The core of the game looks really good. I think you just need to have more stuff going on such as oncoming monsters/missiles and more height variation.
Die, monster! I was originally aiming for around 1000 tris - he's currently sitting at about 1200, before props and optimization. We'll see where it ends up...
That's what I was thinking! Those dwarves + dwarf fortress would be awesome! Hard to pick a favourite from that bunch but definitely great variety there. Let's see some monsters :)
to: Tea Monster it's a combination of baked lighting/AO and painting, won't be using normal or height map bump techniques for the project though so I really need to get better at painting.