I am working again on my psycho adventure...

Reaaaally nice, reminds me of Final Fantasy, cannot explain why...

EDIT: The last screenshot is the most realistic scene I've ever seen in this forum.

after you said the ff thing i felt that way too. i think it is the the black and white high contrast and the feathers give a slight throwback to ff8 (although i never played too much of it)

it does look very interesting, i'd be interested in seeing it in motion since im having a hard time distinguishing prerendered from actual scenes.

Thanks for the comments! Especially to you Jibb - you somehow managed to explain the game better in one sentence than I ever managed in dozens!

To answer the few questions - yeah, the game mostly communicates via PHP. It is, at it's heart, a browsergame. This means that you'll be able to play it with basically every internet connection. My own here is limited, and DD is the last game to give trouble! It shouldn't go past a few kilobytes for HOURS OF DELIGHT (more accurately, it's in the same range as refreshing a few text-only pages for a few times).
Of course, communication via PHP can be a problem as far as security issues are concerned, though nothing of that sort happened last time. I think flash-games face similar issues.

There are some security measurements in place, and we're adding more this time around*. Of course, perfect security is impossible to achieve. We're simply trying to make it so that if people are acting suspiciously for some time, they'll not be able to access all parts of the game, essentially, we'll ban them from partaking in the multiplayer-aspects of the game, where its team-vs-team. They'll still be able to play the dungeons of other people (unless we ban them completely).

Since there is nothing to gain, and no one will ever SEE if you succeed (apart from us admins), I also guess there is really no incentive to cheat. It's not that there is a high-score table for the game, or anything like that.


* - Yeah, I'm not explicitly stating them. I know security through obscurity is a bad idea.

@Error014:
The game needs statistics to visually compete
Imagine a big map, split in small squares. Each square represents a dungeon, when someon beats the dungeon, hist team(red/blue) optains the tile, can place an own dungeon on it and progress on the map :D(you can only enter a dungeon if its attached to one of your colors)

Goal?... mh crush enemies Castle?

After crushing, season end, big statistic table of participants, kill/death points etc and map reset for a next game.

So you could have random games(like now) and war(my idea above).
The last one truly gives some competetive aspects^^

Thanks for the idea! I like it, but I don't think I'll add it.

Two reasons for that come to mind:
First, while teamwork is important, you can't expect everyone to actually DO that. In other words, if a spot on the map is taken by the team, people will place their dungeons there as soon as possible, and not a dungeon the whole team agrees on. You could get around that by having people in the team vote on what dungeon would be placed next, but that'd add another layer of complexity.
Second, that'd also makes unfair dungeons more powerful (this time around, the dungeon-selection should be more intelligent, and thus better suited to pick out fun dungeons most of the time, ignoring the unfair ones).

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However, there is still a visual competition. Aside from story events, which may even include something like that (the ones we've planned now don't, but again, I do like the idea :)), there's the option to buy towers. Those boost the stats of your team. If you're level 10 or higher, you have a rare chance of finding tower blueprints in a dungeon. If you do, your team can build that tower - though they are very expensive, and it can only be build if all players in a team work together on that. You can also pay spies to bring down the enemy-towers.
THOSE are shown as graphics, and that allows some degree of visual competition.

Though I do like your idea. Maybe we'll add it as a pure visual indicator, with no real gameplay consequences, or as one of the weekly events.

a monster made in sculptris for my monster catcher game

The monster is great !
What you can do is refine the model , with smooth (specialy on fore arms on the back where there is a strange scuplt) !
Using more the crease tool to avoid the glue effect on some parts.

I'm quite impressed by your skill to form the upper body and arms.
You seem to aim for a very lowpoly model, that's why you glued the throat with the tentacle-like things, right?

@rachet-thanks for the tips rachet. im new to this sculpting thing, and i use body builder magazines and pics as references when creating muscular characters.

@pappenheimer-yes i actually make high-poly highly detailed models then create a low-poly version of that model and use screenshots of the high-res model like the one above to texture the low-poly model.It looks about the same but my uv unwrapping could be alot better .

you can follow my progress on this game at my blog Sweet onions