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Creative Excercise

  • Elder71
  • 06/09/2015 11:26 AM
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Created these as a little creative exercise and thought I'd share.

Before I knew what I was doing, I'd saved the image as "Pixies.jpg" - "pixies", in this case, is apparently a cutesy corruption of "pixels". Thank you brain.

Please banish all notions of 'gnomes', 'fairies' and other mawkish folklore favourites from your perception.



I've quickly come to think of them as possible in-game representations of collectable action figure key items. Like Bobbleheads from Fallout 3, or the Soldier 1/35 from Final Fantasy 7. It's just an idea at the moment

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Nice pixel art! And well, those examples you mentioned all had one action figure type, right? It's probably best to do the same here, especially since action figures of our characters don't really make any sense in universe, unlike those examples you mentioned.

I would say an Enforcer Captain action figure would make the most sense, if it's actively produced to make the Solis forces look cool even to young children. Alternatively, tech worker one is my favorite, and can be justified as a way to ensure this otherwise unglamorous branch of Solis forces wouldn't get understaffed in comparison to regular Enforcers.
author=NTC3
Nice pixel art! And well, those examples you mentioned all had one action figure type, right? It's probably best to do the same here, especially since action figures of our characters don't really make any sense in universe, unlike those examples you mentioned.

I would say an Enforcer Captain action figure would make the most sense, if it's actively produced to make the Solis forces look cool even to young children. Alternatively, tech worker one is my favorite, and can be justified as a way to ensure this otherwise unglamorous branch of Solis forces wouldn't get understaffed in comparison to regular Enforcers.

Yeah, my first wild stab at the idea was that they'd be a kind of meta-item, but something I'm very keen on is keeping everything linked tightly to the context of the world. It makes excellent sense for the Enforcers to market merchandise to children, extra-specially since they're all about non-aggressive ways to expand their power and jurisdiction.

There'll be a lot more Enforcer types in the finished game, I think having a collector's figurine for each one is a great idea. Maybe the Tech Worker could come with flavour text like: "New! Solis Tech Worker pose-able action figure, complete with real Diamond Laser and glowing Welding Torch accessories!"

EDIT
It wouldn't be an arbitrary, 100% completionist thing either. Maybe, if you've got 10/10 Solis Action Figurines, you open up a small sidequest involving a child or something.

Just spitballing at the mo.
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