2nd quarter Review for Mydreamrpg Contest
by Edward · 09/26/2007 (6:50 pm) · 1 comments
Welcome to the Second Quarter Half time show, We are at the midway point of this stuggle, most teams are steaming away at the project, design and developement continues on some posts, But a few of the entries have taken the lead in interest and some our favorites are up there with us.
We would like to thank you the fans that are lurking out there, for making us the One and definite lead on these boards in posts and views and as long as we keep that support we will continue to please our fans.
Oh what have we been up too these past 6 months. Well lets say we have been building a huge world for everyone enjoyment. What we will do this post is recap all our posts here and Garage Games. We will highlight our movies in as well gaint post. Yes thats right folks, if you missed a movie this will be where you can jump to to find the movie and catch up on stuff you missed.
This is our main Blog, the beginning is here. Its well maintained, entertaining and i believe very informative about the inside goings of our team, without letting our advancements out of the bag.
Weekly Blog Post here ------------------------------------------------------
www.mydreamrpg.com/community/showthread.php?t=1594
There are Garage Games Blog posts most are pretty much monthly. This counts as our September Post and what a post it is
MOVIES!!!! ENJOY THEM. It has come to my attention that a few folks have missed the movies due to their placement. So ill try to simplyify it for everyone and gather their links here .
MOVIE LINKS HERE------------------------------------------------
hosted.filefront.com/racs333
MOVIE LINKS HERE------------------------------------------------
This is our AFX extravaganaza some of our test footage put together by our then AFX coder Christian, Id like to announce he has been promoted to assistant producer of Fantasci.
AFX MOVIE LINK HERE -------------------------------------------
blip.tv/file/362569
Thats something id like to touch on. In each of these groups of people there is something i have learned about most of use around Garage Games, DreamGames are divided into 3 fields of Folks. There is the game in a day type, they expect games to be popped out in a day. id say half of those folks in this catagory succeed its a small manageable task. The second group is the folks that understand that games time time, these are people that have done their homework, are usually avid gamers. They know that a game can take 6months a year , even 5 years to make. These are the folks at GG that you see getting published. Then there is the last group and sadly its a majority. Folks that come into the community either expecting the material to be hand fed to them (this is not withstanding the lack of complete documention; which is coming???) but rather dont even bother to learn the material. Then get mad and bewildered that were being mean and uncaring. These kind of folks typically are part of the shooter generation12-18 range, and seem to have forgotten this is a indie community. Most of us have beenin the same spot they were at one point. I know i was, i havehad my liscence for TGE for just over 1 year. Thats right and im still learning. For those in the later group, heres my advice. If your serious about making a game, start small. Pick up some material to read. I dont care how you get it, im not condoning piracy, but read the books there are several printed that offer a very wide variety of informative stuff on how Torque and games work. I read at least a hour a day on the forums sometimes more. So Guys bottom line of this paragraph. Learn the material!! Dont Expect your first game to be Halo3 or Gears of War. Expect it to be a POS, but learn from each version, if you do your homework the first verstion of most games is a ugly mass of blocky characters and stand in items. Yes even today, this is what they do. Anyway On with the show.
As this second quarter comes upon us we note that we have lost a few folks. Either via them no longer showing up since the first tally, or the few that have actively announced their exit from the contest. We are hopefully they have had fun, and wish them the best of luck in their endeavors, but we are moving on. 6 more months to go.
The last tally 3 months ago, we were asked what we thought was our top 5 picks for the finalists. We be announcing the point tallys when we get them as always. What we will do is post the last tallies and their point value. We wil highlight the top 5-6 with addies and commentary.
NOTE: These are the 1st quarter tallies, not this quarters tallies, they will be posts as soon as they are made available to us
Isles of Midgard: 6400 (Our number two choice for winning this contest. If we dont win, we nominate these guys.)
Frayed Knights: 6200 ( What a awesome concept, original, fresh, and most sidesplitting funny.)
Arcanoria: 6100 ( Why is this 3rd place again?)
