{"id":192,"date":"2014-10-04T00:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T05:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=192"},"modified":"2014-09-28T04:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T09:53:40","slug":"architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shopping Street Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you look at the background art for Aurora\u2019s Nightmare, you\u2019ll notice that the buildings have an old European style to them.\u00a0 Specifically, the world of Lucerna was inspired by high gothic, the style used in iconic buildings such as the Notre Dam Cathedral.\u00a0 Key features include arched ceilings, flying buttresses, and rose windows.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always loved the high gothic and have dreamed of what it would look like to design a whole city that way (rather than just a couple of buildings).\u00a0 It has been done before in various games and comics, but with a darker twist (these days, high gothic seems to be mostly associated with vampires, haunted castles, and the like).\u00a0 Aurora\u2019s Nightmare, on the other hand, offers a glimpse into a world where the style is used as it was originally intended, for beauty and inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Clock Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is, however, one common feature of high gothic buildings that you won\u2019t see in Aurora\u2019s Nightmare.\u00a0 For those of you who haven\u2019t studied European architecture, I\u2019m referring to gargoyles.\u00a0 Their omission isn\u2019t a mistake, such things don\u2019t exist on Lucerna for reasons which will become clear over the course of the game.\u00a0 In fact, the whole architecture style has deep ties to the story, but that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say on the subject for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you look at the background art for Aurora\u2019s Nightmare, you\u2019ll notice that the buildings have an old European style to them.\u00a0 Specifically, the world of Lucerna was inspired by high gothic, the style used in iconic buildings such as the Notre Dam Cathedral.\u00a0 Key features include arched ceilings, flying buttresses, and rose windows.\u00a0 I\u2019ve … Continue reading Architecture<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}