28.10.06 -- And now for something different...
~ 'Islet': small island.
Last week-end I tried solving one of the remaining bugs in Ahra but got tired of it and decide to do something different to 'get some air'..
I browsed through some of the 'Ages' ideas sketches I've done over the years, and stumbled upon one that I thought I could do a first 3d sketch of rather quickly; and it could be a refreshing activity. So over the night I did it. Name of the Age: Islet.
Whithout further ado here are a couple pictures of it to look at. (I added some wireframe pictures, because just why not.)
This is a very rough thing, just a 3d sketch. The pictures are screenshots straight out of Blender, which is why colors are so dull. I have no idea at this point if this will go any further than that. I'd like to; I have a number of precise ideas for that place (back story, puzzles, interactivity). 'Just in case one day I have two weeks ahead of me and nothing to do' I threw all of those ideas together in a text file (which I often do); this somehow ended up being three pages long. I could release it, but it's full of spoilers and if the Age ever get the green light, it wouldn't be good.. For the same reasons, I tried not to show too much in the above pictures.
Just some general infos: it's a small place as you can see but it's very dense (I like small dense places) especially inside; you can see how small it is by the little guys in the first picture. It's a simple structure, which is why I like it, but it offers some interesting architectural possibilities. It's an islet set in a remote corner of a 'D'ni Cavern' looking place; though I guess if I intend to release the Age it probably couldn't be in the D'ni Cavern. I did this as my personal vision of a typical D'ni building: inside a rock, on the Lake, with simple yet elegant architecture; all built of stone. Despise its size it's not a house at all, it was a semi-official building meant for receptions and meetings.
And I think that's pretty much all I can say whithout revealing too much.
This was fun to do. I should do more of those 'one night Age'.