Art style

[supermuumi]

As I see it, we have three choices:

• plain 2D akin to Ultima5
• World in 3D but entities (player, monsters, items...) as 2D billboards
• Everything in blocky 3D (each tile & entity could either be a textured cube or an FBX

We'd still have tohe top down view of course. I'm leaning towards full 3D, although that becomes a content issue. Should prototype this further.

[Jalostaja]

Content will be an issue either way - with 3D even more so.

What about animations?

[supermuumi]

I think we're aligned on the flat plane + occasional blocks, top down 3D thingy.

For animations I think we want to look at two things:

• animated textures (for most things)
• support for shaders (for some fancier tiles/blocks?)

For example I'd do players and enemies with just animated textures, but for something like water I might be tempted to go for a shader.

[Jalostaja]

Sounds like a plan

[supermuumi]

Closing but I'd still reserve the option to throw in some simple geometry. Say mountains might need to be more like pyramids than boxes.