11/9/2022 0 Comments Shotbot change background color![]() Who knows why these dark creatures do what they do?!? Reaper Bot’s original look had it holding a levitating dismembered Fatal Bot, which it swapped for a scythe, then got the Fatal Bot back and stuck it on its face. But as the cards solidified into their functions, it just wasn’t appropriate. oh how I wanted to call a card Smite Bot. Even the bullet kept changing, so it’s more like a pea-shooter now than whatever else it was originally. The Shot character evolved slightly, from being a one-eyed fire hydrant, to a wide-eyed tiny thing with eye studs, before reaching its final form. Shot Bot, along with Core and Bash made up the mighty trio that served the game through much of its transition as it settled into the final printed form of Stak Bots. And it actually has what the card does written on it, rather than just some scribbles!! (Writing out lots of cards for prototyping can be tedious!) For the keen eyed, the text of Bash Bot has been re-written many, many times to make it as concise and clear as possible (which is still a garbled mess), so the final card above isn’t actually the final card. Leg Bot… I really don’t know what to say about this one! Out of necessity in the next incarnation of the game it changed into Stomp Bot and gained a smashing pair of boots in the process.Īs you can see from the second picture, the sidebar used to be at the bottom (from when the game played like Stak UP, the impending variation in the upcoming Red Set), then it was on the right hand side (from when I neglected to consider that unlike myself, most people are right-handed), then finally it found its way to the left.īash Bot hasn’t really changed all that much, apart from looking slightly more menacing rather than just… confused. ![]() There was a whole faction of robots that sat within a larger framework of other cards and Bladed Surveyor was the one that most closely resembled the Bots of today.Ĭore Bot (or Basic Bot as it used to be known) is about as simple as it gets visually, but even this design has changed a lot, just in lots of tiny little ways! Then another completely different game, then another, etc etc. Long before Stak Bots had anything to do with stacks of Bots it was a completely different game. Let’s kick things off with that most core of Bots… Bladed Surveyor?!? As tedious as this process is, there has been one odd little bonus I’ve found lots of the original Stak Bots cards from the game’s 2 year development process leading up to the first print, so I thought I’d share a little of the background the game and the Bots themselves.įor those of you who snigger at the simplistic artwork, prepare to guffaw, for what you are about to see is what came before that which you mock… ![]() I have recently moved house and been forced to go through boxes and boxes of my old tat, in order to try and downsize a bit. ![]()
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