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Grunt
(6/5/00 6:34:14 pm)
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Been a while eh? Isis II time ...
Yup, it's that time again, time for an update on the status of Isis.
For the past 2-3 weeks I've basically been doing @#%$. I had lost intrest for a while, and school was coming to a close so I also really have to focus on my finals. (Nope, didn't study though). But I'm back to work now that school's out, and I have some news to report.
I've basically finished most of the art for everything but enemies (I don't do tiles). The keen sprites are all done except shooting up/down, which kinda sucks but I'll live. I haven't been working on them, however, and have instead been working on enemies since we're really lacking in that area. Right now we have 2 enemies in the game, and I think 4 are done. That sure isn't many, only about 1/5 of what we'll have in the end.
I've had the look of the Isonians done for a while, but I'd never animated them (they're kinda hard to do). These past 2 days have been spent periodically working on that anim. Whenever I'd get bored I'd do another Isonian. So far we have 3 designed, with the possibility of four in all. These guys will be worse than the Shikadi, with lots of attacks.
We are finally reaching the point where the real work can begin. Everything up untill now has been laying ground work, but soon we'll be able to REALLY get to work. Only 4 things are holding us back now.
1) Programming - it takes time, but as with me, DML won't have as many DIFFERENT things to do, and most of the big things will be out of the way soon, leaving only tweaks and gameplay programming.
2) Enemies - it's hard to design levels without them, which is what pLeit is probably gonna have to do.
3) Tiles - These also take a while, we have 2 new tilesets partially done ... all the flooring and walls are done (I'm pretty sure) but the bg stuff isn't (like the trees in the first set).
4) Transitions - I'm gonna go nuts over these. We've enlisted the help of yet another person who's barely done @#%$ for us. This is getting really frustrating. I'm getting tired of people who won't help and never get anything done. Corey did some work, but then he was gone before he could do anything substancial. Ilsoap does little bits of stuff, but nothing substantial like pLeit, DML, or I do. These transitions are CRUCIAL to our game, and we need someone who can do them. (I doubt anyone here can do them though)
That's it... it seems like a lot, but really, compared to where we used to be it isn't. I have to go pretty soon, so lemme give you an idea of the future...
Pretty soon the big internal demo will be released, after it's out we can really get to work on the levels and some of the extra features can be implemented. I won't be doing these updates as much because I don't think we should overhype everything. In fact, expect these on a monthly basis at most. We might shift updates over to the site, it's a bit more professional and can open us up to a wider audience.
Don't expect anything soon. I don't expect to be done with the game before summer is over. (for us Northen Hemispherers, Geoff). I'm also beginning to doubt us making a second episode since Geoff might not be with us then (he's got a life, and he's gonna be going somewhere in like 4 months or so). So don't count on it. Rmember though, if Isis falls though and never gets done, we'll release the latest stuff for everyone to see.
I gotta go now, I may ammend this post later if I think of anything, but for now I need to take a shower and goto school.
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Co-Designer and artist for:
"Commander Keen: The Mystery of Isis II"
http://members.aol.com/dml1001
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Homepage: http://www.drigon.com/~ek
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Grunt
(6/6/00 12:16:37 am)
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HA!
If I can ever get them to animate right!
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Co-Designer and artist for:
"Commander Keen: The Mystery of Isis II"
http://members.aol.com/dml1001
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Homepage: http://www.drigon.com/~ek
Rarely updated, very old content, only thing good there is my art and my story, which I think needs to be redone because it was written in 8th grade and sucks now. |
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