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Published: 2012-03-19 16:25:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 369; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 9
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A concept shop logo for the steampunk game I desperately want to create but probably will never get to.I'm probably going to do more sketches as time goes along. Most likely a lot will never be properly inked or given real attention until we have enough that we can begin to finalise a lot of the design work.
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Cool logo! I'll definitely help if you want, but I'd only be good on the art end.
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Well, I can't see how a helping hand could be a bad thing. 
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Heheh.
Oh, there's a plot. And a backstory. But the plot is quite loose and leaves plenty of room for plenty of stuff yet, while having a fairly rigid start and end.
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Could you share a bit by any chance? :3 Or are you saving it for if you manage to make the game, so no spoilers?
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We've got ideas splitting out the sides for it, to be honest. The struggle would be putting it all into one game, considering budget/available tech.
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It may be possible anyway: [link]
And you can always build up to it with other games.
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Oh honey, this game we're thinking of, it's larger scale than many of the 1st Party developer games on the market, and possibly will require new hardware. *extra sad face* We would also likely be building the game engine from scratch.
Building up is what we've been speaking of. Any effort will be a mammoth one, considering it's Australia. Either way, the link you just provided is awesome and going in my bookmarks. Maybe something will come of it.
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I see. Do you think you can cut down at all? Technical difficulties can lead to great things (e.g. the iconic mist of Silent Hill, and aparantly the entirety of Portal) and sometimes even freeware can be great (e.g. Wraith, made in RPGmaker2003, which manages to scare me WAAAY more than any of the Survival Horror games I've played).
Otherwise, you might just have to wait like the creators of "Beyond Good and Evil."
Yeah, I've heard that the Australian game industry is a bit... weid, to say the least.
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I can understand how such constraints could make games better... but honestly I think over our plans, and improvisation is probably just not going to work. What is at least on our side is that we've come up with the idea early, so that means we can have years and years of pre-production at virtually no cost rather than the expensive one-week scramble that many companies survive with.
I think making smaller stuff and building up to larger projects is going to have to be the only way, here. Which is a tad frustrating, but also not so bad at the same time.
Australian game industry is... bad. Our last triple-A company shut down the year before last, so it's sort of dead apart from the occasional overseas company that has a station here.
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Ah, okay then. Well, good luck! Here's hoping it will be a success when you finally manage it!
And it sounds like it's worse than I thought, the Australian game industry, that is.
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Yeah. Pretty dead over here. Sometimes I think about moving somewhere like Canada, even though I probably never will.
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Again, good luck!
Canada seems like it would be a good choice if you ever did, though it takes a while to become a canadian, I hear.
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Thanks!
I would probably go the extra mile to get the citizenship if I had to. Snow-fields are too tempting.
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You're welcome!
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Indeed. Whistler would be epic(ly expensive). I hope to ski in Canada one day, even if it's only for a holiday.
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Oh! Can you ski?
It'd probably be best to visit there as a tourist at least once before making a decision.
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Sort of. I went to the snow for two days once (only time I've ever seen snow IRL) and all of a sudden the instructor from the head of the school wouldn't let anyone else teach me. I suspect heavy experience with rollerblading helped, though.
Yeah, definitely. There's always something about a place you never find out until you visit.
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Went to the snow? You mean where it is? I've heard that there are snowy places in australia.
Of course!
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Yeah, most of the snowy places are on mountains like Mt. Buller or Mt. Perisher (depressing name, I know. We also have a Mt. Disappointment, which doesn't snow and got totalled by bushfire in 2009).
Otherwise, no snow here. 
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Wow. And I thought we got little where I'm from. On Skye, I pretty much have the Gulf Stream on my doorstep, so it can be tropical at times, but we still get snow every few years. For a couple of days.
Yeah. Snow does NOT look pretty when it's melting. It's like someone ate a load of paper and puked all over the place.
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Nice! Sounds like a good place to live. 
Eww... that's even worse than I imagined.
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It is! If you don't mind the rain and midgies that are there most of the time.
Wow... that's something that kinda blows my mind really. Snow every thirteen years that never reaches you and stuff.
Y'know, the definition of a white christmas here is that one snowflake hits the tower of the met office on christmas day. Just one. And in scotland, it wouldn't be surprising if the weather decided to just chuck one snowflake at the met office, or chuck snow everywhere but on the tower of the met office.
It doesn't last long at least.
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I think I'd be more concerned about cold.
Well, seeing snow for the first time sorta blew my mind, too. It was like... "Hey, it's not on the telly! It's REAL! 
Really? 
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That's the thing. We are on the same level as Canada, but the gulf stream brings us warm water from mexico, so we aren't cold often. Tropical at times, even. And midgies are terrible. Well, apart from how they keep the human population away from where they are, which helps keep them beautiful.
Well, if it's something that just doesn't happen, I can see that.
Yep! And I had a terrible cold on that day. I've actually seen it be so cold that I could see snowflakes with the naked eye.
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Ah, yeah. I keep forgetting about air/sea currents and stuff. I know El Nino can do some strange things to our weather (I'll be damned if I can remember what those things are, however).
Good heavens! Remind me never to go near a place that gets that cold when... well, it's getting that cold. 
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To be fair, so do the weather programmes here, and there are people I know who don't know about the gulf stream and stuff. Isn't El Nino the one that makes things really extra hot on occasion and kills of a load of coral?
I don't think you'd need to be reminded. And if you do, just cuddle a heater until its over or something.
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Yup, that's the one. I'm also pretty sure it causes cyclones! 8D (Not sure if Cyclone Yasi was a direct result of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.)
lol I'm pretty sure it's above 10C right now and I have my heater on. 
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With my (limited) knowledge of weather systems and the water cycle, that makes sense. It is mostly about the way heat moves, isn't it?
Let's see... room temperature is supposed to be 21C so that's cold.
I find what temperatures we find comfortable confusing. Here, 26C is considered to be boiling hot, but it's still below body temperature.
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Yeah. Lots of hot air on cold air with high humidity is what sets them off. Same with typhoons and hurricanes, but I'm fairly sure the only thing that sets the three apart is location.
26C = boiling hot? 
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A quick google looks says the difference IS location.
Yeah, we may have the gulf stream, but we are still on the same level as Canada, and Mexico is far away. So I guess it's just how we adapt to our climats, and Scotland is mild and wet (Wow, that's amazing, in a bad way. I think most of the people I know here would have just melted).
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Well, I suppose that's the power of water currents. Humans are actually pretty versatile if and when we're able to adapt.
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Yes, we are. It's surprising what we can adapt to! Though how adaptable we are varies, as well as what we can handle. Otherwise the population here would be huge in spite of the midgies. (Erp! No thanks, I prefer to stay solid).
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i like this one they know their stuff
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??? Is this comment intended for me or someone else?
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