Hello, I’ll make this relatively short. Basically, Risujin and I have been thinking about switching up the theme of the game a bit. Caribbean is boring. “Lets go for something space-y and imaginative. We’ve so lost our rocker,” we said. Oh boy. Anyway, so as a first order of business, I’ve been redesigning how a ship should look.

The textures will be roughly:

• Wood for the decks. I’m thinking about a nice dark stain for this one.
• The wing structure, head, engines will be some sort of metallic, not sure which colour yet. My original thought was a golden-brown, with variation of course.
• The wing fabric will be very white.

Some ship features:

• Strong head if we for some reason decide that ships can ram into things, ha!
• Engines. Yeah. Engines. Frickin’ ion jet engines. Because I say so.
• Wings that can use wind to help the engines. Not like there is wind, shh.
• Pretty classic hull design. It fits well into the era we originally drew from.
• OPERATIONAL NOTE: SHIP DOES NOT FLY! DO NOT ATTEMPT, YOU’LL HURT YOURSELF!

I think I put too much thought into textures. I need to remember that this ship will be tiny. Anyway, this design solves some issues:

• Looks nice from above (see sloop from above, can’t even tell what it is).
• Roughly triangular in shape, so it fits better to our tiling system.
• Cooler style which I’m personally more excited about.

I’ll still have to figure out how buildings fit into this kind of style, but I think I have some pretty good ideas there too.

Construction of the Aurora ship shown above has begun. She’ll be game-worthy as soon as possible.