Celestias Ferrum
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oh, for those interested I also made another animated intro for Caro's project Soul Raves: Nocture gospel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfsrkVjf7Vc
and to further expand my pseudo animations, I'm making a third one for SithLordd999, my awesome mapper and good friend as well as the other member of Chance :P
it's 55 seconds in already.
I'm also working on a fully functional card dual system, evented, which is making me pull my hair like crazy >_> (Since the theory and eventing skill is good enough, but I jsut have to reset settings like 1000 times for all the possiblities...) but CF will begin production soon as well, after a week or so I can finish the card system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfsrkVjf7Vc
and to further expand my pseudo animations, I'm making a third one for SithLordd999, my awesome mapper and good friend as well as the other member of Chance :P
it's 55 seconds in already.
I'm also working on a fully functional card dual system, evented, which is making me pull my hair like crazy >_> (Since the theory and eventing skill is good enough, but I jsut have to reset settings like 1000 times for all the possiblities...) but CF will begin production soon as well, after a week or so I can finish the card system.
dadevvtsvre
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Just a suggestion, try uploading the video to some place like Youtube so we don't have to download 23 megabytes just to watch a movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bE2rB-eGIEDadevster":3oov4503 said:
Maybe it was just me, but this seems to be a lot of flash and very little substance.
Pardon me if I'm channeling Despain here, but "did the latest crap magical girl adult anime puke all over your project?"
And how old are those girls, 12? That's just... wrong.
But, let's not make any hasty judgment... we'll have a better look once you release a proper demo.
Pardon me if I'm channeling Despain here, but "did the latest crap magical girl adult anime puke all over your project?"
And how old are those girls, 12? That's just... wrong.
But, let's not make any hasty judgment... we'll have a better look once you release a proper demo.
Kav":19fs1nvn said:
It's not supposed to be a joke game... why do you get that?
Doctor":19fs1nvn said:
yeah, I mean, the first post is taken down now and all, I havn't put out much flesh, I'm trying to, but eh... I've been going with hurrician troubles for the past week... (I live in louisiana, and had to evacuate)
anyways, I'm hoping to get more out on it, if you want pm me and I'll give you a link to the old chapter 1 release, I'm rather proud of it, but I still decided to scrap everything and restart to just head for a more... flashy direction, lol
If it seems as theres alot of just flash, it's really because I'm pushing it as a selling point, I'm not a genious story writer or anything, but I can event pretty dam well, and my old story feels pretty forced, or most people jsut told me it was to slow.
if anything the new story will be pretty cliched, but proven and worked, and I'll do my best to make it good, but I'mma just try to go more safe with it on that department, it'll be more focused on flashiness and gameplay.
Crystalgate
Member
I see no problem with a flashy intro, intros tend to be flashy anyway. However, I recall a situation where you put a lot of flash that felt out of place.
In an earlier demo (the first one?) you had at one point the option to research. This resulted into a segment where the main character recapped some history about how magicians first saved the humans, but then started to abuse their power. During the recap, a lot of images of skimpy girls appeared just like that. I have no idea who those skimpy girls are supposed to be and why images of them appeared during the history lesson. I kept wondering why the heck I'm shown those images.
If you want to have a lot of flash in the game, that's OK. However, I would advice against putting flash where it doesn't seem to belong.
BTW, if the game for some reason lags during the intro, maybe because some asinine software wants my immediate attention, the images will freeze or slow down, but the music will continue as normal. In that case I think it's better if the game becomes silent for a few seconds near the end rather than having the music loop. Try to prevent the music from looping.
In an earlier demo (the first one?) you had at one point the option to research. This resulted into a segment where the main character recapped some history about how magicians first saved the humans, but then started to abuse their power. During the recap, a lot of images of skimpy girls appeared just like that. I have no idea who those skimpy girls are supposed to be and why images of them appeared during the history lesson. I kept wondering why the heck I'm shown those images.
If you want to have a lot of flash in the game, that's OK. However, I would advice against putting flash where it doesn't seem to belong.
BTW, if the game for some reason lags during the intro, maybe because some asinine software wants my immediate attention, the images will freeze or slow down, but the music will continue as normal. In that case I think it's better if the game becomes silent for a few seconds near the end rather than having the music loop. Try to prevent the music from looping.
lol, yeah, the research thing was scrapped very quickly. And if you check out the movie of a download then hopefully you can get a feel for what I'm trying to go for this game, pretty classic as a jrpg visual novel style.
Ripped, yes, but it's only from one game, not random ones, other than the BG, which is from just random places. Seriously though, what the hell is the problem with using ripped graphics anyways?
Of course I'd love to make my own, I'm even considering it now that I have a tablet, but uh, I'm not a expert artist, sOOry. People who can't make music will use ripped music, people who can't script will use other's scripts, systems, graphics, music, all that good stuff, unfortunately, I can't do all that, I'm fine with just fitting a bunch of stuff together like a puzzle, and admittedly it's not alot of skill in any single department, but it's still looking pretty nice, and better than not doing anything at all.
