I got this idea for a zombie-horror game called "House of the rising sun".
Yes, I get inspired by music, I don't know why.
It's just a small idea for a story:
There is a story about a house far out on the country, that is called "Sunrise Manor". They say that at night, the house is inavded by monsters beyond your scariest thoughts. But then, why is it called sunrise manor?
That's because, they say that it's the only house where you can see the sun rise at morning in the whole country.
As the sun rises, the manor becomes nothing but, a normal manor.
Although, no one has ever got the guts to go into the manor, not even at day.
They say that, as fast as you go into the manor, the sun will go down quicker than anywhere else, and the monsters begins to rise from where they vanished when the sun rised.
And the night won't end until they've had their meal for the da... I mean night.
It's just a small beggining of a story, If I'm going to make this, it'll be after I'm finished with "Life of a Rockstar".
So, what do you think?
Sounds like an interesting idea. Just remember to keep it tounge-in-cheek.
"they say that it's the only house where you can see the sun rise at morning in the whole country."
This part, I don't understand. Why wouldn't you be able to see the sun rise from any other house?.... Or did you mean something else?...
;D Sounds Awesome!
Quote from: Eggie on Fri 23/07/2004 17:03:55Just remember to keep it tounge-in-cheek.
Why do you say this, out of interest? Personally, I think it's much more of an achievement to successfully pull off a serious horror game then it is to do a jokey one. I'd say this idea has the potential to make a good straight horror game, though it all depends on how well it's handled of course.
you'd also have to give the protagonist a pretty good reason to enter that house :)
how about its like a dare or something?
Quote from: Ozwalled on Fri 23/07/2004 21:23:22
"they say that it's the only house where you can see the sun rise at morning in the whole country."
This part, I don't understand. Why wouldn't you be able to see the sun rise from any other house?.... Or did you mean something else?...
It sounds a little strange, yeah.
I made a slight change of the story:
Quote from: Largo on Fri 23/07/2004 16:17:09
There is a story about a house far out on the country, that is called "Sunrise Manor". They say that at night, monsters begins to rise from the ground, monsters beyond your scariest thoughts. But then, why is it called sunrise manor?
That's because, they say that as the night stretches over the house, it changes shape to a big, dark and monster infected manor, but as the sun rises, the manor becomes nothing but, a normal manor.
Although, no one has ever got the guts to go into the manor, not even at day.
They say that, as fast as you go into the manor, the sun will go down quicker than anywhere else, and the monsters begins to rise from where they vanished when the sun rised.
And the night won't end until they've had their meal for the da... I mean night.
However, there is a story about 5 youngsters that got lost as they were searching for the town's local pool-club where they were supposed to meet their other friends for a drink.
They saw the big manor (the sun hadn't gone down yet) and one of them said:
"Let's go in and ask for help there!"
As no one knew about the dangers of the manor, they drove towards the manor.
The road was sorrounded by tall and dark trees.
As they were half-way towards the manor, a very hurt and insane man came towards them and warned them: "Don't go there! There are demons, zombies, ghouls and monsters beyond your worst nightmares!"
The young man driving the car, which thought the man was just demented said to him:
"Get out of the road, oldie! We're just gonna ask about the way to the pool-club!"
"That's what I was going to do too, Don't blame me if you get eaten by the monsters, I warned you." the man says as he walks away into the deep dark forest.
The youngsters were all a little bit frightened of what the man said, but they drove towards the house.
As they arrived, one of the two girls in the car said: "Are you sure we should go in there, after all you heard what the old man said, and the wounds on him looked very suspicious."
The guy who drove the car stepped out of it and said:
"Don't worry, Clara, If we get attacked by any monsters, I'm gonna protect you til' they've eaten every single piece of my flesh."
The other girl stepped out of the car and said:
"Let's go then. It's getting kinda dark, and John has probably been waiting at the club for a while now."
"You're right. Are you coming guys?"
The other two guys climbed out of the car, and they started walking towards the manor. And that's how it all starts...
Sounds better, but i prefer the fact that its the only manor that sees the sunrise, I like that kind of weird stuff. Thats just my opinion.
