Rise of the Hidden Sun - New Artwork - November 26, 2012 - "Off the Rails!"

chapter11studios · Wed 02/02/2011 22:31:39

New location sketch:

Details here: http://rattlesnakejake.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/location-sketch-old-sierra-burying-ground/

SSH · Wed 02/02/2011 23:58:50

Glad I'm not a mourner in that town, if burial ground visitors are shot!

chapter11studios · Thu 03/02/2011 11:12:55

Quote from: SSH on Wed 02/02/2011 23:58:50
Glad I'm not a mourner in that town, if burial ground visitors are shot!

LOL, yeah the sheriff's a real SOB there...

Iliya · Thu 03/02/2011 15:49:48

Amazingly stunning saturated background! Good work!

chapter11studios · Fri 04/02/2011 16:19:33

New screenshot:

Original pencil art by John Green
Colors by Jacek Grzeskowiak

Larger version here: http://rattlesnakejake.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/new-screenshot-no-way-out/

CaptainD · Sat 05/02/2011 10:57:55

This is going to be one great-looking game!

chapter11studios · Tue 15/02/2011 14:53:05

Here we have the final pencil art for a new location we've just added to episode one. The top image is the original location sketch, which Hazel whipped up based on a description and some of my chicken scratches. Below that is the finished version, which reflects my suggestions for additional tweaks. The windmill and the vulture will be animated in the final in-game version of this screen.

More info here: http://rattlesnakejake.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/from-concept-to-completion-old-sierra-burying-ground/

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sat 19/02/2011 19:21:05

Looks nice. A minor issue I have is with 'Burying Ground'. Shouldn't it be 'Burial Ground'?

chapter11studios · Sat 19/02/2011 19:44:34

I've always seen them used interchangeably. Here in Massachusetts there are numerous historical "burying grounds." Thanks for flagging it, though. Might be worth a little more research on my part to be sure it's regionally accurate for the western U.S.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Mon 21/02/2011 11:36:53

Well, if it helps I live in Arizona and I've never seen it written that way, even at the old ghost towns. In fact, I can't remember seeing any gravesite labeled 'burial ground/burying ground'. They usually have a frontier-like name of significance (Boot Hill, Silverton, Gold Butte, Bone Hill, to name a few). You might be able to just drop the rest of it and just call it Old Sierra or Old Sierra Gravesite if you want it to be more authentic for the time. Westerners barely bothered with detailed names for areas everyone in town were intimately familiar with

. Literacy probably played a role in this as well.

Ali · Mon 21/02/2011 12:26:57

The phrase "burying ground" is familiar to me from American folk/blues songs. It's possible that this was a colloquialism which wouldn't have been written on a sign though.

Calin Leafshade · Mon 21/02/2011 14:07:50

I have heard 'Burying Place' in a Simon & Garfunkel song about the old west (or at least using the old west as an allegory)

Snarky · Mon 21/02/2011 14:11:27

Oughtn't it to be Buryin' Groun'?

chapter11studios · Thu 24/02/2011 21:50:27

Every treasure hunt needs a treasure map...

Igor Hardy · Thu 24/02/2011 22:12:18

Wow! The map is really impressive!

chapter11studios · Sat 26/02/2011 16:59:03

Thanks! This one took a long time to get right. Like all good treasure maps, there's a very important clue hidden very subtly in here, too. But will Jake be clever enough to see it?

chapter11studios · Fri 04/03/2011 15:30:03

We're making great strides on the animation front! These are the first two characters you'll meet in episode one.

Hawkeye:

The Old Prospector:

(Yes, he's picking his nose. I'm not above a little lowbrow humor... sorry, I mean "local color.")

Kristof · Fri 04/03/2011 17:47:07

Looks really cool!

Takyon · Sat 05/03/2011 23:26:38

Do you reckon it'll be released this year Josh?

EdLoen · Sat 05/03/2011 23:48:28

With a name like "Old Sierra", will we be subject to Grave Humor?