Final Fantasy Essence - New Trailer and Screenshots!

[Atoa]

Cid is Spring (one of the main characters) father, about Gilgamesh, only celes can tell this XD
As stated on Spring background Cid is working on an new essence infusion (to be more specifi, an machine that do this XD)

 

[Jason]

Ah I see, I must've overlooked that tidbit of info. :thumb:

 

[Daxis]

http://faqs.ign.com/articles/657/657330p1.html

read the essay on ff magic and shit. that's how you make it worth FF.

I don't get what you meant by that...

FF had lots of common themes, beyond cids and chocobos and crap. The magic of final fantasy, the mechanisms and how they worked, were one of them; there was the concept of worlds having consciousness and magic, the lifestream and similar incarnations, in ff7, 9, 10, tactics, spirits within. even maybe 8. there are things like the concept of materialization of magic (spheres, material, pyreflies), there are things like Ozma, etc. There's stuff like this throughout the entire series, a pretty damn amazing mythology in my opinion.

And did you know that in every single FF there has been a small triangle island located somewhere?

 

[Xilef]

I knew about the triangle islands after noticing the obvious one in FF6.
I wonder what they mean.

But I like Gilgamesh because he's the only reoccurring character in the final fantasy series to actually be the same person in all the games after he started travelling dimensions in FF5.

But yes, this game needs those, else, it isn't final fantasy.

 

[Atoa]

there was the concept of worlds having consciousness and magic, the lifestream and similar incarnations, in ff7, 9, 10, tactics, spirits within. even maybe 8

And what you suppose "essence" is all about? XD

Althoug the "origin" of magic and such start do be explained only from 6 and after, on FF 1 ~5 magic was simple... magic.

Celes was even worried about this because her idea looked a bit like "FF9 + FF10", but that woudn't be a problem...

We're trying to add several elements from various FF's,without simply copying them (whenever it's possible XD) not only on system and graphics.

And did you know that in every single FF there has been a small triangle island located somewhere?

Not at all, Final fantasy 2 didn't have.(In fact, final fantasy 2, has only 3 islands and the "barrier" arround mysidian tower ...), Final Fantasy 4 also din't have any *real* triangle and in FF1 the "triangle shaped area", wasn't an island, but an peninsula.

 

[Celesinator]

Hello, everyone.

Essence has come close to quitting time. But I'm not going to give up, and Atoa wouldn't want me to either.

Atoa has quit FF Essence due to personal problems. This did heart break me very much seeing how Essence won't turn out as good unless I find a scripter on the same level or just as good as Atoa. So if anyone here is a scripter who could possibly read atoa's scripts, we will all be happy!

viewtopic.php?f=220&t=72247


Thanks in advance.

 

[Flickayy]

Hey Celes_cole, i have been keeping quite a close eye on this project, and i've been impressed by the amount of commitment you have put into this project.

I would happily try my hardest to do some scripting for you if you want. The only thing i can give you to look at as a reference of my work is my current
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So i can give it a try if you want my services. if not then don't worry, i wont be offended :grin:

 

[Celesinator]

Alright the position has been taken by Regashi ^_^


I also forgot to put that the story was updated by Ms. Matty =D

 

[Clouall]

What is the name of the final fantasy advance font that use in proyect?

 

[Celesinator]

It's not a font name its a bitmap script that uses a picture for font.

 

[Mikepjr]

I been meaning to ask about that script, i would love to draw my own fonts for use in my game.

 

[Celesinator]

Search SFonts by Trickster in Google or something =). It will give you a full tutorial on how to use the script. And of course you can get the script that way.

 

[Mikepjr]

Woo hoo! thanks
I hate working with the way fonts are done in XP, this is loads better.
And... is this game still in the works?..
It's not canceled is it?

 

[Celesinator]

Lol it's not Canned. I'm working on it even right now. I haven't in the past few months but I just started back. I had things to take care of in the last few months but I've gotten them done.

 

[Feldschlacht IV]

I'm actually ecstatic this is still being worked on. I have my eye on this, and I'm glad you're coming along with it.

 

[Celesinator]

Hey... guys... guess what... I updated the topic OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahem. We have redesigned the game some (as you can tell in the story which is still similar but fresh and in the screenshots)

But yeah please read the new story and character details (I didn't think it was necessary to introduce Laine and Spring yet, though).

Also read down at the bottom of that post at the "Now hiring!" advertisement.

We want:

Monster Designer
Music Composer (Yeah... again I know I know)
Battle Animation Creator
(See more details for these in the first post)


Thanks for supporting Essence =) And sorry for... well.. not getting a demo out there. We are trying to go for more original graphics, too (as you can probably tell in the screenshots haha). It's like FF Versus XIII X_X But we are seriously trying our hardest!

 

[Closedworlds]

Hi guys. Since I don't post much... you probably don't know that I am the lead spriter, scenario writer, tileset designer, and graphic designer for FFEssence.
Anyway I've designed a rough idea of how I want the new logo to look. After trial and error I have created this:
It is not quite up to my standards... but I am trying to go for the spinoff-logo-look (like crystal chronicles and such).
Let me know what you all think and give suggestions please. :heart:

Spoiler

Also, if you haven't already, please check the main topic page to see the newest updates. So far I've created many new and original tilesets.
Also tell me what you think about the train I made.
Although I may be a decent spriter and tileset artist... I can't do everything. I would seriously like somebody to contribute and help design some enemy portraits.
We want to recruit more people for other things as well so check it out please :heart:

 

[Ellie]

Hey, that's pretty nice. I'm glad this project is still going.

 

[Celesinator]

Omg a post =O I thought this project was dead on this forum XD Thanks!

 

[Cait]

I've read this topic every time there's an update, and I just want to say that when the game is finished, I'm going to be playing it. I think it looks really nice, the graphics are familiar and yet, it's very different. I do like the concept for the logo, and am looking forward to seeing the finished version. (^_^)/
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