Hallow's End - Game in production

MarkPhantom · Wed 11/10/2006 11:28:50

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!

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

Nikolas · Wed 11/10/2006 13:28:00

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

Guybrush_Stobart · Wed 11/10/2006 15:55:54

Looks great so far. Im already looking forward to playing it!!!

Mordalles · Wed 11/10/2006 16:01:21

looks great! i'm always interested with a game with lots of blood

thewalrus · Wed 11/10/2006 20:26:46

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!!!

m0ds · Wed 11/10/2006 21:38:42

Looks pretty neat! Are you using the FEAR engine? :p Only joking...let us know when you have a demo ready!!

Candle · Wed 11/10/2006 22:22:13

Looks good..

MarkPhantom · Thu 12/10/2006 00:53:07

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

Candle · Thu 12/10/2006 00:58:10

Did you want a link to your website here? I see you said something about it but didn't see the link.

ManicMatt · Thu 12/10/2006 02:12:48

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!

Candle · Thu 12/10/2006 02:23:47

Just do

Code: ags

[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

RedBlob · Thu 12/10/2006 07:58:52

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

MarkPhantom · Sat 17/02/2007 11:37:14

Hi guys, an update! We got more art to show off: Enjoy

Buckethead · Sat 17/02/2007 15:18:53

all these great 3d games in production... makes me feel warm

MarkPhantom · Tue 24/04/2007 18:40:09

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

CosmoQueen · Wed 25/04/2007 08:47:37

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.

cosmicr · Thu 26/04/2007 01:44:35

hey those graphics look great! have you considered using radiosity in the lighting?

RedBlob · Wed 09/05/2007 10:39:43

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.

RedBlob · Wed 09/05/2007 10:43:22

Some early character previews....

Kate

Mike

We're making really good progress on everything.

Background art (around 40 rooms): 90% complete

Currently working on characters and some AGS scripting.

Dualnames · Wed 09/05/2007 19:42:02

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.

Hallow's End - Game in production

Guybrush_Stobart

m0ds