Ok, no explicitly worded Valve-bashing in this entry, mainly because my internet has been repaired, and I've been thoroughly enjoying Half-Life 1: Source lately. Having internet also means I also have motivation for doing more drawing, too, so I have some new stuff for you guys, as I believe the point of this journal is to get motivation to draw stuff, and then show off the results.

And ramble. That, too.


Must Work Faster!
Having internet means I also have motivation for doing more drawing, too, so I hav some new stuff for you guys, mostly in a state of not-completeness, because I've decided to start on the technique of drawing placeholders for stuff, just to rid Sir Sapo of the excuse "well, if you'd draw me a ____, then I'd be able to do it" so we can get crackin'.
I've been fairly worried about our deadline for 4E5. I'm concerned mainly about the menu system, dialog, and 'cost' system, all of which we basically have barely started or not at all. Certain elements are also going to be fairly difficult(Emotion, Economics), grr.


Weaponry
So today we more or less finalized the list of weapons for the 4th time, but this time is different in that I'm trying to actually get a drawing out for each of them so there's some concrete thing to work off of.

We're going for a good variety of weapons for several reasons, the first being that it's way more fun to have many different options to be able to destroy stuff. The second reason I think would be that it'll help us satisfy the Economics requirement, because it would be easier to let the player choose weapons based on the cost-effectiveness ($100,000 2,000 lb. bomb against a $15,000 Jeep is not a good choice), or even let the player purchase the weapons if that system doesn't satisfy [superpig's] requirements. Thirdly, it'll let us provide some visible progression in the course of the game, which'll give some motivation to the playere to continue("...next mission I get Napalm? Hell yes!").

Ok, now the list of actual things you can stick on your aeroplane to kill people with:

1. Light AMRAAM
2. Sidewinder
3. Armor-Piercing Rocket
4. Scatterpack Rockets
5. Light Gunpod
6. Napalm
7. Heavy Gunpod
-DU [Ammunition Type]
-Tungsten
8. Bomb
-Parachute [Sub-type]
-Retarded
-Glide
9. Long Tom Bomb
10. Cluster Bomb
11. Cluster Dispenser
12. Guided AGM

Guns:
Regular Vulcan
-AP Tungsten[Ammo types]
-AP DU
-HE
-Fragmenting

Laser
-Pulse Mode
-Continuous Mode

So, to test my ability to draw something identifiable, let's see if you can see what weapon goes with what from the names above and the images below(not all of them are drawn, yet, and they are in way different stages of completion)



Umm... I didn't mean for that to turn out looking like one of those stupid matching assignments from school, so don't feel too obligated to really go through matching that, the lettering is just so you can say "hey, G looks like it was draw by two-years old boy", etc.(And if something looks too confusing, tell me)


New Carrier

So Sapo's been getting on me about drawing a new carrier for Angels 22, so he can get started on programming that sucker in, so I, uh, did.
It's not radically different from the last Angels 20 iteration, but it is better shaded and now has a continuous flightdeck(which Sir Sapo thought was incredibly important).
Har it is:


And, why not, the old carrier:



Well, that about wraps up what I've been doing for Angels 22, or at least the parts that I deem worthy for you guys to see.

Goodnight!