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[Dutrius]

That reminds me. I've been making a draft for an RTD. It's still in the planning stages.

Spoiler: From the OP. (click to show/hide)

Hey! You! You there! Yes, you!

The Mage's Union is recruiting and you, yes you, that's right, you, may have what it takes to join our ranks!

You, yes you can join the Mage's Union today! Yes, you!
Details below. Terms and conditions apply.

- On a poster outside the local pub.

[RadtheCad]

Spoiler: Preparing for a forum game (click to show/hide)

You control an apprentice druid. You have a rather patchy notebook on spirits, rituals, and reagents.

Now go banish this demon. You have two hours before it attacks. Good luck.

Nice idea for a forum game, and a pretty nice looking notebook, too-  only recommendation I'd have if you were to make another one in future would be to make the text smaller and more crammed in, so it looks like the person writing was making maximum use of the paper provided- it would also help make the text spacing look less artificial.  Paper/vellum is usually worth its weight in gold in a medieval(-esque) setting, anyway, and a notebook would be pretty restricted in size by its nature...

There aren't enough games and things about alchemy/chemistry and plantlore.  Scraping together and intelligently combining things to kill your enemies with from the environment is a lot more interesting in terms of mechanics than the game/author just handing you a default, always works Killstabber no. 3001.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

where did you meet such a magnificent parrot

and how did you win their trust and friendship

I actually found a normal human, cut off his head, and spliced on a Parrot in it's place. I won the Man-Parrot's trust by providing him sustenance, and his friendship by telling him a horrible pun before fist-bumping him.

[Itnetlolor]

Took a crap-ton to motivate myself to do some art again; especially since I've had quite a lull of work, and a lack of funds to upkeep my morale. But besides my work issues (regarding sending applications out and communication-minded ("MUST KEEP CONTACT WITHIN 24 HOURS") clients being unresponsive as ever in a rather ironic twist (2 months waiting on a job with a deadline in less than a week, and still no word from them, for any of us dozens who applied to said job (at least 40-odd applicants, no interviews, no hires, for any of us dozens. I mean, what the hell?))), I've finally managed to get off my ass, and hire myself to do some engineering work on my ship for an hour or two.

My progress so far:
-Chassis is about 25% done
-Decided to build progressively, adding as I go, instead of sequentially (chassis, then piping/wiring, then equipment and hull portions, etc.).
   =Along with chassis frame, I'm also applying the skin of the ship as I move on to better guide my progress.
-Barrel for the beam cannon/railgun/coil-gun (whichever) is made.
   =Dao-Cannon, main unit, still needs to be built (fires both holy and unholy energy; as well as firing in Yin-Yang fashion yielding a nuclear effect on targets, eviscerating angels and demons alike as well).
   =Makes use of the beam cannon/railgun/coil-gun barrel, and dimensional prisms for the secondary fire.
   =Dao-Cannon's Secondary firing measure (homing energy projectiles/beams) still needs to be established and hooked up as well.
-Primary (Lower) Bridge is more or less setup (needs much more work, but at least I got the pilot's seat installed)
   =Upper and lower accessways have been established. Now needs hallways installed, and associated rooms and Captain's Quarters.
-Fore Tuning-Fork chassis frame is in the works.
-4D-μ (4-Dimensional Manipulator Unit; to re-direct fire, or fuck with physics, or jump planets without traveling through space) has yet to be constructed, dimensionally split, and then mounted onto the ship (just to fuck with engineers, especially when reverse-engineering the technology, or to figure out how a split wheel still spins completely).

We've got a hell of a distance to go on this megaproject, but I at least made some progress. I've been regarding my old 3d model for reference, especially for scaling things properly, relative to one another (like resizing the gun barrel, and ensuring the dimensions of the bridge were right).

Spoiler: And now, the pictures. They should be somewhat self-explanatory: (click to show/hide)

...And yes, that's a nearby village in view there.






Pilot's seat, as well as a spotter position. The switch there is a teleporter that sends me back to the shortcut hub to better-navigate the construction site.









