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Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« on: July 13, 2012, 07:54:43 pm »
Original: http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2012/07/graphical-preview-of-few-ships-from-ai.html

In case you haven't heard from our other blog, AI War is getting a new expansion this October.  Awesome!  I can't tell you what any of these ships do yet, but here's a preview of a few:

A mysterious human ship

A mysterious zenith ship

A mysterious neinzul ship

A mysterious human marauder ship

And that's all for now!  Just thought we'd share a little more than the logo and the teaser logo, anyhow, even though most details are still under wraps until we start the beta.  

I also wanted to mention a special thanks to Eldon Harris, who is currently doing a kickstarter for the very graphics components that were used to create these ships.  He's already way more than reached his goal, but given the high quality of the sprite work he's got going on, I figured more people would like to know that the indie graphics builder exists!

More A Valley Without Wind updates, and at least one AI War update (no, not the one with the expansion, sorry), to hit next week!
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2012, 07:59:06 pm »
And before anyone asks: yes, there are also plenty of spire ships, but they are invisible except on a darker background and our blog has a white background. :)
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2012, 08:28:33 pm »
Is that in-game size?  Holy cow these are awesome!
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2012, 08:36:51 pm »
That human ship.....*droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool*
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2012, 08:55:13 pm »
Each of those is the literal, unscaled in-game asset. :)
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2012, 09:04:43 pm »
*drool*


Gorgeous art. For a game where you spend most of the time zoomed out and unable to see the sprites in their full Glory the detail is fantastic.

Judging by size comparisons between an average fleet ship and the art here, the first two seem to be Starships of a sort, or at least a very large fleet ship along the lines of the SSB.
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2012, 09:11:52 pm »
Quote from: Coppermantis on July 13, 2012, 09:04:43 pm
Gorgeous art. For a game where you spend most of the time zoomed out and unable to see the sprites in their full Glory the detail is fantastic.
Because I just finished with the bulk of the work for this part I don't mind teasing it: since LotS there's been one place other than near-zoom where you see those full-detail sprites: the ship design screen.  That is to say: the 2 larger sprites pictured above are for modular ships :)
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2012, 09:15:33 pm »
A modular human ship?

This opens all sorts of doors.
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2012, 09:16:40 pm »
At first I was like  :o

but then I was like  8)


(I couldn't find a smiley to represent the evil grin that was on my face as I read that.)
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2012, 09:34:42 pm »
Quote from: Coppermantis on July 13, 2012, 09:16:40 pm
(I couldn't find a smiley to represent the evil grin that was on my face as I read that.)
That's because forum software is bound to the Geneva Convention.
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2012, 08:34:19 am »
Wow, that's actually really great art! You've improved significantly, Chris ;)
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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2012, 10:31:02 am »
I ARE EXITE  :o
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2012, 10:34:19 am »
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2012, 11:34:22 am »
Quote from: Moonshine Fox on July 14, 2012, 08:34:19 am
Wow, that's actually really great art! You've improved significantly, Chris ;)

Eh, it's mostly not to my credit. I'm arranging and post-processing and combining the pieces, but all the detail that you're loving is from Eldon's work, as noted in the OP. He's really fantastic!
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Re: Graphical Preview Of A Few Ships From AI War: Ancient Shadows
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2012, 11:45:17 am »
Clearly, I need to research "Reading Comprehension MkII"
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