heroes of the savage frontier

[manikus]

i'm working on an adventure set in the savage frontier around the silverymoon area. it will be an epic adventure, to say the least! it will be in the 1024x768 resolution, so much of the artwork will be brand-spankin' new.

i'm going to put up a page that will chronicle my progress on this project. [img]smile.gif[/img]

the addy is http://manikus.xoasis.com/heroes.html

so, if you're interested in the status of my design, go on over and check it out.

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

[manikus]

as of 7 pm saturday night, i haven't been able to connect with my server, or rather i have and it tells me all 15 megs are full, but i only have two files at the site, and they only total about 400kb.

i'll keep trying, and let you know when it's up.

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

[manikus]

here it is 11 a.m. on monday and i just now got the page up. not o big of a deal, except that i've been trying nonstop since saturday.

check it out- http://manikus.xoasis.com/heroes.html

it's not much, yet. in the future it'll have more info.

let me know what you think!

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

[manikus]

updated the heroes page today. i've been busy working on the adventure.

still got a long ways to go, but i can see it starting to take shape.

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

[Steve McDonald]

I see you say on your web site "I've found a way to use backgrounds in a way to replace some walls".

I actually had an idea that I think would be very cool - the ability to place a different backdrop on each side of each map square means that you can use them as walls and just place blank (empty) walls with different "blocked/locked/open" settings.

The idea would be to create a whole (small) adventure without using any walls. It would allow so much more detail and realistic surroundings, and would make placing furniture easy. It would be particularly good for present-day settings because you could photograph real places, and move around like the characters to make up the surroundings.

Of course the drawbacks are that the file size is probably bigger (though you don't need close-up, nearby, far-away views, only one per wall so I'm not sure about this) and of course the extra time and hassle. An adventure of this style would have to be pretty text-intensive and have a lot of problem-solving I think, because the maps would need to be quite small. Once the custom combat background art becomes a reality, they should work well together.

I'd be interested to see anyone have a go at this - plus I eagerly await your design, Manikus, to see what you've done.

[manikus]

this is what i initially had in mind, but the work to put something like this out, is more than i want to do right now.

now, i have set my sites much lower, and am using backgrounds to emulate...water. though, i am still contemplating using it for a couple of special rooms- like a round room.

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

[SilentThief]

A round room??? You know what, I had an idea to make a room with "diagonal" walls and/or weird shaped walls. Why? Just to see if it could get done and look ok.

SilentThief

[manikus]

still plugging away at this. right now i'm working on small pics and icons of elves. i'm not going to update the page, because none of my small pics or icons are done yet.

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

[Rami Sihvo]

You know, could someone explain me why those old savage frontier games are so great that many people still mentones them as one of best playing experiences?

[manikus]

i don't know that they're the best i've ever played...but gold box games were some of the first that i ever played on computer. i like the savage frontier area. my adventure is no way intended to be a sequel to any of the goldbox games, maybe it can be seen as an alternative vision of the far west.?.

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus