Again With The Basements
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No, David Bowie will not be in this arc.Posted Fri, 10/02/2009 by Joe in response to Again With The Basements
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Ted’s dismay with basements likely comes from this arc, which is incidentally based on real, totally awesome events.
Again with the art changes! This is the last for a while, folks, so thanks for putting up with my experimentations.
Edit: Poll taken down, as apparently it was interfering with the normal comment system. Please feel free to leave suggestions in the comments / email me with ideas!
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Next week: retrieve the Amulet of Yendor!Posted Wed, 09/30/2009 by Dave in response to Again With The Basements
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen…the Horsemen have a labyrinth beneath their apartment, inhabited by minotaurs, and possibly…well…
Nagas, battle-crabs, hopping lemures, hobgoblins, trolls, rothes, grid bugs, jellies, liches, mind flayers, evil dwarves, evil gnomes, moon gremlins, ROUSes, sphinxes, undead vikings, blink dogs, ixitxachitls, master lichens…
I didn’t bother to mention grues because everyone knows that grues inhabit basements (not just basements that are also labyrinths). We’re going to use this new apartment-related mechanic to introduce some stuff that we just plain couldn’t in the past (being published in the Cavalier Daily, where our shenanigans didn’t make sense to the decidedly intermittent readership there). So, buckle yourself in for next week and get ready to enjoy some old-fashioned dungeon plunging. I swear on my honor as a former student that I will keep references to Nethack to a minimum.
Hey Joe, personally I like the sketched appearance better, but if you do want to change it I like this one better than the last one. More character and color variation. The other one looked like you’d attacked it with fill bucket in paint :P
One can’t help but wonder if *murlocs* also inhabit the basement. One should hope so.
Alright, here’s my finally beef with the art style. I have my Bachelors in Fine Arts and at this point in your testing I bring something that was taught to me by one of my favorite professors. This professor always had a problem with photography as art, but one day I met up with him in the gallery at school and he told me he finally found a photography student that was doing it right. I checked the photos he was talking about, and found that they were odd, blobby-looking 8x10s. I asked him why, and after some quizzing he told me, “The most important thing to me in art is that you can tell that the artist was there. If you can’t tell they were there, then its just a photo and everyone can do it so it’s not art.” There you go, 4 years of college in one sentence. Stick to the sketchy stuff.
Comments should be working now! Sorry that the poll was getting in the way.