I've just finished the latest round of revisions to the entire pile of spell icons. This is just one task which is part of the massive spell overhaul we're doing for Dredmor's beta 0.92 (when I'm not getting distracted drawing the disembodied heads of founding members of Gaslamp Games).

Man, there are a lot of these buggers, but they do get easier (and better) every time I redraw them. Telling you anything about them would ruin the fun*, so I've just thrown together a collection of some of my favorite spell and skill icons for your enjoyment:



Still have to draw animated effects for most of these. Urrgh.

* whereas "the fun" refers to how much fun I have as people try to guess what the hell some of these skills do.

[Originally written for the Gaslamp Games blog, where we all write about development and other random stuff.]