Conquer Club

no takers? or simply no backgrounds working?

I actually might give this a try, I'll have to download it later, but here's my thoughts.

The cube itself just has to fit into the black board theme now. mibi's right, the colors I believe are totally unnecessary.(except for the yellow in the center) Draw the connector lines so it looks like chalk. You've got some space, make the image a little bit bigger and add in some things we might see on a chalk board... other little shapes in chalk, formulas... things a mad scientist might write.

[bigimg]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc121/RedBaron0/newcube26.png[/bigimg]

Well here's what I got on this, I still have to fiddle with the legend, and the naming convention for the territories. I might just have the colored balls return just for naming, but it might not be necessary. We'll see.

No, ditch the blackboard approach. It completely kills the 3d element, making the map really hard to grasp and confusing. I wouldn't play it like this.

The map needs some depth. Right now I see a jumble of lines and balls, not a 3 dimensional cube...

RedBaron0 wrote:[bigimg]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc121/RedBaron0/newcube26.png[/bigimg]

Well here's what I got on this, I still have to fiddle with the legend, and the naming convention for the territories. I might just have the colored balls return just for naming, but it might not be necessary. We'll see.

Posting on the new page, more opinions please!

One more thing... I think it might look better if each "layer" of balls was distinctly separated... So that there would be like 4 "floors" of a building... it's a bit hard to explain, I might do a simple drawing to show what I mean...

I get what you mean natty, like having 4 pieces of paper next to each other.(or on top of each other...)

Ok here's an example to show what I mean. If you divide the cube into 4 "planes" or "layers" stacked on top of each other, and make it so that the "planes" don't overlap, it will look much more clear:



You might even be able to omit all the vertical lines, and just note in the legend that vertices can attack vertices directly above or below, less lines = more clarity.

This would also help with the naming scheme, you could just name them by layers/coords: "Layer Z - X,Y"... for example, Layer 1 - A1, Layer 2 - B3, etc... Then, for example, "Layer 2 - A2" can attack "Layer 1 - A2" and "Layer 3 - A2", but also adjacent coordinates on Layer 2. It would make for easier understanding of the gameplay, IMO.

edit: oops, forgot the alpha channel from that image. fixd

The FONT I used can be found here for free:
http://www.windowfonts.com/fonts/ultra-serif-sf.html

Remember this?

Seriously, the space theme with the astronaut floating around worked the best. If people are worried about thematic feasibility, then make it look like NASA or whoever is assembling a space station.

ghirrindin wrote:Seriously, the space theme with the astronaut floating around worked the best. If people are worried about thematic feasibility, then make it look like NASA or whoever is assembling a space station.

I totally agree, and I think natty's altered perspective does wonders for the clarity of the map.

Yes, natty's map suggestion makes it clearer to see the "top to bottom" planes but it makes it extremly hard to figure out the 2 other planes and the connections between all planes.
Plus it makes it a lot less "cube-ish".
But I am more than willing to look at an in-detail-map if one could be made available.
In the version provided many of the top to bottom rods are too close or even seem to be totally overlapping.

Here's a more detailed map. Even put in some colours.

[bigimg]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2385/cubez.png[/bigimg]

I made it 800x800, so it probably needs to be scaled down somewhat to fit the legend.

You should jump in on this natty, I've got to withdrawal my participation to hang out in the "real world" more... sorry guys.

Hmm, I might, but I have lots of other projects to deal with... So don't expect me to work very fast with this...

Also, not using photoshop, I can't do anything with the original .psd file...

nice job getting game play passed.

natty_dread wrote:Hmm, I might, but I have lots of other projects to deal with... So don't expect me to work very fast with this...

Also, not using photoshop, I can't do anything with the original .psd file...

if u need anything done with the orig PSD, including exporting all the layers as PNG files i can help ya there

a.sub wrote:

natty_dread wrote:Hmm, I might, but I have lots of other projects to deal with... So don't expect me to work very fast with this...

Also, not using photoshop, I can't do anything with the original .psd file...

if u need anything done with the orig PSD, including exporting all the layers as PNG files i can help ya there

If you could also package them into a nice zip or rar file I could give it a shot

Any luck natty?

Well I haven't received the png files yet..

natty_dread wrote:Well I haven't received the png files yet..

i need the psd, where do i get it from?

It was posted on this thread... a couple of pages back I think?


edit: here it is. http://123fresno.com/hypercube/hypercube24.zip

ill get u ur pics asap

as promised
http://www.mediafire.com/?vyitmixohn2

thanks. I'll look into it