#80220 - spencer723 - Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:27 am
[Another Update]
The website was just updated!!
http://www.darknessrising-ds.co.nr
[Update]
I haven't even added this to the site, so everyone here will be the first to know about this.
Alright, well so far we've ironed down some information about the game which includes:
- 6 towns to explore through
- Over 5 hours of gameplay
- Cutscenes to introduce big events
- 10 - 20 monters to battle throughout the world (actual number TBD)
- 2 main characters
- 4 bosses (actual number TBD)
- Items number TBD
- Will be a prequel to Darkness Rising (see below)
- Featured art created by Ripple_In_Eternity
- Programming by spencer723
- Release date TBD
- Music provided by certain users of Ichigo's
[/Update]
I've just launched the website for my brand new game I'm developing with a friend. It is still in the development process so we have no idea when it'll be out. Right now the site is just a teaser of what's to come, but any input about it is welcome. The site is: http://www.darknessrising-ds.co.nr. To view the game that actually started all this go here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/275691.
Last edited by spencer723 on Sat May 27, 2006 2:37 am; edited 5 times in total
#80224 - Nushio - Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:01 am
Pretty damn small world this is.
I played that game when the Revmote came out, it gave inspiration of what the Revmote could do, and I liked it. Didn't know you were part of the homebrew community!
I can't wait to play it on the DS!
#80286 - spencer723 - Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:20 am
| Nushio wrote: |
Pretty damn small world this is.
I played that game when the Revmote came out, it gave inspiration of what the Revmote could do, and I liked it. Didn't know you were part of the homebrew community!
I can't wait to play it on the DS! |
Thanks, I've been working on DS programming for about half a year now and I thought I'd try a little project. I have one question though...how did this game give inspiration of what the Revmote could do? I'm just curious (Oh and btw, thanks to your post, you've inspired me to include stylus swordplay to the game lol).
#80293 - Nushio - Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:32 am
Oh, nevermind, I got a bit confused.
Yes, I had played your game before, and several others that are similar. I just played your game again, and with a bit of help, it could work great on the DS, and I'm not talking about using the bottom screen to select attacks.
IMO, RPGs are getting boring by the second. Lunar now features an "auto attack" system, same with FFXII and others. The whole "hit and get hit" is getting pretty stale too.
One of the games I played (the one I confused your's with) was in first person view, and required you to move the mouse in order to slay enemies or block attacks, it was featured on Newgrounds too.
I'm still interested in playing your game, but a bit of first person slaying wouldnt be bad ;)
#80343 - spencer723 - Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:02 pm
| Nushio wrote: |
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One of the games I played (the one I confused your's with) was in first person view, and required you to move the mouse in order to slay enemies or block attacks, it was featured on Newgrounds too.
I'm still interested in playing your game, but a bit of first person slaying wouldnt be bad ;) |
That's exactly what your post inspired me to start programming, a sort of first person swordplay that could happen during the course of fighting monsters and bosses. It could sort of end up like the Resident Evil first person knife-battles, but it will feature blocking and attacking. Now I just have to figure out how to do this :-D.
#80347 - Nushio - Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:02 pm
If you code it in PA_Lib, i'd be more than glad to help you out ;)
#80351 - jester - Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:40 pm
I wouldnt mind helping with the character designs: monsters, fellow warriors and background!! just PM me if you need my assistance iam very gd at making images!!
#80386 - ghazi - Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:42 pm
I totally agree with Nushio as well.
I think the game he's talking about might be Ronin.
#80434 - spencer723 - Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:22 am
| Nushio wrote: |
| If you code it in PA_Lib, i'd be more than glad to help you out ;) |
You know, I was thinking of doing this in PA_Lib, but I didn't want to because I thought I had the skills to do a fully fledged game right away (I know, it's stupid lol) but I've decided I'll do this with PA_Lib along with my prior knowledge of DS programming :-D
#80446 - josath - Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:09 am
| spencer723 wrote: |
| Nushio wrote: | | If you code it in PA_Lib, i'd be more than glad to help you out ;) |
You know, I was thinking of doing this in PA_Lib, but I didn't want to because I thought I had the skills to do a fully fledged game right away (I know, it's stupid lol) but I've decided I'll do this with PA_Lib along with my prior knowledge of DS programming :-D |
Lots of people write DS games without ever using PA_Lib...
#80513 - spencer723 - Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:53 am
| josath wrote: |
| spencer723 wrote: | | Nushio wrote: | | If you code it in PA_Lib, i'd be more than glad to help you out ;) |
You know, I was thinking of doing this in PA_Lib, but I didn't want to because I thought I had the skills to do a fully fledged game right away (I know, it's stupid lol) but I've decided I'll do this with PA_Lib along with my prior knowledge of DS programming :-D |
Lots of people write DS games without ever using PA_Lib... |
I know, but I don't exactly have all the skills needed to do a fully fledged game with what I know as of now. I was going to learn as I went along while writing the game :S. I meant what I said as how I just explained it, not that it's stupid to not write your first game without PA_Lib. Sorry about that confusion.
