of the trash golem, that hides its fleshy bits inside a barrel, like a shell.

[CaptainMcClellan]

I like Propman's idea. If it looked like that the eye would look more fitting.

[Propman]

And I've started working on a few sprites, if you're the sort of fellow to use them.

For the gnolls, I literally just edited Bane's (I think it was Bane) Hyena men graphics to have snarling grins, while the Tin Tyrant stands bellow them in a vaguely Starman-like pose. The mess of pixels next to the T_T is meant to be a representation of a trash golem. It sure is hard to render a mug, a cog, a saw, two jagged metal arms, and a rotten lower dwarven torso into a single coherent sprite.

[CaptainMcClellan]

A++

I like it. Especially considering you pointed out the Starman thing.

[Mr Frog]

@Propman, Splint

Gaaahhhhhhhhh why are you both rendering the trash golem as humanoid this is actually bugging me a lot   It's supposed to look a lot more alien.


Fortunately Splint's rendition irritated me enough to attempt my own version, since my powers of description were apparently not nearly enough to communicate the surreal majesty of a shambling heap of trash with not enough legs. It's currently about halfway done.


Also, @Propman, sorry that both of my interactions with you thus far have been mixed-to-negative. Welcome to fucking Spearbreakers.

[Propman]

In my defense, the sprite was originally meant to have four legs as a sort of centaurish deal, but I was unable to cram them all in without it looking completly unrecognizable. Also, don't worry mang, I've long since been hardened against such things, after my pet Giant Desert Scorpion died from an infection she got from fighting a troll. Worthless animal caretaker, you just sat there!