Selatria -- Concept Art/Tentative Chapter 1 Release Date

I promise to get back more into the spirit of posting regular updates. I haven't had a chance to.



Shame for non-frequent updates... I know.

I have a whirlwind of things going on. I'm working on helping present a game to the IEEE Game Showcase in Orange County next Saturday. I never worked on the game, but since I let them know about the showcase, they invited me to the team and I helped put together the movie using fraps to get some of the gameplay footage while the designers compiled it into a YouTube movie for the presentation.

The game is called Lacuna Reaver, and an alpha implementation of the project will be shown there. Check it out and show support. We'd definitely appreciate it.

I'm also working on a Kinect programming project, but I'm not sure if I can talk about that publicly or not. So I won't.

Selatria:


The Selatria team and I are working on finalizing a lot of stuff for Chapter 1. The game has come a long way, and during the transition period, I didn't want to post a lot of un-finalized concepts in the transition period. We're nearing completion of the Chapter 1, which will be released FREE to anyone who would like to give that part of the game a try. The goal to have this available is the week of E3 2012, so Monday June 4, 2012 is what I'm shooting for. It's originally 7 months later than I intended (I wanted it done in December), but some criticism I got involving some early footage of the game I released warranted some postponement.

Just keep in mind, the whole game in its entirety, (Chapter 1-6) will cost something... as it won't be free-to-play. But it won't be more than $5 or so for a digital download copy of the game. I don't see anyone paying more than that for an indie game, anyhow. Here are some screenshots and artwork from the game. The artists really went the extra mile to come up with these in their spare time, and I'm really grateful to have such talent on the team.

Props to Johan Flynn for the character designs and coloring, and Erik Boismier for the monster concepts and shadowing.

I think that's about it for now. See you guys next post. (I'll try to post more frequently. And game-related. Promise!)

Selatria: Monster Art Implementation

Current progress, take a look!

Monster Concept Art: Erik Boismier
Coloring: Johan Flynn

Still here.

I'm still here. Somewhat!

I haven't been writing lately just because I've been swamped and had my hands in way too many projects to get the time to write nowadays.

Been spending a lot of my free time out of class in Eorzea with the linkshell trying to complete the new raid content for the 1.22 patch while I can.

Selatria's going pretty well, developing the Team Attack system among other things. I'm very happy about the project.

Going to be buying Xenoblade Chronicles soon. I just need to get off my lazy ass and go get it sometime.

Oh, and check this out.

Selatria progress

Getting back to working on Selatria soon. (can't wait!)

If I can finish the programming for it this weekend/next week, then just need to swap in the art, music, voices, and dialogue and Chapter 1 will be finished!

Right now:

Chapter 1-1 [x]
Chapter 1-2 [x]
Chapter 1-3A (almost done)
Chapter 1-3B (needs a lot of work)
Chapter 1-4
Chapter 1-5

So, about 50% done on the design.

FFXIV Artifact Armor PLD BLM!

Check us out. :)

I miss old school [adult swim] bumps.

I don't think I took much of a break on this blogging thing, have I?

I've been listening to a lot of hip-hop lately. I've never really considered myself to be a big fan of it either. But I remember seeing some old school adult swim bumps from when they showed them on Saturday nights. Damn, that music was catchy.

Blog Hiatus

The blog is going up on hiatus. Not sure when I'm going to be picking it up again, but I don't have much to write about at the moment. Well... not much because I'm too busy to remember things.

Until the future.