#80963 - Sebbo - Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:56 am
first person battles sound good to me...*dreams of morrowind and oblivion*
Tactics style RPGs (eg. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) and even RPGs with battle systems like Tales of Symphonia are good as well...constant action means no bored button pressing
as far as the battle system goes, what if you dragged the stylus across the screen for a slash (slash follows direction of stylus) and just hold it in the one spot to block? you could then block left, right, above and below as well as centre then
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#80978 - jester - Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:16 pm
spencer723
any new updates on the game for the DS Darkness Rising
#81281 - Ripple_in_Eternity - Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:28 am
OK, im Ripple, quasi-art-guy director(yes, spencer, i demand art director!!! lol) for this game I was in on the first Darkness rising. Now, normaly i would know more on the subject, but so far we do have some nice sprites, but spencer's away for the time being, and since he's the head honcho of this project i can't say yes or no to anything concerning anyone here, i will try to update our progress as best i can, but so far we are considering so touch screen slash action( rolls off the tounge, no?) but spencer know the code, so he makes the great gears turn...
#81316 - LiraNuna - Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:26 am
I wrote a complete RPG without PAlib. if i can do it, you can do it too.
#81682 - spencer723 - Mon May 01, 2006 4:51 am
| jester wrote: |
spencer723
any new updates on the game for the DS Darkness Rising |
Not too much, I haven't been able to work on anything at all since I've been away at a Robotics competition in Atlanta, Georgia (go team 1305!). I've been gone for about a week and I need to catch up on a bit of school work but the project should be back on track soon. We have decided we will have first person swordplay as well as a sort of Final Fantasy type battle engine incorporated into it and gameplay sort of like the Zelda series during the overworld walking around.
#81699 - jester - Mon May 01, 2006 3:04 pm
ok then that is acceptable i however see this game as a excellent homebrew addition.
#81953 - spencer723 - Wed May 03, 2006 12:32 am
I will also be updating the website soon with more information. (Check first post to see updates)
#83293 - spencer723 - Mon May 15, 2006 2:06 am
Hey everyone,
We have just updated the site! Please respond with what you like and dislike about anything about the game or site.
#83316 - HtheB - Mon May 15, 2006 11:17 am
| spencer723 wrote: |
Hey everyone,
We have just updated the site! Please respond with what you like and dislike about anything about the game or site. |
there is a big picure :P maybe its bad for the one who has a 56k connection :P
(I have ADSL) but uhm.. Im very interested how the game will look :)
#83473 - spencer723 - Tue May 16, 2006 4:04 pm
Well, the pictures only around 55 Kb, so it shouldn't be a huge load on the 56 Kbps users. Thanks for the input!
#83517 - jester - Tue May 16, 2006 7:17 pm
all that the site needs now is just soon progress bar and a few other things also do u need a pixel artist or this project spencer723??
#83580 - spencer723 - Wed May 17, 2006 2:37 am
| jester wrote: |
| all that the site needs now is just soon progress bar and a few other things also do u need a pixel artist or this project spencer723?? |
Currently we are not looking for anyone for anything, sorry, but something may come up in the future. :D
#83631 - jester - Wed May 17, 2006 2:41 pm
so liranuna have you finished your work on your homebrew RPG is this really completed??
#83726 - Linkiboy - Thu May 18, 2006 1:49 am
My only complaint is that it's using Tripod as a host. AddYour.com is a better alternative.
#83738 - spencer723 - Thu May 18, 2006 2:58 am
| Linkiboy wrote: |
| My only complaint is that it's using Tripod as a host. AddYour.com is a better alternative. |
Yeah...I do have better hosts, but seeing as all I need right now is that, I'm happy with it. I will eventually move it to either a 1L.com account or my tripod.co.uk account. It will be on a better site soon though.
#83903 - Linkiboy - Fri May 19, 2006 1:57 pm
| jester wrote: |
| so liranuna have you finished your work on your homebrew RPG is this really completed?? |
Looks so.
http://liranuna.drunkencoders.com/?page_id=4
#84361 - spencer723 - Mon May 22, 2006 2:42 am
Again, I've updated the website. I now have a progress bar as suggested by jester. It's nothing much, but it should do for now.
http://www.darknessrising-ds.co.nr
Any other suggestions? I will do a major update to the website when the project is at least 25 - 30% done.
#85473 - jester - Tue May 30, 2006 6:24 pm
any new breakthroughs on the project when will we see a beta release??
#85506 - spencer723 - Wed May 31, 2006 2:59 am
| jester wrote: |
| any new breakthroughs on the project when will we see a beta release?? |
The graphics engine is getting closer to being complete, so we'll be running sprites pretty soon and most of the art is complete. A beta release may not be too close because we only really have 2 developers for the project.
#88080 - jester - Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:36 pm
anything new any new updates??
#88605 - spencer723 - Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:23 pm
Hey everyone!
Ripple and I have been busy with our final exams over the past couple of weeks so no news as of now. Since both of us are finished our exams we're going to try and catch up with our work on Darkness Rising. I'm getting closer to finishing the 2D part of the graphics engine and we'll probably begin some sounds to run in a, hopefully soon, ALPHA version.
#104758 - jester - Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:28 pm
any updates on the project?
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#104765 - Elrinth - Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:59 pm
the website seems very down...
#104767 - jester - Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:09 pm
seems like there is no updates
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#104829 - El Hobito - Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:18 pm
i can certainly recommend using palib, it will allow you to spend less time coding and more time making a good game.
#104852 - jester - Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:28 am
PALib was a little confusing for me i use Lua but whatever is easiest for you
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