That's right, Supercity is on the way! Lame name, I know ... oh well, it's a work in progress. We'll see what we can come up with later on.
Anyway, back to more important things. Here's a plan of what our urban board may look like:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k3gaPc5cVeg/T5dgQG4esTI/AAAAAAAAAFI/BPfaeKrD-sI/s1600/Supercity.jpg)
The spot next to the News building may be a cafe and the "tall building" down the bottom may become a basketball court ... not sure yet.
Any thoughts?
Maybe something that would work with a Pulp/Gangster setting.......
Interesting idea. That might work with a .45 Adventures game, if we could find some retro minis to go with it ... We've got some pulp miniatures, but they look a little older than the 60s, maybe 20s/30s. Something to think about!
We were thinking of having it retro style but more like in Futurama where it's the future and most of the buildings are relics from the 90s (except, obviously, our relics would be from the 60s!), but then there are some buildings that are totally futuristic with funny antennae on sticking out of them ...
I'm not sure if we discarded that idea or what, but I did like the idea of retro Futurama, with hover cars! Just paid for them today, so hopefully the postie will be dropping them off in the next week or so!
Some food for thought on the Futurama-ish idea:
(http://slurmed.com/wall/172/172_city-scape_1024.jpg)
(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120124160108/en.futurama/images/3/32/New_New_York_Cityscape.jpg)
(http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images/a/a9/Atl_city.png)
I want a pizza place that looks sort of like this, except maybe a bit more friendly-looking ... next to a comic book shop!
(http://thesoftanonymous.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/futurama1.jpg)
That's right, Supercity is on the way! Lame name, I know ... oh well, it's a work in progress. We'll see what we can come up with later on.
Anyway, back to more important things. Here's a plan of what our urban board may look like:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k3gaPc5cVeg/T5dgQG4esTI/AAAAAAAAAFI/BPfaeKrD-sI/s1600/Supercity.jpg)
The spot next to the News building may be a cafe and the "tall building" down the bottom may become a basketball court ... not sure yet.
Any thoughts?
I like the design. I am going with a simple concept, that like yours can go into other games. I was going to do a gas station, strip mall, parking lot, park, (maybe) zoo, construction site, junkyard, warehouse/storage area with containers and a graveyard...kicking around the idea of a bank or museum also.
So, I'm finally happy with Nebula's back-story! Here's a teaser:
NEBULA
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w414/Painting_Princess/Supercity/0dbd00596eb2505c307a7c8bd46a482d.jpg)
Professor Ariel Sheratan, a research astronomer, had been researching the practical applications of stellar energy as a power source aboard the privately-owned Next Element Space Station (N.E.S.S.). Her hypothesis was that the energy possessed by stars could rival the efficiency of nuclear power as an energy source, if it could somehow be harnessed.
In order to more closely study this stellar energy, Professor Sheratan built a one-of-a-kind telescope (the Nebulous Starscope 1.0) designed to analyse the spectra of light observed in outer space. While observing stars aboard the N.E.S.S., Professor Sheratan witnessed a supernova explosion through her telescope—an explosion so blinding that she was knocked unconscious ...
You can continue reading on my blog: http://painting-princess.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/character-profile-nebula.html (http://painting-princess.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/character-profile-nebula.html)
Was so much fun to write - I hope you enjoy it :)