Tada! Here is some brand new art for the game by Asher Dumonchelle. We showed off this piece for the first time last night at Juegos Rancheros in Austin, TX.
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Brand new wallpaper created from in-game art by Asher Dumonchelle.
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A new interview I did with GameSpy just came out. I think this was a good one, I got to answer a few interesting questions in an honest and blunt way.
You can read GameSpy’s edited version here:
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/116/1169197p1.html
Here are my original answers:
http://infiniteammo.ca/public/InterviewQsforGameSpy.rtf
Hey folks. I decided to put together another video showing off some of the progress on the Monocle Engine.
Ashley and I also decided we’d let you take a peak at some of the Marian stuff we’ve been working on using the engine as well.
There’s some new music and other goodies in there too.
For more information see:
monoclepowered.org and the bitcollective forums
And we’re back!
GDC was a energetic, exciting and exhausting experience as always, but this time I was travelling with the Bit Collective crew from Winnipeg. They’re a great group of guys and we had a lot of fun meeting a ton of new indies and presenting the Winnitron at the New Media Manitoba booth in the Expo hall. Kert Gartner captured timelapses of our trip; this first one really captures the frantic energy and time compression that we experienced at GDC:
New Marian Postcards
Right before we left to GDC, Ashley put together three scenes of brand new Marian art that we could use for postcards. Ordering the cards turned out to be stressful, and I ended up going with an American company and shipping the finished postcards to Derek Yu’s house in SF. The results were worth it -- the cards are printed on nice thick stock and they’re glossy on the game artwork side.
The Marian postcards we handed out at the Winnitron/Manitoba booth
Based on how many cards we had left, I think we handed out over 200 of them at GDC. We have some leftover that we’re putting up for sale on the IA store. We’re almost out of two of the three types, so if you’re interested -- get in there now. I can also sign your cards if you specify that! Unfortunately Ashley can’t sign them because she’s nowhere near Winnipeg. (although we may be getting some Ashley signed goods up in the future)
Let’s take a look at these new postcards…
This one you may have seen before, but the composition is a bit different and you can now see that more is going on here. This area appears fairly early in the game.
Support the Game by Buying this Postcard: “Balcony”
This area currently appears early in the game; it may or may not in the final version. It combines a number of neat ideas.
Support the Game by Buying this Postcard: “The Bedhills”
This area will probably appear later in the game and may have something to do with the last Marian Mondays post.
Support the Game by Buying this Postcard: “Spring”
How Does She Do It?
Ashley uses a pretty neat and time consuming method to create her game art, that involves first sketching on paper, scanning those in and eventually coloring in Photoshop. For a new and in-depth explanation of her process, check out the new post in Ashley’s art corner.
Feedback
Through GDC and various forum discussions around the internet, we’ve been collecting feedback on the new art. Most of it has been positive, but we’ve received some useful critiques and some confusing negative feedback as well. We’d like to try to understand what some of this negative feedback is about so that we can fine tune the look of the game while we’re still able to be flexible in that area.
If you’d like to help us out with this, please let us know which of these postcards looks best and tell us why in the comments. The more detailed and precise you can be with your feedback, the more useful it will be to us.
Which postcard do you find most appealing? Please give us the details in the comments. Thanks!
Loading ...We want the game to look as good as possible, but we also want it to have a unique style. I really like working with Ashley because she has her own vision for the game that meshes with and expands on my own.
We appreciate any and all feedback you may decide to give us on our journey to complete “Marian.”
It’s Monday! That means it’s Marian time.
Ashley updated her “Art Corner” thread in the forums to include one of the many new pieces she worked on this week. This big guy hangs out in a very colorful part of the game.
Pack a picnic lunch and head on down to Ashley’s Art Corner for the “making of” details.
