Is it just me, or does anyone else think mechanical trees occur just a little too often?
[QUOTE=MightyMax;36748711]oh yaaaay [I]another[/I] ~voxel indie sidescroller~
[I]we really didn't have enough of those.[/I][/QUOTE]
Thanks, I really appreciate your comment. I'm building a nest for my eggs, and I needed one last piece of useless shit to make it perfect.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;36755482]Even once is too much for me, imo. Mechanical trees are just a stupid idea, I really hope they won't make it to the final game.
They would be better off making the trees/flora randomly generated like how they are doing with enemies. Spore had that, and it was really nice.[/QUOTE]
They -are- randomly generated
Trees and plants weren't randomly generated in Spore, they were randomly distributed. All of the plants in Spore were created by the production team. There was originally going to be a plant creator available to make your own, but it wasn't finished before launch and was left hidden in the files.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;36755482]Even once is too much for me, imo. Mechanical trees are just a stupid idea, I really hope they won't make it to the final game.
They would be better off making the trees/flora randomly generated like how they are doing with enemies. Spore had that, and it was really nice.[/QUOTE]
mind you that spore had trees with eyeballs
that doesnt seem much better than mechanical trees
Because this is made custom in C++, and not in XNA, you probably won't have to worry about sprites.
Another thing about mechanical trees, they make sense. A race creates robots. Some shit happens and everyone dies. Radiation or whatever kills off surface plants completely. Robots are left alone, and begin to miss their creators. So they start emulating them and their original world. The creators would never stand for the surface being a barren wasteland, so they try and transplant underground plants. No go, they all die. Y'know, because of the radiation or whatever. So they build mechanical trees instead, and put down fake grass. Now it looks like something the creators would appreciate.
Alternatively, you can replace "everybody dies" with "everybody leaves" and instead of trying to emulate the old world in memory of their creators, they're trying to get them to come back.
Sad robot theories solve all problems.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;36755724]Eyeballs are actually organic.[/QUOTE]
Unless they're mechanical.
Then they're, well, mechanical.
[QUOTE=MightyMax;36748711]oh yaaaay [I]another[/I] ~voxel indie sidescroller~
[I]we really didn't have enough of those.[/I][/QUOTE]
You're a really stupid person aren't you? A voxel is a three dimensional representation of a pixel.
This game isn't in 3D...
[QUOTE=MightyMax;36748711]oh yaaaay [I]another[/I] ~voxel indie sidescroller~
[I]we really didn't have enough of those.[/I][/QUOTE]
How the tits would you make a voxel sidescroller
[QUOTE=MightyMax;36748711]oh yaaaay [I]another[/I] ~voxel indie sidescroller~
[I]we really didn't have enough of those.[/I][/QUOTE]
I don't think you know what a voxel is
[QUOTE=Z3r0747;36760314]How the tits would you make a voxel sidescroller[/QUOTE]
with a black hole.
[QUOTE=Z3r0747;36760314]How the tits would you make a voxel sidescroller[/QUOTE]
Well it's simple really. First we take all the stupidity from MightyMax, and roll it into a ball. Then we have something the size of the galaxy.
So... Tiy is going to have Creepers in as a cameo. It's been confirmed on his twitter, seeing as he stated "Someone help me convince Notch to let me have creepers in as a cameo." and Notch himself replied with "you may!"
...
I'm not sure if I should be happy about this or not.
[QUOTE=Kegan;36763119]So... Tiy is going to have Creepers in as a cameo. It's been confirmed on his twitter, seeing as he stated "Someone help me convince Notch to let me have creepers in as a cameo." and Notch himself replied with "you may!"
...
I'm not sure if I should be happy about this or not.[/QUOTE]
I don't mind, and it isn't like they will appear on every planet.
You approach a green planet, expecting a lush planet-wide forest.
Drop pod slams into the surface and you step out expecting to be assaulted by the sweet aroma of flowers and bark.
Instead you see hundreds and thousands of these faces,
[IMG]http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1234927854/CreeperFace_bigger.png[/IMG]
Dozens turn their heads toward you and begin to swarm. You start to run and panic as you realize the planet wasn't green with forest but in fact was made up of [I]millions[/I] of these creatures!
The ones close to you begin to flash and you try desperately to call your orbiting friends for help.