One can only fit so much of the wingspan in this picture, before the fog kicks in.

EDIT:
Unlike many other ships I've seen built in Minecraft, this sucker's not going to be hollow. I'm putting in as much effort in this as I did with Bloodfist; engineering it to be as convincingly built as possible (pulling as much BS-engineering as I can get away with, using command blocks and the like as possible). Minus the 300+ casualties. Sure, I could build this in Space Engineers instead, and have something we can actually fly (let's say the 4D-μ generates the atmosphere (siphoning other sources, while generating a Klein-containment field (Basically, the ship uses a Klein bottle to keep itself in good form atmospherically; especially in rather hostile environments, ranging from toxic environments to the vacuum of space or de/re-synching within solid matter (like hiding literally under ground, yet not within a cave system. I mean it; IN the ground, sharing the same space as solid matter, sans displacement.)) and gravity manipulation (this is an airship, after all, not a spaceship; although there has been a recent 'Planets Update')), but I don't feel like learning a whole new game's system, plus, my computer's not exactly up-to-date for that kind of game, even on basic/crap settings. I'm sticking with what I know.

EDIT EDIT:
Some story based on the ship: Kudos to the Excalibur's 4D-μ, extra-dimensional beings had to hit the crew of the ship with some new combat laws, exclusive to anyone that has a lucid/conscious understanding of extra-dimensional physics (forget the math and science, and use your imagination), and application, or shall I be more precise and say blatant abuse, of them. And for the Mark-II's (AKA-Quis ut Deus; named after St. Michael's sword) 7D-μ, which is a whole 'nother can of worms there; involving elder gods of all kinds of religions and the like having some issues with the crew and regulate even stricter rules involving Infinite (Im)Probability and (Un)Reality Manipulations and Chronos--Kairos Temporality Manipulations, and abusing those laws for recreational purposes (forget abusing infinite probability for wars and the like; have a bunch of highly imaginative and rather child-like/childish peaceful screwballs like myself and the crew of the Excalibur (Mk. II) at the helm of something that ultimately powerful, and we can give anything/everything/nothing a massive headache. I can't help but to play the Freakazoid theme whenever I think of this. And I guess, regarding an AI controlling such a device: Something, something, next thing the crew knows, their personal-AI/crew member becomes a literal Deus Ex Machina 'Virtual God(dess)' (and (part of) the ship itself), and the pantheon of gods (and flying spaghetti monsters) now have a new pain-in-the-ass/smartass joining their ranks. Remember kids, be careful when you uplink your AIs to extra-dimensional (magical) machines. And for the story, at least the crew didn't have to worry about the AI going SHODAN/Skynet on them; I mean, what's the point when you can navigate infinite probability/reality?

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I know I should probably get back to making pixel art, but Fallout 4 and trying to make game concepts is a bit time-consuming

