It’s been a fatally bloody while, but finally I can report _some_ amount of progress on SSC again :).
The past bunch of days I’ve largely busy with setting up an entity and sprite system, and basically the turn based movement -in its simplest form- is done. Instead of making a full game right away, my first intention is to set up a hot seat multiplayer battle engine. Of course it’s bloody easy, but I’m missing it a little in existing projects.
I might call it BABS 2, I might not. Heck, I might die tomorrow!
On a more inviting note: if there are any severely bored souls out there, feel free to contribute the project with a few tiles and sprites. You can easily use the existing SMEE 1.0 (and the PNG export option inside it) for the tiles, and a sprite template should be in that distribution as well ;).
And if you’re truly lazy: send your old crap over! I’m sure I’ll find a useful purpose for it :D.
I thought I’d start this right at the very top with Dev’s projects :)
Shiny Sword: Cloudslayer + SMEE (Shining Map Editing Environment)
Project website
Development team:
- Devlyn, one-man-band
- Lazy Bum, SMEE interface design
Development language:
JAVA
Most recent update:
Early 2004
Most recent release:
http://www.shiningsource.net/releases.php?id=2
Dev says:
The Shiny Sword: Cloudslayer project is yet to start. SMEE has been in the fridge lately, but quite some progress is expected this summer.
B.A.B.S. (Your BAby Battle System)
Project site
Development team:
Development language:
Verge 1
Most recent update:
December 2001
Most recent release:
http://www.shiningsource.net/releases.php?id=6
Other comments:
Completed! Now discontinued.
I’ll be posting another project update every day, so if you’ve ever thought “what happened to…?” then keep an eye on the main site!
Unlike what some of you might think, I’m really not procrastinating on development ;).
On the contrary even! I am currently doing a total plot rewrite. It’s quite the endeavour, and although I’ve already written over 10.000 words, I am certainly not even halfway.
I hope to resume regular progress after the end of this month. And one definate certainty is that the background site will be greatly expanded then!
I have put the plot *somewhere* online, but for the sake of spoiler protection, I’m not going to hand out the location in public. If you feel like reading it, just contact me through e-mail or pm, and I’ll tell you where to find it :).
I reorganized the site a bit and I worked out Phase 3 of the project :). The credits page has been moved from the D20 campaign section to the main site (under “About SSC”), and I’ve moved the progress section to a seperate page, as the table is getting somewhat big now ;).
Anyway, feel free to check the progress of the Shiny Sword!
Well, obviously this post refers to all the people who are working on a Shining Style project.
I’m planning to compile a fresh banner pack as the old Shining Source banners look like slaughtered cows in primordial soup. For that I prefer to use all sorts of graphics from all the different Shining-style projects. Hence I’m asking you guys for permission ;).
Feel free to look here for more info :).