I have worked on the music lately. It will be using midi with hopefully a good soundfont but i'm not sure how to program that in Blitz 3D as I think it's missing that functionality(hm, maybe i should write a dll:P). But a soundfont will only be there if i have the time which is only the case if i don't enter it as competition entry because of lack of time or when everything will work out perfectly.
I might have not made games the last couple of years, but that doesn't mean I have been doing nothing.
With some music knowledge(guitar and synthesizer playing in my spare time) i can make some decent music instead of randomly placing notes what i did years ago(so chords progressions, arpaggio's etc. is no surprise anymore). I really love my Kraken Battle theme which is full of high pitched organ sounds with some distorted guitar and fast intervals replaced by slow ones. Even though it's just MIDI.

Also i have followed elective courses on the art academy(graphical design and drawing) too meaning i wil spend a lot of time on the aesthetics too. The intro movie is of a pirateship sailing on the sea all 3D rendered until the camera zooms out and you will see it's a book with title and the pirate ship as book cover opening the book and showing the 'book contents' which is the main menu. I will show you the screenshots first if i manage to get my internet connection back on my laptop which the game is currently being written on.

I hope to have a one dungeon plus the town you start in pre-rendered ready before the competition end. Dungeons are rendered in realtime while towns are pre-rendered à la Resident Evil 1. Still i have become quite a perfectionist and if i don't like something i will start all over again so i'll see if i finish something at all!

(Posted on January, 5th 2007, 21:37)

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