Final Fantasy Essence - New Trailer and Screenshots!

[Celesinator]

Lol I and my spriter did the sprites, very similar to FFV. I think he used Edge's body from FFIV Advance for Xander's body... hmmm maybe. Keira friggen looks like LIGHTNING.... bleh. Oh well. The rest of the cast looks original. I just WISH I could find the sprites he did *computer is a mess*

Anyway, you are basically right about the story. I wanted to add crystals, but not something TOO cliche. Thanks to Magicite and Lex's idea to a FFVI-2 that Essence exsists.

In the FFVI-2 sequel, it was going to be about a girl named... something... I forgot. Zayla, a scientist of Maranda, which was now a huge industrial city, who wanted to rediscover magic once again. Where Kefka's tower use to be, is the only place you could get it... or something like that. I know it had more twists. Anyway the girl got infused with the magical stuff and got it, and another guy who got tested was breakin' her out. Hmmm the old story is all on my PC, can't find it though.

There is also more story references from FF7 as well. And, of course, FF4.

Anyway, thanks for 'teh' support lol.

 

[Marc1k1]

Ok deleted what I asked before because it was stupid and.. lazy I guess..

Hey Celes I read your old topic and you said you wanted someone to do concept art? I mean you like manga/anime right? (I am assuming this from your avater)
I draw manga style but im kinda bad... but well I dunno just incase nobody elas was taking on the job I would give it a go if you gave me the characters sprite I could draw them out (Like I said im bad at drawing so I can only draw down to about the neck but I add in shoulders/arms to make it look a little more like proper concept art that is good.

Just asking, If you got somebody elas doing it thats ok but it sounds like fun and im board of drawing my own characters :P.

 

[Celesinator]

Lol it's fine, Lex has the job. He can draw REALLY REALLY good Tetsuya Nomura style. It almost looks like its actually from FFX or Dissiida. But if you wanna draw some art, feel free =D.

 

[cordynasty]

I was reading your story, hoping I didn't come across one mention of crystal, and then...

For 50 years they mined in those mountains until they found what they thought of was just crystal.

The crystalized matter was made up of strong spiritual power and

I got sad.

 

[Celesinator]

The crystallized matter is like that one in that FFXIII screenshot. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5827/sham.png and there are more than that. Every FF, exceptions 2 and 8, have crystals.

 

[cordynasty]

It doesn't matter. I was just hoping you destroy the cliche for once for a FF fan game. :shades: Not being offensive here or anything.

 

[Kodakami]

Heya Celes,

Long time; no talk. I'm glad to see you got yourself an excellent composer. Jstreet's been composing around this forum pretty much since I started writing music. He's got experience, which is what you need these days.

To Jstreet I say:
Have you taken a look at NoteWorthy Composer? That's what I use for all my MIDI composition, and it works wonders. It's worth the $30 for the program, but you can use it to its full capacity without paying. Check it out sometime!

Okay, my continued support you guys! Keep working hard.
(added the userbar to my collection)

EDIT: Hmm, your userbar seems a little...big. The standard size is 350x19 for future reference. That way they all line up.

 

[Marc1k1]

Lol it's fine, Lex has the job. He can draw REALLY REALLY good Tetsuya Nomura style. It almost looks like its actually from FFX or Dissiida. But if you wanna draw some art, feel free =D.

Guess I could do some fan art eventually.

Alright just wanted to know ^_^

 

[Celesinator]

It doesn't matter. I was just hoping you destroy the cliche for once for a FF fan game. :shades: Not being offensive here or anything.

I'm sure there are plenty of more FF fangames to play out there =P. Some may not even have crystals.

BTW, it's not that cliche'. FF started with crystals. Almost every FF has crystals. Even FF13 has crystals, and it's not even out yet. If you can't deal with it, too bad. I can't help that.


edit:

By the way, Jstreet, I'm back from vacation now. I thought I was gonna be back on the first... Oh well.



Edit number two:

Oh god I need a spriter that can sprite FFVI battle sprites <_<;;; Lex won't do it.

This is the best "I" could do:

I can't do any poses <_<... I tried. That thing there took over 30 minutes.

 

[Celesinator]

Essence Demo release will be SEPTEMBER 28th, HOPEFULLY! I can't promise. If I get everything from the FFVISDK that I need and sprites, I think we will be all set! Oh and Music. If I don't get music, though, I'll use other musics from other FF and Uematsu games.

