Art on the Companion Cover

[Shadekeep]

I agree, I'm digging the Octopus Necromancer art!

As a biologist I'm now thinking about speciation, and whether there are different species of Land Octopi. For example, a natural poisonous one similar to our Earth's blue-ringed octopus would make for an interesting assassin character. And what is there are other intelligent land cephalopods, like a giant Architeuthis squid? ^_^

[zot]

Originally Posted by Shadekeep

I agree, I'm digging the Octopus Necromancer art!

As a biologist I'm now thinking about speciation, and whether there are different species of Land Octopi. For example, a natural poisonous one similar to our Earth's blue-ringed octopus would make for an interesting assassin character. And what is there are other intelligent land cephalopods, like a giant Architeuthis squid? ^_^

Octopus splat book!

[Buzzardo]

Originally Posted by Shadekeep

I agree, I'm digging the Octopus Necromancer art!

As a biologist I'm now thinking about speciation, and whether there are different species of Land Octopi. For example, a natural poisonous one similar to our Earth's blue-ringed octopus would make for an interesting assassin character. And what is there are other intelligent land cephalopods, like a giant Architeuthis squid? ^_^

Great ideas. :)

[larsdangly]

Let the diversity of hyper intelligent cephalopods match the wonders of the Slime phylogenetic tree!

[Shadekeep]

Originally Posted by larsdangly

Let the diversity of hyper intelligent cephalopods match the wonders of the Slime phylogenetic tree!

Challenge accepted! ^_^

[JLV]

Originally Posted by philreed

That was intentional. It is not the only piece of TFT art we have posted that has a connection to earlier SJGames works. And it is unlikely to be the last; we're having fun over here.

Easter eggs? LOL!

[philreed]

Originally Posted by JLV

Easter eggs? LOL!

I'm still kinda surprised that I haven't seen an "aha!" post from someone. I guess we grabbed some real deep cuts. I went back and checked, and we definitely got the art right. The connection just hasn't been made by anyone (that I've noticed).

[JLV]

Well, in my personal defense, it's been about twenty years since I last saw many of the covers for the old games (lost my entire collection, except for one or two small things, back then). Though if memory serves, the DT 2 cover smacks more than a little of the original "contest art" for Kung Fu 2100...

But the "Thorz wants you" art doesn't ring any bells for me at this point...so it's probably been too long! ;-)

[philreed]

Originally Posted by JLV

Well, in my personal defense, it's been about twenty years since I last saw many of the covers for the old games (lost my entire collection, except for one or two small things, back then). Though if memory serves, the DT 2 cover smacks more than a little of the original "contest art" for Kung Fu 2100...

But the "Thorz wants you" art doesn't ring any bells for me at this point...so it's probably been too long! ;-)

Oh, I'm not talking about a cover homage. I am talking _real_ subtle . . .

We will keep having fun with the project.

[JLV]

Oh my... More research required!!! ;-)