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red queen (no arms or weapons yet) : I'm using some texture alpha for the crown but it doesn't look very well for some reason :/

Yeah i like this rook. It's nice and you don't want to mess with him. I notice we have one more piece than in regular chess. So i guess at some point we can invent our own pieces? I say at some point cause thats a lot of work allready :D I'm working on the red queen, i'll need some backup at...

Counter-proposition ( i kind of like it when its more symetrical and totemic) : Well maybe with a bigger head....what do you think ?

Considering the rook : it's very nice as allways but kind of stands appart from the rest, looking less like a chess piece, much more like a real animal, unlike the knight for instance. So i thought i'd make a sketch of what i had in mind. It's not good/finished concept art in any way, just a...

Maybe later we could include different eyes textures set to add some expressivity along the animated texture line that was discussed a while ago.

A few quick tests anims : No hands : Pawn hopping with spear : Pawn hitting : Hands : Pawn hopping : Pawn hitting :

i was thinking one could craft its own chess pieces, the more powerful the piece the more demanding on ressources

ok 'ill do that

cool :D About the hands : the way i figure things i will use invisible bones that would make some kind of invisible arm for the piece to hold the weapon, so the hands are not actually needed, and yes they can appear/disappear depending on use...but they could add to animated expressivity

I wonder : since they have weapons, could they have hands (in the detached limbs fashion :D) ? It's not a necessity of course, i leave it to your decision SuperSnark . Otherwise you asked what piece could make a good animal, i was figuring the rook might be some mix of tower and elephant. That...

SuperSnark : great concept art, love it

A first animation (not easy to figure out how these little people move :D ) :

I like it, and the concept art, and part of the stylistic decisions kind of derive from it.

Hushed what you stated wasn't uncomfortable, it's just a clichéd solution, that's only too comfortable(that's what everybody does, let's do the same),and that moves nothing forward. I stated my disagreement, with arguments, and what my vision is. Maybe harshly, but at no point did i take things...

One thing that bothers me in all that is the feeling that we have some double standard here. When it comes to coding or the game universe, discussion, exchange of ideas, incubation of ideas, starting from a very loose base (minecraft + dwarf fortress but, you know, cooler) that will evolve with...

Isn't the fact that it allready exists a good reason to make something different?

I'd love to see it :)

Yes i have fun drawing those. If anyone as suggestion for more biotech monster or other, i'll be happy to give it a try.

this is kinda cool : http://www.hungrymutant.com/illustrations-by-laura-bifano/ If not for the modeling, could be inspirationnal for the texturing. (I know i was supposed to not stay involved but well)

Nice stuff, but what about : we dont call it mecha versus magic, rather steampunk mechanist dwarves versus biotech elves scientists, leaving room for a third faction, with "real" magic?