Radium, rendered 3D models is probably the way we're going to go with it anyway, so that's good.

The characters will be mechs (similar to those in MechWarrior). Just do an images.google.com search for 'mech' if you need inspiration.

Anyway, I wouldn't bother too much with sprites right now, as there's still much work to be done before they can even be used.

Infinite Spaz, design help would be wonderful. I'll post later with the design details I've been working on.

NOBODY, this will be a good project for you to learn C++ on. All source will be publicly available once it is a bit more complete (i.e. clean =).

-Nag