Angelas World 2: Tower of the Unknown

Downloaded and played and loved its unique graphic and play appeal.
29 first time

Excellent work here.

You propably mean Angelas World 1? ^^
I'm glad you like it and thanks for your comment

Do you EVER run out of ideas?
Awesome. Very awesome. the transport effect is cool. The idea is that you cannot touch the main "stem", right?

I'm kinda missing the red part. That's one thing that made the last game good.

*bows* thanks ^^

Ya i quiet often run out of ideas actually...

What you see there is just a testlevel for testing teleport and movement. It doesn't represent the real Level in the finished product.

Also it will include more than one level this time and it's not about getting points.

Don't worry, there will be red again, and some other colors for "important" things

just some concept arts for enemies:






About the enemies:

Both appear in the level "Ginormous Field". This will be a demo and will contain lot of huge enemies.

Apple:
- size: ca. 3.5 meters
- mood: aggressive
- tactic: well, run away
- attack: running toward you and try to eat you
- location: Forest

Fly:
- size: ca. 18 meters (height)
- mood: aggressive but can't see Angela cause of her size
- tactic: get swallow up and you might have a chance
- attack: blocking ways with wind; loosing some nasty secretion
- location: Under Water

scary
nice job

wouldn't wanna meet either one. and, again, awesome ideas. you got yourself a fan here a long time ago, and you're not about to lose him again, if you keep going like this...

thanks to both of you

i will try my best to keep my fan

just have to say great work, hope you'll finish that project

how are you doing this game? with panels or with sprites? I can't really imagine how... :S

mix of models and sprites ^^

models for collision and sprites for the visual part.

uhhhh... ugly and bizarre

i like the fly most! looks like the one wich landed on my neck today and had an ugly death.

Ich kann gar nicht mehr abwarten bis es rauskommt
Wie lange wird es denn noch ca. dauern *sabber*??

@Ex Citer, is ugly and bizarre good or bad? 8D

@ulf, uhm you got some weird flies oO If this fly would land on you, you wouldnt live anymore its almost 20 meter tall

@derOmega, be patient my young padawan. Will take long time till it's done. But i'm aiming for a one level demo, which shouldn't take too long amyore.


Small Update

What if you combine a new sky (with bloom shader) and rotating level?
DIZZINESS 8D

i like the game's style, i love the first one and i'm looking forward to this one, keep it up

hmmm...
The sky don't really fits in the black and white style...

I love the graphic style and I loved the first part too
Hope you finish this!

And yeah the sky does not really fit, and where is that bloom shader?

It´s good. But it´s also depending on the rest of the game. Espacially the story!

holy cow... that's what I meant when asking whether you could ever run out of ideas O.o
WOW!

Great concept and style !
With a good background story you´ll have a fantastic game.
Congratulations.

Thanks everyone.

Well the sky has a different style, true, but like i said before, this time i will use some more grey colors to make more layers.

About the story, it won't be TOO big, but i hope i can give the whole game the right feeling with the story. I don't want to spoiler anything right now, so just wait and be (hopefully) surprised

*Bump*

Dare I ask, any updates? I know it's only been 5 days since your last post Kihaku

yep there are updates, but i don't want to show them right now ^^ i want to keep "surprises" for the demo

UPDATE - New Video!

Okay this time i show you a video of another mode in this game.
Sometimes it's impossible to come forward cause there are objects in your way.

Then you have the chance to go inside the tower and use the white lines as new way out of it.

While being in this mode, the gravitation goes straigt down and you become super tiny. You can still jump and float though and you get a magnifier so you can see yourself better (which will be zoomable later).

Here is a small video with 250% speed so it won't be too long and boring.

This is not final! It just shows the system itself, there will be some improvements.

> Get the video! <

Haha, I love it...

i love it even more

the magnifier is awesome! render to texture?

keep up the good work coz i want it

julz

hahhaha

ceeeeeeeeeeewlll

sweet! nice idea once again! keep it up!!
and awesome programming!!

Great! Don't even try to stop your imagination!
Keep it up!

cooool

You're a genius Kiyaku...can you tell us your programming secrets?

Thanks so much for your nice comments, all of you, i really appreciate it, i just can repeat myself

@david, well, secret errr.... muffins and coke zero 8D i don't know actually. If you have some questions, just ask me ^^'

Your very talented Kiyaku , I really like Angela's World , and Angela's World Tower to the Unknown is looking like it's going to be a very fun and interesting game. I think you have something with Angela's World and it's concept , keep at it , you might have the next Katamari in your hands.

This must be one of the best casual games ever

To all people who thought this lonely darkness is scary.. you all don't know how scary colors are!




OMG, what is it? Is it the new style for this game? Will there be any Black and White anymore? What is going on here?!

