So, here's my first sprite ever. Behold the "stock" dwarven warrior:
Once I'm happy with him (and I'm not happy with him right now), I'll use him as the template for the rest of the dwarven warriors of Crystaldeep. The way I figure it, all of my dwarves (except the smiths) use some variant of Mining Axe + Tower Shield, so they should all look similar. A few color variations, some added embellishments here and there, and ... presto!
I'm done with all of the recruitable commanders and units, one custom pretender, and a handful of summoning spells. I've attached a preview of the mod, if anyone's curious.
Still to do:
* Graphics. Lots of graphics. I've only made one set of sprites so far, and I need to do a lot more.
* A few more spells: another summon, an evocation, and a healing spell.
* Heroes!
* (most important) Playtesting!
On that last step ... I'm not fussed about making Crystaldeep perfectly-balanced with the vanilla Dom3 nations. Personally, I'm not sure that all of the
vanilla Dom3 nations are balanced with each other. Still, I don't want Crystaldeep to be too far out of whack. Mainly, though, my playtesting will be focussed on simply making the nation play as I envisioned it.
I'll do a more formal post when I'm actually finished with the first version of the mod.
Comments welcome!