Thanks for all of the support!

 

[Celesinator]

I added the world map to the first post.

Spoiler

 

[Celesinator]

I got some small updates I guess.

First:

I OFFICIALLY have Jstreet as my music composer! He is one of the best of the bests with awesome talents and stuff. He has composed 2 themes so far, so stay tuned!

Which brings me to my next update!

Second:
October 6th is the OFFICIAL demo release date, I swear. I pushed it back for Jstreet, even though he probably didn't need it since he composed 2 themes less than 24 hours... and since I only need 6 songs.... well we will see!

There is still LOTS to do before a demo. Some eventing is going on... and Lex isn't back yet... Need sprites, pretty damn badly... The FFVISDK is also coming along great. If no one has ever seen it, visit the Final Fantasy VI SDK thread in the other Forum thingy... I think it's below this forum... Program & Utility Development! That's it. It's a really great editor that I, myself, certainly cannot wait for!

The new "Essence" system is being planned, too. I had an old one planned, but I scraped it. The new one will pretty much work JUST like it. I think I have ideas that could work with it.

Third:

I got this great idea from this guy from GamingW. It's like a relic system... here I'll quote it from the GamingW page:

1st slot is called Inflict, which is you get to equip an element or abnormal status ability for your added physical attack effect against enemies' weaknesses)
2nd slot is called Protect, which is the same as Inflict, but it's about protecting you against a bad status or absorbing an element attack)
3rd slot is called Command, which gives you a free special battle command of your choice you have in your inventory other than your initial special one.
4th slot is called Support, it's obviously whatever can boost your attack/magic/speed/defense points for battle or increasing your evasion, etc.
5th slot is called Field, pertains to nothing in the game but your walking characters on the screen, such as being able to walk over tile floor damage or watching out for traps. It takes only one field ability to be equipped to affect everyone in the team with that character on, so you get more freedom this way.

But I'm not sure if it will exactly work like his... I'll most likely make changes. So stay tuned for that thing. I support that project and you can find it at GamingWorld. The title is "Runic Cipher."

The menu screen will not be present in the demo... you know, the Items and shizz menu. Instead, if you want to equip something like armor or a shield, I'll have it at a save point. There will be 2, so don't worry.

Lex comes back in 10 days... so lets all shout out to him!

Kotakami suggested to make my support thing a better size, so I did!:

and if you want to make it like a html link thing, just put this

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w194/Celes_Cole/Isupport.png[/][/] [color=#800000]< Add img after the first / after the word png[. Then after that, in the second [/], add url. [/color]


Thanks for all the support guys. I really enjoy it! I hope to have some demo shots after about 10 days!

Ja ne!

 

[oblivia5]

Hope you don't mind but I had a go at 2 more poses for Xander.

 

[Celesinator]

Oh nice! Just what I was looking for! Well done! =D

Would you mind doing any more XD? That's really good... as FFVI has a hard sprite style (for me anyway)

 

[oblivia5]

I think this is all the frames

 

[Celesinator]

Oh wow those are Perfect! They are amazingly good! This is sure to speed up production! Well done! And thank you =D. Do you mind doing the rest of them? I don't have all sprites... all I got next is Keira. Lex has the rest of my sprites... and he hasn't been on for quite some time (he text messaged me saying he'll be back on the 6th =)) He hates doing FFVI styled sprites because they are so hard to do... I don't blame him really.

But thanks again! Oh and thanks for the support =D!


*I couldn't log on for some odd reason <_<;;*


Edit: I'm going to see if I can add a poll... I was thinking that the demo I'm going to release soon (probably sooner than Oct 6th).

 

[oblivia5]

I don't mind doing the rest of the sprites. I kind of like doing FF6 style sprites.

Anyway I tried portrait for Xander.

 

[Celesinator]

Nice ^_^ Thank you very much.

And pretty good portrait. I like it... something I kind of needed XD. Looks like FFIV.

Thanks once again. I really appreciate it.

This is Keira

... the most poses Lex would allow me to post, since he is very protective about his sprites (yeah... hes crazy sometimes XD).

Once again... THANKS for the support. I really didn't think I'd get this far! Ha!


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Edit:

For everyone who would want to know the best release date for Essence's demo if I'm going to release it later, it will be about 3 weeks after FFVISDK's editor release.

 

[oblivia5]

This is what I've got so far

 

[Celesinator]

Oh that's pretty good! She's starting to look great!