We Got Us a Pub Train

Last week I spent a lot of time thinking about one key aspect of the first town: The pub. 

And so I messed around with trying to create buildings that felt right. Most of which where inspired by industrial soviet machinery (that's kinda my thing). I was even thinking an old factory might be cool, with conveyor belts as the bar counter. But nothing felt right. Nothing captured for me that feeling I had in games when stumbling through an RPG town and finding the pub--a place of debauchery and Adult Things--in my video game for kids. This is why my mental mind-map of a lot of RPG towns, revolved around the pub.

I wanted the pub in Shrew Road Trip RPG (title pending) to have a similar effect. So then I was like: what about a train car? And somehow that thought quickly turned into a sprite sheet, and then that sprite sheet was quickly colored and shaded and finally modeled. And so Pub Train was born. 

And in a lot of ways it's been a big inspiration on the layout of the town itself. It started with the idea of being able to go inside the train. What if there was a ladder inside that you could climb on to the roof? What if the roof led to a walkway? Where would that go?

And so I'm currently experimenting with adding lots of verticality to First Town. Hopefully I'll have more to share on that next week. In the meantime, check out this sick Train Pub!

Don't you just wanna climb aboard and down a pint?

Secret Arcane Lore Facts:
It may surprise you to learn that the Shrews don't actually realize Train Pub is a train. To them, it's just any other structure with four walls and a roof that happened to become a pub. Weird, right?