Space Vikings sneak preview

[Spanglemaker]

Great Idea, it's an old classic.
The ships look cool and are certainly original.
I look forward to seeing the finished result.

"In Odins name, we hail thee."
"False peace with bad friends, burns faster than fire. In a few days the flame goes out, all love is lost"

[dogscoff]

Yeah, I can't wait to start work on the speech files, I intend to draw heavily on the legends and Gods to create mythological metaphors for game events:

"All the things in all the worlds wept for Baldur's death. I suspect you shall not be so well mourned."

...and so on.

I also intend to make frequent and innapropriate use of the ö character=-)


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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[Jubala]

quote:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I also intend to make frequent and innapropriate use of the ö character=-)

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Don't forget å and ä.

[Lucanos]

Å, Ä and Ö?

Didn't the Vikings use runes and not the alphabet?



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"The best way to seek help is to help the best seek the way."
-Philter

[Seawolf]

Can't wait to see this ship set

[Spanglemaker]

Yep the Vikings used Runes, but the language when translated into latinised script contains many letter variants including the seething th/dh sound.

The tears for Baldur phrase sounds good.

"No man is so generous he will jibe at accepting. A gift in return for a gift,
No man so rich that it really gives him
pain to be repaid."

"Better not to ask than to overpledge
As a gift demands a gift,
Better not to send than to slay too many."

Quotes coutesy of the Havamal

[dogscoff]

OK, another new update is out. Lots of new images, and quite a few replacements. I'm also showing *all* of the images so far rather than a select few.

I've also added a few sub pages:
:A "what is this?" page for ppl who see my page but know nothing about space empires.
:a history page which shows what has been changed, and when. It also has some of the old images which I discarded.
:a notes page which shows my thought processes as I work on the shipset. Thought this might be interesting / useful.
:a mod data page. Details of this in the parallel thread "Modders and shipset creators - please read".

Feedback in this thread and/or the parallel thread as appropiate will be very much appreciated.

Oh, and you'll see I have come up with 2 designs for the fast courier. I can't decide which one I prefer - please voice your opinion here.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"