Strider of Feral Lands - New video (May 2011)

[Dualnames]

It moves quite fluently, looks really nice. Hope its addicting as well.

On a sidenote, MOREEEEE!!

[thecmlfactor]

Those are some awesome looking backgrounds. You may have a hit on your hands.

[beomoud]

Awesome. I'm really looking forward for this one. I myself had started a while back an RPG called Mystic Hall. Best of luck and I hope you give us a little demo before the release.

[Pixelton]

That really looks fantastic...sadly I never played the moonstone game but this looks great it reminds me of defender of the crown for some reason - lovely.

[Nickel]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

@Dualnames: Me too.  We will give you the inventory next (working on it right now).

@thecmlfactor: And a pain in the neck. On the other hand, it's the work of one and a half year (we got more, though).

@beomoud: We think about a tech demo, letting you test the duel. But before the release there will be a real demo anyway.

@Mark Borg: Moonstone is abandonware, you can get it from abandonia.com for example and play it with DOSBox or WinUAE.

BTW: We are youtube-noobs and recorded the sound to low, so remeber to push up the volume before you watch the videos.


//why is this nice smiley called 'cheesy'?

[Matti]

Here's a new screenshot, showing the character sheet and the witch who is waiting to mix and sell potions to the player.

We're going for a rather loose look of the inventory and limited RPG elements, similar to Moonstone as the main focus lies on action.

The items are WIP and the cursor is ripped from buckethead's new game and will be replaced in time.

[Gabriel_Down]

Well, ... I'd buy whatever she was selling.

[Nickel]

She will sell our game... via internet...  :

[Gabriel_Down]

weak

[Nickel]

Take it with a grain of salt.

[Gabriel_Down]

hahaha

[Matti]

We worked a lot over the last months and accomplished quite a few things. We quadrupled the size of the map, so that it's now scrolling and the player can't see everything at once. As we still need to redraw the whole thing (as it's now just resized), we can't present any screenshot.

We also finally have a rough plot for the game and decided to have a single-player storymode next to the standard arcade mode. In storymode there'll be special encounters/events and dialogs with several characters like this harpy:



Here's a mockup of a harpy in action:



We're also working on several battles, like this gang of rogues:

[Igor Hardy]

Nice harpies design.

[Chicky]

Apparently i have yet to comment, so... This looks fantastic guys! The hand painted style is full of charm.

[Matti]

Thanks guys.

Ascovel, we still haven't decided on how humanlike the harpy faces will be, but the overall design is set. We have some animations ready but didn't start to code the battle yet. Btw, the harpies will play a rather important role in the story, but I'm not going to spoil too much.

[theo]

This looks rockin'!

[Matti]

Thanks, theo!

And here's a new video with a gang of rogues!

[Mati256]

This is the first news I have about this game or about Moonstone (which is downloading right now), but this looks awesome. I love the concept and the videos are spectacular.
Is there going to be a health bar? Looks like there is none in the screens and video.

[Daniel Thomas]

Looking great! I Love Moonstone, so this will be a must play!

[Matti]

Thank you.

Mati: There won't be a health bar. We don't want to make the game too arcade-like, instead a bit more realistic and intuitive. We're not sure yet, but most likely we won't even give away the stats of most of the equipment (like the sword damage). This may put off die-hard RPG fans, not the Moonstone fans though.