Quote from: remmies on Sat 24/07/2004 15:53:15
Sounds better, but i prefer the fact that its the only manor that sees the sunrise, I like that kind of weird stuff. Thats just my opinion.
Hmm... It can still be the only that sees the sunrise, because of the fact that it's all woods and plains around it.
Do you guys think I should do this or Life of a Rockstar first?
ALthough they are both very good games I think yoiu should do this horror game first, it seems very unique and interesting something that i could play for hours.
Did you mean, like, the only house in teh town that can see the sunrise?...
heheh... the hurt and insane man also wanted to know the way to the pool club?;) j/k
It sounds good, has the potential for a great game
Quote from: Ozwalled on Sat 24/07/2004 23:57:00
Did you mean, like, the only house in teh town that can see the sunrise?...
It's a few kilometers away from the town but yeah, You can't see the sunrise in the town, since it's a town with tall buildings and such.
Quote from: Babloyi on Sun 25/07/2004 00:06:11
heheh... the hurt and insane man also wanted to know the way to the pool club?;) j/k
Hehe, He wasn't insane from the beggining but all the ghouls and monsters etc. made him go mad.
I could a little bit too the story that "Almost everyone who seeks for the pool-club ends up at the mansion for an unknown reason". ;)
I decided to make this before I make LoAR. *changes topic-name to "Sunrise Manor - Official Topic".*
sounds cool.. But House of the Rising sun is more about fighting normal people.. lol I dunno, I have to listen to it again.. But if I listen to it I think about a western or a cool movie I'd like to address similar to Dead Man Walking. But that's just me.
Go for it dood.. Albeit it sounds more like a movie than a game.
Quote from: [lgm] on Sun 25/07/2004 14:41:37Go for it dood.. Albeit it sounds more like a movie than a game.
Yeah, you're right about that =)
Sorry for double posting but here's the title screen:
(http://img70.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Largo/title.gif)
What do you think?
It looks a bit disorganised. Also, I think there is too much blood for it to look forboding or scary. Perhaps you can give the title a bit more depth as well? It looks kinda flat now...
These few hints should help make the title screen look better:
- The "Sunrise Manor" font looks good for now. I wouldn't change it - maybe change the colors and make it a little less bright. Also you could reduce the effect, that in the middle of "Sunrise Manor" the font is brighter. This looks too standard to me. But altogether the font is still good.
- The Menu Option Buttons ("Start New Game", "Load Saved Game" and "Quit Game") are looking way to standard. To make them better change the Arial-Font. Then change the color. Maybe you could use the same font style than in the title font "Sunrise Manor"!
- Ok. The next thing is the background. This black/white color gradient is a good idea. I would keep it but maybe try to kill that "stairs"-effect. I don't know if its just there because of that compressed image format.
- And then - as babloyi said - change the blood brushes you've used. Don't use these brushes all over that image... try to create a little "lake" of blood or something on the right side of the image. It would look better, I think. However - just an idea.
Over all - good work. Keep it up.
I think it looks a bit like the game is going to be a platformer
Quote from: Zor_©? on Mon 26/07/2004 14:53:34
I think it looks a bit like the game is going to be a platformer
Hehe, now that you say that, it actually does. =P
I've made a new title screen:
(http://img70.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Largo/title2.gif)
Which one is best? (The "stepping" is there because of it is saved as gif)
You could do a circular gradient on the words Sunrise Manor, with a yellow in the bottom centre that fades red towards the egde (sunrise effect).
EDIT
A quick 5 minute paintover to show what I mean. I also added depth.
(http://www.freewebs.com/flibblestudios/SM.gif)
Hmm. It's a freewebs gif, why won't it show?
Quote from: Mr Flibble on Mon 26/07/2004 18:31:25
You could do a circular gradient on the words Sunrise Manor, with a yellow in the bottom centre that fades red towards the egde (sunrise effect).
EDIT
A quick 5 minute paintover to show what I mean. I also added depth.
(http://www.freewebs.com/flibblestudios/SM.gif)
Hmm. It's a freewebs gif, why won't it show?
Use photobucket instead. www.photobucket.com
Rightio.
