Castle Paradox

Xerian · **The one and only in all** Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 59

Hey earlier I said in the Announcement board I'm working on a new project. I have screenshots of it but to see them, you have to type in the address to it (I think that's the only way, or you could copy it, delete a letter and retype it again).

A few notes: You'll note one of the characters is 'Togepi'. It has taken me a while to realize that is a "Pokemon". I do not know how some of you would feel about playing with a Pokemon in the game as a character but I'm hoping you'll be understanding of it. As I had said the game was based on "friends" and Togepi is one of them and I had given him my own made up personality. So I hope you all will understand and not complain for I'll warn you now. So I wanna hear what you all think. Take a look at the screenshots first though. Here are the addresses to them.

pic 1 - http://www.angelfire.com/co4/xerian/kitty01.jpg
A unusual meeting between a Kitty on top of a peak and an egg and bird on the bottom of it.
pic 2 - http://www.angelfire.com/co4/xerian/kitty02.jpg
That must have really hurt for him to run away like that.
pic 3 - http://www.angelfire.com/co4/xerian/kitty03.jpg
Scrolling along the world
pic 4 - http://www.angelfire.com/co4/xerian/kitty04.jpg
Smage - Sage in training
pic 5 - http://www.angelfire.com/co4/xerian/kitty05.jpg
This teenager is about to find out what "manly temper" is going to put him in...
pic 6 - http://www.angelfire.com/co4/xerian/kitty06.jpg
Traditional box puzzle

I shall say more later after comments if any Happy

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FnrrfYgmSchnish · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject:

The really weird thing about these is.... that font is almost identical to the one I had in Return of Xutt (the game Xutt's Tournament was a prequel to. Also a game I'm probably not going to make...) before I deleted the game.

Ssalamanderr · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 7:11 am Post subject:

Doesn't look to bad so far, but you might want to spend some more time on the Maptiles (especially in the first screen). It may just be the size or quality of the screenshots, but they don't look very detailed. The battles look good though.
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Xerian · **The one and only in all** Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 59

First of all just click on the pic links to see them.

Dark Blubber - I know I didn't steal any fonts so I don't know. I don't remember what Return of Xutt was like but.. I hope you don't have a problem with the font.

As for the quality of the screenshots it's JPG so it's not going to have it's full quality obviously.

I want to hear something about:

"A few notes: You'll note one of the characters is 'Togepi'. It has taken me a while to realize that is a "Pokemon". I do not know how some of you would feel about playing with a Pokemon in the game as a character but I'm hoping you'll be understanding of it. As I had said the game was based on "friends" and Togepi is one of them and I had given him my own made up personality. So I hope you all will understand and not complain for I'll warn you now. So I wanna hear what you all think."
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msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

I'd have no problem with a character from another game in your game, but it seems that others here might. They were upset at my having moogles in my game, which I felt was a neccessary nod to the greatness of FF3. But I guess that makes my game kind of a fan game, to some extent. Is yours at all?

Xerian · **The one and only in all** Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 59

"Togepi" is actually a character from Pokemon and I thought that people might have a problem with it. It's not a fan game however because it only uses Togepi's name and graphics but I gave him different personality, attacks etc. I thought that some people might say something like "AHH POKEMON! YOUR GAME IS EVIL!!!" etc. I'm only using Togepi because like I've said before this game is based on my "friends".

As for your problem msw188, who had a problem with Moogles being in your game?
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Eggie · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 904

I think it looks kind of cool. The enemy graphics and font are good.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

I think Iblis was the first person to say something like "using moogles is just wrong," or something like that. The quote sounds harsher out of context than I think it really was. But it prompted a pretty big discussion about when it is that you're stealing something. I can't remember the name of the thread, it was something like "new user, new game, plus a question", on the Announcements page. I'm not sure any definite conclusion was reached, but several people seemed to feel that using such a direct link to a game is bad, although I drew the graphics myself (which are pretty bad!). By the way, comments on my game are still welcome (please!), there's a thread on the Review Wars page, it hasn't been replied to for awhile.

Xerian · **The one and only in all** Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 59

In any case, there are games that use Moogles so I don't think much should be said (one being a good game, FUABMX v.4).

Hopefully this game will be completed so I can write the entire story Razz

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Agaraud · **Anti-Evil** Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

Picture by picture:
1 - Very boring maptiles. What's all that aqua color in the background? Sky? Ocean? Perhaps some clouds, a bird, sunshine, a horizon, anything to give an idea. How about the gray, are those rocks? If they are, I'd get some variations in there. Mountains are never perfect, there will be rocks and jagged edges and plants around. I get zero idea of the environment from the visuals.
2 - I like the enemy, very vibrant and stylized. Awesome. The background is lacking detail and perspective, however.
3 - You can tell the map is made of tiles. I never liked that, makes the map monotonous to travel through. Also, I'm don't like the font. Like these screenshots, they lack character. The letters are uninteresting, they all look the same. Even the original font is at least vaguely interesting to read, as there are variations in letters. (Which is more interesting to read, a notebook page of handwriting, or monitor full of Arial?)
4 - Good hero graphics. I like them. A side note: Watch the trees in the bottom left corner of the background. If you place an enemy over them, perspective will be lost. Also, another boring background.
5 - Interesting enemy graphic! Ha, me like. Same as above.
6 - The repetitive maptiles and lack of color makes me sleepy. I like the browns, it gives a nice impression of the building you want, but it gets old after you see... 6 tiles over and over again. (Or around that.)

I'm not impressed. Coming from the old Zantetsuken forums, I've watched your work since you began, Xerian. Not much improvement, to be honest. You need to kick it up a notch and dig in! I know you know how to improve, the topic has been brought up more times than I care to remember. You've been in the business this long, you have the dedication. Now all you need is the intense focus to become great.