Operation Stardust: collab K1 mod (team, check your e-mail!)

MoffD · Post by **MoffD** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 13:32

KeenRush wrote:Cool. Added you to the list. 16 Keeners now. I'll see if more will join.

I'd like to but I have my own mod to worry about and I barely have time for any work on it

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 0:57

One slot left!!! Can I have it!?

(Also my two kopeks: I like the 26-tile idea. I could also see merit in having each designer use a full tileset but limits can make things interesting and push people's creativity often times. SEE: 10 sectors, 1024 and many many many other Doom community megawads)

Post by **Flaose** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 15:22

Eh, can I participate? I haven't built levels in years and would love to be part of this!

XkyRauh · Post by **XkyRauh** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 16:08

Flaose wrote:Eh, can I participate? I haven't built levels in years and would love to be part of this! :o

Same. :) I haven't done anything mod-related in years, but this project is too cool. Can we mod in extra levels?

Post by **KeenRush** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 12:36

Yes, I'm so happy you people joined!

Welcome! Yeah, we'll make it extra levels one way or other. We now have 19 in the team. Gonna be so cool.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:49

I'm super excited for this to get rolling

Got some ideas in mind already, though since some stuff is undecided (and, of course, not yet designed) so I can only do so much.

Roobar · Post by **Roobar** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:11

If there's no deadline, this operation for a collaboration keen mod might get dust instead of 6 stars

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StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 0:10

As far as story goes, I think Plasma Captain's suggestion is probably the most intuitive (and interesting.)

It certainly leaves the most room for flexibility, the idea that the spaceships are all built by, or using the technology of, societies and worlds all over the universe that the robots have encountered and, having limited contact with one another, built along very separate lines. I kinda like the idea that the robots don't have much understanding of technology of their own, but that they're really good at assimilating it from others, which would explain why their ships would have nothing in common in terms of design, aesthetic or materials.

So maybe these assimilationist robots have been built, perhaps by Vitacorp like Gridlock suggested as a misguided universe-domination scheme (I already have a logo suggestion designed in this case!), perhaps by some mad scientist as a bizarre experiment, by some evil alien race etc. etc. who have been sent all over the universe to assimilate the cutting-edge technologies of every society they encounter, which the eventual objective of forming the ultimate high-tech robot empire as they conquer planet after planet, building galaxywide fiefdoms and eventually converging on each other with all the best technologies that the universe has to offer! But Keen got wind of this evil plan early on, so no real convergence has happened yet and the robot battleships are all built on very different levels and types of technology.

Or something. Just keeping the spitball rolling (though spitballs don't really roll.)

Post by **KeenRush** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:46

StupidBunny wrote:I kinda like the idea that the robots don't have much understanding of technology of their own, but that they're really good at assimilating it from others, which would explain why their ships would have nothing in common in terms of design, aesthetic or materials.

Same here.

StupidBunny wrote:So maybe these assimilationist robots have been built, perhaps by Vitacorp like Gridlock suggested as a misguided universe-domination scheme (I already have a logo suggestion designed in this case!)

Let's see it! I like the idea of incorporating Vitacorp into this.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 18:42

Also I tried mocking up the logo, as well as a condensed variation on it, in tile form to see how workable it actually is...it's not the most brilliant logo ever designed but it's a start at least. If anybody else has designs or suggestions I'd be curious to see them

(ALSO feel free, anybody, to modify this one to make it better.)

Post by **KeenRush** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 22:13

The two tile version looks pretty cool to me.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 23:37

That's not SGA!

It's not SGA!!!

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 0:19

Nonetheless, I may try and whip up an SGA Vitacorp logo (possibly nothing like this primitive Terran one) anyway. I've never designed an SGA logo before so it should be fun.

Post by **KeenRush** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 20:20

Does Vitacorp's name ever appear written in SGA in-game? (Can't remember.) I didn't even begin to think the logo ought to have been in SGA (I still don't) because of the V appearing when you collect Vitalin in Keen 5 and in the Omegamatic poster the name is in normal English: http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/File:Omegamatic.png

Post by **Levellass** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:51

It appears we must use he universal language, English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vjQpDXmcvc