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Some self indulgent Onus gifs!

Yknow, without knowing who you are, this doesn't exactly make any sense.

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We’re working on a video game! It’s called DT2, and it’s a visual novel that takes place after the business of averting the apocalypse. One of the questions it demanded we answer is: what kind of ship would you sail into the underworld?

For Io, our protagonist, it's the Oneiric, a gift they received many years ago from a king they instated. It's a luxury ship, a symbol of gratitude and flagrant wealth. It's also the home base of the crew, where they player departs and returns, and which weathers the journey alongside them. This one constant is very important! So what does it look like?

I did a fair amount of exploration with tall ships and the traditional Greek square sheeted sailboats, but the ones that resonated the most were triangular lateen sails akin to Indian dhows or Egyptian fellucas. The Styx is a river of a sort, after all, and the trip is ostensibly a victory lap with a small crew, so something between a river boat and a voyager isn’t the most unreasonable choice.

It started to come together with the sketch below. I told Evan sometimes twelve good lines is all you need:

The ship itself makes...well, let's be generous and say, a variable amount of sense. I'm not really worried about it as a real place in the interior; it's a goofy enough shape already, very broad-shouldered and alternately sitting very low in the water and hanging very high above it. It would probably be a very slow and annoying boat to steer! It's primarily driven by the rule of cool. I like the way this wheel mechanism works, so it takes up the whole of the top deck. I want the back of the boat to have a captain's quarters like a tallship, and I want the floors below deck to have pretty high ceilings. This thing probably looks like an iceberg under the surface! At least it's probably pretty stable.

It was the primary thing I illustrated in the prototype we sent to Indiecade, for both interiors and exteriors, and one of the first assets I designed over the course of the project.

Right now, in the uneasy limbo between submission and acceptance (c'mon Indiecade! be cool!) the Oneiric has been my testing ground for styles. All of that is still cooking, so keep an eye out for that in future updates.

THIS IS SO CUTE OMG