Monster Concepts

Posted by Zaron on Sept. 29, 2010, 2:18 a.m.

Going out for a walk + obnoxious game boss music + some horrid dreams lately = let's make some monster concepts fitting of the upcoming October for that RPG I keep pretending I'll get past the "broken-ass engine" stage one day.

They're hands. They're spiders. They're spiderhands.

And this is the horrid beast that spawns them, covered in the souls of those she's trapped and sucked the life out of, who spend eternity crawling all over her in some manner of creepy dead orgy or something.

The capturing of souls is pretty common practice for the Urakait, as they aren't picky how they expand their numbers. Here we have a knight who commands swords to fly around under the influence of some sort of medieval headcrab.

Also in that same "I've captured you to serve my master forever" vein, here's the slime I drew to fill space on my letter-size Painter document. It's pretty much just assimilating anything it can't digest, like a true obese creature.

Zombie moleman. Have fun with that.

I actually don't know what to call this guy even remotely, but think he's neat. A literal heartless, ghost-like, magic-wielding monster who rides around on some rune-laden ring. I guess i'll cite Disgaea influence somehow, as I think the white-haired Sages on that kinda spawned the idea. I presently refer to him as a Soul Cavity, but very few of these aren't up for better name ideas…

Siren mermaid thing. At some point in the game is Annel's shrine, and then you spend some time in a big lake. Because I'm evil enough to include "risk of drowning" on my RPG's lists of reasons you need to pay attention during fights.

On that, have what happened when I decided a pirahna wasn't evil enough.

The game's most persistent villain in his "I'm finally taking you seriously" form. Anyone who actually puts up with my webcomic might be able to figure out who this is, what with the give-away grin, but to the rest of you he's jut bad news.

Dunno if I'll enter that Halloween thing of Rez's. Would like to, but time is such a factor for me, and I'd hate to rush something again like I did with Revival. :/ We'll see. I obviously like making the occasional creepy shit.

Comments

OBELISK 14 years, 1 month ago

It's like Okami and Castlevania fucked and made you.

Tasm 14 years, 1 month ago

why are the spider bitch's tits covered?

Zaron 14 years, 1 month ago

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What's the broken-ass engine? Maybe someone can help you fix it. Love to see your game come through.

To be honest, it's not broken so much as the victim of my horrible laziness. It's something like the fourth attempt at such a thing, because any time Is tart making any ground i think of a better way to do it.

Presently, I have a neat little event/NPC system using data grids, but need to make an editor for it because coding the thing by hand is unintuitive and defeats my goal of having the thing run primarily off of external files because GM preloading all of the resources I'd need for the whole damn game would be ungodly and I refuse to suffer the same downfalls as Ark 22.

And yes, this is all coming from the guy who had to be screamed at to look into instance deactivation. The simple crap? I don't know jack of the simple crap. But, boy, i can make an overly complex event system that runs off of exported number strings! -odd priorities-

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It's like Okami and Castlevania fucked and made you.

So my father is a bloodthirsty monster and my mother's a divine bitch? :O It's so true!

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I like the spiderhands and the nivenwraith (soul cavity). Cheers if you figure how I came up with that name.

No clue, but I do like it.

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why are the spider bitch's tits covered?

Because she's not drunk and you didn't offer her a free T-shirt to flash you. c:

Alert Games 14 years, 1 month ago

very epic looking i must say

thernz 14 years, 1 month ago

self-groping spider woman

DesertFox 14 years, 1 month ago

'nivenwraith' is a portmanteau of "Larry Niven" and "ringwraith" - Larry Niven being the author of the wonderful Ringworld novel series (Halo's ring-weapons took inspiration from Niven's ring structure) , and ringwraith being the Nazgul from Tolkien's novels.

Rez 14 years, 1 month ago

lovely

Zaron 14 years, 1 month ago

Interesting origin, DF. I like in-jokes and I like the name. I may roll with it.