games: February 2010

Contest time!

Alright, let's have a little fun! I'm not exactly super happy with the texture I'm using for the top of the Eagle's Tower (where you fight the boss), so I'm going to hold a little contest!
At the bottom of the post you will find the texture I am currently using for the top of the tower, along with a blank template showing the outlines of the tower. All you have to do is take that template and make a new texture.
-All textures must be 128x128 pixels in size
-Supported formats are .bmp .gif .jpg and .png
-No profanity or "NSFW" imagery

Once you have made your texture, either email it to me at lordmithos@gmail.com with the words "LA3D Contest" somewhere in the subject line OR upload it to imageshack then post it in the comments!

You have until Noon PST on Sunday the Seventh to submit your texture, after that I will select the five best textures and make a poll for you to vote on the winner!

-1st place texture gets used in LA3D
-2nd-5th place winners get to feel good about being in the top 5!

Good luck and have fun!

Current texture

Template

3d Link's Awakening Dungeon Update 274

And now for the only Side Scrolling section of the Eagle's Tower; the boss room!

Plan is to have the clouds and sea animated, maybe have some birds flying around.
And that does it for level 7, next up is the last two cave quadrants in the game, followed by level 8 and the Egg. After that... well... we'll find out when we get there.

3d Link's Awakening Major Update 29

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant B2B is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant B3B is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant C3B is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant C2B is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3B (Click image to imbigenate)

3d Link's Awakening Dungeon Update 270 - 273

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant C3A is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant B3A is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant B2A is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant C2A is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3A

Khurasan Dictator; Finding my Design-Fu

Sometimes models seem to make themselves, other times it’s like beating a steel plate with a foam rubber mallet. This project was the latter.

Jon at Khurasan has been keeping me busy; he gave me a good description and a few concept images to work with. The concepts had differing styles, Crab, Turtle and Arachnid. Jon also wanted a smooth surface free of clutter and minor details, bolts and such.

Normally I can just make a concept sketch and get to work but this one was difficult for some reason. Even after the concept sketch that Jon signed off on, I still found myself unable to jell the idea in my head. Perhaps it was my sweet dog Maggie passing. Perhaps such a large model without surface detail intimidated me. Whatever the cause it took a while to find my Design-Fu.

In the end, the “Fu” flowed and I was able to give Jon something we were both happy with.

You can see from the component view that its a dual layer turret, each can fire at different targets. The head and all six legs can be glued in place or left to move by gluing the top and bottom of the body together without gluing the components in place. Add to this all the small ball turrets and you have a very customizable model.

Fond farewell to a very dear friend

Maggie was about the best four legged companion one could ask for; she passed peacefully at home on the 22nd after 13 years of love and joy. We will miss her deeply.

Cash Club

A recent e-mail from main man and Strange Games fan Daryl Hrdlicka brought to my attention the delightful game of Cash Club. A possibly entirely fictitious game, featured on the website Chain Bear, Cash Club is a twisted amalgam of a nice, gentile party game and Fight Club and is the perfect game for these credit crunched times.All players stand in a circle facing inwards. Players take it in

3d Link's Awakening Dungeon Update 266 - 269

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant B1 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant C1 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant D3 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant D2 is complete

Almost done now, the Eagle's Tower should be done by next weekend.

3d Link's Awakening Dungeon Update 262 - 265

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant C4 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant B4 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant A3 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 3 quadrant A2 is complete

Some work I did for Khurasan; Cafferata APC

Dropship Horizon Link

3d Link's Awakening Dungeon Update 260 & 261

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 2 quadrant A3 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 2 quadrant A2 is complete

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 2 perspective

Level 7 - Eagle's Tower floor 2 top down

As for the pallet, I'm going to stick with the current pallet as the default one, but I will look into including the ROM pallet as an option either via shaders or a separate texture set.