I’ve been working on the graphics a bit with Crescendo, but before you get your hopes up that the graphics are looking better than just plain colored rectangles, let me disillusion you with this screenshot from the game:

What are those white looking things all bunched up together, you might ask? Well, of course, I would answer, those are the squirrels who are gathering the (currently invisible) acorns and planting them in the green earth, which they have (invisibly) transformed from the brown ground terrain so that the ground would be fertile.

Why doesn’t the squirrel look like a squirrel, you cleverly point out. Well, that’s because I downloaded some freeware images from a website, and though the website’s artist had created images of cows, deer, rats, bats, wolves, and other creatures, he didn’t create any squirrels. So I have used one of his chicken images to show the squirrels.

The squirrel/chicken heading in the northeast direction by itself is an attack squirrel who has spotted the enemy, whose terrain are represented by the grey and (slightly darker) grey tiles.

I think that this game is going to be great for children because they get to use lots of imagination for just about every aspect of it.