Snails

[namco]

I wasn't going to post this till I had some screenshots but I've decided to say so anyhow, just to let you know that there are some more homebrew projects still going on.

Snails is a worms clone, so far I'm on the designing stage (artwork) and I've done some worms research into how the game is played (ie I've replayed worms 2 to get the idea of how it works).

Artwork:

Character:

I then decided to change the character to make it more Worms-like and ended up with this:

Weapon list - current:

What I would like from you (nothing too hard, even though my artwork has improved I don't want to push it) is some skin ideas for the playable area that the Snails play on. I've already started on a Pirates Vs Ninja's theme, and with Christmas looming that's going to be a theme too. Additional to this skinning idea is that I'm going to include a terrain editor that not only allows you to change the area you play on, you can also make custom skins to add to your collection.

 

[saehn]

What I would like from you (nothing too hard, even though my artwork has improved I don't want to push it) is some skin ideas for the playable area that the Snails play on. I've already started on a Pirates Vs Ninja's theme, and with Christmas looming that's going to be a theme too. Additional to this skinning idea is that I'm going to include a terrain editor that not only allows you to change the area you play on, you can also make custom skins to add to your collection.

• Zombie snails? JK, but a graveyard/haunted skin would be nice even though Halloween will have passed
• Forest snails in trees, branches for jumping, swinging, etc.
• Post-apocalyptic snails, nuked-out decaying city
• Retro 8-bit Super Mario bricks and pipes
• World War I battlefield, trenches, barbed wire, tunnels, dark clouds
• Space snails, Buck Rogers in the 25th century

 

[PokeParadox]

naked snails (i.e slugs)
Robot Snails (if you have pirates, ninjas and zombies...)

 

[namco]

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but a graveyard/haunted skin would be nice even though Halloween will have passed
Forest snails in trees, branches for jumping, swinging, etc.
Post-apocalyptic snails, nuked-out decaying city
Retro 8-bit Super Mario bricks and pipes
World War I battlefield, trenches, barbed wire, tunnels, dark clouds


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Robot Snails


Thanks for all those!

I'll leave the porn snails for you to do thanks!

With the exception of this:

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Space snails, Buck Rogers in the 25th century


As I shall leave that one until Snails 2 (depending on how well the first one goes), for certain reasons.

 

[Draken]

There's actually already a Snails worm clone for pda's and windows, made by pdamill: http://www.pdamill.com/prod_sn.shtml Try it out if you want more ideas

 

[namco]

Wonderful, just wonderful! :angry:

I had that all planned too.....mind you, there's is commercial....

*sigh*, right...rethink time.....

[edit]:

oookay, good news, I've spoken with a housemate of mine who has given me a book for an idea based on the whole worms idea. But I'm keeping stum as to what it is and I'll let you know soon.

As for the snails planning I'm still going with the idea I had for the sequel, but the 3rd one in the series (which was ment to diversify the whole worms thing) is now gone.

 

[Alex.]

The Snail Wars Trilogy!

I'm a big fan of Worms/Tanks, thanks for doing this! One request I have is that after each game, you receive a number of points based on your performance, with which you can upgrade each snail according to your wishes. That way you could develop one or two super-strong snails to back up your armies of weaker minions

Also, you could take advantage of the characters being snails. Have an option where they can curl up inside their little house, and be resistant to damage for a few consecutive turns, while forfeiting attacks or movements of their own. They could also recuperate a small percent of life while in this state.

 

[namco]

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The Snail Wars Trilogy!


Yeah that was what I had in mind, but I don't want to confuse you lot. Snails is now not happening (just to clarify) but something else is, in it's place. Again, I'm not exposing details, just that it'll be a worms meets lemmings/gobliins style game.