Suggestion: images or animations

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:38 am

You might try asking around at an art site like deviantart.com and see if anyone's willing to make the artwork.

Kyrodo · Post by **Kyrodo** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:48 pm

Hehe, and googles a nice backup if anyone needs it

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:21 pm

Ruddertail wrote: It seems to me that animations would tend to slow down the game. If you have an attack animation, you have to wait for it to play before you can attack again, even if it's short, 40 seconds, for example, I can run 4 - 8 attacks in that time, depending on browser speed. That means I'm looking at atleast a 4 fold increase in the time it takes me to make a run. Not good, considering I'm already short on time.

But simple images wouldn't be bad...

Have an option in manage where you can chose images on/off or animation on/off

Post by **Devari** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:39 pm

Of course, slasher is right. We are first a text-based game, so one should be able to turn off imagery.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:48 pm

of corse im always right

*laughs*

another suggestion - instead of an on/off have skins which display and dont display them... the best place to ask for some images is probably jakooldesigns.com

Post by **Devari** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:20 pm

Personally, I think that stuff like the attached would be ideal. Unfortunately, I believe those particular images are copyrighted work.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:30 pm

Yeah try getting JacL or somone to make you some on jakool designs like i keep saying

*laughs*

Kyrodo · Post by **Kyrodo** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:09 am

Heh, kool! that bazaar one's a start!
so just ask around on jakool designs and stuff...

what do we else do we have... well attacking of course, hawks... training (barracks?)...

Post by **Devari** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:16 am

Nope Ky, can't use it. Copyrighted work - it's from a game called Majesty. I just posted it as an example of the kind of art I would like to see - unobtrusive, small, and effective.

Anyone willing to go to JCL for us? I'm kind of busy wrapping up some of the active bugs.

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:22 am

That's a very nice piece of artwork.

Have you looked at FLOSS art? I regularly lift Bluecurve icons for GUI apps, and for our purposes, games like freeciv or whatnot may have some useful things.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:05 am

Devari wrote: Nope Ky, can't use it. Copyrighted work - it's from a game called Majesty. I just posted it as an example of the kind of art I would like to see - unobtrusive, small, and effective.

Anyone willing to go to JCL for us? I'm kind of busy wrapping up some of the active bugs.

I'll go and request for us if you tell me what sort of sizes, themes and such are needed.

Kyrodo · Post by **Kyrodo** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:43 am

Status... (two helmets on the sides... and some banner like thing in the middle...)
Attacking... (two swords locked maybe... in the shape of an X...)
Recruitment... (Barracks... or just a variety of weapons from axes to spears, etc...)
Scouting... (maybe just a field... or a forest... hills maybe... or just a compass along with other travel things...)
Trade... (meh, just lots of coins...)
Forage... (farm... grassy hills... a farm house... forest again...)
Write... (quill and ink...)
Heal... (like a hand with a blue/white spell like thing coming out of it...)
Build... (wood... logs... something to that effect...)
Demolish... (a collapsed building maybe...)
Bazaar/market... (well... a bazaar/market, or something like devari's pic...)
Stocks... (don't know...)
Bank... (dunno...)
raffle... (dunno...)
aid... (dunno...)
bounties... (dunno...)
hawks... (birds... flying... or something...)
Heroes... (a knight in armor would be nice ^^)
Clans in general... (erm... banners... tapestry... symbols...)

those are just ideas though... (most of them

)

Post by **Urran Voh** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:27 pm

*elaborates off of Kyr's ideas*

Status... (two helmets on the sides... and some banner like thing in the middle...)
Attacking... (swords clashing with one another...)
Recruitment... (a mouse or etc being handed a weapon...)
Scouting... (a close up image of a forest on a hill....)
Trade... (meh, just lots of coins...)
Forage... (a granery, or silo...)
Write... (quill and ink...)
Heal... (like a hand with a blue/white spell like thing coming out of it...)
Build... (wood... logs... something to that effect...)
Demolish... (a collapsed and smoking building...)
Bazaar/market... (well... a bazaar/market, or something like devari's pic...)
Stocks... (don't know...)
Bank... (something like Gringots off of Harry Potter (except the building would be straight hahah)...)
raffle... (a ticket looking thing...)
aid... (Otters carrying knapsacks...)
bounties... (dunno...)
hawks... (Hawks in the sky...)
Heroes... (pic of each Hero if available ^^)
Clans in general... (erm... banners... tapestry... symbols...)

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:39 am

*laughs* bounties a bounty choccy bar

aid - a red cross thingy

Kyrodo · Post by **Kyrodo** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:57 am

I KNOW! How bout like some assasin looking character, aka, someone wearing a black cloak/hood with the face hidden in darness... (as for stocks... meh do that check line graph thing, since I have no other ideas...)

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