[syn9]

well, i got tired of the lack of memory and speed problems i was having with my 3d engines... they were cool, but i just couldnt pull off more than 1000 vis polies with skeletal animation and dynamic lighting rendered per frame, at a decent fps... so i trashed it... after a long hiatus and quitting my job, i started painting and decided to try pixeling a scene like a painting... hence



thats the original with a lil bit of photoshop filtering

and decided to start up my old vampira game and remake it with environments like this

here are some current shots, inspired by jocke the beast's comment on them looking like alone in the dark (thanks jocke)






currently, i'm trying to find someone who can do the sprite work for the game, as well as eventually someone to do a GBA port

[XMark]

Drop me an e-mail if you'll be wantin' some musicality :)
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[Adam]

classy
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[Jocke The Beast]

Man, you're talented! Screenies looks super :) How long into engine-development are u?
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[syn9]

thanks,

Jocke: walk around, clipping, transperancy, basic lighting effects, map jumping

not incredibly far, just doing concept scenes for now until the story is more hammered out

im prolly going to spend the evening ripping SOM sprites and making a basic SOM style fighting system
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[Sirocco]

Three words: I'd play that.

[valderman]

Looks really moody...I love that!
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[Ninkazu]

Looks creepy, I hope you can make that into a > Res. Evil game :P

[syn9]

GO SOM GUY GO!!!

[js71]

Funky perspecticeizingnesstypestuff there.
That dude's like... trippin'.

[UscGradEray]

The scenes are amazing! They all look really great.

I'm no artist, but I did notice something that could cause a small problem. You use perspective in the hallways, so the far end appears smaller than the near end. That's usually good (it's more realistic), but it makes a sprite-based game more difficult. If your scenes have perspective, you'll need to scale the sprites based on their vertical position; otherwise they will appear to grow as they move toward the back. I suppose you could use that distortion; I think Black Cauldron did exactly that, with mazes that got smaller and more difficult to navigate as the character got farther from the camera.

Ok, now I'm done giving advice on a subject I know nothing about. I should learn to do this less often.
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[syn9]

thanks, i was thinking about it, will prolly do that if the fps isnt really hit

[Xegnma]

Sweet...Question though. If you're going to use SOM style fighting how many monsters do you plan to have? When you look at games like SOM, monster sprites tend to have a lot of frames of animation, and if you intend to make them interesting they ought to have good AI as well. Can you give us any insight on how you intend to approach this? (I'm doing something along similar lines in terms of the combat engine, trying to find ways to make my enemies interesting, Stephen Wolfram's articles on State machines might be of some help.)

[Jocke The Beast]

Sounds interesting. This one I shall have my eyes upon...
Good luck!
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[syn9]

xegnma: well, for now, i have a 320x200 pcx that holds the fighting anims, and walking anims for the pcs, as far as bot ai, havent gotten that far, and this will be the first time ive actually programmed bot ai, so i'll be happy with just getting them to attack >) but, i'm sure that especially for the boss' there will need to be some kind of scripting system for their attack styles