I received two e-mails from Mitch, containing some very interesting stuff!
First of all he did a remake of his site Death’s Gate to make the Shining stuff more accessible
In addition to that, he uploaded a “Trailer” (talking about a first!) of his Shining Project, which you can find here
But there’s more:
“I just started working on another project, the shining in the darkness type of game and i even have a reeaaally simple movement demo to show that it will be like the original. But it’s a sign of things to come. The program is going to load one main file which contains all of the dungeon information therefore I can make this game – completely customizeable.
people will be able to create they’re own game!”
The download is posted at http://www.deathsgate.com/sid.html.
Coz Im lazy, here’s the message McPhisto posted at Ye Olde Blah ;)
Here’s a little battle demo for people to try out:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~clark4/svb1.zip
Now, it’s extremely buggy, unpolished, and incomplete. I just thought I should prove I’m still chipping away at this thing . If you could report on bugs, that’d be great. Just post em in this thread. Please don’t mention the graphics or sound – practically none of the gfx are going to make it into the final version, and I have other things to worry about at this stage.
I’ll add this demo to the TSS downloads later on and set up a local mirror for you guys :)
Some fellow named “Mitch” e-mailed me to inform me about his recent Shining Project endeavours.
One of them is a Shining Card Game, and the second is a Shining RPG. Both of the projects seem to be in a rather early stage, but the site looks interesting :P
Feel free to check it out or apply as a helper at http://www.deathgate.webhop.net/
Finally, there is something he had to say about this personally:
“The card game is going to take Less time to create – therefore I will be programming full force on it. I ALWAYS fully complete every project I undertake. My web site has lists of other projects I have done or have plans to do in the future.”
Thanks to nuckles87 from our affiliate Dreamflint for this contribution!
Apparently Sega is going to launch a new website about the upcoming Shining games on April 30th. The website, aptly named “Shining World” (*cough* ripoff :P *cough*) will feature information about three different Shining games, including Shining Tears and Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon.
Nuckles added the following about the possible third project:
“The other Shining games could very well be either the MMORPG Sega announced a few months ago, or an all new, original Shining adventure. Either way, this has left us with a lot to anticipate come E3.”
Sounds like we can expect a boom in the Shining scene (and a lot of ‘misguided’ people checking out Shining Force World for the official Shining info! ;)
We did heaps of stuff in the last few days, and although most of it has been behind the screen, there are also some visible enhancements. :)
First of all, we added a few projects and a couple of fresh downloads. Other than that there’s also a new logo in the linktous section and the admin section has been grossly improved, as the first functionality such as posting news and worklog entries has been implemented :).
Of course we’ll keep building and adding stuff :D. If you want us to add something in particular, feel free to add something to the todo list on the forum :)
