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Development Forum Community Thank You Project.    Chaotic Spriter mea     8/2/2012 I was extremely surprised when the experience I gained from working on various creature projects recently actually really helped me with a job interview recently. I got the job & I decided that I wanted to do a thank you project for the creature community. I won't actually start working on the project until I finish up the Sea Garden sprites for Grendel Man, but I want to give the community plenty of time to decide what you might want the project to be. Basically I'm offering to do the sprites or background for a project that you choose. My preference would be for a new project, especially a metaroom background, but I am willing to look at & consider all suggestions. It will be a while before I respond, but please feel free to leave & discuss various ideas & suggestions.   Malkin Manager     8/2/2012 Fantastic! Congratulations, mea!!! What was the job? Best of luck with it! My TCR Norns   Chaotic Spriter mea     8/4/2012 Sorry for the long delay for my response. The job is very physical & this first week has been wearing me out. I should be able to adjust to it fairly quickly & get back to work on my various creature projects. The job isn't related to creatures, but the questions they had asked during the interview were mostly about problem solving & similar things like exceeding expectations for a project. That certainly did fit the metaroom backgrounds that I made. No one expected the Chione background to be that big, & turn out that pretty & both Chione & Silence Falls gave me some difficult problems to fix before I could finish them. Without both metarooms, I probably would have a lot more difficulty answering those questions during the interview & I probably would have failed the interview. What type of metaroom is the community wanting to see? I'd like an idea of what is something that the community would really love to see or feels that is really needed... something natural, something man/ettin/shee-made or something in outer space? Something large, something ridiculously large, something small, or something with several rooms of various sizes? Something normal, something exotic, something useful or something mostly useless but pretty? Questions like these are what I'd like feedback from the community on. The more ideas that are suggested, the more interesting the room is likely to be.   Sanely Insane RisenAngel Manager     8/4/2012 There's three metaroom types I would personally like to see: 1. A larger aquatic metaroom for non-swimmers that isn't quite as thematic as Devil's Reef is. 2. A freshwater-based aquatic metaroom, preferably for non-swimmers. 3. A larger metaroom that's designed with heat-loving creatures in mind (think the Abyss). Just my thoughts. ~ The Realm ~ Risen Angel's Creatures Blog   sam999     8/5/2012 Well, for personal reasons I quite like the idea of further work on Chione, not the background which is finished "and awesome " but other parts of it. The pine trees and critters still need work.... For other ideas, here's my attempt at a list of ideas I like 1. Alienish Geat: No, not based on the alien from alien. Just a really weird geat unlike any other creatures. Maybe use something like this for inspiration. Then again, a breed is quite a project. 2. Rocky Room: A metaroom in the rocky, forested style of a fantasy work of fiction. Think something like the amazing scenery of the Lord of the Rings movies. 3. Biomechanical shee lab: Think H. R. Giger for inspiration…. Full of useful tools for norn medical treatment or tinkering. 4. Steampunk shee lab: Similar idea to number 3, but with a steampunkish appearance. 5. The Pond: A freshwater aquatic metaroom. Also, good luck on your new job.   Chaotic Spriter mea     8/5/2012 I like all 3 of those ideas Grendel Man. What I find rather amusing is that one of the other projects that I already had in mind actually would cover at least # 2 & 3 & with a few adjustments, would cover # 1 as well. If you want, I can mention some of the ideas & details of that project. Well, including the ideas from the version of this topic that posted on Creaturetopia, we now have 4 or 5 ideas & possibilities. Are there any more? Edit: Oops, just saw sam999's post.... now to read & respond to it as well. Edit 2: @ sam999 - the rest of the sprite work for Chione was already in my plans, I just plan on spacing it out around my other projects now that the background is finished. Hmmm... combining sam999's idea #5 with Grendel Man's idea #2, that brings the number of ideas up to 8 or 9. Thanks everyone for the ideas. Feel free to leave any more ideas that occur to you.   mip     8/6/2012 Wow, congratulations on your new job! I know you've got lots of fab ideas already but I'd really like to see an urban/suburban metaroom. For instance, a city centre with lots of facilities (such as a hospital, a restaurant/fast food place, a toy shop/nursery, a garden centre and a sewer running beneath it all). Or how about something really fantastical, like a garden in the sky/clouds or an alien planet filled with strange fauna and flora? There are lots of suggestions for water-themed metarooms so how about a metaroom with a number of different floating islands (such as a spring/summer/autumn/winter island theme)? They can be connected by bridges or boats. Air breathing norns live on these islands and water breathing norns can live beneath them and swim under them in the waters below. Chione looks great and I'm looking forward to trying it out! Exploring the Ark A journal for C3/DS - updated last: 5 May 2013   sam999     8/6/2012 How about we simply try to combine ideas listed here? A jungle over a deep, freshwater swamp/pond with rusted steampunk lifts and toys? Perfect for grendels.   Chaotic Spriter mea     8/6/2012 O_O... mip, were you somehow reading my mind? You managed to mention at least two of the ideas that have been brewing in my mind for a while. For a while I've been considering a bakery/winery metaroom with devices that allow you to make various types of new foods, maybe similar to the quirky cookie machine, but with more options & types of food. The seasonal islands are also an idea I had been considering & mentioned to Grendel Man & Malkin. Wow & weird.... I do plan on combining the ideas that will work together sam999, Like combining the Pond/freshwater metaroom idea with the rocky room idea could turn it into a mountain lake, which was an idea I had also considered for the summer themed seasonal island.

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