Played your demo, must say I enjoyed it. Criticisms:
:: Do something about those trees, the put everything off balance, in scale (change them back to normal size).
:: Gather more sounds for you characters, especially your guide... it gets tiring hearing the same sounds all over again.
:: Zelda sounds a bit spoilt (not sure if its intentional or not)
:: I really like your npc designs.. however link and a few other npc look paper thin when facing up or down. (They dont match the perspective, you should be able to see the top of the top of there heads)
Blue background is the original sprite, red is the edited one
:: Link looks apsolutly weird from the side, well he looks like Hermes or a blond kid icarus (without the wings on his back)
:: Those balloons should definitely go pop when you swing your sword at them
:: The festival fireworks should stop after Zelda gets kidnapped. Its just seems out of place that they just continue, and why doesnt anyone care for her?
:: Whats up with all those chests in peoples homes?
I hope Im helping out. :-)
It's a shame to see one of my rivals end their project. Just means I need ass-whoop martijn in the league of best fan game then
Hold your horses there
Personally I considered this project like the polar opposite to my own. In the sense that this game focuses a lot on graphical aspects (which got praise) whereas I focus heavily on the engine aspects. So I never really considered us rivals because that would not do any game justice. That being said I always liked the screenshots shown here.
If I may be so arogant as to give a bit of advice: I do not think it is wise to build a fangame solely for the praise, because that will run dry. Take it from someone who has been at it for a longer time: the more you add, the more people will take for granted. Well, in my case anyway because it looks a lot like the original. But I believe it is also true for fangames in general, if not all games. What you really need to finish a project is a strong drive from within. Like considering it a personal challenge, a hobby to tinker around with it or just taking pleasure from being able to build whatever you want to build.
I don't have horses. How about dogs? *Holds the dogs*
Good to know my post did it's purpose and brought martijn in on this scenario. Well actually martijn, all three of our projects rival
TWDP > Graphics focus
Martijn > Engine focus
Tetiro > Half and half focus and Story focus
And it's good to have rivalry as I think of our projects rivalry as friendly rivalry. That's why I give critism on both projects to aid in improving themI agree with martijn, the screenshots are always pretty. Even with that damn button part of the HUD bugging me lmao
QuoteIf I may be so arogant as to give a bit of advice: I do not think it is wise to build a fangame solely for the praise, because that will run dry. Take it from someone who has been at it for a longer time: the more you add, the more people will take for granted. Well, in my case anyway because it looks a lot like the original. But I believe it is also true for fangames in general, if not all games. What you really need to finish a project is a strong drive from within. Like considering it a personal challenge, a hobby to tinker around with it or just taking pleasure from being able to build whatever you want to build.
I 100% agree. This is why I just keep on going and only when I myself realise a project is a bad idea do I start a new one. That's why I stopped Chiming Bells in 2009 and started it again in 2011 (And now look how badass it is)
lol if you gonna go with KT's idea for dogs, should should also have some item that lets you talk to them. For example, they can give hints, mainly in towns.
It's a shame to see one of my rivals end their project. Just means I need ass-whoop martijn in the league of best fan game then
Hold your horses there
Personally I considered this project like the polar opposite to my own. In the sense that this game focuses a lot on graphical aspects (which got praise) whereas I focus heavily on the engine aspects. So I never really considered us rivals because that would not do any game justice. That being said I always liked the screenshots shown here.
If I may be so arogant as to give a bit of advice: I do not think it is wise to build a fangame solely for the praise, because that will run dry. Take it from someone who has been at it for a longer time: the more you add, the more people will take for granted. Well, in my case anyway because it looks a lot like the original. But I believe it is also true for fangames in general, if not all games. What you really need to finish a project is a strong drive from within. Like considering it a personal challenge, a hobby to tinker around with it or just taking pleasure from being able to build whatever you want to build.
