Crystal Towers 2 - Inspiration from Beyond

[davidn]

Almost unbelievably I had a useful dream last night, after being unable to sleep for about two hours, in which I managed to conjure up an entire new level style as well as a couple of its slightly unusual inhabitants. I had to go and preserve this in the actual game as soon as I woke up, then downloaded a video-GIF converter to pull a captured video of it crudely on to this journal with a massive watermark over the top.

Behold!

It is a FLYING CARROT.

Like everything I do it needs a bit of extra graphical work to make it look a bit more threatening (and that grass certainly looked better in my head last night), but I think the mechanics of a pointy root vegetable with helicopter blades on its stalk are already an achievement in uniqueness.

Comments

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

My first thought is that of the Great Pumpkin, except that instead of giving gifts to everybody, it delivers death.

Consider baby carrots as ammunition, drones, or simply distractions akin to those little spiders you squish under your feet in Alien Breed-type games.

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

My last thought is wondering whether carrots follow the American stereotype and are fatter than in other countries, or this is just an artefact of hurried drawing. It's almost as if it should pant and wheeze (or in the absence of a mouth, bulge periodically).

[davidn]

Not an artefact of hurried drawing, necessarily, but an artefact of being drawn by me :( If anything, carrots look rather a lot sadder here, but they make up for it with peeled and processed baby carrots.

And though you may not be able to see it too well in the GIF, the helicarrot, as I now call it, definitely seems to struggle while getting itself out of the ground again.