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Sunday, March 25, 2007

SpaceCute: Some sketches




Once upon a time there was a game design known as SpaceCrack. The setting, with its cool white iPod-inspired theme was a bit too niche. Here are some sketches of a SpaceCute theme. In SpaceCute, solar systems are delightful gardens filled with animals quite extraordinary. Anyone think that this is worth turning into a set of graphics?

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Danc.

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13 Comments:

Blogger Michael said...

I love it! I think my fiance would love a game like this. If someone were to cross a galactic civilation sim with Animal Crossing and give it a graphical style like this, she wouldn't be able to stop playing.

3/26/2007 7:25 AM  
Blogger R. said...

Make it so!!! :)

3/26/2007 11:14 AM  
Blogger R. said...

...although I would recommend making ALL of the ships animals and bugs, and replacing that first ship with something cute.

3/26/2007 11:15 AM  
Blogger Raymond said...

OOOOOOH!! OOOOH!! THIS IS SO CUTE!!! ESPECIALLY the LADY BUG SPACE SHIP!!! My kids would LOVE this!!!

Oh Sweet, Sweet Danc! You have a winner!!

--Ray

3/26/2007 1:49 PM  
Blogger Donna said...

Absolutely, Danc - these are wonderful.

I just assumed that all solar systems ~are~ with delightful gardens filled with adorable animals!

3/26/2007 5:33 PM  
Blogger bonder said...

Let's not only knock out the graphics, but the full game!

3/26/2007 7:40 PM  
Blogger braziliant said...

I 2nd the comment about making all the ships animals/bugs

3/27/2007 7:04 AM  
Blogger Matt said...

Let's not only knock out the graphics, but the full game!

Hear, hear! Would love to do the programming (and help out with art and game design).

3/27/2007 8:56 AM  
Anonymous sneJ said...

My kids would be all over this. Especially if you added bugs -- the more the better!

3/27/2007 1:05 PM  
Blogger jed said...

yeah this is well worth it
could this be some kind of theme pack
for coopwar ?

3/27/2007 1:08 PM  
Anonymous Ben said...

Umm, I would be creeped out if that freaky flying machine was crossing the galaxy to blow up my planet.

Jus' sayin...

3/27/2007 2:38 PM  
Anonymous Macário said...

you developed a great solution to the space cute theme! it's original and will please a much broader audience than the ipod 50's previously proposed.

and i agree that you should make all the ships bugs! as a incentive i will point a site with some amazing biological illustrations that could serve as inspiration for your space-bugs:

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/reitter1/index.html
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/reitter2/index.html
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/reitter3/index.html
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/reitter4/index.html

by the way, there is a wrong link in the directory of all essays. the link "Space Crack: Planet Basics" directs to http://lostgarden.com/2005/06/paper-nintendo-characters.html and not to http://lostgarden.com/2005/06/spacecrack-planet-basics.html

3/28/2007 11:36 AM  
Anonymous AJZ said...

I've got an almost complete Dreamcast and PC game that would be pretty cool using these graphics, although it's currently using Ari Frieshman's (sp) spritelib space art as placeholders. It'd be nothing to convert the theme over to somethng more cutesy and less "shmup".

3/29/2007 9:52 PM  

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