New layout idea

[Kaz]

I was having a play today with GIMP and a large selection of abstract brushes I recently found

http://www.monarchygame.com/montheme/index.htm

What you guys think?

[owly]

Kinda spacey mid evil look nice...

[Kaz]

When you say spacey

so you mean 'woah that's spacey dude' or 'it looks more like a layout for a space game'

??

[Kaz]

Archangel didn't like the amount of space used by the header image

http://www.monarchygame.com/montheme/index2.htm

[bigSparky]

I like the first one a lot. Seems more mystical than "spacey" to me, what, with the runes and all. The stars don't make it spacey, but they do tie in the "Heavens" and "The Ascension". I also like the upper and lower fonts better, as well as the softer edge around where I assume text or links are to be. Seems to be a bit more transparent in that space as well. Only two things I didn't like about it. The red of Barnabas is hard to see against the black, and being an old Letite, well, thats moot anyway, LoL. The second is alright, just doesn't pack the same punch as the first.

[owly]

No I ment it looks cool a different kinda mid evil look I like it
I chose a poor choice of a word in spacey...

[Kaz]

Although the license for the arcane circles is really cheap. I've decided to come up with our own set.

I am currently building a series of about 200 runes for an ancient script, and I'll pick 25 to 30 for a common runic script.

I'll then build a custom runic circle for each of the in-game spells, and redo the design using the new monarchy specific arcane circles.

[Imo]

layout # 2 looks better..

[Kaz]

Imo, long time no see.

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Quick update on the Tonan runes.

I am making the runs based on the spoken sound of a sylable. Each subset containing 15 runes similar runes

Vowel runes include: AY, AIR, AW, A, AAH, EE, EH, IH, EYE, OH, OO, OI, OW, UH, YU

Each consonent subset contains: _AR, _AY, _EE, _A, _ER, _OW, _OO, _Y, A_, I_, E_, EE_, O_, OO_, U_ (replace the underscore with the consonent sound)

So far I'm about half way through.

http://monarchygame.com/images/tonan_runes_small1.png

[owly]

Sometimes I simply can't believe all the effort you put in this place kaz you should go to heaven...

[Kaz]

Sometimes I simply can't believe all the effort you put in this place kaz you should go to heaven...

hehe. If I went to heaven I'd never get this place finished lol

[owly]

Lol

[Nether]

It seems a tad bit busy

[Kaz]

I've used the background to make the evernight.com landing page look a little better. I'd completely forgotton it was not styled at all other than switching to a black bg with white text.

Still working on those runes

[Immigrant]

The runes look very promising (great work), and the arcane circle idea would project the 'right' feel IMHO for this 'world'. Fwiw though, the fonts for 'Monarchy' seems a tad rough around the edges and the font used for the gods seems at least to my eyes to be too close to the kind of script you'd expect to see written by a contemporary proverbial hockey mom... no exactly the look & feel of another time & place