BIGsheep
11-29-2007, 11:12 AM
Welcome back, avid reader. Let’s jump straight in.
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They may just appear to be smaller versions of their grownup selves but these Piñatas, as I’ve waxed lyrical about before, are some of the cutest things ever conceived. How on earth could anyone not want the Baby Hen you see up in the top left hand corner in their garden?
Rather than being shrunken adults, these little darlings were going to be custom made pinatas with tiny bodies, large heads and even larger eyes. I also believe, if my sources are true, that they were to be a slightly more pastel shade of their adult colours, too.
This slide also reveals a few of our early attempts of naming. Note the baby “Padger” and “Vulpin”. I think you’ll agree that we’ve moved onto rather more catchy tags since then.
Central, as if baby sitting, is Toco, the long lost pet of Dedos/Leafos. This bird would sit on her shoulder and intermittendly fly outside the garden to retrieve seeds.
There have been many ideas of how best to deliver seeds to the players. Before Toco, any visiting birds would fly into the garden with a seed in their beak and you would have to tap them to release the seed. This, however, relied on your garden being friendly to birds and so a more consistent source in the form of Toco came along.
Unfortunately, Toco him/herself was eventually put to one side aswell with the advent of Seedos. This is what Leafos claims, anyway, but you know what she’s like with the truth.
Now, let us step back from the garden for a moment.
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Not everything created has been done for in-game purposes. Despite art being one of the first things that is locked down during the run up to release, there is still an awful lot of work needs to be done right up to and beyond the shipping date because of all the promotional and comercial material associated with the product. What you see above is not just the most horrendously organised slide in my deck but a sample of these items.
Moving from left to right, at the top you can see a Paulie Pretztail costume design, first used at the Santa Monica Piñata party that was held roughly a year ago this weekend, and below that one of the early designs for the Viva Piñata faceplate.
Pushing onwards we find another Santa Monica Piñata in the huge form of a 10 metre tall Horstachio and cowering in its shadow is an early toy prototype of a Cocoadile. Beneath those pair are three alternate designs for the Viva Piñata disc, each taking its inspiration from a specific Piñata.
Finally, on the right, we have the original concept for the Limited Edition game case, a prototype Fizzlybear Piñata piñata and one of the many colouring in sheets that were handed out to children at the launch party.
And so, as you digest all that, I’m off to prepare for tomorrow’s final set of slides.
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They may just appear to be smaller versions of their grownup selves but these Piñatas, as I’ve waxed lyrical about before, are some of the cutest things ever conceived. How on earth could anyone not want the Baby Hen you see up in the top left hand corner in their garden?
Rather than being shrunken adults, these little darlings were going to be custom made pinatas with tiny bodies, large heads and even larger eyes. I also believe, if my sources are true, that they were to be a slightly more pastel shade of their adult colours, too.
This slide also reveals a few of our early attempts of naming. Note the baby “Padger” and “Vulpin”. I think you’ll agree that we’ve moved onto rather more catchy tags since then.
Central, as if baby sitting, is Toco, the long lost pet of Dedos/Leafos. This bird would sit on her shoulder and intermittendly fly outside the garden to retrieve seeds.
There have been many ideas of how best to deliver seeds to the players. Before Toco, any visiting birds would fly into the garden with a seed in their beak and you would have to tap them to release the seed. This, however, relied on your garden being friendly to birds and so a more consistent source in the form of Toco came along.
Unfortunately, Toco him/herself was eventually put to one side aswell with the advent of Seedos. This is what Leafos claims, anyway, but you know what she’s like with the truth.
Now, let us step back from the garden for a moment.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2073232329_80350e3164_d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2073232329&context=photostream&size=l)
Not everything created has been done for in-game purposes. Despite art being one of the first things that is locked down during the run up to release, there is still an awful lot of work needs to be done right up to and beyond the shipping date because of all the promotional and comercial material associated with the product. What you see above is not just the most horrendously organised slide in my deck but a sample of these items.
Moving from left to right, at the top you can see a Paulie Pretztail costume design, first used at the Santa Monica Piñata party that was held roughly a year ago this weekend, and below that one of the early designs for the Viva Piñata faceplate.
Pushing onwards we find another Santa Monica Piñata in the huge form of a 10 metre tall Horstachio and cowering in its shadow is an early toy prototype of a Cocoadile. Beneath those pair are three alternate designs for the Viva Piñata disc, each taking its inspiration from a specific Piñata.
Finally, on the right, we have the original concept for the Limited Edition game case, a prototype Fizzlybear Piñata piñata and one of the many colouring in sheets that were handed out to children at the launch party.
And so, as you digest all that, I’m off to prepare for tomorrow’s final set of slides.
Prev: Day 3 (http://pinataisland.info/forum/showthread.php?p=108496#post108496)
Next: Day 5 (http://pinataisland.info/forum/showthread.php?p=109074#post109074)