early concept art for a game I’m working on called Starsys 9
(I’m not a very good artist, i’m mostly into the game creation and design, but, it needs illustrations, so...)
The idea is to have a game that allows futuristic human cyborgs, aliens, and fantasy characters like elves and vampires to all exist in the same universe
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Concept: there is a single desirable planet in orbit in Star System Nine, and three factions have happened upon it at the same time -- the Cybernauts, Dimens, and the Spore-Born
Player Characters (each faction has 9, with skill trees) are supported by NPC crew. When all Player Character Classes are unlocked, the Mega Classes become available. Each faction has a Mega Commander, a Mega Builder, a Mega Resource Processor, and a few others. They can spawn characters or crew, broadcast a supply signal, build installations.
Mega Commanders can use the other Mega Classes (such as a Beetle Builder, Carbon Harvester, or Monstrous Sacrificer) to create population centers (i.e. ”town” for each faction) by building a network of specific Installations (like Refineries, Mold Mobs, and Pit Bosses with their Skeleton Crews). Mega classes are supported by player characters the same way player characters are supported by crew.
Factions set up beacons, piles, or altars that broadcast overlapping supply zones, spore-fields, or arcane areas of influence -- within which they have full communications and any characters belonging to their faction slowly respawn resources such as ammo, health, and arcane power. All three factions can run their own supply signal in the same area.
Resources and Damage Types are designed to create a rock-paper-scissors situation, which will intensify with later additions of air and water characters (from Marine Mega Commanders down to aquatic support crew) as well as up to six “Hidden Factions” that can be used to balance game play (for example, one of the hidden factions are the planetary natives, and their Mega Classes are like alien dinosaurs)
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Faction 1: The Cyberians
A spacefaring nation of futuristic humans, Cyberia has a branch of outsystem explorer-militia called the Cybernauts. Most Cyberians are cyborg humans, and the cybernauts utilize a lot of mechs and large vehicles. Cybernauts are supported by crews of robots and cyber-animals, such as Botmen, Cyber-dogs, and “kite” drones.
(the Mobile Command can harvest all three cyberian resources. Mobile Command can call a Drop Base to their position from orbit. They have a mounted gun and can use their harvesting arms to do melee damage. They can erect a Signal Beacon to increase the size of their supply zone)
When a Cybernaut “dies” their consciousness is downloaded into a new body.
Faction Resources:
Water Sources
Organic Hydrocarbons
Mineral Deposits
They harvest water and break it into hydrogen and oxygen for breathing and energy weapons/explosives. They can harvest any organic hydrocarbons (like trees or oil) for fuel and some healing. They harvest minerals and use the metal and stone to build and to supply armor and ammo, as well as some healing/repair.
Cybernauts use mostly kinetic weapons (bullets), electrical weapons and shields, and explosives. However, they also use some melee weapons and physical shields.
Cyberians are weak to magic. Their weapons are especially effective against Spore-Born. Some can use a nanobot injector to take temporary control of enemies, including the recently deceased.
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Faction 2: The Spore-Born
The Spore-Born are an intergalactic population of insect-like aliens in a symbiotic relationship with a sapient fungus. Spores drift off the Spore-Born like smoke and infect any newly hatched of the original Hive-born as well as a few other species of aliens they have run into on their spread through space. Spore-Born are supported by crews of spore-infected alien non-sapient species like Antmen, Lizardcats, and Waspers
(the Genomporph Queen is covered in spore infected eggs that she can drop and spawn replacement crew. She can make an egg for any species in the Spore-Born faction. She can also create a spore-hive, and she can drop a spore pile that increases the spore-field)
When a Spore-Born dies their consciousness is carried by spores to the nearest colony, hive, or egg and infects a full grown hatchling as a respawn.
Faction Resources:
Water Sources
Organic Hydrocarbons
Sulfur
They need water to grow spore mass, which they become caked in as armor and use in special spore-based attacks and healing. They use organic hydrocarbons (like trees or the bodies of their enemies) for food (fuel). They use sulfur to breathe, no breathing tanks necessary, as the spores in each character’s personal spore-cloud can hold resources, a couple molecules per spore. Sulphur is also used in creating Plasma.
Spore-Born specialize in plasma, and laser weapons with plenty of melee damage (weapons as well as bite and claw attacks) as well as spore shields and effects (such as a spore puff bombs that drain resources from characters).
Spore-Born are weak to kinetic weapons. They are especially effective against Dimens. Some can use spores to infect and control enemy characters, including the recently deceased.
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Faction 3: Dimens (or Dimenkind)
This faction is made up of various kinds of trans-dimensional beings brought through portals by multi-dimensional “gods”. These “gods” either create or teleport in various entities such as dwarves, elves, vampires, werewolves, zombies, wizards and witches, etc. Dimens are supported by a crews of thralls like goblins, hellhounds, and imps
(in the middle of the Dimen Ordained ribcage is a throne for the player pilot. The tentacle can summon characters, as well as create ritual circles with Pit Bosses with their skeleton crews for harvesting resources. The single giant eye can be used as a beam weapon, their sword arm does melee damage. They can set up altars to increase their Arcane Area of Influence)
When a Dimen dies in service to the Dimen Deities, one of their multi-dimensional god beings grants the character’s ghost a doppelganger to possess
Faction Resources:
Sulfur
Minerals Deposits
Organic Hydrocarbons
Dimens use sulfur to create Arcane Fire to fuel their magic. They burn Organic Hydrocarbon (like oil or corpses) to free the latent Life Force and use it for magic and healing. And they use Mineral deposits to build in stone and metal, as well as for weapons and armor.
Dimenkind specializes in magic and melee, with elemental effects and shields. They are weak to Spore-Born attacks and especially effective against Cyberians. Some Dimens can posses enemies or raise the deceased as undead.
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I’ve got a lot more of it designed out, but this post is long enough
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AHHH i'm so excited to introduce my revamped logo, featuring the lizardcat! i've had such a hard time concepting what a lizardcat actually looked like, and Arcanum Dice did such a wonderful job bringing this little fey creature to life.
the lizardcat and my name, Lizardcat Creations, is inspired by my cat Dexter. sometimes he looks more cat, sometimes he looks more lizard, and i wanted my logo to reflect that.
if you like it enough, i'll have stickers available soon AND they'll be given out as freebies for anyone who places orders! and that said:
i'm finally restocking my site on saturday, february 11 @ 11am mountain time
more info to come once i have a better idea of what my stock will look like.
:)
oh yeah, and this round of dexter stickers will have a blue background.
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