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Blade Of Power [+demo] #272353
06/17/09 17:17 06/17/09 17:17

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Blade Of Power [+demo]

Hello,

...and welcome to showcase of my first project with 3D Game Studio.
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Blade of Power in short:
�Project >Blade Of Power< has started as a small fun-fiction adventure game based on a popular cartoon serie from the '80 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. At the beginning, it combined full 3D environment with 2D animated characters. From there it evolved into a fully original first-person game with unique 3D characters and plot that combines adventure segments with action gameplay.�
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Blade Of Power project is going through some deep design changes so none of the videos displayed on this page no longer represents the real development stage of the game, game levels or content... but they are still fun to watch

Walkthrough of the Kingdom of Artha: Castle (level 3 /sub-level 3 of 4):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdUCAIZDRhE

Blade Of Power game overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu_X4PUcY4s

Blade Of Power new sword battle system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3aje5aux0

>New video<
Walkthrough of the Kingdom of Artha: Lower Wing (level 3 /sub-level 4 of 4):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5iIwd8Jy_k&fmt=22

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Blade Of Power demo that is available for download is, at this moment (26.04.2010), about 10 months old and it no longer represents the real development stage of the game, game levels or content.
Demo has been broke into four files for easier download. I hope you enjoy it

http://bladeofpower.weebly.com/demo.html

Btw when evaluating this demo you should keep in mind that...

-all character models, friendly & enemy, have been replaced or enhanced
-all music & most of the audio effect files have been replaced or enhanced
-laser battling is replaced with sword fighting
-enemy AI is replaced with David Lancester's Glorious Combat script adapted for first person sword fight

..unfortunately non of this updates is in the presentable form

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Blade of Power team is:

Nikolic Pavle >Ganderoleg< / Story, gameplay, 2D & 3D art, animation and programing.
Gligorijevic Ivan >Dimme< / Story, music & audio effects.

...with very special credits & thanks to:
Andjelkovic Petar/ Story, additional level designer.
Urosevic Svetlana/ Design advisory and tester.
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For more information visit Blade of Power site at:

http://bladeofpower.weebly.com

Site contains over 100 screenshots, three videos & Blade Of Power demo.
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Thanx for checking out this post. Have fun.

Ganderoleg

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Re: Blade Of Power [Re: Ganderoleg] #272467 06/18/09 09:12 06/18/09 09:12
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,032 Croatia croman Serious User
croman Serious User Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,032 Croatia	Originally Posted By: Ganderoleg We are all from Srbija (Serbia) one of the republics of former Jugoslavija (Yugoslavia). I added one of the videos from the site (sub-level walkthrough) to make showcase a bit more interesting. Thanx for your replies. Have fun. i hate to say it, but i told you... i see things anyway, video looks great, everything looks very good, except NPC's could be a bit better svaka vam cast, samo naprijed Last edited by croman; 06/18/09 09:13.

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: croman] #272528 06/18/09 13:03 06/18/09 13:03
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan Ganderoleg OP Senior Member
Ganderoleg OP Senior Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan	Thanx for replies. @Christian It is darker then it should be I guess, but there seemed to be a thing with video_gamma and Fraps. It doesn't influence the captured frames so I had to increase brightness of video material manually in VirtualDub. This was as high as it can get without completely ruining the quality. I am combining C-Script and Lite-C so it may have something to do with that, but video_gamma works just fine in game itself. You will get 2 free copies when the game is done if you can guess when it will be done. @Aztec After the Castle sub-level (one in the video) there is a sub-level (Lower wing) with battles and a boss-battle at the end. There are screenshots in the images section on the site but there is still no video. I was planing to make one to show battle feel and I will but there are some troubles with detail mapping so I must fix that first. The game follows Masters of the Universe concept that has lasers and aircrafts together with swords and crossbows. Philip (main character in the game) is similar to Adam ( that doesn't transform to He-Man ) and main villain Zardax is similar to Skeletor. Game is adventure-based, so gameplay is turned toward exploring the environment, task solving and item manipulation Philip even have adventure-based spells and his most interesting spell is Seekers (shown in video): Seekers follow player and try to find hidden objects. Once found they circle it in attempt to trigger object or make it visible. @Croman Npcovi imaju trenutno malo jednostavniji dizajn ali cu to srediti do kraja razvoja igre. Thanx and have fun. Last edited by Ganderoleg; 06/18/09 13:07.

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: Ganderoleg] #272561 06/18/09 16:26 06/18/09 16:26
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 103 C christian Member
christian Member C Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 103	"You will get 2 free copies when the game is done if you can guess when it will be done" Well I would guess that the game will be done "around the end of 2009" You'r not going to make any money if you give away free games to everyone who can read your website You have a major typo on the home page, I think rear should be spelled rare. I think at some point you are going to have to give more of a plot line and show some action scenes. I do not know how many people remember he-man. The video does look odd with a man with a pistol running around a castle with guards carrying swords. Though that isn't that strange, look at final fantasy or even the star wars movies.

