Charles has been spending a lot of time watching me play Homeworld2. Not that I want to play so much, but Charles is very insistent and who am I to deny my child? Charles will even go and ask Mom “Can Daddy play a game for me?”. Just one of those sacrifices…
What I have noticed is that Charles’ Lego™ construction has been influenced by the game, and not just the nomenclature. His visual style seems different. I have an outrageous number of pictures below, click if you’re as deeply fascinated as I am.
This section consists of pairs of pictures — one by Charles, one from the game. I have tried to select game pictures to illustrate the kind of thing Charles was trying to capture.
In terms of Legos™, I noticed that Charles’ style has changed to incorporate open areas —
Mothership
It’s even more apparent in his “destroyer” —
I think this was inspired by the battleship Sajuuk, which Charles was obsessed with for a while because it had the biggest big gun in the game.
Charles’ own ships now have even bigger guns that can fire any direction, so Sajuuk isn’t such hot stuff anymore.
The Vaygr Destroyer has been Charles’ primary fixation lately. Corwin is playing through and has captured one, a fact Charles finds very important.
Charles gathered up a bunch of sticks in roughly that shape, put rubber bands around them to hold it together, and called it his “destroyer”. The other night he built a roughly rectangular Lego™ construct and then held a flashlight against it to make a destroyer, giving it the same sort of asymmetry the Vaygr ship has (Charles also claimed it had “one billion ninety nine” missiles).
I printed a few screen shots for Charles to take in for Show&Tell. He says the other kids liked them, so it was a good day for Charles.