But I at least got started on a concept I suppose:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This idea revolves around a gameplay core of scavenging supplies to build up a post apocalyptic settlement. Overseeing this town will require a great deal of attention, as there will be quite a few decisions to make, which will determine where you end up within the karmic scale of the world.
To build your settlement up, you will need to send out scavengers into the irradiated landscape. This will be done via map and dialogue sections, at least in the beginning. Your scavengers will be tested by many things out in the wastes, morality-wise, and enemy-wise, they will be put through the wringer. But no tough fight or choice will go completely unrewarded. Though their loyalty towards you may start to deteriorate as you make harsher decisions.
Building up a settlement requires many different supplies, some found commonly, others are more exotic, such as a working generator, or medicine. Your facilities can run with only one special ingredient, only at a lower efficiency, though. Upgrading a structure, or other such thing, requires even more materials, and some more exotic ones, too, upgrades allow much higher productivity. Thus not spending more materials on a new structure, only to have it run at a lower efficiency than an upgrade on the same building would bring.
Choices will most definitely show themselves to you at some point in time, and they are very tough ones. As you will be forced to choose between several things at once, sometimes with a timer forced upon you. They all reward you with something, though some are a bit more rash or unreasonable than others. These appear while scavenging too, you command your scavenger to make the decision. Some may make your comrade a bit disloyal, but fear not, you can win back trust by making better choices in the future.
Settlement creation is based on the original Simcity, with a few more wrinkles from FTL: Faster Than Light. Raiders, mutants, or any other number of awful beings will attack your base, and you are required to defend it, scavengers will not interupt you while this happens, as they will basically pause themselves whilst battle commences. To fend them off, you will need quite a bit of firepower, thankfully, you can make firearms, melee weapons, and artillary yourself, or find legendary weapons among dead raiders, and use them to your advantage.
Sometimes scavenging will net you legendary components to use while building your settlement, these will sometimes increase morale, give you better looting chances, or increase a buildings effects. They are randomized when found in a building, but traders will sometimes have them, and will sell them to you at a very high cost, it is usually worth the price though.
Speaking of traders, you will soon meet them on your journey, they have a large assortment of parts, components, and other useful items. You must have some items to do this. Traders from nearby settlements require specific components or other items. Each settlement's economy revolves around three different items, usually a high value item like ammo, medicine or water, the second and third are components. The last two are basically optional trading materials, and can change depending on what the town requires to be built at the time.
If you want to gain a town's trust, you must establish a mutual interest in trading items, then help them out in some way (i.e Clear out an area, hunt down a notorious raider, or other job.) this will net you an ally and trade route, two very invaluable things in a post apocalyptic land.
Once you ally with a faction, or settlement. They can send you on tougher missions that require more attention than the others they sent you on. These range from discovering more of the landscape, or finding lost artifacts, that you each get a part of.

It is TOTALLY unrefined, as I was basically jotting down ideas, but I wanted to know if this seems like a pretty good concept thus far, even without being refined.

P.S: The reason why it isn't really broken up into paragraphs is because I copy+pasted it from Wordpad, so there's that. And yes the idea is HEAVILY inspired by Fallout.

[Spehss _]

Man, I dunno why, but I am on a roll with this dumb edgy bullshit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On one hand, I'm glad that I'm actually creating things for a change instead of just having high-concept ideas that my skills can't realize. On the other hand, this is really obvious high school-tier symbolism.

I chuckled heartily in a self-deprecating manner. Nice.

[Noyemi K]

Not a picture but music this time!

I hope it's to your taste, friends! 

[KillerHP]

I still wonder why there is an illuminati in the back of the one dollar.

[Jopax]

Something quick whipped up based on a sketch I did a while ago, should probably do it properly eventually.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Lord_lemonpie]

Something quick whipped up based on a sketch I did a while ago, should probably do it properly eventually.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wow, I really like the vibe of this! Did you base it on something or did you just draw it?

[Jopax]

I think it started out as a drunk sketch of a landscape and a giant cube, then I made a bigger sober sketch of it with multiple cubes. Had several ideas for the painted piece and this one came out. Should've probably used reference for the landscape but I just finished a piece I'd been noodling on for months and my head was kinda empty from lack of sleep :I

[GiglameshDespair]

His enemies hide in metal boxes.
The cowards, the fools.

Nice picture, Jopax.

[acetech09]

acetech09 is taken by a fey mood!

acetech09 has claimed a welding station!

Spoiler: acetech09 has created a +Single Port Exhaust Manifold+ (click to show/hide)

Whenever I feel down, I'll just seclude myself into the shop and pop out something I'm proud of. I've been needing a new manifold for a while.

[NJW2000]

Encircled with bands of steel?

More seriously, what is that thing? And what are you going to name it?

[acetech09]

Encircled with bands of steel?

More seriously, what is that thing? And what are you going to name it?

It's a automotive engine component. It's the beginning of the exhaust pipe that bolts to the engine. The original one has nearly rusted away at this point.

I paused for about 30 seconds when writing the spoiler, knowing I should name it but I ended up just going nameless.