My best department would be eventing and just pushing visual appeal, so why shouldn't go after those? As far as I can tell, the majority of people don't really get caught in by blocks of text. Just a food metaphor then, make the food pretty, and then the taste becomes important, without visual appeal, the taste won't get the time to matter.
Also, MissingNo, I'd LOVE to see you try and make a intro like mine, per say maybe not much skill to know of how to event, but I highly doubt someone with a attitude of nothing but giving half a shit of care to anything would actually have the paitience to actually go through the process of making one. (It takes a annoying load of paitience to retest and run through the timing executions)
The virtue of paitience in itself if you ask me, is a skill I'm pretty dam proud of.
Ripped, yes, but it's only from one game, not random ones, other than the BG, which is from just random places. Seriously though, what the hell is the problem with using ripped graphics anyways?
Of course I'd love to make my own, I'm even considering it now that I have a tablet, but uh, I'm not a expert artist, sOOry. People who can't make music will use ripped music, people who can't script will use other's scripts, systems, graphics, music, all that good stuff, unfortunately, I can't do all that, I'm fine with just fitting a bunch of stuff together like a puzzle, and admittedly it's not alot of skill in any single department, but it's still looking pretty nice, and better than not doing anything at all.
My best department would be eventing and just pushing visual appeal, so why shouldn't go after those? As far as I can tell, the majority of people don't really get caught in by blocks of text. Just a food metaphor then, make the food pretty, and then the taste becomes important, without visual appeal, the taste won't get the time to matter.
Also, MissingNo, I'd LOVE to see you try and make a intro like mine, per say maybe not much skill to know of how to event, but I highly doubt someone with a attitude of nothing but giving half a shit of care to anything would actually have the paitience to actually go through the process of making one. (It takes a annoying load of paitience to retest and run through the timing executions)
The virtue of paitience in itself if you ask me, is a skill I'm pretty dam proud of.
I love it when you kids try to call me out on shit like this. But sorry, sport, I've been there and I've grown out of it. I've made intros pretty much exactly like this back in my rm2k days.
Which is exactly why I commented. This kind of stuff a lot of people today find impressive when really it's not. The technical standards today are a lot lower than they were 4 or 5 years ago.
have you really? Then I'd like to know even more how you can "call me out" on it even further, the length of going though making something like it is not a walk in the park.
hm, w/e, like it said, all it really takes in whole is just a load of paitience, some above average skill, and a decent amount of music sense, I haven't seen any pros or, big wigs w/e, give me compliments on the intro at all, and I don't really expect it, it's still something pretty neat and original, for rmxp anyways, being there doesn't hurt it and I personally, with the genres that attract me, find it very shiny.
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and also, dadevster, I tried uploading a video of the entire intro to youtube before, the video quality and the audio frame lag is just to horrible. the message clicks are off beat and everything, I couldn't upload it.
The pesudo animated intro itself takes up around 16mb, so thats where most of the preview's size comes from.
hm, w/e, like it said, all it really takes in whole is just a load of paitience, some above average skill, and a decent amount of music sense, I haven't seen any pros or, big wigs w/e, give me compliments on the intro at all, and I don't really expect it, it's still something pretty neat and original, for rmxp anyways, being there doesn't hurt it and I personally, with the genres that attract me, find it very shiny.
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and also, dadevster, I tried uploading a video of the entire intro to youtube before, the video quality and the audio frame lag is just to horrible. the message clicks are off beat and everything, I couldn't upload it.
The pesudo animated intro itself takes up around 16mb, so thats where most of the preview's size comes from.
monkeydlu":1pxqmh65 said:
yeah it takes a long-ass time because you have to test it a million times but it is'nt diffucult or challengeing at all. it's just moving pictures which is a basic rpg maker feature that everyone should be able to do
it's significantly less impressive also when using random anime characters that you've jacked from hentai games
my point exactly, though it's actually pretty fun once I get into it, so the time's pretty worth it for me.
Like I said though, no one that's really really experienced has really complimented me much, and not at all on the art I use, hell, someone people don't even like the art, I myself even get annoyed at the style, but picking something that's not that well known is just another more efficient method, besides, it's not random, it's all from one game. (And like I've said before, I'd love to play it, if it was in english, the translators are just so pointless.)
I'm not really expecting any worthwhile compliments, or crit over all right now, I mean, if it was when I still had that chapter one release up, then sure, it wasn't it a demo as it was complete, more or less, and I'm still really proud of it, but having gotten crit and complaints of the bad story, and the only good points being the graphics, mapping, music, systems, gameplay, style, baisically everything that wasn't story and story delivery, I can live with that.
