#mining equipment

Oversized Equipment With a base set of equipment solved for Astronomics – demo on steam right now! – there were two things next on the checklist: thinking about colour design, and thinking about some of the equipment that didn't fit into the neat little categories of drilling/pumping/vaccuuming etc.

Firstup, we tackled some big ones: one of the things we wanted the player to get to work towards was processing raw materials -- and that meant big processing equipment that could intake entire containers of raw material and spit out something different. These were a really fun challenge to keep in the same design language as our smaller machines while pushing the scale.

This is one place where our safety-bar themed style really helped -- the ubiquitous bars were very useful as a shared unit of scale between the smaller and larger equipment - and in these early drawings they were a clear warning sign that I hadn't fully measured out the scale relationships: Here you can see the containers, when scaled down to a size where both could fit into that protected area on drawing 3, have safety bars about half or less as thick as the safety bars on the machine. Scale remained something we had to wrestle with and fine tune as we went, and we'll actually come back to the containers in a little bit. The other larger piece of equipment we needed was one that's central to the demo -- the crane! Here you can see a few of the different ideas we were exploring.

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“This thing is so tall, we had to step a good way away from it to get it all in the picture!”

- I wish horses could hull a wagon with your mining equipment in minecraft

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