king's quest 5 remake (recruiting)

[loontje]

I saw this topic:  http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=40399.0   about which remakes we'd all like to see. King's Quest 5 was also mentioned. And since it has been a long time dream of mine to be involved with a King's Quest remake and since "number 5 wasn't being remade yet and the position was still open" I decided to repaint two backgrounds as a test.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/loontje/sierra_003v26.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/loontje/sierra_012v26.png

Of course, they still need a lot of work. But I like the result so far.... The thing is I could never finish this on my own, so I'm looking for people to help me out. Artists (knowing how to animate sprites would be a huge plus), "technical" people who can help me with coding and musicians. If you're interested please PM me.

[Babar]

I´m not quite sure that KQ5 would need a remake, certainly not in the art department. Personally, I always thought that 5 and 6 were the most beautiful of the Kings Quest games. It appears that the only difference with yours is that the size has been increased?

Castle shot

[Monsieur OUXX]

"number 5 wasn't being remade yet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/loontje/sierra_003v26.png

I don't get it.
Of course, console versions of the game are not looking good :


...But the PC version was already VGA! (that's from the actual game)



Did I miss something?

[Darth Mandarb]

While I would like to thank you for not opening a Games in Production thread for this, it still doesn't belong in a thread in this board either! 

There is a Recruit a Team thread specifically for this type of post!

[Andail]

I'm not sure what you did to those backgrounds merits to be called repainting

[Gilbert]

I think he smoothened/smudged(?) the images to make them true colour. Compare carefully the original 256 colour castle shot with his paint-over. Look at the rocks, the grass and the rocks. IMO the differences are barely noticeable to warrant a remake.

[deadsuperhero]

How about updating the Amiga SCI verisons to their full glory?  

Edit: Or better yet, rebuild them from scratch to be compatible with AmigaOS4.

[xenogia]

Somebody should demake Kings Quest 5 in the AGI engine

[Phemar]

Somebody should demake Kings Quest 5 in the AGI engine

That sounds like an awesome idea. I love AGI

[Gilbert]

With handy tools such as WinAGI this is actually not difficult (but it requires patience, a lot of it, perhaps). In fact, after some searching, a former member here did manage to draw some of the KQ5 backgrounds in AGI (too bad his site expired and we cannot view the images and they're not even accessible via archive.org it seems ).

Let's make this instead :

[Monsieur OUXX]

Let's make this instead :

I've seen that font somewhere ;-)

[Andail]

Everytime I see that screenshot I laugh out loud

[blueskirt]

It's just me or every great adventure games in VGA graphics (or later) would look and feel awesome in AGI?

[mkennedy]

It would be nice to remove any dead ends from the game, unless you are upgrading the graphics to a higher resolution or introducing new content I don't really see the need for a remake.

In that AGI screen shuriken is misspelled.

[Dualnames]

It's just me or every great adventure games in VGA graphics (or later) would look and feel awesome in AGI?

I totally second that! Also, is there ONE actual difference on those two pictures?

[LRH]

I know this is offtopic but I'm too damn curious, WHAT is that screenshot from? O_O

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

It's an agi mockup for Ben Jordan .

[xenogia]

Just thought I'd add these images.  These pictures were created by one of the guys from Infamous Adventures.  See if you can recognise what games he re-created.

[Gilbert]

I've seen that font somewhere ;-)

It's actually the NAGI font. Seems that pixel fonts look very similar.

I made that simple bg in AGI and painted a single cel of the character, so it was indeed an AGI screenshot. It was made for an April Fool's prank several years ago.

To stay on topic, apart from making demakes of KQ5, seeing that games like MI and MI2 were being remade there may still be some reason to remake KQ5 (afterall it was one of the earliest SCI games in 256 colours, but the slight changes in the shots in this thread don't seem to be enough reason for this). Maybe we can have higher resolution bgs (not as lazy as those in LSL6 CD, and, no 3-D please ). Or, just removing Cedric from the CD talkie version is a good enough reason.

[xenogia]

It would be hilarious if someone made a KQ5 FMV game.. haha