team project i have: a dark game

[marmotte]

hello everyone...

ok, i have a quite interesting project with a friend of mine, and i'll show you some screens. i don't give up my fight game project (super crossover fighter, but i'm not sure to keep that name), it will continue as normal... because i really want to finish it one day, i'm still more than motivated ^^

well, let's return to the "dark game" project:
it will be very close to a game called "silent hill", a game i'm more than attached, and my friend as well. he will create the graphics, i will provide the gameplay.

during a great part of the game, you'll play in the dark. the only light will be your flashlight. and you'll can travel in an entire town. of course graphics are original. take a look, these are in-game screens. personnaly, i find his work with the graphics are incredible:












it's just the very begining, we are now thinking about storyline (disturbing storyline), monsters... the town structure is fairly finished...

hope it inspires you ^^

if you have comments, they are always welcome
thanks for your interest.

[Hoody]

That's a great Idea Marmotte, but how would you play the game?

I have some ideas.
You have to put ghosts in this game and make sure they jump at you or come out of nowhere.
Another idea, to make the game 'Tense' you need to get a sound of a heart beat and when danger is near it gets louder and louder.

Have you heard of a game called Project Zero (Fatal Frame) for PS2?
That is quite like what this game might turn out to be.
It's like silent hil and resi but alot scarier, you have a Camera instead of guns, and you can only see the ghosts/monsters when you look through the camera and they pop out of no-where.

But the most disturbing thing in the game is that it was based on a true Story

I was going to make a game like this with my digital camera, I was going put all the lights off in my house and film every room and hallway. Then import all the frames into flash.

Hoody

[marmotte]

hello hoody ^^

well, for now, the fully playable screens are screenshots 3 and 4 (in the fourth one, you can see the character you are controlling, wearing a flashlight and of course doing some light (light will be interactive)). as for the other screenshots, they'll can be easily used for cut-scenes. i'm also tying to reproduce some resident evil-style gameplay.
when you wander in the streets, there'll be also a lot of different point of views...
of course i know project zero. but i really prefer silent hill; its soundtrack, its characters, and its metaphoric storyline just blow me everytime i think of it ^^

[Hoody]

Hey.
Do you have a preview of it or something?
Also, is it 3d?
Lastly, is there anything that anyone on the board can do to help?
By the way, have you played RealMyst, it is full 3d and you can actually control it unlike the Point and click and it takes you to another screen/picture.
You should try and make it like that but it would be a huge file.

Hoody

[marmotte]

yes, i already have a playable little demo (in the streets, screenshot 4). the scrolling is great, with depth... but i'm not going to post it that soon...

oh, no, i was not looking for some particular help... not for the moment, at least. oooohhh well, if you have suggestions for a playable Resident Evil view, i'll be very interested. i'm working on something right now, but i don't know if it'll work or not...

about myst, our game will not be that way, you'll control the character in all screens; i mean, no click'n'play

[magnetos]

i already like it marmotte !
somebody sometime ago made a game similar damn it if i can remember but it was very impressive and i dont get impressed very easily
i did play silent hill for the ps1 and resident evil i liked better RE
though but still these are 3d games so i dont think you can do that with flash ..director 8.5 perhaps could

the graphics are very cool still they look like it took the pictures right out of his house and surroundings (nice house btw )

i am looking forward to see the demo
i know it will be great

[marmotte]

thanks for the comments magnetos ^^

well, if you can remember the name or location of that game, i'll be happy to take a look at it.
well, sure, there's surely a lot of people that prefered RE... i don't want to be rude, but silent hill is way smarter, intelligent than the RE series...

oh, i don't want to do 3D here; when i asked for a RE gameplay, i was thinking about 2D graphics, but a 3D behaviour of the character (he zooms when he's far for example). ther problem was how to do it with flash. sure, it's not easy...

and when i said his graphics are incredible, that's just because all the places here on the screenshots don't exist: he only took textures photographies, then assemble them with photoshop to recreate photorealistic graphics ^^

[ViRGo_RK]

You know how mean it is to tease me like that?

Maybe you can e-mail it to me?

I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait....

[marmotte]

ViRGo_RK, you won't have the ability to ride cows in that game either ^^

well, you are asking for a playable demo? ooh, you'll have to wait, wait, wait... i'll receive other graphics tomorrow, this time a portion of town with a zelda-like view...

anyway, thanks for your interest ^^

[ViRGo_RK]

I will for ever be waiting for a game with rideable cows.

Couldn't you plant like a cheat or something, just for me? pretty pretty please?



No problem, marmotte, I love your games