Okay I apologise for manythings first and foremost the Colors i was keeping them separate so that i could re-colorise individual sections after without worrying about bleed over and in the end paint decided that each of those colors was made up of MANY individual uniquely colored pixels and the flood fill wouldn't change the colors, but there it is. secondly I made this in about an hour in paint with a mouse so its not exactly finessed I would expect the final monster -in the unlikely event that i won- would be reworked significantly whilst retaining my basic theme. Alright the detail work and concept. This is the devour of worlds, STARBOUND being a space game i didn't want my monster to be limited to standing on a planet. SO the Devourer is a space entity he eats worlds for fuel and for fun he has a generally nasty disposition. Thus when he is summoned or a particular set of variables are satisfied he shows up at the world you are on and begins Tearing into the surface of a planet, digging with his pneumatic scoop and drilling into the surface of the world. I envisaged fighting him in Three ways. The first one would be dependent on some sort of space fight mechanic you attack him in space flying around him and shooting from a fighter of some description. The second requires that he land on the planet... depending on scale I would expect him to be HUGE... or REALLY HUGE your character might only come upto his ankle (while on foot)... The prepared player who has summoned him on purpose would have some sort of mechanical assists, artillery/missile or laser batteries in place to help damage him and would of course jump in their awesome MECH to help destroy the menace. The third i thought was a novel concept you discover the destroyer in space from your space station and decide he has to be destroyed before he ruins your favorite planet so you fly over to him in a shuttle and begin smashing your way into him digging through his internal workings as you would a planet looking for multiple specific sites inside him, that once they are all taken out will cause him to be destroyed. que. awesome explodey cut scene. As for his personal attacks I would think that if you started to bother him he would back hand you with his scoop, and if you annoyed him some more he might try to open a large hole in your mech/chest with his drill and if your REALLY REALLY bug him and he decides he wants you gone for good he would shoot you with his laser eyes. Still as for how you would annoy him destroying waves of his drones which are flying around him autonomously defending him would probably do the trick. So you would have him land you attack him, then a wave of scout drones, then you fight him for a bit, then a wave of attack drones, fight him some more, then Armored assault drones, then Finally you fight him till he goes BOOM and you save your planet from complete destruction.... OH didn't i mention that before... If you DON'T fight him when he comes to your planet he EATS until there is nothing left. Okay well that's it from me... Fingers crossed that my terrible art work has been made up for somewhat by the scope of my monster and what he represents. Thank you all. This has been quite a bit of fun to imagine... and i think even more fun to fight. May you all score, Multiplehits!
It, uh... it kinda reminds me of Unicron. It kinda reminds me a LOT of Unicron. And I think perhaps that's a bad thing? Like, Chucklefish could get sued over how much he looks like Unicron...
Hence my statement of the need to rework the look of him... I am no artist and Unicron was among a number of other world eaters were the inspiration for "The devourer of worlds" infact it was a comic that inspired the whole thing found here http://i.imgur.com/t46iF.jpg but remove the wings and horns and its just a GIANT digger, i LIKED the idea of it being Humaniod and I really liked the wings and horns so i put them on, Unfortunately you do that and you end up with something that looks alot like unicron. All that said its the CONCEPT of the creature that I am submitting the look of the thing I'm more than happy to ditch. I saw the comic imagined such a creature in Starbound and then thought about it some more... thinking about the planet eater from Star trek TOS, Unicron, Galactus and Finally the New startrek movie which had the giant drill platform in it... having thought of all these things I decided on the idea and i guess Unicron came through rather heavily.
I like the idea of something that can devour/destroy whole planets. Would be difficult and dangerous to work into the game, but it's a cool idea nonetheless.
Thank you Fungus... That's what i thought... I figure it would be a late game boss not something that has a chance to show up when your a lowbie just trying to get started
