A question to SEV beta testers

[Iron Giant]

Woot! More screenshots for SEIV! It looks like even the ship designs are getting more attention than they did in Starfury.

One by one over the last 2 years every single video/computer game I've looked forward to has built me up, then dropped me like a rock. Its been brutal to be me. I used to have a video game addiction, now I can't even work up enough interest to play a game when I have time to play one. Its SO depressing... Save me SE5!!!

[dogscoff]

Nice pic dogscoff, but don't you think the guns need a second 'strap' to help keep the barrel aligned? As is I think the the guns would eventually hang low in the front. Also there should be a horizontal strap around the front breast of the 'worthogish-bovine' to help keep the guns in place after the recoil.

Who said they were guns? They're mustard dispensers. And the strap is just for show- they are kept in place by magnets, kind of like those window-washy-gizmos, where you put one half on the outside of the glass, then move it about with a magnet on the inside...

Oh well, it's still a nice pic, and if you chop off the head it would make a nice race portrait.

Indeed it does. Or, to put it another way, the head did make a nice portrait until I stuck a body on it...

[Ed Kolis]

Gandalf Parker said:
Thats mean. I will never think of that race the same again. The scarey orc-looking head will come up and I will remember that the body I could never see is some moo-cow

What, you never read the race description? They ARE cows!

The Texrak are a quad-pedal species that exists in great herds. They are a strongly pack oriented society and never venture far from their family. They spend most of their life time grazing the vast plains of their homeworld. They have an average lifespan of 30 years.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

What did you make that in?

[Gandalf Parker]

Admittedly I rarely read the descripts. But that stil wouldnt have put "cows" in my impression from that head. Maybe hogs, or something rhinocerous looking. Still it is a great picture

[dogscoff]

Narf: Hand drawn in Paintshop Pro, if memory serves correctly. (although the head, obviously, is cut&pasted from the game's files)

Didn't even use my artpad & pen for that one either, I'm pretty sure it was a mouse job. I also did ones for the Zynarra and Bobrobans - http://www.dogscoff.co.uk/propresp.htm

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hand-drawn? Ever considered going professional?

[Kamog]

OK, next time I encounter the Texrak, I'm going to conquer them right away! Need some beef and milk to feed the citizens of my empire...

[dogscoff]

Hand-drawn? Ever considered going professional?

My artistic talents are very hit and miss. Sometimes I sit down and sketch out something to the standard of the battlecow first time. Other times I sit for hours and hours and produce nothing decent whatsoever. Also, my extraordinary talent for laziness means I produce images at a rate of about 3 or 4 per year- that's only slightly lower than my Othaglot & Cane chapter output. Although slow, my writing skills are far more consistent, so I think if I ever wanted to earn a living creatively, it would be with a pen rather than a paintbrush. Would be cool to design my own cover art though.

Also, I don't think there's much of a market for hand-drawn monsters, which seems to be my forte. That said, I have long been thinking about putting a portfolio/gallery on my website, featuring some of my better pictures. Never got round to it though.

Thanks for the comment though Narf, that's a real compliment.

[Gandalf Parker]

Hey Dogscoff:
www.OddThotz.com/CafePress.html

Which is way simple and alot of fun. Plus, I have many ideas which are just text and would work much better with some copyrite free images