My strong points don't really include drawing cg, I'm trying, but I'm already trying hard enough to get better at spriting, so meh, it's just useing what I have, I'm getting better at drawing, I am aiming at a game with all original illustrations, I have a side project going on right now that has exactly that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiapaLNHxq8
anyways, long post short, just got back from hurriciane, Ike is coming MAYBE, and hopefully I'll settle down soon enough in school and tennis and chess and all that good stuff and especially trying to get better at spriting and scripting, I'm hopping to really get this project off the ground again, right now you'll have to judge from the preview, which... btw, have you seen yet?
Like I said though, no one that's really really experienced has really complimented me much, and not at all on the art I use, hell, someone people don't even like the art, I myself even get annoyed at the style, but picking something that's not that well known is just another more efficient method, besides, it's not random, it's all from one game. (And like I've said before, I'd love to play it, if it was in english, the translators are just so pointless.)
I'm not really expecting any worthwhile compliments, or crit over all right now, I mean, if it was when I still had that chapter one release up, then sure, it wasn't it a demo as it was complete, more or less, and I'm still really proud of it, but having gotten crit and complaints of the bad story, and the only good points being the graphics, mapping, music, systems, gameplay, style, baisically everything that wasn't story and story delivery, I can live with that.
My strong points don't really include drawing cg, I'm trying, but I'm already trying hard enough to get better at spriting, so meh, it's just useing what I have, I'm getting better at drawing, I am aiming at a game with all original illustrations, I have a side project going on right now that has exactly that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiapaLNHxq8
anyways, long post short, just got back from hurriciane, Ike is coming MAYBE, and hopefully I'll settle down soon enough in school and tennis and chess and all that good stuff and especially trying to get better at spriting and scripting, I'm hopping to really get this project off the ground again, right now you'll have to judge from the preview, which... btw, have you seen yet?
I don't know how many people would actually care, but the remake is... walking again 
by that, I mean my writer's block seems to be lifting a bit, and my motivation has come back just a bit as well, and I think Sithlord is going to start making some more maps as well XD
not sure, but, it's walking, well maybe crawling, but not dead.
anyways, I'm going to put the current first post here so I can remake the first post into a proper thread again.
please check out the preview demo if you haven't already:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tq95wx9sy10
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... reen-1.png[/img]
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... reen-2.png[/img]
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... reen-5.png[/img]
(this last one is a joke screen, the picture on the wall is a picture made by Enxodia (Aka Nessiah)
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... 1226011801[/img]
by that, I mean my writer's block seems to be lifting a bit, and my motivation has come back just a bit as well, and I think Sithlord is going to start making some more maps as well XD
not sure, but, it's walking, well maybe crawling, but not dead.
anyways, I'm going to put the current first post here so I can remake the first post into a proper thread again.
please check out the preview demo if you haven't already:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tq95wx9sy10
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... reen-1.png[/img]
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... reen-2.png[/img]
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... reen-5.png[/img]
(this last one is a joke screen, the picture on the wall is a picture made by Enxodia (Aka Nessiah)
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... 1226011801[/img]
Crystalgate
Member
Well, the first dame did portray the main character as a rather intelligent person and I did get the feeling you had some solid ideas despite your claim about not being a good writer. I would gladly see a return of the story and character section. As it is now though, there isn't much to get hyped about. The video at the beginning can be summarized with "there's a lot of pretty girls, some of which the main character can sleep with, and there's a lot of colorful people fighting." Miho's backstory seen afterwards is solid though and can work great for setting the basis of both Miho's character development and a future plot arc. This brings me back to the story and the characters and again, that's what I would like to see.
I was working on it last night, but photoshop for some unknown reason decided to screw up and I lost Miho's profile image :\
I was discouraged and it was late and so I put it off with Fire Emblem, lol
I'm going to keep working on it, the thread should be completed by the weekend since it's friday night and all XD
also, I'm remaking the intro as well, since that was my first one, and I think I can do alot better now having mind 3 already, plus, David of RPGM.org has composed a custom song for me for this game and I don't even like .hack// :P
Thanks for responding though, I'm happy this wasn't completely forgotten >_>
and yes, the story, I'm really really happy about my little burst of inspiration, it came from some random places, but yeah, I've been just thinking about it and something good appeared, I'll be updating :D
I was discouraged and it was late and so I put it off with Fire Emblem, lol
I'm going to keep working on it, the thread should be completed by the weekend since it's friday night and all XD
also, I'm remaking the intro as well, since that was my first one, and I think I can do alot better now having mind 3 already, plus, David of RPGM.org has composed a custom song for me for this game and I don't even like .hack// :P
Thanks for responding though, I'm happy this wasn't completely forgotten >_>
and yes, the story, I'm really really happy about my little burst of inspiration, it came from some random places, but yeah, I've been just thinking about it and something good appeared, I'll be updating :D