Here’s some great news for Shining Force fangame developers. Aura4, author of the Shining Force II remake project, has released the source code for the original demo!
You’ll need a few things before it will compile:
There’s more information on the download page, including a few tweaks you’ll need to make to get everything playing nicely.
Enough talk, Go get it!
It’s just a quick update today, but seeing as there’s a small amount of momentum I want to keep it going.
Old Graphics, New Graphics
I’m sure you remember the wonderful graphics from the original demo’s. If not, let’s have a little refresh…
In order: Wooden Sword, Wooden Spear, Wooden Rod, Short Sword and Medical Herb. I doubled the size for visibility’s sake.
Here’s what they currently look like.
It’s the first bit of pixel art I’ve done for long time, but I think it’s an improvement on the originals.
I’ve always liked the style of Shining Force 3, so that’s what I was aiming for here, whilst trying to keep the old Shining Online style.
Any comments or criticisms are welcome :)
Shining Online has been going for a very long time.
Actually, that’s not really true. It was started a long time ago, and is sporadically worked on. Maybe one day it will be finished. Maybe.
After reading an old review of the Atari ST demo of Shining Online, I looked through my old emails to revive some fond memories. Here’s some old feedback from when things were just starting to get interesting.
The hardest part is getting started
how can i play this game (shining online),i mean what should i do after i download it
…wrong game
Dude! Any chance of getting some tips on designing character sets for rpg 2k? They dont seem to work for some strange reason!
At least they apologised
I DONT MEAN TO BOTHER YOU OR ANY THINg (IN FACT I DONT KNOW IF YOU EVEN UP DATE THIS SITE AND MORE) BUT IDED LIKE TO KNOW WHAT U USE TO MAKE THIS GAME I DONT KNOW HOW TO PROGRAM SO I AM LOOKING FOR AN EDITOR IF YOU WANNA KEEP IT SECRET THATS OK TO
Short and sweet
I hate you
And finally…
When we were starting out, it seemed like a good idea to ask people what they wanted. Here’s my favourite survey result:
Name : Obright and Bowie
Age :87
Website : www.thiswebsiteisajoke.com
System:
1] PC
Specs:
ITs big an hairy much like the shining online game. But unlike the shining online game my computer is Good
Do you think a fan made SF game is a good Idea?
Yes
Do you think online options are important?
Very Important
Which Shining Sites do you visit regularly?
This one because its SOOOOO dam good
Comments
I would like to see the makers of the game as the easy bosses so we can kill them and they will never make any more games
You can’t buy fans like that ;)
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ChrisW posted in Ye Olde Blah to show off screens from his new project, "Gathering Light". It’s Flash based, and although it’s still early in development it’s looking very promising.
From the forum topic:
All information is stored server side, but the game still remains single player. You can search for players in the arena, which are pulled up randomly, from there you can check out their status page and all of their members and then battle them. Your rank will either increase or decrease depending on your wins and losses, party level sum, total gold, etc, etc.
Even though battles are all single player, you can still trade, join guilds, and enter tournaments. There is also a story mode which you can play when you don’t feel like PvPing. Story mode allows players to gain special characters, items and unlock new PvP maps.
You can find more information on the Gathering Light Website, including a forum for feedback and a blog with plenty of screenshots and development news. Stop by and take a look :)
Here’s a little project I stumbled upon a few days ago. At the moment it’s more of a tech demo, but it’s still a neat little concept.
I’m sure you’ll recognise some of the tiles, too ;)
Homepage: Undeadly.ca
