really busy day

Development halted today as i had rent issues and uni stuff to sort out, i will work doubly hard tomorrow to bring you more but for now i shall show you a rough sketch of another human settlement

Day 2 Idea's,Idea's and failures

This is quite a bit harder than i first thought, I might be training as a 3D artist but im certainly not much of a creative writer but still who knows some good may come.

In this entry i will mainly be talking about the Darker side of the game.

I thought I'd start with a quick look at the directory structure, now I've never attempted anything like this before so i may be doing this all wrong, and to add that most of the folders at this stage are holding folders with nothing in them as yet, As i was brain storming ideas any ideas with a slight amount of good feeling got a folder created for themselves.

I currently have 27 folders with just 16 files in them and i'd wager 15 of them are research material for weaponry, but hopefully these will fill up over the next weeks and months.

So on to developments then, i started out thinking about ideas for factions, or something that will give a good "competitive" nature to the races of this new worl

d and project, and to start the ball rolling i went for the "win" system of good Vs "evil" deity system, you know the sort a deity of light in a war against a darker more chaotic deity. I stuck with this for awhile naming both gods, their realms and the strongholds, (for example the dark lords realm is the underworld (which is due a massive renaming) and his stronghold where he sits on his throne is known as Estercastle.)

Now i know theres nothing ground breaking there and I must remind you I have no intention of this ever being programmed or released as a game im just doing it as an art project. I then figured a deity would not be drawn out in to an open conflict as such an act would surely be risky and foolish in war, so i appointed "messengers" of the gods to act if you like as the worldly influence of their masters. The dark messenger Als

o know as Messenger of the fallen, dwells

mainly in an area call the realm of the covert soul and has been named so far as Tha-skr the fallen, My initial feeling is he will be some sort of caster maybe even a "faceless mage" in dark black/purple/green-ish robes big hooded maybe if have a face but be "eyeless" (idea came as i typed this.) Under his command thus far are the demonic race known as the age of flesh (more to come on these on a later date,) and so far humans may swing either way those who chose the dark path will no doubt end up joining "The Raven Empire" being enlisted at its capital of Ironspike.

To the right is the initial brain storm sketch of ironspike. In my notes it says that Ironspike is set in the shadow of the

largest mountain in a mountain range in the Northwest of the eastern continent.

To walk through it will be very typical human architecture based around a medieval Britain, Most building and walls will be wooden supported made out of large chunks of dark grey stone for the very mountain that they are embedded in, Thatch straw roofing (mainly a dirty grey/yellow thatch due to the conditions and environment they are in.) It will be (for the moment,) broken up in to 4 quarters with the royal palace in the centre, (in both the right picture and the below map drawings it is depicted as square or straight edge, however in thinking i am going to change this to a larger rounded tower made of iron finally pointing at the top in to a (you guessed it) spiked shape.)

There is also a notable ravine and bridge between the main land and main gates as defence, with the mountain behind attackers would be forced to negotiate this long high stone bridge.

Above is the map of building and pathways so far.

Anyway i have more developed on the light path too but i shall save that for another day you know in case i have a slow day.

As always feel free too comment give me your thoughts and questions.

The ever so important 1st post

So here's the idea, as a video games art student at university, here in sunny old England, i have set myself the task with producing a game concept for a fantasy MMO, producing the Idea,races,towns,cities,locations and eventually 3D art for the environments and characters PLUS any animation loops that may be required.

Before you mock I understand the magnitude of this task and i will say i do not intend this to be a slow process, but i feel it will be a fun and worth while project for me to do.

At this stage of development (IE: none) it will be known as project unfinished.

I will try update daily or bi-daily so join in for the ride.