Design and Play. Updates

Trendy header design yay! A hell of a lot better then that dual border box with plain text inside.. Just had to do some minor HTML editing to get rid it. Funny blogger won't let you remove it in the layout editor, but will allow you to destroy the widget entirely inside the HTML editor..

Anyhow, here is how current projects are looking currently.

The current Mario poster idea is still in early planning stages. I decided not to jump right in to it and decided to do the age old strategy of planning it out. Aside from taking one look at Illustrator and resiting the urge to have an annurism, I really sat down and looked at how I could work it out digitally since I have no way of scanning in a hard copy done by hand, save for the tried and true method of using a camera, but even that ruins the perspective at times. I need a scanner. Hardcore. This poster will also be the "box art" if you will, for the next paragraph.

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As for the Play front. While learning Lunar Magic has been a daunting experience, I have not lost sight of trying to lay down a rough story idea to design the hack around. I figure having one of them in the woodwork would make the overworld desinging process (something I know how to do now) a lot more, organized, and not so much creating random land masses and hoping for the best that something tangible and usable comes out of it. Kinda like slapping paint onto a canvas. But even then, some big wig would even find "expression" in a random explosion of color and buy it for cash,  so, analogy crushed.

 The Story

The Yoshis have been long an icon to those living in the Mario world, and just now, a group of islands have been discovered off in a remote region of the vast oceans. A large island amongst the others, sits as the main plot of land. Upon these landmasses have been constructed 9 temples as a symbol of idolizing the Yoshi race. Until recently only the ancient civilization who built these temples knew about them. Enter Bowser, who had found the islands, and believes of a great power to be hidden deep away within them. Wanting the power all to himself, he sent his trusted Koopas to convert all the temples into horrific fortified castles to place his foot hold on the Yoshi Islands, as a symbol to all that he is not leaving, and further that he will be using the islands as his base of operations for controlling the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond. Mario can't let this come to pass! Even the Yoshi's existance is on the line yet again.

Ha! Eat that, Nintendo writers. I didn't even mention *Toadstool* Thats right, that is her name, not Peach. Nyah..


Shell out.