Castle of Fire - RELEASED! 2.8.08

Snake · Thu 27/12/2007 14:44:19

Castle of Fire: Attributed to the Atari 2600 game, Dragonfire.

The objective of Castle of Fire
Run, jump and dodge your way across castle bridges and make your way into the dungeons. You must collect as many treasures as you can while gaining a highscore.

Screenshots

Disclaimer: The game has a brightness control so you can adjust the brightness - the bridge scene looks very dark in the screenshots above and especially in the video.

Teaser Trailer
I made a teaser trailer and posted it on YouTube when the game was about 50% finished. Some scenes have changed (lava dragon taken out and etc...).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H2Wj0wde0yc

--Snake

NEWS: 2.8.08
CASTLE OF FIRE WILL BE RELEASED TODAY!
Can't wait, guys! I'm going to pick through it and do last-minute polishing and release it!
NEWS: 2.7.08
"RELEASE DATE!"
Castle of Fire is now 99.9% complete and will be released before Monday!
I'm still awaiting a responce from Hammerblade.
I made a promotional poster for CoF today.
I hope you like it.

NEWS: 1.28.08
ALMOST DONE WITH MUSIC AND HIGHSCORES!
The music is over half completed and the highscores screen is just about done too!
This game should be release some time soon!

NEWS: 1.11.08
MIDI MUSICIAN FOUND!
Wootily Woot! HammerBlade will be doing the music for this game. I gave him a list of songs with what I need and he said he'll start later on today.
Also, "Thank You" to the other musicians that threw me some samples! Thanks for having an interest

Highscores Screen - When writing your score just doesn't cut it...
Colxfile (Secret Quest Remake) is currently working on Castle of Fire's highscore screen. He's already updated it twice and it works nicely. So now the scores will be kept inside the game itself and you don't have to worry about writing it down and losing it

2 New screenshots!
Check them out below. There you can see your thief climbing to upper levels of the castle while avoiding a monsoon of fireballs and you also get to see those fearsome Double Dragons!

Oddysseus · Fri 28/12/2007 03:01:06

I enjoyed the little teaser trailer.

It's always nice to see people using AGS for things besides point-n-click adventures. Thinking outside the box and pushing boundaries and shifting paradigms and all that.

Also, congrats on finishing a game! I'm very ~~jealous~~ glad for you.

GreenBoy · Fri 28/12/2007 05:16:54

Lol cool trailer. Gotta love that music.

Buckethead · Fri 28/12/2007 14:08:52

looks quite awsome. Alot of work must have gone into it.

Snake · Fri 28/12/2007 16:04:04

Thanks for the congrats! It's very exciting!

The music in the trailer is by JDinky too, he rocks on guitar and asked him to do the MIDI music for the actual game.

Yes, a lot of work indeed. I started it last year and only after a couple rooms I lost interest.
Then I picked it up a few months ago and didn't stop - I've had the most fun scripting this game! I hope you all enjoy it

I'm thinking of releasing it at a "premature release". I've already put other music into it from Journey to Silius (NES) and Castlevania 1 & 3 (NES) while I wait for the real music.

Another cool thing is that when I sent it to JDinky to use for making the music it zipped up to only 1 something MBs. Pretty cool.

--Snake

Colxfile · Fri 28/12/2007 22:23:22

Wow! I am so looking forward to this!

PM me if you still need some assistance with a high-score screen, I might be able to help.

Well done on nearly finishing!

Snake · Wed 02/01/2008 14:30:40

Hey, guys,

Colxfile:
If you are interested in making the highscores screen, this is what I want:
First off, I'd like it so nobody can fool with their scores - I don't them able to open the file and write them in.
Secondly, I want just a basic screen with the highest score on top, just like at the arcade.
Thirdly, I want them to be able to put in their name, at most I think maybe 5 characters, ie; Snake, Joe, Dummy, Julio...
If you can do this I'll send the game to you so you can script it in, then I can make the graphics when you send the game back to me.
I'm also using AGS 2.72 - hopefully, that's okay with you.

Musician Needed:
JDinky is unable to create the music so if anybody is interested, please let me know here or by PM. A couple samples would be nice.
Here's the sound I'm looking for: Dark, fast-paced, and midievil-ish/rock-ish.
If any of that made sence to you, please get back to me so I can release this stupid game

--Snake

Snake · Fri 04/01/2008 15:56:19

Bump.

Colxfile is currently working on the highscores screen and I've got somebody working on some sample music for me.

If anybody else is still interested in doing the music, please PM me or post here.

--Snake

Thaatiba · Fri 04/01/2008 18:48:28

I am interested making music. :

Do you want just rock/heavy-ish stuff,
or could it be more fantasy-medieval oriented?

Snake · Fri 04/01/2008 18:57:46

All of the above except fantacy.

I'm thinking along the lines of Castlevania 3, the level 1 tune.

Thanks for taking an interest

--Snake

MYKAYEL · Fri 04/01/2008 19:37:15

This game looks like it's gonna be fun. ^^ Any traps and monsters?

Snake · Fri 04/01/2008 19:52:23

In a couple dungeons there are spikes, dissapearing/reappearing bridges (first screenshot), FireGuys and opening/closing lava pits (like in Pitfall!). And of course the Dragons

--Snake

MYKAYEL · Fri 04/01/2008 21:09:04

COOL!

I'm definitely going to play this one. I hope you make an awesome game, good luck and do your best!

PS: Also like the graphics btw

Snake · Fri 04/01/2008 21:50:36

Thank you

The game is finished, I'm just waiting on music and the highscore screen

I can't wait until it's released!

I hope you all enjoy it...

--Snake

yarooze · Fri 04/01/2008 22:53:36

It looks great!

Since I don't really like this kind of game (may be 'cause I'm not very good on playing them - it is to fast)

I like the graphic!

Snake · Fri 11/01/2008 16:45:29

Hello everybody,

The first post is updated with some news. If you'd like, please visit it and read

Enjoy,

--Snake

nihilyst · Fri 11/01/2008 17:17:53

The trailer is awesome. Can't wait to play it.

Jon · Fri 11/01/2008 18:15:34

This looks great! Can't wait to play it.

NiksterG · Wed 16/01/2008 02:54:04

Wow! I'm impressed. Looks really good! It's cool that AGS can be used for more than point and click games. And the movement looks so smooth! Nice job.

Snake · Wed 16/01/2008 15:39:38

Yes, I'm very pleased with the movement myself, very smooth indeed and very easy to control

--Snake