Things have changed a lot since those early days. But even though the Shining Force front is quiet (come on Sega, re-release SF3 already) there are still new shining-style projects being developed.

TSS would not be what it is today without everyone that has visited us over the years. Whether you downloaded a demo, created your own, or just sent us an email calling us shit, we are eternally thankful for you.

Finally I’d like to thank Devlyn for giving life to the site all those years ago. And thank you to some of our original contributors: Edgemaster, Elvenfyre, and Newts. You all helped turn this place into something special.

Stay safe, drink applesap, and keep on Shining. Here’s to another 20 years!

Read More: SHINING FORCE II REMAKE – Granseal – Shining Force Central

There’s a treat in store for members of Shining Force Central, the web’s largest Shining Force fansite. After 4 years of work, Moogie has released an updated version of the hugely popular RPG/Shop system. However, it’s not just a cosmetic update – there’s now a complete battle system to go along with the shops, items and collectibles.

Features include:

• Create characters and equip them with classic Shining Force items
• Fight monsters in the Battle Arena and level up
• Sell rare items in the auction house
• Buy and sell shares to make a little (or a lot) of gold on the side
• Become hopelessly addicted to collecting the capsule toy figures

There’s more information, as well as tips for success, in the RPG Discussion Forum. If you’d rather just dive in, you can head to the forum RPG page.

Shining Force Central Forum RPG

Make sure you drop by his topic and check out all the screens. The project is also looking for programmers, so if you have some 3D game experience I’m sure your help will be greatly appreciated!

The site has also been added to the rpg-dev.net Top 50 list. Feel free to help us out by voting :)

Check out a few of the updated projects:

• Shiny Sword
• Shining Online
• Shining Guitar

If you have a project and want it to have a pretty banner, you want your user sprite changing, or anything else really, drop me a line on Ye Olde Blah and I’ll fix it up.

• A Basic Events System.

  A look at a simple Shining/RPG style events system.

• Interview with bEn and Grom

  An interesting interview with two Shining veterans – bEn and Grom, authors of “Shining Force – The Awakening”.

• Interview with Matty B

  The mastermind behind Shining Force Online unveils his biggest secrets in this exciting interview!

There’s still about 30 old stories to be added, but I’ve had enough for today. Maybe soon there will be something new to write about :D

Oh, and the history of TSS has been updated too.

I’ve just finished adding some old news stories to the archives. There’s about another 50 posts to go, but they’re going to take more work, so probably won’t be done for a while.

If you fancy a stroll down memory lane, check out the news archives (the real old stuff is at the bottom).

Whilst we’re in a nostalgic mood, I finally got around to posting a very old interview with Nick (creator of Legend of Atlantis). Sadly, there are no updates on the game, but it’s fun to remember the good times.

Also, if Nick is reading this it might encourage him to carry on ;)

I have a few ideas for more interviews, but suggestions in the comments are always welcome.

There’s been a few changes to the site over the past few days, including some new resources to play with and a few bits of design cleaned up:

New tileset

Digging around on the old site, I found some of the original Shiny Sword tiles that were part of Shining Aid. I’ve added them in the titlesets section.

New source code

The last couple of weeks have seen a lot of source code released. It’s now been uploaded and added to the downloads section, as well as Shining Aid’s “Source Code” page.

Other changes

A few pages have been cleaned up, mostly in Shining Aid, so it should be easier to find things now. If you find any problems or errors, let me know in the comments and I’ll sort them out :)

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