Hey there!
As the title suggests, I'm looking for sprite artists. Reason for this is a project you may (or may not) remember as the "KHI makes a Kingdom Hearts game" project. For those of you who don't remember, this project started off as a hypothetical game where people here had to discuss what they would do if they were to make a Kingdom Hearts game themselves. But as discussions grew, people started to want to make the actual game they were hypotheticaly creating. Now, 3 years later, the project is still alive (albeit, somewhere else) and we are in need for a couple of more people to lighten our current workload.
Some of you probably think: after 3 years you're still in pre-prod? Well, so far we've spent most of our time writing scripts, character designs, ... but all with a 3D action-RPG in mind, just like the main games. However, this became too difficult for us to manage so we decided a couple of months ago to take a step back and go with a different approach. Now, we're aiming for something similar to this (skip to around 3:00):
[video=youtube;iL83mf3xXEI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL83mf3xXEI[/video]
We're still thinking of ways to make our game less linear than that one, but you get the point: a sidescroller hack 'n slash game with some RPG elements (think Muramasa, Trine, Dragon's Crown, etc.)
Now, obviously, we don't want to get a C&D from Square-Enix so we've decided early on to do everything ourselves. We won't be using any materials from already existing games (like f.e. editing the sprites from the original CoM).
For those who are interested in helping out, PM me and I'll send you a link to our forum (where we secretly develop our fangame and discuss world domination). If any of you have more questions about this project or feel like they need to know more before deciding whether or not to join, feel free to ask me.
Anyways, thanks for taking your time to read this thread. I realize that fangame projects aren't the most attractive projects to join as most of them end up nowhere but I can only speak for us that we're very passionate about this and take the realization of the game serious (and I personally think the fact that we've been working on this for 3 years proofs this).
EDIT: to give you an idea of what you'd be working with, here are some character designs we've done:
And here are some mock-ups we've done:
As the title suggests, I'm looking for sprite artists. Reason for this is a project you may (or may not) remember as the "KHI makes a Kingdom Hearts game" project. For those of you who don't remember, this project started off as a hypothetical game where people here had to discuss what they would do if they were to make a Kingdom Hearts game themselves. But as discussions grew, people started to want to make the actual game they were hypotheticaly creating. Now, 3 years later, the project is still alive (albeit, somewhere else) and we are in need for a couple of more people to lighten our current workload.
Some of you probably think: after 3 years you're still in pre-prod? Well, so far we've spent most of our time writing scripts, character designs, ... but all with a 3D action-RPG in mind, just like the main games. However, this became too difficult for us to manage so we decided a couple of months ago to take a step back and go with a different approach. Now, we're aiming for something similar to this (skip to around 3:00):
[video=youtube;iL83mf3xXEI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL83mf3xXEI[/video]
We're still thinking of ways to make our game less linear than that one, but you get the point: a sidescroller hack 'n slash game with some RPG elements (think Muramasa, Trine, Dragon's Crown, etc.)
Now, obviously, we don't want to get a C&D from Square-Enix so we've decided early on to do everything ourselves. We won't be using any materials from already existing games (like f.e. editing the sprites from the original CoM).
For those who are interested in helping out, PM me and I'll send you a link to our forum (where we secretly develop our fangame and discuss world domination). If any of you have more questions about this project or feel like they need to know more before deciding whether or not to join, feel free to ask me.
Anyways, thanks for taking your time to read this thread. I realize that fangame projects aren't the most attractive projects to join as most of them end up nowhere but I can only speak for us that we're very passionate about this and take the realization of the game serious (and I personally think the fact that we've been working on this for 3 years proofs this).
EDIT: to give you an idea of what you'd be working with, here are some character designs we've done:
Spoiler ShowTwo of the four main characters:
Some Heartless:
And here are some mock-ups we've done:
Spoiler ShowWalking around in a world:
As you can see, we're planning on using some 3D elements as well to make things look a bit more slick. We're hoping to make use of this pseudo-3D look during boss battles (think Rayman: Legends). Don't mind the HUD, the command menu will most likely be removed in the actual game, as it doesn't work with this kind of game. If it does stay, it will surely be placed somewhere else.
Boss battle:
I was trying out a different angle here. This, however, asks for more angles for the sprites so I'm not sure if an angle like this will ever be used.
This is how exploration would work. In the worlds, there are extra areas that you can unlock by using "Assist Power", the purple bar in the character icon. This basically lets you team-up with your partner and unlock new areas. This "Assist Power" is also used for special team-attacks during battle so the player has to make a choice between saving up for team-attacks or exploration. Obviously, this is based on the Trinity System from the first KH game but slightly different to make it fresh again.
Cutscenes:
NOTE: these mechanics aren't tested yet so nothing is final.
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