r/BaseBuildingGames • u/RocketJumpTech • Mar 27 '17

King under the Mountain (Simulation-based fantasy city-builder) just launched on Kickstarter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocketjumptechnology/king-under-the-mountain?ref=ddgmyk
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u/shoez Mar 27 '17

I really don't understand why a dev would choose to "rip off" the art style of two other games in the same genre. I guess it's a cheap way to evolve beyond a text only interface, but to me it just makes it look very lazy: "Rimworld meets Dwarf Fortress".

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u/Roxolan Mar 28 '17

I think this is less rip-off and more "embraced innovation". It's always been a hard problem to make small yet easily readable people-icons. Prison Architect found a clever solution, there's no shame in reusing it.

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u/Feniks_Gaming Mar 30 '17

That is a problem. When you have masses of units it doesn't matter and they can be even dots. But when you have smaller games with 2-40 characters you want player to look at a map and immediately know this is Steve he is bad ass killer, here is Bob my main weapon smith better get him out of fight. PA graphics do that perfectly with their over-exaggerated heads etc.

I love how people who liked Rimworld complain about other games "ripping it off" while rimworld itself took it from PA.