(http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v361/A1B2C3D4E5MrFlibble/SM.gif)
I added depth, but I didn't finish the last few letters.
The idea was the shading would be on the LEFT and TOP on the letters to the left of the sun, on TOP of the letters above the sun, and to the RIGHT and TOP of the letters to the right of the sun.
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Idealost.gif)
I made this in 6 mins, its like static on a tv. With a static sound, i think this would freak out a few people.
I know!!! The guy is a real estate agent, and he finally has a buyer for the house... but he has to stay in it for one night before they will buy.... Yeah!!!!
Losttraveler, you certainly managed to make my eyes hurt.
Bad static, bad!
I like Largo's latest version, but I agree with Mr. Flibble that the sun-like radient might look good. But the menu buttons doesn't look as good as the title, because you have changed the shape (you know, they are higher in the middle...) LostTraveler's isn't bad... but it has nothing to with Sunrise Manor.
Yeah, the static kind of hurts my eyes, LostTraveler. But I bet that intro would make people who've seen The Ring scared.
just my take on it
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sunrisemanor2.gif)
Quote from: Alynn on Tue 27/07/2004 13:35:59
I know!!! The guy is a real estate agent, and he finally has a buyer for the house... but he has to stay in it for one night before they will buy.... Yeah!!!!
Nah, that sounds like a typical "horror-movie" for kids =P .
Quote from: Petteri on Tue 27/07/2004 13:51:00
I like Largo's latest version, but I agree with Mr. Flibble that the sun-like radient might look good. But the menu buttons doesn't look as good as the title, because you have changed the shape (you know, they are higher in the middle...) LostTraveler's isn't bad... but it has nothing to with Sunrise Manor.
Hmm... I like the font in LostTraveler's though.
Maybe, you could take Zootyfruit's pic (BTW, nice pic!) and replace the Sunrise Manor text in that one with the one from LT's, but with a sunrise effect.
The font is Oglive.
I really like the simplicity of zootys. I recomend taking an aproach like that rather then GOREFEST with blood everywhere.
The Ring 2 is coming out!
Zooty's is my favorite.
Since I don't feel like drawing it at the moment, what I'm picturing fr a title screen is the manor, more or less in black (with some highlights, maybe... and possibly a window that we can see into where there's a silhouette of some zombie creature), with the sun coming over the horizon in the backround.
Zootyfruit's looks nice, though.
The static, while an interesting idea, doesn't really seem to fit with what you're planning to do with the game at all...
just a bit of fun:
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sunriseanim.gif)
Quote from: Largo on Mon 26/07/2004 16:30:37
I've made a new title screen:
(http://img70.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Largo/title2.gif)
I think this one would be good if you put in the gradient and remove the big red Slashes.
I've made two new title screens (or two different versions of one title).
Now, I want to know which ones best:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Largo/sunrisemanortitle.gif)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Largo/sunrisemanortitle2.gif)
(Found the zombie on google)
i'm sorry but i have too much free time. i did a quick mod
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sunrisezombies.gif)
Quote from: Zootyfruit on Wed 28/07/2004 12:10:32
i'm sorry but i have too much free time. i did a quick mod
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sunrisezombies.gif)
I like how the zombie looks red-transparentish, but I'm not very fond of the way the manor looks...
in what way? give some specifics and maybe ure own version and I can do mre
Quote from: Zootyfruit on Wed 28/07/2004 17:26:07
in what way? give some specifics and maybe ure own version and I can do mre
Could you (please) do my new title (the one with the zombie) with a red-tranparent zombie? =)
I think it would look best if the zombie head was on the left closer to the bottom and it was more of a frontal view, but still keep the manor on the right. Thats what I think... ;D
dont steal from fleshrot...
if you need some help with backgrounds, id be happy to have a go... i really want to paint oils and use them as backgrounds, but for now i havent had a chance to do so. anyway, you can check out some of my stuff at www.sinusmantra.deviantart.com
-patrick
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sunrisemanor2.gif
This one is very good, just maybe use LT's title with a sunrise gradient.
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sunrisezombies.gif
This is good as well, just replace the title again.