Michael Sandon, grief-stricken after the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, is told to take a break. He hopes a short holiday in the town of Hallow's End to stay with his brother will ease his pain and his constant insomnia.
It will do nothing of the kind. Arriving in Hallow's End one foggy evening, Mike finds his problems only getting worse. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a horrific string of events that Mike may have to risk his soul to escape. The only other person who seems prepared to help him is Kate Keider, a woman suffering from terrible dreams after the suicide of her husband. And nearby, haunting Mike's nightamres, is the Laughing Man. A creature determined for Mike to be condemned to eternal torment.
Hallow's End; the place where all souls must go.
Everyone goes to Hallow's End eventually.
These are the first sneaky-screens of the game, all backgrounds. Production is still fairly early, but we're working hard on it!
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/townview_4.jpg%3Cbr%20/%3E)
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/mikes_lounge_2.jpg%3Cbr%20/%3E)
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/lobby5.jpg%3Cbr%20/%3E)
All pictures are by my art team (credited on the website)
I just hope you guys are intriguied enough to encourage our endeavours :)
Backgrounds - 30%
Characters - 15%
Scripting - 0%
Music - 0%
Dialogue/Puzzles - 25%
All early days as you can see, but we hope this builds up interest gradually :)
Thanks guys
-Mark 'MarkPhantom' Odell
Well good luck with the game, hope to see it finished :)
All the best and the story (which I like horror) looks a little cliched but interesting as in all horrors, and the screennies look fantastic :)
Looks great so far. Im already looking forward to playing it!!! :)
looks great! i'm always interested with a game with lots of blood ;D
Hey, looks great! I think the story sounds interesting and there always different twists that can be done..... Keep up the great work and good luck!!!
Looks pretty neat! Are you using the FEAR engine? :p Only joking...let us know when you have a demo ready!!
Looks good..
Quote from: Candle on Wed 11/10/2006 22:22:13
Looks good..
Well, you are working on it my friend ;)
Anyway, work is progressing smoothly. The team is working on animating the lead characters, before working on the smaller characters.
And there are a lot of twists and turns in this baby :)
Did you want a link to your website here? I see you said something about it but didn't see the link.
Candle, it's actually in their signature but it got chopped off, if you look on their profile. Tell them how to make the picture a link to the website, I've forgotten how to do it!
Hope the characters look as nice as the backgrounds!
Just do [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ commons/thumb/6/63/Wikipedia-logo.png/ 150px-Wikipedia-logo.png[/img]
Read more here about using bbcode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode
We've seen the storyboard, and it has a whole lot of twists. Its great stuff. There will be a lot of puzzles, and quite a lot of rooms. Everyone is putting their best effort into this one. :)
The webpage is at:
http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/thehallowsendteam.htm
Hi guys, an update! We got more art to show off: Enjoy ;)
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/1800s_kitchen2.jpg)
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/he_outside_library.jpg)
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/bar_new.jpg)
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/library_stacks.jpg)
all these great 3d games in production... makes me feel warm :D
A majority of the background artwork is now completed. We are working on characters, I am writing out the rest of the script and hopefully we will soon start composing music for it.
This project is not dead; it will be finished ;)
This sounds similar to a horror movie I've seen before. I'm guessing you'll be able to die in it right? That seems like the norm for games like these.
hey those graphics look great! have you considered using radiosity in the lighting?
Just looked up radiosity (forgive me, still learning this stuff). It looks like it gives awesome effects!
For now, we've been using Anim8tor for these graphics, which allows for you to add basic shadows to the render, but you have to add lighting effects and most defined shadows manually.
Some early character previews....
Kate
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l46/PlasticOstrich/kate_perspective.jpg)
Mike
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l46/PlasticOstrich/mike_perspective.jpg)
We're making really good progress on everything.
Background art (around 40 rooms): 90% complete
Currently working on characters and some AGS scripting.
If you cancel this project , I'll be the first one to come there and kick your ... you know what. I love the jukebox. You're using blender? Please share.
Looks wonderful. Were you, by chance inspired by Silent Hill. It seems to have the same premise, which i don't mind, because i love Silent Hill.
