I've been thinking it might be good to have some buildings as obstacles, like in the denser urban areas... thoughts?

I'm really digging this. You might want to make a couple of more with this same thing, like when you roll over an upgrade your gun becomes more badass, you know, that kind of thing. Just a thought, but it looks awesome...

At 11/15/09 05:58 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: I drew up a motorcycle for the main "ship"

I was thinking that when you go left or right it would rock slightly as you move through the level...but we will have to wait to see what bomtoon says.

Here's another one I've been tinkering with...

Any ideas?

If nobody has it already, this is what I was thinking...

We should definitely make a template for the perspective. I mean, we're all artists here, right? So if we can get the template, then we can make our ideas work within the template, making it easy for everybody to have the same perspective. If somebody has a 3d progam, it would probably be pretty simple to take the outline of a rectangle and turn it slightly. Now that I think about it, illustrator probably does it too. If nobody gets to it first, I may do it.

I'm cool with completely top down. I do have a concern that the main character isn't going to be very interesting looking with that perspective. I think that a motorcycle would make more sense, especially since most of the shumps I've played move along at a pretty quick pace, but i'm not adamant one way or the other, just my opinion :)

I think it would be neat if as the character gets closer to the final bosses, the ground changes, like if its a standard dilapidated urban sprawl that gives way to a more volcanic look, the the earth/pavement cracking and showing whats underneath. Kind of a way to transition from the vehicle based enemies to the more biblical badass monster enemies (if that's the direction we go) I think it would be easy enough, if the entire map background were planned out before hand.

This is what I had envisioned anyway. If we do one or the other, it's probably best to use a template like the red lines in this picture so the perspective is the same on everyone's pic... just my 2 cents

At 11/9/09 01:21 AM, ornery wrote:

if people want a mostly top down thats fine, chances are we can fudge around between the two and it wont be too obvious. Although maybe im thinking mostly top down meaning something different, someone care to give an example between the two?

Good question. I had kind of hoped for a "mostly" top down angle, it just seems like there's more stuff you can do, but if it needs to be completely top down, that's cool.

At 11/8/09 11:32 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: We need to talk about the angle...is this going to be completely top down???

What do you think about this idea before I dump a ton of work into to it?

People on foot would be good. Even if they didn't fire weapons, like if the player shot them they could get power-ups or something.

At 11/8/09 08:27 PM, flashwarrior wrote:

At 11/8/09 08:24 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote:

At 11/8/09 08:19 PM, ChillyCheese wrote: Wait..is it just vehicles?

No... I think if we are going to do the mad max thing there should be people on foot too...ugly people wearing leather throwing things and sporting purple mohawks.

Some people on foot would probably be a good idea just so not everything is vehicles, maybe in groups though.

Nice! I did a little refining on my tanker truck sketch in flash, cleaning it up a bit. When I get it done, I'll post it. I think you're right about the mech angle, it's pretty easy to take it in that direction... does anyone on our team not have flash?

At 11/8/09 07:05 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: Here is a concept I drew up for a possible ship...it is like a hang glider with a single person helicopter...

I like the idea of a mad-maxish post apocalyptic theme, but it's ornery that's gotta decide. Also, I did the same thing yesterday, but the drawings all have to be top down. I was cracking away on a sketch when I realized it, and had to re-do it. Glad I'm not the only one :)

At 11/8/09 02:23 AM, DooDooMeaT wrote: Hello team...

I think this level should be more like a Mad Max-ish post apocalypse. Normal looking vehicles modified into war machines.

This is a WIP...I try not to draw drunk but this was fun :D

Sweet. I'm glad I could join. So, I had been toying around with this tanker truck that's been hollowed out and filled with an old anti aircraft gun... of course, all the angles are off and it's messy as hell, but it's an idea...

Congrats to all the winners! There were an awful lot of good submissions this year.

HERE YA GO

Really nice submissions! Congrats to all the winners!

Greatest story ever told...
HIGH RES

Definitely gonna have to try something for this...

Any month... HI-RES

I'm gonna try to get something done for this... hopefully

So far I've only got 4 non winning adresses.

I'm gonna give the rest of the people who submitted an entry but didn't win until the end of September to PM me their info. PLEASE include your whole address... I don't want to have to look up a bunch of zip codes :)

Everybody who submitted just PM me your info address etc...
the comics haven't been printed yet (no back page after all) but when they're back from the printer, I'll mail them out :)

At 9/3/09 03:02 PM, jakex09 wrote: so now what. Im one of the other people who entered. Dont i have to tell you my adress or something so i can get the free comic?

ALRIGHT HERE'S THE DEAL

HERE ARE THE 6 GRAND PRIZE WINNERS in no particular order...

CATOBLEPAS
NEKOW
UNDER A ROCK
ZEPPELIN562
BOMTOONS
RENSTYLES

HOWEVER, I didn't think it was fair to leave everybody else with nothin, so EVERY OTHER CONTESTANT is gonna get a FREE COPY of the COMIC. I've got a list, so just PM me with your particulars and when I get them back from the printer, they'll be on the way to you.

Which brings me to my second idea, which is to hold another contest for the other 6 slots in a couple of months. If you didnt' win this time, don't worry. You're entries are still elligible for the next go round. I got alot of feedback that the timing might not have been great with everybody going back to school around this time, so hopefully when I kick off the next leg, there will be more entries.

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED!
and a special thanks to EMUZIN who's enthusiasm for this contest was pretty awesome.

Alrighty, all the entries are in. Give me a day or so to really look them over, and I'll post the winners tomorrow evening or the next... If there are ARE any submissions in the art portal, please post a link in this thread that way I can be sure to take them into consideration too.

Alright... you've got until MIDNIGHT tonight if anybody else wants to give the contest a whirl...

I wouldn't sweat the perspective. It looks AWESOME

At 8/30/09 01:45 AM, Nekow wrote:

I 2 feel the perspective is off for the rear tread...other than that...I love the depth. great job.

I had A LOT of trouble with this one, seeing that I can't change the perspective, I'd say this is my final entry for the contest

2 DAYS LEFT! Hopefully we'll get one or two more in before the clock runs out...

Great stuff so far everybody!
A little over a week left in the contest!

Here's another idea...just in case you were stuck on just the 70's theme...