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[happymonster]

Lizardman is great! 

[ANtY]

Also: we now have a lizardman sprite! Look how awesome this guy is:

[Udderdude]

A few things about this .. his feet and boots look tiny, like he's squeezed his feet into tiny little red stockings.  And his mace looks a tad bit small, too.  His right hand also seems larger than his forearms .. not sure if that's intentional or not.  I'd advise your artist to fix it up a bit. 

[Xion]

craig: ah, I'd seen you mention the email thing before but hadn't really paid much attention to it. Sounds like an interesting way of doing things. Does this mean though that you can't play 'live' games and that you have to continuously go back and forth to your email to get the next move?

[Franklins Ghost]

Really like that Lizardman.

[PompiPompi]

Udderdude, the lizard man's mace actually look more realistic. It is actually most other games who tend to create unrealistic huge maces. Though, I guess big maces look better...

[Craig Stern]

craig: ah, I'd seen you mention the email thing before but hadn't really paid much attention to it. Sounds like an interesting way of doing things. Does this mean though that you can't play 'live' games and that you have to continuously go back and forth to your email to get the next move?

Right now, yes. I'm cautiously considering making a free, live online version for some Flash portals using playerIO to serve as a demo, one without any single player or email capability, and a limited number of maps. If I end up doing that, and if it works well, I'd update the final game with that capability. But I'm cautious about saddling myself with ongoing server costs for a pay-once-and-play-forever game.

[Craig Stern]

With all the basic character sprite designs being done and in-game, Telepath Tactics has been submitted to Indiecade! I feel like I've reached an important milestone in development.

As part of the submission process, I was asked to create a short gameplay video. The video shows off the assassin, the spearman, the engineer, the bowman and the crossbowman on a small lava-filled map. Here is a somewhat longer edit of the video I captured than the one I submitted with the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F0JgO8gJM

[Moczan]

craig: ah, I'd seen you mention the email thing before but hadn't really paid much attention to it. Sounds like an interesting way of doing things. Does this mean though that you can't play 'live' games and that you have to continuously go back and forth to your email to get the next move?

Right now, yes. I'm cautiously considering making a free, live online version for some Flash portals using playerIO to serve as a demo, one without any single player or email capability, and a limited number of maps. If I end up doing that, and if it works well, I'd update the final game with that capability. But I'm cautious about saddling myself with ongoing server costs for a pay-once-and-play-forever game.

The free version of PlayerIO should be more than enough for the demo. If small player limit scares you off, try Gamooga, their free plan doesn't have concurent online players limit at all.

[Craig Stern]

Thanks for the tip: Gamooga looks really cool. I'm particularly impressed by their system's interoperability among multiple platforms.

[Yrgkala]

Excellent pixel-art all around!

A few things about this .. his feet and boots look tiny, like he's squeezed his feet into tiny little red stockings.  And his mace looks a tad bit small, too.  His right hand also seems larger than his forearms .. not sure if that's intentional or not.  I'd advise your artist to fix it up a bit. 

I disagree with everything you say here.

[Craig Stern]

All right, I decided it was finally time to let the gaming press in on what I've been working on here.

My Sinister Design announcement: http://sinisterdesign.net/?p=1499
My TIGS announcement: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=25593.0
And the game's new official page (in progress): http://sinisterdesign.net/?page_id=1402

One of the biggest (and easiest) mistakes to make when first getting into game design is to wait until late in development to start marketing your games. This is a bad thing to do for a wide variety of reasons, perhaps the biggest of which is that people in general (and journalists specifically) are generally more receptive to hearing about things that they're already somewhat familiar with. I am starting early with this one.

[happymonster]

The screenshots on your webpage with the new character sprites look great!

[Craig Stern]

Thanks!

[ANtY]

This game so reminds me of my unfinished MOTBS, eh... I still want to make it some day.