I like your Ivan. However the thing is, other bosses in the game are more or less my or our common inventions, but Ivan and Vladimir are strictly Kahvi's. So we really have to hear his opinion. I think he has just moved and doesn't yet have a broadband connection at his new apartment. Here in Finland the ISPs are very slow at connecting a new link. But if you draw Vlad, I and hexi will say our opinions and Kahvi probably won't veto if we both like it. IVAN trivia: Vladimir is actually based on a series of English writing exercises by Kahvi when he was twelve. I quote one: You might not know him, so I'll introduce Vladimir to you. Vladimir is a very nice, obedient and friendly carnivorous venom-spitting mutant rabbit. His body is eight feet tall and his ears are four feet long. He has enormous muscles intended to crush any unpleasant sights. Actually the name "Vladimir" is just an acronym of Vile Lurking Aggressive Devourer with Infernal Muscles Intended to Rampage, but the original name was a way too long. And besides, Vladimir suits him very fine because he was found from a biological weapons -*test*-('") area in Vladivostok. May this help you imagine him in full size.

He did this when he was twelve ? haha that rocks :) Here 's the enny. http://skrik.free.fr/Enny%20800%20600.jpg

That is absolutely AWESOME. You guys have so much talent. Our Finnish DEV team for their nearly impeccable language skills picked up at such a tender age, and Blob's able sketching hand.

hehehe. Hellish latex. Both could be very nice : )

Hahaha, latex would be great. Materials aren't actually that hard. If I wasn't so damned lazy I could probably do that, and save the devs some work.

Maybe cloth-like materials could be colored? That way we could have black or red angel hair for chaotics, grey or blue for neutrals and white or yellow for lawfuls, without adding any new materials. Yeah, Kahvi is talented. Since this is a fan art topic, I took the liberty to link to a couple of his quick IVAN sketches. www.tuukkavirtaperko.net/art/05/goblin.htm - A naked goblin. www.tuukkavirtaperko.net/art/04/necro.htm - A necromancer. This looks just like my math teacher in high school, who btw. had a hobby of digging graves. These could be from some roguelike, too: www.tuukkavirtaperko.net/art/fatelfsmall.htm www.tuukkavirtaperko.net/art/eewok.htm - We used this as a background image for the main menu in some version. www.tuukkavirtaperko.net/art/isoenkeli.htm The last three he drew when he was something like 14. And had paintings in art exhibitions at 16.

Yeah, coloured clothes could be funny. Even better if you could "customize your character " by paying someone to paint your clothes in a color you like. Ok, i'm dreaming and ivan is not wow >_> Kahvi's necromancer is kickass :)

My, there's even an Ivan in that art section there, check it out http://www.tuukkavirtaperko.net/art/ivanback.htm I always imagined him with an AK47 whenever I wanted to write about him in the Word Linking Game, but my posts ended up being too elaborate.

Too cool. I really enjoyed seeing the difference between Blob and Kahvi's styles of drawing.

Here's a development version with the enner beast image appearing when you enter GC5. http://ivan.sourceforge.net/beta/ivan_beta_060903.zip If you like to edit enny further, the file is Graphics/Enner.pcx. Here's a screenshot: http://ivan.sourceforge.net/beta/gc5.png The source is available in CVS. You can now add custom images to any level in the script, by setting EnterImage = <filename>; in the level's script. So you can make images to your alien mod, too. What's your real name blob so we can credit you in the AUTHORS file, in the additional graphics section? Other special levels could have enter images, too. If you blob or someone else are interested in drawing some of them, here's a list of some pics I thought appropriate: New Attnam - Richel Decos or a banana grower, perhaps? UT3 - genetrix vesana UT4 - Lobh-Se the spider queen (I'm going to add it there, or perhaps to UT5) Attnam - Petrus or some other Attnamese character GC6 - here we could probably use Kahvi's necromancer GC7 - a mystic dark frog GC8 - Ivan and/or Vladimir GC9 - Elpuri GC13 - Oree If you draw a picture and like us to use it and we accept it, it will be distributed as part of IVAN under the GNU general public license. You will be credited in the AUTHORS file.

Great. That looks nice :) And thanks, I do plan to make a picture for the alien mod boss. If you want to put me in the credits you can put this : " frederic Tarabout ( aka blob )" i'd like to keep the blob somewhere ;) its with that, that i sign everything but administrative shit. And Thank you for this honor holy :) I ascended to semi god hood as a an additional develloper !

Ew. Here's danny. I hate him. He killed my favorite character. I'm going to make his scimitar a bit longer. I also forgot to give him a cloak. Think i should add him ?

Very nice, blob. But remember how Golgor has a pretty extensive set of jewely weapons and armor? a full ruby helmet +3 a sapphire belt +3 a sapphire two-handed scimitar +4 2 ruby boots +3 Would you be able to make that huge sword glimmer blue and look deadly at the same time?

yup i looked at his equipment before drawing him. Just remember i draw the sprite not the equipment though. His helmet is black as his boots in the game, and his armor and cloak are red (even though he is wearing a mythril platemail ). The scimitar is made of ruby and saphire. The belt is not visible in my drawing. maybe ill make a mix. Ill see what looks nice.