No Magic Required - New Screen Shots - Updated 15th September

Moneytalks · Thu 18/08/2005 22:06:08

Moneytalks Productions bring you:

No Magic Required

Meet Master Bill Fredrick Snuttings, former head of all things magical at Castle Gumbold. Yeah, that's right, FORMER head. Cause after a simple spell intended to light some damp logs goes horribly wrong, Bill finds himself without a job. Yeah, it would seem that magic is no longer required in Castle Gumbold!
In the game you control Bill, and attempt to help him reclaim a direction in life.

Some Screen Shots:

Admire the scenery...

Visit the local pub...

And disturb fearful spirits!

Travel the country with the world map!

Progress:

Story: 100%
Scripting: 20%
Graphics: 20%
Sound/Music: 50%

The game should be finnished by Christmas.

Development Diary:

August 18th:
. Title and Intro scenes along with five fully playable rooms completed.
. Three interactable characters completed.

August 31st:
. Several fully playable rooms added, along with another interactable character.
. GUI modified with default icons changed.

September 10th:
.There are now 15 fully interactable, different locations as well as 8 different characters.
.Story added to.
.Older rooms slightly updated.
.Interface adapted

October 6th:
. 34 fully interactable rooms
. 20 none player characters
. World map feature added

Just tidied up this post as it was getting a little messy!

P.S - Note the colour loss in conversion from BMP to JPG, hope to have the images in PNG format soon!

Darth Mandarb · Thu 18/08/2005 22:10:35

Sounds interesting ...

A bit Harry Potter-ish, but that's okay. I dig Harry Potter.

Will there be different "directions" in life for him to choose from dependent on how you play the game out? That would be cool.

Moneytalks · Thu 18/08/2005 22:14:33

As of yet anything is possible, i'm new to the program, and still learning to work it.
But i agree that would be cool, so i'll take that into consideration. I hope to make changes as i learn to use the engine. N yeah, i'm re-reading the Potter books at the moment! lol

Moneytalks · Wed 31/08/2005 19:55:53

I've added a new screen shot showing the updated GUI and a new new room. Also updated the progress report.

Ubel · Wed 31/08/2005 20:22:44

I actually really like the graphics. And I mean it. It looks so funny! The whole idea sounds good to me. I'm very much waiting for this game.

Moneytalks · Wed 31/08/2005 20:30:45

Why thank you for the compliment! I mean, i can't draw, but i'm relitavely pleased with the results. So yeah, thanks for the comment!

Mordalles · Wed 31/08/2005 21:16:05

this looks nice, i'll be waiting.

Moneytalks · Thu 01/09/2005 19:29:29

Thanks for the positives. I have altered the GUI yet again, making it less cluttered and confusing to look at, and also slightly more user friendly. I have been working on several more backgrounds, and i'll post those here when the rooms are completed.

PyroMonkey · Thu 01/09/2005 19:39:06

Looks a lot better.

The inspect thing's kinda iffy even in concept, and in the GUI it's all scrunched and messy looking, so I'd suggest you replace it with some sort of symbol relating to the game.

Otherwise, looks pretty good.

Moneytalks · Thu 01/09/2005 19:56:16

Yeah, problem is, i can't think of anything right now, i mean, i'ts bassically a quick look option, telling you what something is. It's there so if you want to search for something in a room, you can easily, but so when you're not looking for something, the mouseover loading doesn't slow the game down, which is annoying. So i could use, say a glance option or something...
Ideas?
Thanks.

PyroMonkey · Thu 01/09/2005 21:05:04

Yeah, perhaps just simply shortening the name of the Inspect option to something that wouldn't look squished would be fine.

Glance is a good alternative, as well as perhaps scan.

Moneytalks · Thu 01/09/2005 22:25:28

Scan would be great, as all the others are four or three letters long, so thanks!

Akumayo · Mon 05/09/2005 22:25:04

Cool looking game, what'd you use to build the backgrounds? Doesn't look like MSPaint to me...
Looking forward to this one's completion (wondering about the inventory items though, they look...bland, next to the backgrounds, and the cook too, both lack a little in the detail you show in the other areas)

Moneytalks · Tue 06/09/2005 15:45:56

Cheers for the comments, and yeah, it's half paint, but then i use another program called brush, solely for its blur tool, just to mix it all. But yeah, i'm not quite happy with the cook either, problem being, when i blur a character, they develop a white outline around them, which is a pain to get rid of. When i have done a little more work i will post more background etc.

Moneytalks · Sat 10/09/2005 14:27:24

New screen shot up, just to give you a taster of the new rooms which i have completed.

Moneytalks · Mon 12/09/2005 19:19:48

Just tidied up the top post, change dthe screenies and progress report, thought it was looking a bit of a mess! 8)

Moneytalks · Thu 06/10/2005 23:54:17

Sorry about the lack of updates, but i have had some family troubles - my dad crashed motorcycle racing, and has badly injured his leg, but i won't go into that!

Anyhow, progress has continued with the game, which you can check out in the main post!