Death of a Clacksman

[tealin]

At last – I have finally finished timing out the cleaned-up board for the One Month Prologue to Going Postal.

If you have the Flash Player (you probably do), and have a high-speed connection or a lot of patience (it's 2.3MB), click to see! There aren't any sound effects yet – the one important one is indicated by the word "clink!" which appears onscreen for a couple frames, where someday there will actually be a clink. If you want to watch it again once it's faded to black, and you're on a PC, right-click on it and select "play."

Comments are appreciated. Including negative ones. Especially negative ones, if they're a useful type of negative.

(Um... one thing I've already noticed... the pullout on the tower towards the end [sc. 14] should be more in perspective.)

Comments

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

. . .

When the black screen came up, I actually stopped to gape. Seriously. Chills went up my spine.

That was bloody amazing.

(My only question is: would he really be that big against the shutter/panels? Just out of curiousity; not a nitpick or anything.)

WOW.

Logistics

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well... I looked at it like this: the shutters have to be big to be seen from eight miles away. Make them too big, however, and they'll be too heavy and/or catch the wind too much (even if they were slatted), which would put a lot of strain on the tower, even if it was built like a tree. So I just made them a size that meant his feet could touch the bottom and his hand could be on a rail, with one rail in between.

This is all subject to change if anyone brings to my attention an officially sanctioned clacks tower design... but so far that seems unlikely to happen.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You know what, I've been thinking about it, and you're right – the shutter array should be a bit bigger. Can't make it too much bigger or it'll mess up some of the staging, but ... thanks!

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

Er.

Haha, of course! It's what I meant to do all along! :D *beams*

(Seriously though, I'm glad that I could . . . um . . . contribute by asking a question. xD; )