Meet the B-52>*
Sir Sapo got bored the other day, which is sometimes a good thing, since he does cool things that it usually takes him weeks to get around to implementing, like:
Airstrikes!
Repair trucks insidiously on their way to go fix something...
No more, thanks to unstoppably brutal American air power!
We're thinking the actual gameplay mechanic could work like this: You can call in airstrikes using a beacon/smoke flare you drop on the ground with the airplane. I'm thinking (haven't run it by Sapo yet)that the B-52 would get shot down unless you cleared the area of almost all the anti-air units, similar to the Bison in the original Red Alert.
Weapon Select Screen
Someday soon we plan to have some sort of interface going, so to that end I created a detailed mockup of one of the more immediate concerns, the weapons select screen. The nice thing I did was make everything is its own Photoshop layer, it's going to be trivial to make actual textures from it.
I dunno, I think it looks alright, but I've been struggling with the style. I really like the idea of it looking like what you would find on a real fighter jet, with the cool high-contrasty green display with basic wireframe symbology and whatnot, but from a utility standpoint I think it might be hard to see what are actually buttons, and what are pretty things. I'm hoping that once it gets implemented that Sir Sapo and I will be able to come up with enough effects to make it obvious which parts you are actually supposed to interact with.
Ah well, you can see for yourself. Let me know if anything is even vaguely confusing:
I suddenly decided that "Weapon Select" didn't look right. I couldn't tell you why "Select Weapon" sounds any better, in retrospect...
Coming soon...
One of the big things I'm hoping to get from Sir Sapo is the new version so I can make you guys a new video showing the new features, so look forward to that. Also: I found one of our webcams, so get yourself ready for some V'Journaling tomorrow when I inevitably get bored. Be prepared to be frightened and amazed to see the weird hair and boring non-foreign accent of the real Mark the Artist!
I also promise to offer significantly less beardage than >JohnHattan.
Aight, peace out!
