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Albion's Anchor
Music by Evgeny. This track is near the final hour. The drone fleet are coming, the Sekarri led by Rhyzark has to leave. Earth's on it own. But Evren's found a faint signal under the ground on Earth, Yeverri told you something about Dispersion networks and ancient artefacts that could help Earth. Fel and Kira don't want you going alone, it's time to go back to Earth and find out.
Who is next for Faceholding POV
Remember, these are fully animated POV, they talk, blink, smile, blush etc.
More NPCs - Clara
You'll meet Clara in the BC reception, she kinda has no filter. She asks all the boys out that come to ask for directions, be it Sekarri or human. Remember NPCs must number a lot more than the main 100 (which are all fully rendered! ) but some NPCs might get promoted to a full character based on demand and how things are going.
A note on Drone Commander Politics, Values and Story Telling
A classic mistake in modern media especially is for writers and directors after injecting their politics into the franchise and to 'Speak The Truth' , is to tell the fans don't like it, "then they are dumb for following in the first place."I'm an average person, as I grow up my opinions change, they don't always 'evolve', sometimes they go back to where they started. That's life, so what are the chances that my opinions today are all correct? Pretty low, maybe 0%A good writer acknowledges that to make a g...
"People love Underdogs" - a media-Centric Follow-up. There were some great comments on this mornings post, so I want to share more detail on the thinking before getting back to business!
Straker is about the same height as Putin or Zelenski, about 1 inch below global average. (I stood next to Putin once, he's just slightly shorter than me: but much broader shoulders). If I made Straker bang on global average, the artwork wouldn't change. If I made Straker 6f 2 (the average size for SciFi heroes, John Shephard), he'd still be much shorter than the shortest Sekarri.If I made Straker SUPER TALL, like 6'7, they are still shorter than the shortest Sekarri, and weaker. Even if I went all out, and made an extreme 7ft, ...
A couple of people were mocking Straker on the last big drop yesterday for height. This isn't halo, a tall dude isnt going to make a difference. Thats the point, also I don't want the main character becoming a joke. So ill ban those who persist in ruining what we (you and I) have built. More below
I I could easily have made all of the aliens the same height as the humans so the main protagonist would look badass but that's been done a million times before.I think this is the first type of comment like this I posted I really hope to keep it positive moving forward guys.
Kat is a real handful - read below for more
Kat's (Katirijaga) a bit of a sarcastic bitch at times, she's far from impressed by Straker's legend, and one of the few Sekarri girls that wont "pull down her pants when you bat you're eyelids at me" as she puts it. Katirijaga has better things to do with her time than entertain a spoiled little brat, however unfortunately for her, Rhyzark's considering making her his Military PT, because Fel's judgements compromised, Erika is too touchy feely and Irvin shouldn't be neglecting his class for 1 human. Kat ...
Guys the 'Suggest a Character' had a huge turnout, lots of comments. Please go and put a like for the ones you want to see the most. I've already chosen a couple, one is being drawn now.
For the suggestions, i start them off as NPCs (bust up art) and put them in the game, if they turn out well enough i'll upgrade some of them to full on characters. And of course, I can't pick them all but will do my best to keep a pipeline of ideas from you guys being realised.
More drops
Dominion base so far. The prison keeps em underground so you'll have to save em. Destroy the transport and can hack Nephs terminals for vital intel and to make the orbital battles easier.HUMAN AMU - CONCEPT SNIPERZERABOSS
Character Requests - get them in (Rules below).
No long blurbs.Just tell me species, trade, personality. You can give background, but short i.e. 'She's lost her sisters." Type [Patreon] if your a paying member, non-patreons get a say too, especially if your idea is good.
Another patreon dev dump...aren't I good to you! (read on below)
The music track is an early version, not mastered or mixed yet. A first look at Snow, (i'm making a small change to her face though) Full body Ivakan Early (super early) look at Dominion BaseA human attack drone.A dominion prison, you'll rescue hostagesEnemy attack drone
Patreon Goodies (Dev Dumps)
Remind me if i forget, i'll make sure to do this every 2 weeks.
All Neph Cutscene art (except the finale...wait for it!)
In this order, Long ago, Neph was imprisoned by being the biggest war tyrant in modern history.Her sympathisers and cultists broke her out. Then it skips to her orbital bombardment of Earth (you've seen that).Then the final one with her fighting against Fel and Straker is much later on in the game.
First look at Snow's revamp (Kethri Fox like species)
As a reminder, this was the original i drew nearly 2 years ago, 2 variants.
Trystine and game update
Note, if you see a character that doesn't have super high fidelity rendering or its bust up (then usually thats an NPC). Aiming to have about 100 main characters and a bunch more NPCs. Trystine is one of the Priestesses. I just wanted to quickly talk about game progress, in that the stage i'm at now is full on level building. It's an insane feeling to be past all the game engine and foundational stages and knocking out full levels...but thats where I am.I do however plan to loop back to the RTS soon, and spend a week revamping it, ...
Heard you guys loud and clear
It's looking like a stats based approach is most favoured. Im glad I put it to you as it saves me valuable devtime on something that might not be a good fit.Ill still ensure those decision moments come with atmosphere, and feels rewarding when you make the right call but not a disaster if it fails because you tried to turn it around.