I agree with martijn, the screenshots are always pretty. Even with that damn button part of the HUD bugging me lmao If I may be so arogant as to give a bit of advice: I do not think it is wise to build a fangame solely for the praise, because that will run dry. Take it from someone who has been at it for a longer time: the more you add, the more people will take for granted. Well, in my case anyway because it looks a lot like the original. But I believe it is also true for fangames in general, if not all games. What you really need to finish a project is a strong drive from within. Like considering it a personal challenge, a hobby to tinker around with it or just taking pleasure from being able to build whatever you want to build.
If you're going to go the route of OpenGL, there are really two suggestions, depending on what you're interested in. I'd personally go with OpenGL 3, because I'm cool like that, but OpenGL 2.x will still give you access to the fixed-function pipeline.
If you need a learning resource for it, I recommend Beginning OpenGL® Game Programming, Second Edition (ISBN 978-1-59863-528-7) by Luke Benstead.
Can't take Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks seriously since both were like playing with baby toys.
Other than that, though, idk. I guess it's good?
There's only going to be a few annoying ice moments. A miniboss fight, an optional boss fight (Fire Chapter), an ice room and a boss fight. Oh and the occasional ice blocks you walk on.You're a monster hahaha. Undoubtedly I'm going to die a lot of times with that boss
About the Allusions. Could you put one of Richard or the Ghost from Link's Awakening??
I've implemented the followingDude, the entrance to the Frozen Shrine looks very nice. As always
-Goriyas with Boomerangs!
-Ice Slipping!
About the slipping... personally I hate it because that makes very hard any dungeon and... I've to recognize but I'm not good with the ice floor
Goriyas with Boomerangs!? I really would like to see them.
Very good job sir!
Hahaha... not, absolutely not. This "bad guy" is the tipical wizard/witch/dark lord/etc who wants to awake/revive/bring back/or something like that to the evilest character (known as Ganon/Ganondorf/Vaati/Bellum).What "bad guy"?Does this mean that there's going to be a unique bad guy in this story?
If you don't enjoy it then it is better to quit.I totally agree with you!!
I think you're experimenting the tipical symptoms of ummmm... lack of ideas when you've come a long way in your project.
But, seriously, I think it would be a shame to see your project being one more of the long list of the unfinished Zelda fan games.
Perhaps you could take a few days or weeks, refresh your ideas and, then, get back to the work dude.
That's my advice
), take a few days or even a week off and I'm sure you'll be full of ideas. It would be a shame to see it on the unfinished pile. I took mine off the pile because I started to have great ideas. And now it's awesome! The best games come from time
What "bad guy"?
Chiming Bells: My main "enemy." I don't know if King Tetiro felt the same, but I felt as if I was competing with his game, even after NCFC. I'd go to the Game Maker Community and see people praising his game, whereas they had disliked mine a while back. Of course, he deserves the praise. He's been faithful to his game, and has developed his much further than mine. He has a story, NPCs, actual game content, etc.
Too bad. You have decided that. But on this forum the feedback has always been little. Even after almost a year of being away it has not changed. I know that Tetiro has been working on Chimming Bells for a long time. He even had other projects beside that from which he learned a lot. And Horn of Balance has been here ever since I joined this forum. You should also consider that no feedback means that no one has anything to complain.
You should go with a language you feel confident in. If you are going to use a language you have never used before, than it is commended for learning something new. However it will require you to put a !@#$% load of work to get familiar with the syntax and supporting facilities.
I know you have worked with C# before, so I would suggest that. But it is your choice. But if it is a university final project, you probably are probably going to be mostly judged on the design of your engine.
Cheers for the advice. I'm currently doing a research phase and will be trying out a few development tools and such. So I'm trying new software and languages. However it is most likely I will be used C++ for my actual product I develop
Construct is basically an alternative to GameMaker. It's actually pretty neat with a built in event system, some reckon it to be better but I've not used either enough to sayThat shall be the software I try tomorrow! Btw, out of the following
Could you tell me which of them are programming languages and which aren't?Do you intend to do any of the work for this?
FreeBASIC, Visual Basic, DarkBASIC, Blitz, C#, and Java are all programming languages. Construct seems to be an engine. Everything below those is a library for C++ (a few having bindings for other languages).
