Quintessence - The Blighted Venom

[Reives]

Thanks for the input guys. And about that mini-game; I've changed the system now, and made it on-map instead of all picture manipulated. The original idea was that upon firing the arrow, the arrow will move to the center of the screen, while the target and background would zoom to a calculated coordinate and percentage such that it gives an illusion that the arrow in first person perspective is "shooting" toward the target, location based on bow rotation and etc. But it seemed quite inconsistent with the overall style, and as evergreen mentioned, the BG's a pain to handle.

And it really isn't that special, Lary; check out some of the contest projects right now with completely non-classical systems, some of which are non-RPG in its whole. :>


Here's an enhanced orchestral Promise recording. Changed some parts in the middle, and mainly enhanced the sound quality (echo, etc.):
http://www.quintessence-tbv.com/Promise (Orchestral Version) - Kan Gao.mp3

-for the mean time.

[(c) Quintessence OST, sorry. :< ]

 

[monkeydlu]

whys your topic only names "q" now? XD

your mini game ideas are really good, lol.

 

[Reives]

Oops, that was an accident. :p Fixed back. And I haven't posted that mini-game preview thingy on this thread yet, heheh - will do in the near future.

For now, here's something new; a screenshot from a part of the new revamped intro (thanks to Euphony for the original tileset):


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/ ... tro1-1.jpg[/img]

 

[Grathea]

Ooh, I like. Very much, in fact. Euph's got some serious tilesetting skills, as well as my envy.

The only issue I can seem to find is that the pillars colorshift before the walls do.

 

[evergreen]

Loving the new intro! Any certain release date yet?

 

[Reives]

Indeed, gratheo. And also, look out for Nadir's Canon, coming soon in game form. :> (Thanks for the heads up on the pillars, I'll get to fixing them!)

The release is going to be some times in April, evergreen.

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A little mini-game preview thingy, not yet finished:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/Reivier/7MGPrev.jpg[/img]

--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v9sUzNpAus
[With recording lag, which lagged audio-video pacing.]

 

[Chalupa]

So, I take it your not gonna beta test?  Awww....

 

[Reives]

I'll obviously beta test, but not sure of whether getting others to do it or not at the moment.
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Just a heads up; I am about approximately a week or so from finishing Chapter 7, which is, to my preference at least, definitely the best chapter so far again (as far as story goes, at least). The tradition of chapter [7]>6>5>4>3?1>2 lives on. :>

After I finish the chapter, I will also attempt to take some time aside and fix up the previous chapters a bit, if not just the intro. There are quite a lot of junk located in those chapters that I need to renovate; mapping, interactivity, dialogue, etc. However, they will probably all fall short due to time constraint (especially the interactivity part, which will most likely not be revamped this round).

None the less, if anyone is looking to play Quintessence that hasn't before, I highly recommend waiting for the chapter 7 release, as it will renovate some of the earlier chapters to some degree.

[ I am refraining from posting screenshots and further info at the moment due to spoiler. ]


P.S. A couple of notes on community watches; Euphony's Nadir's Canon is coming soon, most likely in April, in playable game format. Also, Team Dragonfly's got something cool for Ethereal Dreams coming up, so be on the look out for those!  :smile:

 

[Neverplayd]

Ahh, I'm excited to see what you have done in Chapter 7. I bet you'll have a lot more story...and maybe some gameplay too...(J/K. Just wanted to change the font size ^^.) Actually, I can't really remember what happened in the story(short-term memory); But I'll probably remember as soon as I play Chpt. 7. Are you planning on having a lot of the transforming battles in this Chapter?

 

[Danny2000]

lol, hurry up realize this already!!!

 

[Ragura]

Looking forward to playing the next episode, especially since I agree with your own ratings for each chapter, so we should all be in for some good stuff. I wouldn't bother too much with revamping for now... That's something you should do before you release the final episode so that you can release one whole ultimate game in the end. A masterpiece.

 

[Reives]

@Neverp:
There are some more game-play, but not much of battles. I suppose the chapter 6.5 tech demo's final boss battle somewhat fills that in for now. :p

@Ragura:
That's probably the most efficient choice, but the main reason is that since this is relatively more well-known now than before, people often have certain expectations up-front. It's more or less just an ego thing on my part I suppose, but looking at some of the things in there, it really could benefit greatly from even just some minor edits.

And I'm trying, Danny. :>


---Again, if anyone is looking to play this from the beginning, please wait until the chapter 1-7 release in a few weeks.  :smile:

 

[Xephyr]

I'm going to check out the new intro.  It looks pretty shmexi.

Hurry up Reives whenever a Quintessence episode is about to come out i start hallucinating.

I just recently thought I saw a dancing chicken in my backyard.  And then Lunair passed by and shot chicken.


Do you even know how messed up that is?  I mean seriously.

 

[Ultima]

Oh, oops. I already downloaded it. I should probably have waited until after the release of Chapter Seven.

Ah, well...I didn't download it on my laptop anyways. Looking forward to Chapter Seven. The first six were awesome. :smile:

I had noticed some passability errors and typos while playing, but you've probably noticed all of them and fixed them. :blush: Ah well.

 

[Reives]

Heheh, thanks guys. :> And as always, I will provide a save file to the end of Chapter 6 upon Chapter 7's release. It'd probably be a good idea to see the retouched intro, though - no where near a complete overhaul of course, but there are certainly improvements and notable changes.

Always feel free to report glitches when you feel like it, by the way; it always helps.  :smile:

And I lied about halting screenshots, here's a screenshot for fun:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/ ... PanoSs.jpg[/img]

This reminds me; I haven't found time to revamp the panoramas at this point, so most of them remains not mine. The one in this screenshot however, is.

 

[Taylor]

I'm amazed they got the wheelchair out that far. o__o Not to mention through a forest probably full of rocks and sticks, up a hill, and over a log.

 

[Reives]

Hills are pretty much the only main obstacle; rocks and sticks don't cover the entire forest. :> Besides, there are roads. But none the less, it's still really not something worth hassling with every other day.

It took 7 chapters to just see her leave that room once for God's sake.  :tongue:

 

[Larynni]

Heheh, thanks guys. :> And as always, I will provide a save file to the end of Chapter 6 upon Chapter 7's release. It'd probably be a good idea to see the retouched intro, though - no where near a complete overhaul of course, but there are certainly improvements and notable changes.

Always feel free to report glitches when you feel like it, by the way; it always helps.  :smile:

And I lied about halting screenshots, here's a screenshot for fun:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/ ... PanoSs.jpg[/img]

This reminds me; I haven't found time to revamp the panoramas at this point, so most of them remains not mine. The one in this screenshot however, is.

That's why Chapter VII is called "White Lie", eh?

 

[Reives]

Mm, not really. But that reminds me; the chapter is now divided into two parts, White Lie is the second part. (Both will be included in the upcoming release, of course.)

 

[BlackWings]

a few weeks seem like a decade when you're waiting for a new chapter of quintessence ... but i'll wait if a few weeks = improvement ^^.

oh & that screenshot is beautiful, but plants on water ?