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: christian] #272585 06/18/09 19:25 06/18/09 19:25
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan Ganderoleg OP Senior Member
Ganderoleg OP Senior Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan	Thanx for info. Typo fixed. "around the end of 2009" can mean lots of things I must confess that I don't see why lasers and swords couldn't go together. I think this is just a question of personal taste. For example I don't like that space-marine concept (military science fiction) that Starship Troopers have but lots of people like it... But I couldn't say that marines in space are weird or that fighting with giant bugs is strange There are some battle scenes in second video (Blade of Power Overview) but this video has been created at the beginning of 2009 and it no longer represents real development stage of the game. Battle mechanics have changed, level esthetic have changed and color scheme is a bit different. Even the weapon is not the same. >>Demos free3DModels Tutorials<< >>>>>>> by Pavle Nikolic <<<<<<<

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: Ganderoleg] #272598 06/18/09 20:32 06/18/09 20:32
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,154 Damocles_ Expert
Damocles_ Expert Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,154	I guess the first video shows the starting quests (getting a key and stuff) You should include some enemies to shoot (like a rat in that machineroom or so), else the player can get bored in the beginning. There should be fighting parts included as early as possible, not just doing search+bring quests. Another tip for the texts: long text are hard+boring to read. there are two tricks to make it more interesting to read quest-texts: 1- making important words in Fat Letters (like KEY, BOOK, FIND) 2- not showing the text at once, but popping the text in word by word, about in the speed of reading the text. (alternatively by scolling the text in) --- the swords could be also "ritual", like the Swiss Guard at the Vatican.

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: Ganderoleg] #272599 06/18/09 20:33 06/18/09 20:33
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 103 C christian Member
christian Member C Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 103	"I must confess that I don't see why lasers and swords couldn't go together" Because in the real world guns always beat swords. Swords have not had a military use in the last 200 years. So your story or your graphics will have to overcome the inherent silliness of having a guy with a sword attack a guy with a gun. Star wars and final fantasy overcame this with cool graphics. You will need some kind of gimmick or plot device to make the story more believable. But thats really hard, I think Dune was the only story that had a reasonable premise. "around the end of 2009" That was your stated deadline so if I was to guess a real release date I would say about 3-4 months after that. Any thing longer than that you run the risk of the project being cancelled. A7 com core 2, 2gb ram, geforce 7600

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: christian] #272604 06/18/09 21:20 06/18/09 21:20
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan Ganderoleg OP Senior Member
Ganderoleg OP Senior Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan	@Democles Ups. No that's not starting level. Its a part of third level. I can see that not adding the story to the showcase was a mistake. I have added the short version now. Thanx for text-tips, I like scrolling text idea. That could work for the game and it would be more dinamic. @Christian Now I understand what you meant but it was a misunderstanding. He is not suppose to fight with Arta soldiers. Video shows real walkthrough/gameplay of third level. He is there to help them. After this level comes the part where he fights with enemies that also have lasers. Screenshots of that battles can be found on site, under images section. >>Demos free3DModels Tutorials<< >>>>>>> by Pavle Nikolic <<<<<<<

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: Ganderoleg] #272606 06/18/09 22:15 06/18/09 22:15
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,488 ratchet Expert
ratchet Expert Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,488	Game looks great and very professionnal ! Very good use of shaders also. Just need more diversified ennemies You used DAZ 3D ! I see on their site that version 3 is free ? Is it free for commercial use ? And how do you have exported animations to A7 ? in what format ? Last edited by ratchet; 06/18/09 23:01.

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: Ganderoleg] #272612 06/18/09 23:07 06/18/09 23:07
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 103 C christian Member
christian Member C Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 103	So the guys with swords are more primitive? Or are they ceremonial like the guys who guard the queen of england. I have always wanted to see the queen's guards whip a machine pistol out of their hats! If you go with the scrolling text idea make sure you provide an easy way of reviewing the text. I hate it when I get interrupted and miss important text that disappears. @ratchet... the eula for daz 3 is still the same. Its the models that you buy from their site that you cannot distribute but you can animate your own models with it.

Re: Blade Of Power [Re: christian] #272696 06/19/09 10:52 06/19/09 10:52
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan Ganderoleg OP Senior Member
Ganderoleg OP Senior Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 470 Balkan	@Ratchet Thanx. I animate in DAZ and then export to collada. Then I import collada to Blender via Collada 1.4.1 Importer (http://teraapi.com/collada4blender). After that I export from Blender to fbx. DAZ is completely free for commercial use but you must have figures that can be used in real-time applications. It's forbidden to distribute DAZ figures geometry and textures. @Christian They have primitive weapons because they are magic-oriented and peaceful but in other ways they are very advanced. They are the oldest race on planet and have been hidden through use of spells deep below the planet surface. >>Demos free3DModels Tutorials<< >>>>>>> by Pavle Nikolic <<<<<<<

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