City of Fortune - the 2nd attempt

Broomie · Sun 29/08/2004 19:35:57

Hey didn't realise you were the same Bernie from Fallen Angel Ind. This game looks great and good luck with it. It's great to see Klikkers using AGS aswell. Keep up the good work.

Bernie · Sun 29/08/2004 20:45:15

Oi, thanks! You know, your name sounds familiar, I think I heard it before... maybe at www.create-games.com ? I'm pretty sure I saw you there.

Broomie · Sun 29/08/2004 22:48:50

The one and only.

Cluey · Mon 30/08/2004 00:58:12

Ahh, "Klikking", Im so crap at clickteam products, can never be arsed with all the make your own movement crap.
Anyway, CoF looks ace, give up, and you may find a horses head in your sheets, but that may be due to an unrelated matter, so you may not...

fovmester · Mon 30/08/2004 07:52:13

Wow! How cool is this!? I really love the sneak and hit things! They really make this game something special. I'm writing this one down on my Longing-To-Play-list. Good work!

Bernie · Mon 30/08/2004 15:28:41

Clueless3 - Thanks for the comment! The problem with clickteams' game makers is that the inbuilt movement stuff is very limiting and buggy. If you don't make your own movement, you won't get satisfying results. Other than that, MMF is powerful enough to make a 1:1 clone of Super Mario World for the SNES.

fovmester - Hehe, thanks!

Here's another concept pic, this time it's the second main character:

A small progress update:
I've pretty much finished the enemy AI. They react to sounds now, too - when you're not sneaking they might hear your footsteps and look for you for a while. You can make sounds to distract enemies, as well - to lure a guard away from his post, and so on.

Mr Flibble · Mon 30/08/2004 21:35:06

Can I just say i am a great fan of your work. Your art is to die for and this game is suddenly all I ever wanted.

splat44 · Tue 31/08/2004 09:03:02

Excellent work with graphics bernhard.

I certainly cannot wait to game's completion.

Regards

evilspacefart · Thu 09/09/2004 19:59:28

Wow! Beautiful! Good to see this one, but sad to see the old game die. I REALLY liked the GUI in the old game. Is it too late to hint that the old GUI (to my eyes at least) fits the style of the backgrounds and character art better?
cheers.

Bernie · Thu 09/09/2004 21:30:04

Thanks for the comment but... sorry, it's too late.

I'd have to redo the backgrounds in a different size, and I don't really want to do that. I've been thinking about making completely new GUI graphics for the current one - not sure about that yet, though.

splat44 · Sun 12/09/2004 22:33:52

Hi Bernie,

When is it expeceted to complete that game?

Excellent graphics though.

splat44

Bernie · Mon 13/09/2004 14:38:14

Can't really tell... my progress on it varies too much to even make a rough estimation.

Phemar · Mon 13/09/2004 19:11:35

OMG WTF THOSE GRAPHICS RULE!!

I am deadly serious, thos graphics are just awesome. I'd suggest the GUI buttons back to their small size. IMO it looks better.

Bernie · Tue 14/09/2004 03:26:46

Thanks! About the GUI - I've been working on a new design for it:

pslocum · Tue 14/09/2004 06:27:49

Excellent-looking game.

Bernie · Wed 15/09/2004 10:40:58

Thanks! ^^

Recently, I grew tired of the current character designs. So I've decided to redesign them, and like them much better now (they're also easier to animate, done walking cycles and talking anis for all 3 of them).

Here's a pic:

Sam. · Wed 15/09/2004 20:53:30

loving the new character styles. the gui i have problems with. maybe its just my aversion to ovals. mybe connect the top two together and the bottom two together with another horisontal. not really sure what it is about it.

Scummbuddy · Wed 15/09/2004 21:27:03

i actually really like the ovals. very unique, pluis theyre pretty. wonderful job so far. i like how, at least it looks like, that since you last posted yesterday, you have remade the three characters completley and you say its much easier to animate them. maybe you did remake them all within a day, of course we could all get into that motivation, but i just thought it was funny. "I didn't feel that they were perfect, so I completly revamped them, within a couple hours. Is that too long?"

Bernie · Thu 16/09/2004 00:46:43

Haha, thanks!

I've actually gotten quite fast at spriting and making walkcycly things, and they only have 6 frame cycles and 4 directions too, so it really wasn't as much work as it may sound. I took me about 2 days to make them. I've been thinking about redoing them for a quite a while, though.

Zootyfruit - Connecting those ovals might look nice, kinda like in the middle... gonna try it out.

[Cameron] · Thu 16/09/2004 09:51:56

I excitedly await the realease of this game.