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My Favourite Icons

October 19, 2016 by David Baumgart

So we’re coming up on the launch of Clockwork Empires in, uh, exactly one week from now. Everyone in the office is furiously testing/polishing/balancing/implementing the last few features/flipping out. You can imagine that no one (except me) was volunteering to write a blog post, so I threatened to write one where I just showed my favourite icons from Clockwork Empires and rambled about why I liked them.

So many icons! (These are not, however, my favourites.)

There was enthusiastic support for this notion. So much for that threat. Still: an Artist never bluffs, so this week we’re going to talk about My Favourite Icons.

Oh yeah, heads up: the first one is cannibalism, so brace yourself for Thematic Imagery.

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged David does in fact have an icon for every occasion, icons, icons what icons, my greatest regret was missing Ron Gilbert's visit to the Dredmor booth at Pax that one year, pr tip- bring up cannibalism as soon as possible, The Black Paintings, tiny icons, vegetable piles I've known
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Technical Status Update: A Young Lad’s Message From The Front

July 2, 2014 by Nicholas Vining

Dear Father,

(We have an icon for this!)

I am writing from the Trenches at Gaslamp. The final, long, hard push for Early Access is almost upon us; Major Jacobsen says we’ll go over the top any day now. At night I sleep with my keyboard as is Tradition, and think of home. How is home? Where is home? Does it still exist? Are the cats alive?

Will this war ever end?

The Horror.

The men tell me that they have assembled a Changelog; I have annotated it for you so that you may know that we are fighting the Brave Fight here at home, and that soon there will be Release In Our Time. I am pretty sure that Mr. Whitman now has Trenchfoot in his Shoulderblade, and will have to have it Removed with a Scalpel. Mr. Best seems like he will not last much longer; his delerium is fevered and he talks about going back to University and finishing his Doctorate. Meanwhile, they fight the good fight, and many small tickets have been fixed including the fact that doors claim to cost one plank, and do not. It is the duty of every man to care for his tickets, that we may seek victory over The [REDACTED].

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged are you a cultist?, changelogs, communism, David does in fact have an icon for every occasion, don't put the icon into your eyeball, inappropriate artistic conceits involving the Great War, it turns out that people didn't remember that they got married but everyone who witnessed the marriage did - this led to some confusion, it was agreed all around that "mustard gas is not fun", Lemarchand's UI widget, make icons of gears and stick the icons of the gears to things, making extinct animals extinct again, Nicholas had shell shock so we forced him to use the GUI for a while (wah wahhh), Pvt. Nejat snuck some 60's mod hair into the game when Lt. Baumgart was off-duty, someone left a class-based comedy of errors in our colonist definitions file, the UI must flow, the various hauntings of ghostneck, when Quag'garoth notices you in the hall and smiles with ten-thousand invisible mouths #justcultistthings
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The Fishman

April 2, 2014 by Nicholas Vining

THE FISHMAN

[set, roughly, to the meter of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
having just returned from GDC a couple days before,
lying in my bed with con flu, none too happily sorting through
the impressions of the journalists who visited before.
“They struggled with the game,” I muttered, “having never played before.
These struggles I do so deplore.”

Ah, distinctly, I remember, it was in my warmest sweater,
as each JIRA ticket crashed like waves upon the ocean shore.
Eagerly I watched the replays, studying hard and searching for ways
to improve the user’s gateway into CE’s dreadful lore.
The mouse clicks were not working, as they once had worked before,
for putting things onto the floor.

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Posted in Clockwork Empires | Tagged a poet failed to be inspired by a particle system today, bizarre literary experiments, David does in fact have an icon for every occasion, Fishpeople have it tough, game development real talk, I guess this means we're going to have to stock the office with little shakers of shrimp flakes, madness, make icons of gears and stick the icons of the gears to things, Nicholas' personal vendetta against poets rages on, no Nicholas you are the poets!, poet simulator, poetry, spite-based game design, this is game development, you can't eat most poetry, you win this round of bizarre literary experiments Nicholas
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