Hi guys,
It’s been a while, but I’ve got a useful update here :D
Peter Dale recently sent me some preliminary SHF2-related graphics for use by other developers. Hence, I decided to package them and add them to the T.R.A.P. project. The package consists of a bunch of tiles, a _lot_ of sprites and a good amount of items as well. All of these are resized to 32×32 pixels using 2xSAI.
Hopefully they will be of use to some of you! Also, I’m still looking for more graphical and sound resources to put up (especially battle animations).
On a final note, I’d like to thank Stordarth for this very nice contribution :)
Ya thats right, last time i announced this on the SFC forums, they were about to undergo a massive change, and so i decided to change the method of submission for the contest from posting in the thread to emailing me.
This was clearly an unpopular method, cos i recieved a grand total of … *drum roll*
ONE submission.
So, now that the new forums are up, and the SFTA site isnt plagued by some bug anymore, ive decided to re-announce this contest.
go here for further details — Shining Force Central – Forum Topic
In response to the requests of many, I hereby launch:
The TSS Resource Accumulation Project (a.k.a. TRAP)
Much like the Resources section on the old site, TRAP aims to provide as many public resources as possible. Currently I am the only participant in the project, but anyone is free to join or contribute to it.
Hopefully in due time we’ll have gathered enough resources for people to no longer worry about having to do so much work on graphics and sound ;).
Along with the Project launch, I added two releases. One of them is a small tile pack, while the other one points to a public directory where a bunch of my tracked songs are available for public usage.
There will be more to come in the near future from me, but don’t hesitate to mail me at devlyn@zonnet.nl if you want to help out!
If you haven’t already checked this out via SFC, click here to see some lovely video footage of Shining Tears for the PS2.
It’s all looking very nice indeed, like a very souped up version of Shining Soul. One of the most interesting things that caught my eye in the video is the joint magical attack between the two characters, they formed a loop around a group of enemies. All inside the loop were obliterated! Top stuff!
Direct from Redhawk:
There is going to be a Fan-made game released by some Shining Force fans of Shining Force Central and Shining Mania. The game will have the top 20 battles from all Shining Force games. So there will be a mix of SF2, Sf, SFCD, SFFC, etc… All of these battles that are picked will be ramade onto the game engine the fans are working with. Once the backrounds are all done the character list will be re-made. But it is not just from one game! It is from all games! You can have Bowie as the leader and Grace as the Healer. It is all up to the player of the game. But in total there will be 10 Shining characters picked from each game.
When you are going through these battles you are allowed to have a team of 12 on the Shining Force. But you may only pick one Swordsman/Hero.
Screenshots for this game are not yet announced but the game will be on the move ASAP. The project will not be showing anything to the public until all the battles are remade.
The project’s leader is Redhawk the owner of www.shiningmania.com but there is no leader in this project, the whole team that is making this game will have to work togeather. Hopefully this game will be made becuase it should and will be one heck of a game.
There is a sign up topic at SFC, so be sure to let them know if you can lend a hand.
