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I'm going to make this guy my ideas dump / to do list - ideas are subject to change

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size for creatures:

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The dragon is probably going to be huge, powerful, and have a lot of health. It can have a negative trait called 'cold blooded' or 'ancient blooded' etc that makes it enter the game with 0 energy and have to charge up over time. An attack should cost a minimum of 3 energy, probably 4 or 5.
Energy is gained 1 every turn / hour (though maybe for the dragon, it would need to be in the light to charge up like a basking lizard?)

You can use as many bars/units of energy as you like in a turn, as long as you have that many stored. Different creatures will have different starting amounts of energy, and different abilities to store energy over time (make an example img at some stage for this)

Moving to a territory will cost 1 energy. Attacking will cost differing amounts for each creature, with bigger more devastating attacks needing to charge up. Spend your energy wisely.
(3 energy stored, with the ability to store 2 more)

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The game board could be a 3x3 grid with a row of lands in the middle (in yellow) Players start by choosing one of the grids to place their land in. Someone putting down something like a dragon might want to place theirs in the corner at the start of the match to start charging up, placing a land in one of the center grids is a little more aggressive and would suit a player who currently has a day/night advantage. Moving to another territory requires the land to be up against another square of land, so land will need to be bridged by other lands to be crossable.

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- draw a size comparison sheet and a day/night info thing so people can see that day starts at 6-7am etc

- throw together some rough ideas for creature origins - eggs, bait (meat, fish, berries etc, using different bait would result in catching different creatures), wisps, summon stone? (discount pokeball haha)
Rough egg / tablet / wisp / bait sketch (extremely rough, just to explore concepts and ideas) -

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- Draw up some different tablet sketches

- storefronts

Find a way to display all the stats, info and abilities so it looks good and is easy to read

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Alternate game mode 1v1 idea - land is still used but is 'equipped' behind your creature and cannot be shared, takes up your half of the screen. It would resemble a game of 2 halves, both creatures facing each other like a tekken match

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First set of sketches

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I don't know if I like the warthog, but the windy blepper and ice chonk came out good I think :D
That poor horse...

I need to shrink the owls head and move it down a bit That didn't suit it
Should I shrink ice chonks head? Yeah, looking at it with fresh eyes today, I think he needs a head reduction =P

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A redraw for piggy, a spiky elk, a tail for windy blep, 3 head size edits and a couple of other tiny tweaks. Owl looks worse somehow, oops. Reverting him back
Some more herbivores :D

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a redraw for owl rooster and horse, that poor horse was finally put to rest haha. New horse isn't a unicorn, or a bicorn, or even a tricorn, it's a multicorn (with a ribbon tail).
Some extra critters, don't know what tail to give sacrificial mouse yet. Multi tails with pom poms? Squirrel tail?

Should I redraw turtle? I'm not feeling that sketch as much as the others. It's the legs that bother me. And the shell. Hmm

Getting close to having the lineup completed. I think water is under represented, so I'd like 1 more watery creature, maybe another redraw and then I might be done with initial sketches

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The lineup. Figuring out balancing and abilities

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I really don't like the frog catfish. Looking at it with fresh eyes I'm thinking ugh, not good, try again. The concept in theory works, just not the sketch

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okay, I think this is it. Frog looks a lot better, used a largemouth bass reference instead of trying to draw a catfish