What would you like to see in YOUR screenshots?

[eobet]

Most fan-sites have a "screenshot of the week", and some people like to make small "photo albums" from their games.

The current graphics on the official site are beta (just look at the garbled shadows in some screens, for example), but this thread is not about what we know about.

What I want you to post, is what you really would love to see in Children of the Nile, when it comes to making pretty screenshots! (Please be a bit realistic, so that the developers could actually use the ideas, if they wanted to.)

For example, let me start by giving you the thing I would like the most:

I would like to see larger textures which feel alive, or "lived-in". Like small pieces of a broken urn in the corner of some roof. A patch in the cloth that is the roof of a marketplace stall. Some hieroglyph grafitti on some corner of a wall. Footprints of various animals in small mudpatches. Stairs with the stones in the middle slightly worn away.

[EmperorJay]

I hope to see a dense city. Buildings really close to each other and empty spaces filled with a tree or a statue and the streets full of different people.

Trying to capture it in two words:

Density and Diversity :)

[Ovidius]

Density and Diversity

I agree. I would like to be able to plant trees and plants in my city, especially if they become very built up. Smoke from chimneys/kilns etc that you can see in some of the screenshots is also cool.

[eobet]

Mmm... nice... like custom gardens (instead of standard garden tiles). Imagine trees being small bushes in the beginning, then growing huge after a few years. You could take progressive timeline screenshots! :) (Just like Black & White, from Lionhead.)

[Bugsy]

For example, let me start by giving you the thing I would like the most:

I would like to see larger textures which feel alive, or "lived-in". Like small pieces of a broken urn in the corner of some roof. A patch in the cloth that is the roof of a marketplace stall. Some hieroglyph grafitti on some corner of a wall. Footprints of various animals in small mudpatches. Stairs with the stones in the middle slightly worn away.
I love your ideas as well, it would give it that realistic feeling. These small details are what really makes a game "the BEST" for me, so many times they are overlooked.

I would like to see in the screenshots different styles of dressing on the same person each day. With this game, you have the ability to zoom in and really watch the people working. Some of those, sure they wore the same thing all the time, the loincloth crowd. But nobles and merchants (especially the silk merchant, her own walking advertisement) I am sure did not! It could be the same style, just random colors or patterns for what they wore each day.

In Pharaoh, them wearing the same color did make it easier to distinguish who was who when walking down the street. But with this game, being able to zoom in on the people themselves, walk the streets with them, they should wear something different each day, IMO. :) Great question!

[Miut]

Interestingly the Sycamore was a holy tree - one at Karnak I think it was, was supposed to have the names of the Pharaohs written on it as part of the coronation rituals.. but I may be confusing a little fiction with actual facts here. ;)

[Bradius]

I agree. Everyone has some excellent comments. I think my suggestion seems kind of plain. I want to see inside the pyramids at the burial chamber as it is set up. Next is a view inside the carved out caves. And finially I would like to see a shot of the city from on top of a great pyramid.

Still, I really like the comments about seeing the small details.

[Azeem]

What would I like to see? Gardens! :D

[Kiya]

I agree what has been said already, inside tombs and pyramids when they are under construction (with workmen) and then finished.

When playing Pharaoh I sometimes wandered about the senet house and the game in there. Didn't really have a clue about the game itself. Now that I'm playing Egypt 1156 BC I read the tiny manual and it had the rules of the game of senet! I guess I'll be playing the game (with the computer). But it would be fun to see a screenshot of the inside of a senet house with lot of customers.