Topic: Awesome Screenshots: Lets see them! [NO SPOILERS!]

[Kcronos]

Looks like omegatripod and I aren't the only WotW fans here. Of course, omegatripod's such a fan his name is based on it and he has the Jeff Wayne computer game(which is actually really good).

You bet your sweet ass you're not the only one! I've ban a fan for almost all my life, and i'll be seeing Jeff's Wotw in june!

Are you kidding?!  WotW is one of my most favorite science fiction works.

I actually tried to create an almost DnD-esque game around it, but no one I knew wanted to play it.  Apparently, they hadn't read the book 

[Xenomorph]

Looks like omegatripod and I aren't the only WotW fans here. Of course, omegatripod's such a fan his name is based on it and he has the Jeff Wayne computer game(which is actually really good).

You bet your sweet ass you're not the only one! I've ban a fan for almost all my life, and i'll be seeing Jeff's Wotw in june!

Are you kidding?!  WotW is one of my most favorite science fiction works.

I actually tried to create an almost DnD-esque game around it, but no one I knew wanted to play it.  Apparently, they hadn't read the book 

Lets search for more fans and restart that RP!

[Kcronos]

But how?  Should we make it a forum game?

And should it be played on the side of the Martians, the humans, or the old Martians?

[Xenomorph]

Yeah, i was thinking about a forum game, in some way or another...

But its a really difficult subject to build an RP around it.

[Kcronos]

That is if you exclude the Vernion backstory.


The subject is actually quite well thought out.  You can create excitement also through the interaction between humans after the takeover.  The protection of a village against the martians would require the building of traps, and a way to combat the black smoke.  From the martian perspective, there is the conflict between the martians back home, and perhaps even against their original food source.

[UFO King]

How about we combine the works of H. G. Wells and other authors like in Scarlet Traces? Think about it! The Martian Overlords would be fighting against the Green Martians from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series and the sorns, hrossa and pfiltriggi from C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet, where they would be slowly losing the war, thus creating another need for invading Earth: Establishing an outpost on a better planet to outnumber the enemy! Then the Earth-Mars conflict would be moved to the Moon, where Selenites from H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon would join the war! And maybe there could be Venusians, too! They would be terrorists! It would be like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2, only way better! HYPE! HYPE! HYPE!

Geez, we'd better move this conversation to a new topic.

[IamMe]

It's like we're all deathly afraid of hype around here.

[Skyward]

Wow, people are getting way to hyped over this. Then people will think the game just sucked when really they expected too much, and i will be content with what i got laughing at the poor over hyping fools.

[Kcronos]

How about we combine the works of H. G. Wells and other authors like in Scarlet Traces? Think about it! The Martian Overlords would be fighting against the Green Martians from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series and the sorns, hrossa and pfiltriggi from C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet, where they would be slowly losing the war, thus creating another need for invading Earth: Establishing an outpost on a better planet to outnumber the enemy! Then the Earth-Mars conflict would be moved to the Moon, where Selenites from H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon would join the war! And maybe there could be Venusians, too! They would be terrorists! It would be like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2, only way better! HYPE! HYPE! HYPE!

Geez, we'd better move this conversation to a new topic.

The slight problem being that, although most of those books (I haven't read all of them) are probably stunning examples of science fiction, it expands the amount of backstory that one must know.  Finding someone who has read Wells is like finding a needle in an incredibly illiterate haystack.

Finding someone who has read all the classic victorian science fiction authors is like finding a piece of hay in a haystack... of needles.

That being said, I am going to read up on my old-school scifi 

EDIT:  yeah, we should make a new topic elsewhere

[Xenomorph]

That being said, I am going to read up on my old-school scifi 

Seconded. I'm going to the library this afternoon. And thats the last thing I'll say offtopic here.

[Null]

That being said, I am going to read up on my old-school scifi 

I am currently in the old "foundation trilogy" and I gotta say some works are just timeless. Oh, this topic was limping and barely alive anyways.

[Snork]

I'm for renaming this thread to the "General WOTW and H.g wells discussion"..

[omegatripod]

I'm for actually making a new thread titled "General WOTW and H.G. Wells discussion".

[RR_Raptor65]

It's been awhile since I've played Spore long enough to take decent pictures.  I've been messing with SporeMaster, trying to get the game the way I want it.  Last thing to do is make creatures less friendly to other species poking around their nests, seems possible because ever since I've installed BetterSpore I haven't seen one angry red icon.


"Wild Planet" A pair of Scaliegaux dart across an open plain to reach a forest on the other side.  This species preferres the safety of the forest to escape large flying predators.


"Future Horizons" A lone Scaliegaux walks along a beach dune at night while a ringed gas giant rises in the night sky.


"Dawn Killers" Several Scaliegaux run through a forest in pursuit of prey in the early morning.


"Silent Pool" A pair of Angutan eat fruit floating in a small pool in a forest.

[Vetro]

Awesome images, you've done an excellent job in making the creatures look lifelike in their movements. I like how the third image shows the Angutan feeding, it looks like the forward limbs are holding onto the fruit.