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Monday, January 16, 2012

Week #016: Maximus Joins the Brawl!

As I mentioned last week, I really want to get back into writing some - at least mildly - more elaborate posts again. What I couldn't fix with the simple solution of getting more work done, I fixed by getting started on writing the post itself well before monday night rolls around.

Monday nights tend to be pretty busy for me even without the blog to worry about, so there's a chance I might bump the post window to later (early tuesday morning) or earlier (sunday night or early monday morning). I realize posting too early in the morning will really skew the First! Comment Scoreboard numbers, so I'll try not to let it come to that.

First, you may have noticed the discrete addition of CIP#003 over the weekend. In case there's any confusion; this is to help us decide on the second element that we'll be adding into HTD. While I plan to get that second element into the game before the end of the month, the poll will remain open until the 26th, two HTD Thursdays away. This of course means that I'll be making a gamble by developing the abilities before the results are final. In the case of a tie, or one of the four making a comeback, I suppose I'll just have to buckle down and add both.

There's a chance that these results will not only decide the second element, but the order in which all of the remaing four are developed and included. I won't make a promise of this though in case something comes up to interfere with that.

Now for the goods. I'll just let the preview explain itself...


As I've made plenty obvious, I've been devoting this month to the inclusion of human males as playable characters in HTD. This has been a grueling process, mostly because it's not something I was looking forward to working on. It had to be done though; as previously stated, the amount of functionality that was added to the females rendered the males simply incompatible. Looking back now I realize that the two are barely even in the same style.

But is the new "Maximus" too manly for you? Rest assured; we've already decided on designing another race to fill the short, fat and all-around chibi quota.

Tune in next week for another look at the development of the human males, along with another new Community Impact Opportunity ("CIO", not to be confused with a CIP)!

Just for the record, I can't wait for work to be complete on the human males so that statements like this and the last will stop being made for the sole purpose of being taken horribly out of context.

18 comments:

  1. Great to see Max is back and looking better then ever!

    Seems Shadow will be lol

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  2. Maximus has a weird expression. I wonder how he'll look with shagged swag....

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    1. He looks -weird-, in my opinion. Maybe I'll post that next week.

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  3. To Kevin-
    Great stuff.!! keep it up.

    To others-
    we can intentionally vote shadow until the last week where we can vote another(like water) and get both shadow and water in the game. :D

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    1. At this point I'm looking at extending the poll and just using it to decide the rest of the order. Shadow is practically in development now so it'll undoubtedly be added next.

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  4. Hello! New races hmm?
    I know what I'd be voting for...

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  5. I think the male looks incredible. Much better than the previous one. Although as peculiar as this sounds, I am interested in seeing Maximus armorless so i can see how he'll look outside of heavy armor. Hope you can post that next week. :)

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  6. Surly, fat max in heart boxers......Heh heh heh

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  7. LOL when I said I wanted to see Cheril in underwear was wrong, but when I said Max on white boxers with red hearts everyone loves it... Who's sexist now? =P (I'm joking, not to start a fight =P)

    ps: As I said a few posts ago I also want to to see Max with the cool boxers (and Cheril in sexy underwear =P)

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    1. lol well I included the heart boxers just as a joke. They haven't been included in the in-game design. You'll see next week that his un-armored graphics are still dressed as they were before. Sorry!

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    2. No! ='( lol Well the joke was fun at least, lets hope one day the "rags" become the worse gear you can have, and the unarmored is indeed without armor =P (or you think underwear isn't going to make it to the game? =/)

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    3. I feel like it was deliberately avoided from the beginning, but I don't really recall why.

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    4. Btw, you're not the fastest first commenter anymore gon.....:( IM CHEERING 4 YA!

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    5. Thanks ;) I'm having that terrible disease called exams XD And I have to waste a lot of mana for that matter so not much for time traveling ;)

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  8. Aww...well, it'll at least be funny to see this guy in rags.

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  9. I don't like max, he's way to strong etc. i want more ninja style thing, so thin but strong and so on, personaly i am really thin, and never liked that look ^.^ shame about the no to underwear armour...and i can't belive i forgot to look at the blog for AGES!!!
    lux

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