I just had another thought, maybe in the future it
looks like atari 2600 graphics, like eventually people
get over the whole hangup about stuff having to look
pretty and just want things to be functional and
simple and fun. I'm not very high on this game having
any political/moral/social message though, so unless
that translates into lots of good jokes, forget I ever
mentioned it. :^)
I too thought claymation would be a possibility, and
the (hidden, playable) character Ork sort of looks
like clay as-is, so maybe that would work, but then I
started thinking of the ridiculous amount of time it
would take to build scenery and characters and
whatever out of clay and take hundreds of stills of
them, manipulate it all into sprites and tiles... I'd
have an easier time trying to make the 3D stuff look
like clay, but I could never be quite authentic.
Maybe this whole idea's a dead-end, and it mostly came
out of me lazily wanting to use this 2d image I've
drawn and not bother with making the bugger in 3d, but
if we can come up with some real way of making it fit,
and making it fun, it could be a neat twist in the
game. The text menus and stuff could be skinned
differently in each time period too. Time travel in
games isn't new, but changing the whole style for
different time periods, I've never seen that done.
Might be cool. What I'm missing right now is the
eureka-type "that's it!" element that snaps all this
together and makes the idea really work.
Or maybe everyone else will hate the idea. That would
resolve it quickly too :^) Anyway Chris, thanks for
your feedback, if you or anyone else get some
brilliant idea that would make this really jive, or
even if you can think of a few jokes that would help
it work, post first and think later! That's what I
do! :^)
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