One of the really cool things about dying in Starbound is the respawn animations that each race gets. It's pretty neat watching your character get rebuilt/cloned/hatched. Dying itself, as far as I've noticed, is very simple for each race though. Puff of smoke and you're dead. What if, instead, there was a special death effect for each race? None would be graphic, bloody, or anything like that. Examples: Avian- puff of feathers Glitch- Explosion, nuts and bolts scatter Floran- scattering leaves, single flower fluttering down Apex- Fur puff and a banana Novakid- flash of light, corresponds to the color of your character Dunno how Human/Hylotl would work.
Fun. I like it. Human would just be the standard puff of smoke, Hylotl would explode into bubbles. Obviously!
Would Hylotl fishman-ness be enough to justify bubbles, though? It's not like they are made of water. Unless they have water inside their bodies that they use to breath outside of bodies of water. Something like cherry blossoms (as a symbol of oriental culture) was what I was leaning toward.
Hylotl are 70% salt water, which is just high enough to justify it. I like the direction you're going in, but I think fireworks would be better. That aside, if real death animations aren't planed I think they're all great ideas.
