The Shining Source

Hello everyone at the Shining Source. I am Stordarth, Leader of the Bowie Online project. Here’s a few facts about the project at the moment:

This game uses an engine called Player Worlds (PW), and is an Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG). You will be able to join up with your friends in a massive online world, and battle foes, each other (once level 10 or higher) and solve quests and gain items.

The game is primarily set in the world of shining force 2. Our mappers are working hard to remap Grans Island and Parmecia with great accuracy, using tiles ripped directly from the game, to provide the shining force 2 authenticity we hope for. However, true authenticity will not be possible, since the style of Bowie Online is very different from the game it is based around. Bowie Online is not a turn based war game, it is more of the style of Shining Soul, in that you wander the world, destroying enemies in a hack-and-slash game engine.

Every character sprite from SFII is featured in their promoted forms, and the staff, and those who earn them, can have their own snazzy custom made sprites, marking them out as special individuals.

Mapping is progressing steadily. Grans Island Overworld is already complete, but the slow rate of tile ripping is this project’s limiting factor, and since im the one doing it, besides all of the other things i have to do, its no wonder its going slowly.

This said, beta testing has already begun amongst the moderators of our forum, and is reprotedly going well. a special town, unique to Bowie Online (BO) and an accompanying dungeon are already completed for the purpose of beta testing, and will also be the main location for newbie players to get to grips with the game upon release.

We dont intend to leave it there either. Once the world of SFII is finished, we plane to create our own lands, all linked by the secret place, the tunnels of the ancients (where claude the golem resides in the original game).

That about covers all the news I have right about now. Once some big developments occur, ill post here again. until then, farewell.

Thanx to Produn for the bulk of this update.

We now have a world map (tho the individual town pages are yet to be made) for you all to enjoy and familiarise yourselves with. We also have a Calendar of a SFTA year, and the Items page has been started (obviously theres more items to come).

Check out the SFTA World section on our website

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Coming soon – Ill start on the History of the SFTA world. Stay tuned ^^

Thanx for reading.

3 new characters have been uploaded to the site, namely Jaedyn, Vincent and Karl. You can find them in the SFTA World > Characters section.

For those who dont know about this, its a simple contest in which people get the chance to submit ideas for HQ quotes for the characters. I will select my favourite 10 quotes submitted, and those stand a good chance of making it to the final game.

What do you get out of this ?

Well, after going through all the characters, Ill pick the all time favoured quote, and the person who submitted it will have a character named after him/her and will also have the character designed to his/her specifications.

Our usual venue of this contest will soon be undergoing a massive change, and the forum database will likely be unavailable to people like me after the change, so, in order to keep a good record of all the submitted quotes, id like you all to EMAIL them to me at the following address ::

Adam_Grom@Yahoo.co.uk

Thank you for reading, and have fun in the contest =]

http://sfta.sourceforge.net

W007 ! This is my first official News post here @ TSS ^^

Just wanted to say that the 2nd part of the SF:TA HQ contest is over and the winners have been announced, congrats to them =]

For those who havent been picked, or missed the opportunity to take part, fear not, for part 3 shall begin shortly ! Dont miss the opportunity to get a playable character named after you and designed to your specifications in SF:TA.

Here are the winners —

http://sfta.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1209#1209

congrats once again guys, and thanx 2 Dev for sortin out this ‘news-posting’ account ^^

TSS rulz

Hi all!

Despite my huge bouts of procrastination these days, I managed to add two fresh projects. :)

Much info about them is still lacking, but hopefully that’ll be added soon :).

Feel free to check them out (and their sites!).

On a side-note, as the amount of functionality is slowly increasing due to Ty’s hard work, I think it’s a good time to allow others access to the newsposting pages as well :). If any of the project people would like access as a news poster to the main site, please tell me on the Shining Source Discussion Forum, and I’ll add & inform you :).