by Daren » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:21 pm
Sorry guys, no updates because I haven't worked on it for the last 2 months. You see, I've gotten a new job which is of course, a good thing, yet I've been working 10 to 12 hour days for the last few months which, in turn has taken most of the free time I've had and by the time I get home I'm dead tired, to much so to work on new animations or maps or well, basically anything regarding the game.
Things are looking up though because this week I've changed my work place and have been about to do normal hours... For once! Next week I'm on vacation "everyone, put your hands in the air and JUMP!" so I've put some time on the side to finish a few animations that I started.
Right now, I still have to finish the battle animation for Kira although I have no clue what weapon to give her, (Any ideas everyone?) I have to make the "fire" spell and make it look somewhat like the original one in PS1 and I have to edit Tsu and Gistu out of my version of Natsu I made a few months back. If I manage to do that then all animations for the demo will be completed. I also need to finish the script re-write which is at the very end, (only two scenes remaining) and then ship it to Benoit for final corrections (still up for it Ben?)
Map wise, they are finished, well one needs some edits.
I also need to make a system where some of the monster drop parts of themselves when killed, like claws, furs, etc and with those you'll be able to make some weapons, special items or just plain sell them to make extra money.
Has for the monster animations........... You know, I'm all for it and I'd love to have more time to make tons of monsters so that everything would be all new, but sadly, I haven't got the time so I'm sorry to say that most monsters from the original games will be added to my monsters and yes that sucks.
Has for music, the composer has 6 other tracks to send over and has for the art....... I HAVE NO BLOODY ARTIST! it's so hard to find someone willing to keep with the project and draw 80+ pictures for it. I was willing to pay them and good money to but I've gotten no where and yes I'm pissed about it.
After that when I get the script back, I'll code everything with the help of Edge if he's also still interesting to reshow me how to make the monster animations and other stuff, I'll compress the file for the game and post it online for everyone to download and try it out. Now, if it's a success then I'll start work on the second chapter which will really give the players some cool little snippets of info about PS2 as they go along. (The start of PS2's story, starts around the end of the second chapter and I'm adding some things from the original game in mine to give it some continuity) Now if that chapter goes well, then in the third one the player will actually visit Mota at the same time Rolf and co are in they're quests. But that's all way far off and for now I'm concentrating on the first chapter and it's main characters.
Alright that's all but at least you guys know where I'm going with it all.
Expect some update during the next week.