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Jihgfed Pumpkinhead · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 4:50 am Post subject: Cairn Hill Screenshot

     Here's a screenshot from Cairn Hill: <http://cairnhill.sourceforge.net/graphics/screenshot.jpeg>.
     It's rather obviously in the "work in progress" stage, but it gives an idea of how it's going to look. I think the grass tiles turned out rather nicely; at least, I like them. The bushes (yes, those are bushes) and rocks could use some improvement, definitely. I haven't made a map-editor yet; that's why the map is just a random assortment of grass, bushes, and rocks.
     Yes, the text colour will be changed. The background manuscript pages there are courtesy of the University of Norway; credit where it's due.
     The picture at the top-right is a picture of whatever you're looking at, whoever's currently speaking, or whatever I feel like displaying to the player. Beneath that are funny little things which are going to be used for something. Beneath that is the stats screen.
     This brings me to a question: the actual map, the most important game environment, takes up less than half the screen. Do you think that's alright? Does it make the game less immersive, to have pictures, stats, doodads and whatnots up there all the time? I'm just looking for general thoughts, here.
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Nodtveidt · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 4:56 am Post subject: :)

Very nice. Gives ya plenty of screen real estate for other stuff you need. Nice nice nice. :)

-nek
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Mandrake · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject:

very nice - what time period is it taking place in?

Jihgfed Pumpkinhead · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: Time

It's set in Wales in the 1920s. A lot of the characters are rather aristocratic and old-fashioned, though, which is why the design looks sort of Regency.

Mandrake@rpgdx · Guest

Ohhh nifty :) So, erm, is this going to be a sort of Renessiance era-scifi kind of thing (ie: Jules Verne, etc)? Or a spiritualist kind of thing (whihc was big in that era, 1920's....)

Jihgfed Pumpkinhead · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:44 pm Post subject: Old/New

     Definitely closer to spiritualist than Victorian sci-fi; but the family which is the focus of the game has a long history of paranormal stuff, so they regard the mystical as rather mundane (like the Addams family, sort of), and regard the current upsurge in spiritualism as faddish.
     There'll be a couple of characters who are initiated in modern science, but that sort of thing is really foreign and esoteric to most of them.
     Generally the family is aristocratic and resists change of any sort; they're practically mediaeval. You play a younger member, with more modern ideas, though, so... well... I haven't quite decided how far I want to take the old/new theme.

mandrake*rpgdx · Guest

that's very cool :) me and my wife were/will be someday again working on an RPG where you were investagating a haunted house in the 1920's, and you played a spiritualist in the old theocratic society sense of the word.