First off, let’s start by saying that sometimes, when you’re working with people from all over the world, you can run into issues where there are miscommunications.  We had some issues with that regarding our first set of backgrounds:

If you’ll notice, a lot of these are pretty tall compared to the last one.  The plains were the only one from this set that we could really use, because the adventurers wouldn’t scale properly to these for the sake of the cards.  They’d work out great for a different genre of a game.  A point and click adventure game would look wonderful, for instance.

In any case, we had to go on tweaking things to make them work out in a similar style to the original Quantum Quest.

Here’s another, closer look at the plains.

Next up, we have a revamped beach.

After that, let’s check out the desert.

How about a castle interior?  That’s a longer one, so that we had more options to show for our adventurers.

After that, we have a crystal cave.

And my personal favorite from the bunch, the mines.

So, each of our adventurers gets one of those snazzy backgrounds to choose from going forward, in addition to the ones that we have from the first set.  We already have ideas for the second expansion, if we are lucky enough to produce it.

For now, that wraps us up with all the things we wanted to show off about Quantum Quest’s first expansion.  Keep your eye peeled here as we learn more about the game, and begin preparing for a launch sometime in the next year or so!

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Dungeon

Our macdaddy is the dungeon.  It’s where all the fun stuff is happening, and where you’ll see most of our characters.

Because this piece was so important, it was the only one that Sergei started off by hand.  I’ve got commend him for that.  That kind of attention to detail is part of what made the final piece look so great.

Once he put it into sprite form (effortlessly, I might add), it popped just about right away.

One more version was added for some adjustments, mostly to lighting, although some assets moved a little bit here and there.

Forest

Following the dungeon, we also had seven additional backgrounds commissioned to put our characters in.  First up was the forest.

Here we have a pretty harmless looking forest.  This one has a nice road that goes through it, so it’s perfect for traveling.  Down the line, if the first edition of Quantum Quest goes well, we’d love to make additional versions of landscapes to help breathe new life into the game.

Sergei also gave us an awesome version of the forest with a nice fog layer.  It definitely adds to the cards when you use this one!

Mountain

We wanted a rugged kind of landscape as well, so we chose something with a lot of mountains.

Sergei delivered this awesome background that we used a lot in our first set.  With so many different races involved, we knew we could put this kind of art to good use.

Savanna

This one is definitely one of my favorite ones from the whole set.  It’s not too often that you see a savanna in an RPG, and Sergei did an awesome job with it.  We use it a lot for our gnolls and rhinotaurs.

Snowy Forest

We don’t have too many alternate looks at everything yet, but Sergei did offer us a snowy version of a forest.

This came in handy with some of our anthropomorphic races (like the kaja and the kobolds).  I did some cool edits here and there where it looks like our characters are ankle deep in the snow… though there’s no prints behind them, so it was like they were just plopped down there. Oh well!

Swamp

The swamp was another one that Sergei took special care to get right, and it turned out awesome.

This is the only other one besides the dungeon where I saw things this early in the process.  I liked what I saw already at that point, and Sergei just crushed it in the final.

This may be my other favorite from the set.  I love the little flames in the water, and the little islands.  This wouldn’t work in a typical side scroller without some serious tweaks, but for Quantum Quest, it just worked out so well!

Town

Our final background is a little bit more domestic than the other ones.

We definitely want to see if we can get some more of these in the next big pack.  This type of background works really well for some of the goodly races, but not so much for characters like trolls and goblins.  As we move forward though, we’re going to see what other cool backgrounds we can get made.

That’s it for now, folks, but we’ll be back during our Kickstarter to do some focus pieces on individual cards we really really like.  We’ll see you soon!

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