Spiral Knights set for release!

Spiral Knights has secured a distrubution deal with Sega, and is set for release on 4/4! In celebration, I am posting some updated screenshots from the game.


It's progressed a great deal since the last post - the game world has been filled out, artwork has been refined and a whole raft of new content is available. I haven't been playing a huge deal in the last few months of testing, so there is plenty there for even someone who has been involved in a lot of the testing to find.

Here is the new arcade -


Here is an updated screenshot of the gate maps (your access to the different levels of the Clockworks)-


And here is the one screenie I managed to get while fighting in a fire-themed Arena level. It was only Depth 2 (the lower the Depth number the easier the fight) but I still found it a bit of a handful and forgot all about taking screenies for most of the level!


Be sure to check out the official site here and keep it bookmarked for the 4th!

So do you only make skins in Minecraft?

Well, no! I love to build, and I've made a few things in both singleplayer and multiplayer, as well as messing around with textures (as you may notice in a few of the following screenshots)...
Here is a project I entitled "Giant hole in the ground". This was in singleplayer without mods of any kind, and while I didn't quite make it to bedrock I had a good go at it.

This is my first multiplayer project, built on the ausmining.net server - it's a slightly asiatic landowners mansion, built over four levels (including the basement).

Here is the open plan ground floor of the mansion - showing the lovely exposed beams!

Here is the view of the rest of town from the roof - most of the other buildings shown here were built by other members of my town (if fog was turned off you would see Michael's massive reed
I'm jealous of the benchspace in the kitchen of my Minecraft mansion - if only my apartment had this much benchspace (and a dishwasher!)

The rest of the mansion is pretty much finished - the top floor bedrooms needed furnishing, but the kitchen, bathroom, conservatory, billards room, forge/furnace and throne room were all done. I was also working on fencing off the property and landscaping the area around the mansion into a kind of Japanese garden (sand/rock features, gravel paths, and ponds and waterfalls lit from below with glowstone). If nobody kills the map I may just get it done!

Sandy!

Ok here is one more. I discovered it's very difficult to make a necklace of little skulls look anything like that on a minecraft skin. But I always had a soft spot for Sandy so I had to do this skin :)




















And here is Tripitaka!

Pretty lady

I haven't made any more Monkey characters yet (although I definitely will, because I haven't made Sandy and I always had a soft spot for Sandy), but I did have another skin that would fit right into the series.

Everybody knows Pigsy likes the ladies... so here is a lady for Pigsy to chase after :)




And later (by request) I made some... er... slightly less clothed pretty ladies! I'm not posting the .png here yet though, as I'm going to sell it to them in-game for gold (they don't know that yet though - hee!)

Minecraft Skins

I've been playing around making some new skins for Minecraft (while the ausmining.net server was down).

This is my favourite one! (Excuse the crappy screenshot - haven't had time to make a proper one)

Feel free to use it if you want to - just be sure you let people know that Trowzers made it :)