Darwinia merchandising

[The GoldFish]

and it makes me want to hurt you in ways you can't even imagine >:O

[martin]

I have a very active imagintion.


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lol, sorry guys. If it annoys you that much. I apologise.

[Miah]

Nested quotes are cool in the same way that burning ants with a magnifying glass is cool...

You mean in the scheme of flaming, messy death? Or in the thought of the "funny" quickly dying down?

I think both, personally.

[martin]

:0
ooohoooh. ah. he used a quote. send him to the naughty corner!

[xander]

Heh... it was fun while it lasted, and now that I have gotten it out of my system, I won't do it again. Sorry to have offended anyone.

To bring things back on topic (more or less), are all of these suggestions that you are asking for intended to be tangible at some point, or are we just throwing ideas around? Because in the realm of really neat, though probably not doable, a Darwinia themed chess set would be nifty. Say, armour as knights, an officer for the king, squads as bishops, battle cannons as rooks, DGs as pawns, and something else as a queen (maybe a spider or centipede? though that does kind of break the theme -- it would also be possible to have virii on one side and Darwinians on the other: DGs as pawns, spiders as knights ('cause they can jump), spore generators as bishops, triffids as rooks, SDs as queens, and something else for the kings). The board would have to be black and green, and the teams black and green as well (unless you went with the virii idea, in which case it should be black and red or black and green -- green and red would suck, and hurt my eyes).

Anywho, just a thought.

xander

[NeoThermic]

To bring things back on topic (more or less), are all of these suggestions that you are asking for intended to be tangible at some point, or are we just throwing ideas around? Because in the realm of really neat, though probably not doable...

Quite. A chess set is rather... complex in terms of production. I know that shirts and mugs can be made easilly, but I wouldn't know where to get a chess set made...

NeoThermic

[Dev]

Nested quotes are cool in the same way that burning ants with a magnifying glass is cool...

...so that's pretty dam cool then!! lol

ok ill shut up

[Dev]

Heh... it was fun while it lasted..... [lots of text] DO A DARWINIA CHESS SET [some more text]
Anywho, just a thought.

xander

its funny you should mention that as I had a very similar discussion about darwinia and chess with my technology tutor this afternoon. Unfortunatly its aliitle beyond my scope... I think I have settled on a lamp. Im doing some CAD renders and stuff.
Im going to do a new poll in a bit when I have sorted out my final design ideas.

[xander]

Maybe I should just put together a Darwinia theme for GNUChess :P

xander

[Dev]

Maybe I should just put together a Darwinia theme for GNUChess

xander

cool beans

[da_zeg]

Pawns-> Darwinians
Knights -> Engineers , was thinkin squaddies but think 'neers would be cooler
Rooks -> Squaddies
Bishops -> Invaders
King -> Officer
Queen -> Spider

I think that's how i'd have the peices, but i might have missed something really obvious.

[Dev]

using a spider breaks the theme
What about using one of those Doctor S giant stone head things....?
Much as I would like to make a chess set - its way outta my league both resources and time wise...a Mod for darwinia itself mayb?

Moving on - I have made some significant progess with my product development and have come to flaunt my current ideas. All of them are lamps.

Firstly I would like you to imagine a ambient desklamp in the shape of a darwinian. About 8inches high. There is a base in which a large clear darwininan is mounted. Inside the big clear Darwinian are many smaller green ones. Around the base are a squad and some engineers. The entire unit lights up from the bottom. This causes
1)light to refract through the giant clear darwinian shaped prism
2)Green motles to be formed due to the little darwinians floating inside
3)From afar, give the impression that there are some darwinians flaoting above your desk.

It would be possible using LED clusters to change the colour that the thing glows depending on how you feel.
I did a rudimentary rending using my CAD package - its not great but you get the idea.


My second idea is more definate as to its design. Basicaly it constitues an incubator inside which is a clear sphere contaning tiny specs of Red and green to look like souls. The thing is lit from the bottom by a single white light casing the souls to glow in the incubator. For those wanting "practicality" it can be easily adapted into a desk tidy. No render of this yet but I am working on it.

Moving down a slightly differnt path - a less obvious Darwinia related item that being a Triffid cluster lamp. Red crystal ballons continging small halogen lamps would make up the light parts - the base and neck proably forged from brass or bronze.

What do you think?

[xander]

Triffid lamps -- heh, they would look much like any other desk lamp, but be |337 and polygonal.

xander

EDIT: Be is not spelt bee, unless it can fly.

[Darksun]

Yeah, but if I had a triffid lamp I'd be expecting the bulb to shoot out, and then explode unleashing nasties

[Miah]

using a spider breaks the theme

I argee. Use Armour. You seem to have forgotten that.

And you could have THAT be the "player's" pieces. The computer could be:

Pawns-> Red Darwinians
Knights -> Triffid (if you wanted to do an animation, it could shoot an egg to it's new spot, have the egg knock out whatever's there, the old triffid die, and a new one grow from the egg. Knights jump, after all...)
Rooks -> Spiders
Bishops -> Centipedes
King -> Email
Queen -> Soul Destroyer