Maybe... It's a secret level! OMG SPOILER! D:

Unnormal is scary. Surprises are scary. Confusing me is scary The curtain of death is a real scary flash movie. Check it out if you want some scary ideas.

Oh! Oh! oh! One more thing! The PC Game Alister(?) McGees(?) Alice is maybe not extremly scary like for example SilentHill, but it is making the person who is playing that game realy going crazy because it´s so very absurd and disgusting (-> depressing).

EDIT: Hey! When I posted that, the screenshot wasn´t there :| Doesn´t look scary

American McGee i only know because i've heard a lot about Alice and i wish i had it

the screenshot looks awesome!! i love the normal style, and if Angelas World 1 doesn't get changed then i sorta don't think this should... but the new style does look ridiculously cool and i actually prefer it.

please PLEASE keep working on it! i'm so excited about this game!!

julz

EDIT: spent a while looking at it... it's cool... it's weird... but i do prefer the black'n'white... perhaps only special levels are coloured? of course it's up to you, and you probably do already have it planned and really are keeping us in suspense... and it's working

lol i saw it, but only took it as a hint to get us thinking

Werden die Levels generiert?
Wäre ja die beste Lösung oder?

Inwiefern generiert?
Der Levelaufbau ist fest definiert.

genau das meine ich den levelbau also das der Turm unendlich lang sein kann..
Außerdem müsstest du dann nicht so viele Level machen

I'm not a fan of the color version. The black and white has a more... messed up... feel to it. I like it, and I like it so much I've actually started trying to draw that style in art class. Now everyone thinks I do drugs.

Good job on the game, looks like you're being pushed enough by the community to finish it!

@Kiyaku
Ich würe omega acuh zustimmen, du könntest ja immer bestimmte abschnitte malen(was weiß ich..800qunats oder so Ö_ö) und dann eine map entity dazu erstellen.
Das zusammenfügen davon solle ja gerade für dich keinproblem mehr sein.

Obwohol..ich kann mir nicht 100% vorstellen wie das spielprinzip aussieht(habs wzwar das vid gesehn, trotzdem), deswegen..wenn du meinst es sit besser so...ist es besser so

I think the main problem is, that many people have a wrong idea about the gameplay.

It's not like in Angelas World 1, where you try to collect as many points as possible.
This time, you have fixed levels and story. It's not an arcade, but action adventure.
Each level is seperated in 3 parts, and i aim to keep the player at least 20 mins in each level (all 3 parts together).

A generated level would be easier to program, but doesn't fit into my gameplay concept at all ^^.


@Towelie, i feel pleasured you try to draw with my graphicstyle
People thinking you do drugs is normal then xD i have to live with it everyday.

I recomment not to watch it It´s a common scary movie with no monsters and no spooky dark absurdnesses. But check it out yourself

www.newgrounds.com

Btw. It´s called Death's Curtain and for adults only! My mistake.

EDIT: @GuitarXXX: 1) I think you shouldnt post a direct link to this here. Because it is for adults only.
2) you cant link like that. You must link to the site with the link of it where also is a adults only warning.

EDIT2: Oh you fixed it

Finally found it, here's the link. I havn't watched it yet, so I'll see how it goes!

UPDATE

Just a small music piece so you people won't starve 8D

Yo Ho Pirates!

The video itself just shows a screenshot which changes when the battle music starts.

Hope you like the song!

And just a note, the ship there is the tower

Amazing, i really LOVE the style, reminds me the PSP game Locoroco

Loved the pirate music too! you made it??

Thank you

No, the composer Jed Smith made the music. 20 Songs in total He also made music for Animatrix, Tombraider, OC California, Greys Anatomy, and so on.

Check his IMDB Website for more infos

Jed Smith

The music fits the game environment like a charm !!
Btw, thnx for the link, the sound of the music is amazing

Cheers

Frazzle

*reinstalling sound card now so I can hear it*

Since i make this game with Torque now, can someone please move this to Morbius so i can still go on posting pictures and stuff? Thanks

Done

thanks a lot

Why did u move to torque ? I highly doubt you will be using torque's massive terrains for the game (which is all torque really has on gamestudio) , why would u move to torque ? BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Get out of here with your game then , go post on the Torque forums , you know they have their own right ?

3DGS + Mac =

Torque + Mac =

Kiyaku + Mac = <3

@Why_Do_I_Die, very constructive
Just to let you know, i use the 2D (OMG YES! it still exist D:) Engine of Torque, no 3D normal map terrain room/time dimension Quadro Core D:


At this point, i want to show the first Torque Video of the game:

New Video of new Magnifier

As you can see, it doesn't really look different, so who cares whats made with

EDIT:

Sebe = <3

Your magnifier is a great idea and looks cool.

Thanks a lot Frank

Yeah it looks cool. But I don't sse the sense in this gimmick?

