Conquest for Power is coming along nicely! I have two levels done (same as before), and now a little over half of the main overworld is done. There will be a 64 screen underworld, as well as the 128 screen overworld. Plus there will be a large complicated cave under the overworld which will be essential in getting from one level to another in some cases. It will also contain portals to the underworld.
Level 3 has a few screens done, but I need to do a little more planning before I start working on it again. Why? Because, Levels will begin having two floors connected by pits and staircases. Level 3 will be pretty simple, but as the levels advance, there will be many more basement floors and things will get extremely complicated.
Now I bet you're dying for some screenshots. But before you get to see them, I want to note that it's NOT Mystic Land tiles. Prince let me use Mystic Land palletes, and a few of the tiles, like the roofs. Other than that, it's Revenge 2 with many modifications.
Here we go with the shots:
Here we have the first shot. It's mainly to show off the addition of people in the village. The kid and his dad REALLY DO play catch! I imagine a lot of you have seen a previous version of this pic in my sig. plith and I put them together. The kid and his dad playing catch take 400 tiles of animation alltogether, so don't bother trying to steal them and put them together if I ever get a demo out. We will release them to public after we finish our quests. Until then, nyah nyah.
This is the first entrance to the Never Ending Cave. There will be many other entrances too. As you can see, there's tons of passages.... it never ends, does it? You can buy a map for it at a shop somewhere on the overworld.
Here's a shop next to the river on the overworld. Just a screenshot, not much to see, besides how elegantly designed the screen is.
This is just a major junction in the overworld. Lots of Octoroks around.
Conquest for Power is currently for Beta 148 (quest contest). I am almost to the point where I can release a demo, but I'm a little relunctant to, since I have not seen the Beta 148 player being released.
Anyway, I could use some feedback. What do you think I should call the world? How about the village? Does anybody have some suggestions? I totally suck at coming up with names, especially if it contains something invented (like "Tugoshlavacatianalbara Town," as apposed to "Never Ending Cave," which contains no invented words).
Edit: Beta testers list:
PrinceMSC
plith
K-Teclis
DarkFlameWolf
KJAZZ?
Meknoh?
? = questionable, haven't heard anything from them
I don't really need anymore beta testers. :)