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.

Hi everyone,

Ty just solved the password issues on the news posting accounts, so I can finally add in all those news posting accounts.

If you would like to be able to post your project news right on the TSS front page, be sure to leave a message on YOB or e-mail me at djgroen@science.uva.nl :)

Dev and I (and I’m the rest of you) have noticed a large decrease in the overall activity of the Shining Source scene over the last few months. Releases have been few and far between, and not a great deal of news either.

We’d like your input on a solution to the problem, so please spare us a few minutes and reply in the forum topic linked below.

“The future of TSS”

We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on this matter!

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