The Horksboffal

What is it?

The Horksboffal is an ancient swamp-dwelling creature.

It is neither malevolent or benevolent - it makes the choice in the moment.

It is extremely old, intelligent, and wise.

It respects honourable creatures, and will not tolerate abuse in its swamp.

It has abilities and powers that cannot be explained.

Why'd you make it?

It's an ancient deity - one of the first creatures born from the universe itself.  I made it as the initial quest-giver for an RPG game I tried to make, who gave the player magical powers.

It was in a swamp/forest, and watched the player at night, and when you investigate, you find it.

Since the game was sprite based and low poly, the creature was designed with this in mind - thus the pixelated look of the texture, and the low poly mesh.

I would like to finish the texture at some point, but that's probably not going to happen.

Why am I selling it?

1. Because my hard drives are full of stuff I've made that no one else ever sees.
2. I do love this creature, and I think the parts I did texture are beautifully done, if I do say so myself.
3. I'm struggling at the moment, somewhat due to current world events, so I'm hoping that some generous people like what they see and want it.

What do YOU get?

You get:

• a zip file (820 kB)
  • the blender file (1.5 MB)
  • the unfinished hand-painted texture (512 x 512 pixels, 524 kb png)
  • the farmer's texture
  • the satisfaction of supporting an indie developer

What's in the Blender File?

• Two Collections:
  • Horksboffal
    • The Horksboffal's body mesh (it is mirrored with an active Mirror modifier)
    • The Horksboffal's "dangly" mesh (bits of swamp hanging off the main body, also mirrored)
  • Metaball Mesh
    • The original metaball mesh reference I used to make the mesh
      
• Unwrapped UVs (just basic unwrap, nothing fancy, and since the mesh is mirrored, the texture has been unwrapped and painted with that in mind)
• The Farmer mesh as a bonus for scale

There isn't much of an armature - it only has a root and a jaw bone.  This mesh is essentially not rigged - but it shouldn't be too hard to rig up, it's quite large and the limbs are spread out.

Note that The Horksboffal's single texture image handles both UVs (ie. one texture for two meshes).  The farmer has his own texture file and UVs.

Legal Stuff

The License!

If you need clarification or have other questions, then ask in the comments below or message me!  I'm usually pretty responsive.

"The asset" refers to the name "Horksboffal", the creature design, the creature lore, imagery, the files, etc.

Once you have bought it you CAN:

• you can modify "the asset" as you see fit.
• you can use "the asset" in any digital (computer) games you like.
• if you use "the asset", then please let me and everyone know!

What you CANNOT:

• you cannot claim that "the asset" is your work.
• you cannot reproduce/distribute "the asset" (other than a team working on a game, for example).
• you cannot use "the asset" in any media that isn't a playable game on a digital device (other than advertising your use of "the asset", like screenshots or in-game videos, for example).
• you cannot use "the asset" for NFT or cryptotechnologies.

Crediting & Attribution

I have to be credited as the original author of "the asset", even if modified.  For example:

• "The Horksboffal - original author: Max Damage (https://maximumdamage.itch.io), Twitter (https://twitter.com/mygamedesigns), modified by ---"
• If you are limited in what you can put in as a credit/attribution, use my itch.io page as the credit: https://maximumdamage.itch.io

Copyright

I hate having to say this stuff, but it's important.  Basically I don't want to see any plushie or vinyl pops, etc, of "the asset" without me getting some sweet sweet royalties.

Copyright (C) 2022 Max Damage

• "The asset" (ie. The Horksboffal name, mesh, texture, creature design, lore, and the contents of the files, imagery, etc) is Copyright (C) 2022 Max Damage (that's me, the user identified as Max Damage on the URLs above and on this page on itch.io).

Note that I'm Australian, in Australia, using Australian copyright laws.