Elemental: Happy, Dancing Monsters

I'd go to that cabaret.

i dont want them to dance i want to kill

Lol!   Is that gonna be in the vannila game?

can you make them do synchronised dance routines? either way it's a funny post entertaining everyone waiting for the next build

Looks like they're trying to sneak up on someone!

Tactical Combat Skill. Dance of Death.

Tell me that they dance to celebrate the release of Beta 2, pleeeaaaaase ...  

Impressive, but can they do the macrana?

I had a dancing girlfriend once that rather resembles the one on the left....

Oh noes, you spent your day making this vid instead of getting Beta 2 ready for us...

This is serious business Frogboy, beta 2 needs to be released. :D 

pretty hilarious though! 

How cool would it be if that dance animation was kept in the game, and if there was a spell that caused enemies to start dancing, default spell or otherwise implementable.

Just imagine a dancing legion taking on a breakdancing dragon.

Quick question, can any of the editors included in the game handle unit animations?

i want that beta now ...you here me frogboy? now!

Well that was a pleasant diversion. But what I liked was that it gave us a look at some monsters.. 

 More like he has had beta ready for months and he is just enjoying himself as he watches us squelch, toss and turn every day that passes and beta is still not out...

On all seriousness it looks to me as if they are working on more assets(monster models). That is always a good thing... lots of assets for the game a big +. Just do not have them dance by default, I remember in AoW the first time I saw the dancing water spirit (forget what it was actually called) they were the first I wanted out of the map as they drove me nuts in tactical battles (they even could teleport and dance jeez what a creative way to taunt a player).

ya not to sound like a jerk, but we are all on pins and needles waiting for the beta, this wasnt the update i was waiting for today. Im like checking my email and this site every 30 minutes.

Well, at least we got to see a little bit of the "elemental", now I am looking forward to the "war" and the "magic"!!!

I'm already dancing around in anticipation of this game, glad to know it'll join me in my glee!

Oooo, will there be dance fighting like in the Erfworld comic

http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=/127.jpg

I think the center monster model looks really good. 

edit: on that note so does the golem. 

Okay.  That monster on the far end is not in step with the other two.  I guess you are going to have to throw the entire game away and start again from scratch.  The next time they have to be synchronized else wise they'll never make 'Dancing with the Stars'.  I am ashamed.

Serious note:  Man, those characters are looking cool.  I especially loved the one in the middle.  Keep up the good work. 

*edit  Didn't see Savagebananaman's post.  Agreed.  Looks like a cool golem to me too. 

A bit off topic but if you are working on monster models will you guys be scripting in the game engine any shape changing, self poly-morphing, shifting, etc (I hope there will be a feat or item that will allow for this as a player I really would hate to wait for modders to implement this. I want my sovereign to be a master shape-shifter *pulls out the coin purse and tries to bribe Brad and his team with some Elemental Essence.*

Well, here's hoping we get some kind of ritual dance magic in Elemental, if only so it can be the Dirty Dancing game I always dreamed of having.

But seriously.  Beta 2 needs to come out.  I kinda made a few bets and sacrificed a goat.

Earth elemental looking really cool.

I'm wondering about the modding tool, if we'll be able to just resize the models to create minor earth elementals or Greater versions of them... ok, that's my Inner DM Speaking... but can you?