But to no avail, the creeper explodes and all that is left is another hole in the crater filled, trampled landscape. Soon it is filled by more creepers, continuing the illusion of a verdant grassland waiting for colonists to fall into its deadly clutches.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;36755482]Even once is too much for me, imo. Mechanical trees are just a stupid idea, I really hope they won't make it to the final game.
They would be better off making the trees/flora randomly generated like how they are doing with enemies. Spore had that, and it was really nice.[/QUOTE]
Destroyed atmospheric conditions resulting from advanced civilizations destroys your flora. Rather than genetically engineer something that may simply die anyways, perhaps they create an autonomous system designed to produce artificial flora in order to fill in the gap created by the dying plant life. Each fake plant using solar cells modified to replicate whatever function their plants originally had in their ecosystem.
While alien life can be drastically different, unless they pull all of the energy in the ecosystem from geo-thermal vents, it is likely that the largest form of energy being introduced into the system will always be from the local star. So no matter how different we ultimately are from an alien species, it is likely that their local ecosystem will ultimately rely heavily on their local star.After all every living thing on Earth, with the exception of microcosms supported solely by geothermal vents, is solar powered in one capacity or another and plant life are the planet wide solar cells that make that possible.
Tah dah! Mechanical trees explained!
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;36763351]Can you explain super trees with capes please[/QUOTE]
So a bunch of idiots in a mobile science vessel come to your planet as part of an exploratory mission titled "Starbound". They send down a small number of explorers to roam the surface in search of interesting things. You have a strict policy of no direct contact with outsiders, but that doesn't stop you from fucking with them for your own amusement. So you put capes on all your trees and then laugh while the outsiders look confused.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;36763206]I've always liked references to other games. Something that'll make you go "Oh hey! I know where that's from! Haha!"[/QUOTE]
If you do it wrong or too often, it becomes. "Yes, yes, we both played that game. Very cute."
[QUOTE=Mingebox;36763410]If you do it wrong or too often, it becomes. "Yes, yes, we both played that game. Very cute."[/QUOTE]
That is why they are called 'cameos' and 'easter eggs'. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=G3rman;36763450]That is why they are called 'cameos' and 'easter eggs'. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure how that has anything to do with what I said.
I like cameos, just not when it's super in your face like a full on character pack, a passing decorative idol would probably be best.
Honestly, I don't really think creepers are all that needed. Cameos in sandbox games always seem a bit iffy, and a creeper being in probably isn't that subtle. There's been far too many creeper jokes, so I really don't want them infesting Starbound.
[QUOTE=Zally13;36763621]Honestly, I don't really think creepers are all that needed. Cameos in sandbox games always seem a bit iffy, and a creeper being in probably isn't that subtle. There's been far too many creeper jokes, so I really don't want them infesting Starbound.[/QUOTE]
It's a sandbox, a huge freaking place where it should be rare to see anything twice.
Sticking in a creeper here or there will not kill it, depending on how it's done.
[QUOTE=GunFox;36763374]So a bunch of idiots in a mobile science vessel come to your planet as part of an exploratory mission titled "Starbound". They send down a small number of explorers to roam the surface in search of interesting things. You have a strict policy of no direct contact with outsiders, but that doesn't stop you from fucking with them for your own amusement. So you put capes on all your trees and then laugh while the outsiders look confused.[/QUOTE]
I wanna be part of a mobile science vessel now :v:
[editline]14th July 2012[/editline]
As long as I'm not wear a red shirt, at least.
As the other guy said above..
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/luTH8.png[/IMG]
We meet again..o _o, this time I got lasers..
[QUOTE=G3rman;36763637]Sticking in a creeper here or there will not kill it, depending on how it's done.[/QUOTE]
As long as they're not very common it might work out. As someone else said, creepers don't seem like they'd fit very well in the first place and if they're more than a rare occurrence then it could detract from the game.
[QUOTE=Onyx3173;36763985]As long as they're not very common it might work out. As someone else said, creepers don't seem like they'd fit very well in the first place and if they're more than a rare occurrence then it could detract from the game.[/QUOTE]
Or just make it a statue. That'd be better I think.
Maybe it could work a little like a cameo in an achievement sort of thing,like if you make a combination of a bunch of explosive creatures, you get a little medallion with a creeper face.
And the description could say, "You're really asssking for it now..."
Or maybe you find a cratery planet, there are creepers on it, so you leave and they probably won't be anywhere else.
God damn I want this so bad.
And the fact that it was most likely delayed is not helping one bit!
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