Good Luck on the project.
Looks very promising. And very atmospheric.
Good luck indeed. :)
Hey the progress looks good! Thanks for the update ;)
The character Kate has a striking resemblance to one of my character drafts for a clock tower fangame, only older (NB: I said draft, which means I've already changed my character quite a bit)
Hehehe, great minds imagine alike! I think the graphics look great and would be really fun to play in the dark (bad for the eyes though) I can't wait to play it! >.<
It looks so beautiful! I really want to play! o_o
Thanks for the feedback! No promises, but we should be able to have it out in the next few months ((I hope)). MarkPhantom is the writer/director, so I'll have to defer plot/inspiration questions to him! It's a full length game.
These characters are still drafts, too. We might tweak them a bit still, but you get the general idea of what we're going for.
We use Blender (Make Human) for portions of the characters, especially the faces. The hair, I've been doing in Anim8tor. I did download some meshes from other sources (like Mr. Furniture), but we'll put all that in the credits/read me. If anyone wants the links for the programs we've used, just holler and I'll pass them on. It's all freeware, most gpl.
Wow, so much new feedback :D
Silent Hill did have an influence, but only to an extent. I also wrote some stories a way back that gave me some atmosphere ideas. It's sort of a milieu of a lot of things; oddly, Arthur Miller's The Crucible also had an influence, but only in the sections set in the past. Also Alone in the Dark, Lovecraft novellas...I just wanted to create something that was scary but also kind of sad - in the despair sense.
CosmoQueen: Not sure what film you're thinking of. There will be sections where you can die, but I don't want your death to be a 'Oh, you walked over the cliff and you died. Dumbass!' kind of deaths, rather that if you do die, it's because you failed to act quickly enough.
It's nice to know we have so much positive support! :D The game's moving on nicely. I'm a bit demanding of myself, so I never rush the actual writing of it. Hopefully we should get this game out sometime soon, though I do intend for us to have a demo to show off first (not ready yet either, but hopefully soon we'll be able to sort it out :))
Please tell me the full game is gonna be free, please tell me the full game is gonna be free! *crossed fingers*
Yeah, it'll be free :) Though I want to distribute it as much as I can. I'm probably going to try and write to a couple of mags about it once we have something of true substance to show them...
Cool game! Have you made it in a 3d software? ::)
Those characters looks like they are from Poser or something.
I may be mistaken, but I belive they're from something called Makehuman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makehuman).
You are not mistaken.
Quote from: RedBlob on Thu 10/05/2007 14:59:49
We use Blender (Make Human) for portions of the characters, especially the faces.
When will it be ready? When are you going to finish it? When is your game due?
Quote from: KittenInPyjamas on Fri 25/05/2007 12:26:52
When will it be ready? When are you going to finish it? When is your game due?
We're all still working on it. It's coming along well, so hopefully it will be out in the next few months. The backgrounds are almost complete (45 rooms at last count, just 2 more to go), and we're making good progress on characters.
Quote from: duckgamesstudio on Fri 18/05/2007 23:06:39
Cool game! Have you made it in a 3d software? ::)
We made the backgrounds and did the animations using Anim8tor. I also borrowed a few meshes from different free sources online, all will be credited in the read me.
The characters (especially the faces) are made with MakeHuman, yup, although I added the hair and clothes.
Time for the writer to do some work for a change! :D
Work continues apace. The art is mostly done (and trust me, it rocks!) and we're starting to nail together game mechanics, structure etc...I am writing the puzzle structure slowly if only because it's painfully easy to make mistakes. It is also a problem that my personal life likes to take revenge on my attempts to get this game written, but don't worry, I am not giving it up. None of us are :)
ADVERT: We need someone who can do large scale fire effects. The software the artists use is good for small-scale candle sized fire, but there is a scene in which I require a raging inferno - is there anybody who can create such an effect?
PM me if you can!
Oh, and an extra image for you to look at ;)
There would be more, but freewebs hates me right now...
(http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios/HE_RitualRoom2.JPG)