@oliver2s
Sometimes there are obstacles so you can't move up. Then you have the chance to switch into the minimode into those white tunnels. Angela is super tiny then so i give the player a magnifier to zoom in and see angela better. The disadvantage of it is that you can't see a lot (area) through the magnifier so it makes it harder if enemies are attacking while being in the tunnel.

"As you can see, it doesn't really look different, so who cares whats made with"
Well we dont care for torque garbage , torquers have their own forums , and are not welcomed here. We are uninterested with your project anymore , go post in the proper forum.

Why_Do_I_Die: if I were precise, I would say that you are violating some of the forum rules here. So please stop that. There is a huge interest in this project (even outside of this tiny nutshell), this thread has been moved to Morbius, you != we and I don't see why you are offensive here.

@Why_Do_I_Die ,
if you don't like it, stay out of my thread. Thanks and have a nice day

This will be the enemy of the first Demo





BTW, @all freaks who just like this game cause its made with 3DGS, the demo will still be made with 3DGS and comes out very soon.

You scared me, what an evil guy

he's a cute bunny, he is D:

bunnies can´t cook, you know

i love it^^

but they can bite your head

Thanks ^^ Hope to show more stuff on the Dusmania, Mr. vampire *,..,*

Really awesome work man, this =:D Bunny is really awesome, hope the game hit all contests.

Yeah bunnies

I can't wait to play it!

@Spike, but spike is the vampire in buffy

@Poison_Byte, thanks a lot

@David, i can't promise anything, but hopefully there will be a Techdemo in 1-2 weeks

Just a little update

While being on the DUSMania, i tried out a new system to create my levels. At 4AM, Spike somehow said somethign useful (its rarely, believe me 8D), so i finally could finish my system.

It works really great and is so much easier than my old system.

I also started the first level for the demo. This screenshots shows the beginning of the game. Also i increase the size of the tower so it looks more "giant" now.

actually, i say many usefull things, but tehy are all context sensitive (shameless promotion of a ripoff joke ill shameless steal)

You guys rock so much, any updates?

why guys?

Updates yes, but not a lot, developement is slow lately...

i really want to publish this for you

i loved the first and this one i can't wait to play, the gameplay is so intuitive, and very fun, this one looks like it'll be really good

Project Frozen

You, sir, are an insane person. So you want to stop this now? Because, let's face it, when you freeze it now, you will never finish it.

So here you are, with a pretty promising game and a huge fanbase (I mean, just read this thread, it's ridiculous), and yet, you stop? I know that you say from yourself that you have problems motivating yourself, but come on. Wouldn`t it be enough to read this thread? I never even get a fraction of this feedback, yet I can still motivate myself with the one or other encouraging comment.
What you need to do before doing anything else is finding a way to keep motivated longer. Make a list in which you write what you've done each day and reading it will motivate you. Don't delete things you've done from your To-Do-List, make them red or something, but keep them on the list. It also motivates. MAKE such a list
You need to improve the planning. The project was probably too large to be ever finished by just a single person, but why dont you finish what you've started so far, post it here and let you motivate by the dozens of comments sure to follow?

Aah, what a shame. Of course, many of us have a few "frozen" projects (myself included), but tihs time, with the amazing amount of feedback given and no other reason to stop other than just no motivation (no technical issues or something along these lines), its just too sad. I had to say something. Thank you.

All I can hope is that you only posted "Project Frozen" because you hope for many comments that motivate you again. In this case, let this be number one.

I guess the tower reached space now?

Frozen != dead... right? It's cold in space too, but..

I just worked on a bit in my vacations and finished my dialog system.

The text is made by HeelX's Font Plugin to calculate the size in pixel.

The background for it is dynamically created with particles so it kinda looks like a cloud. If the text is outside the screen, it will be re-placed so everything is shown.

It's quite simple to use, just handle a pointer of the speaking person (to know where to display the text) + the text itself.

But please, no discussion about going on or why stopping or whatever. I just wanted to go on a bit, don't know for how long. Probably the fact that my practical training as computer scientist stops in half a year, makes me want to work on the game and hopefully find a way to become a fulltime, paid gamedesigner.



Anyway, here a screenshots.

That is awesome :0
I want to hit my head on the same stone as you did!

sounds very cool
... and very simple to use.
just wondering: how do you decide how many particles you create? you look at how long the string is... and then?
or... where to create them?

looks very cool, fits the style perfectly!

Lol!! It's messy for sure.

Cool that you're still working on this Sven,

Cheers

Thanks.

@Germanunkol, they are fixed (20 particles right now) which is enough for the longest string. I was thinking about checking the length and change the size of the particles then too but i think it's not necessary since there are only a few particles.

Indeed great to see that you kept on working to improve this great project

/%Finger crossing message%\
I do hope you continue the process, this is just a too unique project
/%End of message%\

Cheers

Frazzle