Attention all artistic people, Diaspora needs you!
Yea, this is a recruitment post. Sad fact is that while we have quite enough of coders, mission designer and such doing lots of great things, we only have a small handful of active people producing the badly needed art assets for the game. You know what I'm talking about: models, textures, background graphics, effects and so on. We are essentially making a game from scratch here so the number of needed assets is huge and if we want to get any sort of quality release out in any decent timeframe, we need all the help we can get.
So why apply? For the fame and glory, of course. For the chance to learn new artsy skills from people who have been doing this for years. For the great/weird/delusional people you get to work with. For the sheer fun of it. Okay, so it's a lot of hard work most of the time, but it can be fun at times. Mind you, we are not asking anyone to do all the work for us, we are asking for people to help us so we can make a release on a faster schedule.
If you are interested, feel free to drop us a mail at team@diaspora-game.com
21/05/09
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Battlestar Theseus, WIP
Time to give you guys a bit of a treat: a first glimpse at the hero ship of our first release, the Colonial Battlestar Theseus. She's a Sobek-class battlestar, a compact kilometer long multi-purpose carrier built near the end of the first Cylon war.
Based on the original sketch by StarSlayer, the ship was modeled by Meleardil over a period of several months. It took quite a few revisions to get the design this far (many cooks and all that), but the modeling is now 98% done and the ship is ready for texturing.
-LtCannonfodder
15/04/09
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Voice Actors needed, and other stuff
Want to be part of something great? Want your piece of the fame and glory? Act now, dig up your microphone and start recording some lines for us. While we cant guarantee you'll get a role, anyone is free to submit voice samples for consideration. For further info, visit this thread.
By the way, if you are wondering about lack of updates on the website, you should really check out our forums. We are really lazy in posting new stuff on the site, so the forums are the best place to catch the newest progress reports. For example, newman just posted some WIP images of his excellent basestar model (linky) and I myself have started an ongoing progress thread for the interface art (link).
-LtCannonfodder
06/04/09
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New screenshots
Three pretty screenies, since we know people like them. We also threw in a work-in-progress shot of the Viper Mk2 cockpit for good measure.
As usual, it's worth noting that much of this stuff is still being worked on. Pegasus for example is still the old mk1 model with placeholder textures (Scotchy is working on mk2). The Raptor cockpit is near final however, big props to newman for modeling and texturing it.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
24/01/09
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Second trailer up
So you wait four months for a Diaspora trailer and then two come along on the same day.
As wth trailer 1, you can find it in the video page.
-Karajorma
17/01/09
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First trailer up
So yea, it's been a while since last update on the website. My fault really, being the lazy bastard I am.
To make up for it, we made a flashy (if short) trailer for you. You can find it in the video page.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
17/01/09
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Couple of screens
Early snapshots taken by Shade while testing (yea right, we all know he was just having fun).
-Lt. Cannonfodder
28/10/08
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Die Toasters! or how to best lay waste on rebelling robot minions
One can never have enough of explosives.
Modeling and texturing by myself and newman, some designs based on StarSlayer's drawings.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
21/10/08
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Whoa, links!
In a freak fit of creativity, I decided to fix our links section. Not that I imagine anyone ever checks it out, but every cool site has to have one.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
12/10/08
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A few new screenshots
Four new screenshots added to the gallery. The models seen here range from being in semi-finished stage to just plain placeholders, we are still working on most of them.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
06/10/08
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Wallpapers
It's not much, but due to requests we've added some wallpapers to the downloads section.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
04/10/08
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Site Launched. Whee!
Finally got the site up. Yea yea, I know, it bloody sucks. Trust me, I'd much rather be modeling and texturing cool spaceships. If you happen to be a guy with crazy web skills, or know one, please contact us.
That being said, I hope you check out the much cooler stuff we have stashed into the gallery. And be sure to come by and say hello on our discussion forum afterwards. I promise we won't bite.
-Lt. Cannonfodder
02/10/08
