A Phantasmal Announcemant
Posted: June 17, 2009 Filed under: Game stuffs, Phantasmal 12 Comments »
So I figure its about time I let you guys know whats been taking up my time of late, and why I havent been doing any work on Edward recently, and this is it:
Ok, so it wont look like a gay chessboard when its done hopefully, but the foundations for the game are coming along nicely.
‘what is the game about’ I pretend I hear you ask. well its a SHMUPRPG, if you can imagine a cross between a bullet hell shooter and a final fantasy game, thats pretty much what I’m going for.
I’ll be making handy posts about how development is going and hand out any wisdom nuggets I find out along the way a-la the great wolfire who are really the inspiration for me actually sharing what I’m doing for once instead of working in absolute secrecy all the time.
anyhoo, I’ve uploaded a couple of development shots to my gallery and I’ll be uploading some video to show how things are going soon.
I’ll be going over the game in much more detail later but for now is there anything you guys want to know about the game or how I’m making it?
Is see it’s 3D, so is it made with unity again? =D
It looks like a really prestigious project XD how long is it probably going to take you to finish it?
It looks and sounds Awesome! ^^
Thumbs up!
~Maxim
Maxim » yup, unity again, and I have given myself a very loose deadline of the end of the end of summer, which I fully expect to fly past at high speed as the game is gonna be big 🙂
XD
Deadlines are there to be failed =D
So, how the hell did you get the money to pay for Unity? :O
Maxim » I blew some of my last student loan a couple of months back, it means I owe the landlady for a while, but at least I own all the software I need now.
XD Awesome ^^
A female indie developer? That’s so sexy.
Gameart » true, but all indie is sexy 😀
I approve of your using Blender for modeling. Although I’m poor at using it myself, I turned my friend onto it and he loves it.
What sort of settings or themes are you going for? You said it will be like Final Fantasy. Does that mean there will be magic spells?
Vezquex » Settings wise I’m currently in the stereotypical ‘oriental-kung-fu-punk’ region, though I’m trying to do my own thing so I can own it. I’ve definately planned a few things I havent seen before, for example the first cave the player must clear will actually be mine within a giant geode.
magic wise it *kind of* exists, the baddies in the game are definately mystical in origin, but as far as what the characters are capable of its pretty loose, the player will have access to certain attacks that have different elemental effects but I wouldnt reall call them spells.
Sooo, hows Phantasmal going?
I see you made one sexy lady called Hyades, looking awesome! ^^
Awesome dev blog! 🙂 I want to follow your lead (and wolfire, and many others…) and star dev blogging in a more candid fashion. I’ve spent ten years learning to hide my projects in case they change or don’t happen, and I need to work hard to unlearn that.
Your game is looking like a lot of fun, I should get on with my third person game and then I can hassle you for help and you can laugh at my code! 😉
Dock » lol, I doubt I’d laugh, my code is a massive mess itself 😀
love to see your hidden stuff though!