Pelorea: 6050 ( This is a sleeper hit from behind)
Fantasci: Hidden War: 5950 (Thats Us. Drop by our World often)
Inspire: 5900 ( No longer called Inspire but titles Templar Skies, also looks like it moving along nicely.)
MMORPG (Working Title) 5100
Neoastra: 4850 (awesome site, could be our underdog pic of the quarter)
SmokeJumpers: 4600 (This team has a good game under their belts if they pull off the programming.)
Foundations of Hope: 4600 (Lots of characters, wheres the rest if it?)
B.r.a.v.e: 4550 (Looks good, should be interesting to see at 3rd quarter)
Bit Battles: 4120
Aeges Road: 3900
Docoto Defense: 3800
B.A.L.L.S.: 3755 (We have seem some nice screenies)
Exodus Project Online: 3600
Watcher: 3100
Legendary Journeys: 2100
Forsaken Sanctum: 2100
Game of Builder: 1900
Rifts MMO: 1950 (this got points why?)
Solar Battles: 1800
Forbidden Dawn: 1550
Last Ancient: 1500
Combat Robotic Games: 1500
What i would like you folks to do is take a moment and check these previous tally leaders. and Give your commentary.I have provided the blog posts for the top 6. Why have i reposted this 2 reasons, we feel secure that this is a contest that you the fans will be selecting, we want to allow other folks to see what were are up against and how we feel about certain games. The second reason, We think that some entries are worthy of note. Its going to be a fun 3rd quarter no matter how you slice it. We have alot of time to bring our secret weapons to bear. And trust me , we have a few cannons to fire off still. Interested stick with us, as we bring you the last 2 quarters with a continued promise of movies and the more exciting screenshots, our big look outs for next quarter, the release of our playable characters, our server test shots, movies that include our melee combat system in action.
Next week we will be visiting the Fire Elves.
Well thats just about it for our 2nd quarter massive post and tally of this last quarter.. did we forget something.. oh we did.. We have put together most of our Character concepts into one area and added some spice and a introduction by myself. Its a bit dark but its a teaser We do plan to introduce each of our main folks this quarter. To allow each of the team members to let fans see what goes on behind our scenes and how they feel about this race to the finish.
A brief movie for you to enjoy
files.filefront.com/FantasciIntroBwmv/;8647211;/fileinfo.html
We are glad to be here, you the fans can make us the winners of this contest. Show your support and keep coming back week to week. Dont forget we are looking for new members of our team, interested in contributing your talents, programming, art, scripting we can use you to make this game the best it can be. See you next week from the World of Fantasci: Hidden War, Have a great 3rd quarter!!!
We would like to thank you the fans that are lurking out there, for making us the One and definite lead on these boards in posts and views and as long as we keep that support we will continue to please our fans.
Oh what have we been up too these past 6 months. Well lets say we have been building a huge world for everyone enjoyment. What we will do this post is recap all our posts here and Garage Games. We will highlight our movies in as well gaint post. Yes thats right folks, if you missed a movie this will be where you can jump to to find the movie and catch up on stuff you missed.
This is our main Blog, the beginning is here. Its well maintained, entertaining and i believe very informative about the inside goings of our team, without letting our advancements out of the bag.
Weekly Blog Post here ------------------------------------------------------
www.mydreamrpg.com/community/showthread.php?t=1594
There are Garage Games Blog posts most are pretty much monthly. This counts as our September Post and what a post it is
MOVIES!!!! ENJOY THEM. It has come to my attention that a few folks have missed the movies due to their placement. So ill try to simplyify it for everyone and gather their links here .
MOVIE LINKS HERE------------------------------------------------
hosted.filefront.com/racs333
MOVIE LINKS HERE------------------------------------------------
This is our AFX extravaganaza some of our test footage put together by our then AFX coder Christian, Id like to announce he has been promoted to assistant producer of Fantasci.
AFX MOVIE LINK HERE -------------------------------------------
blip.tv/file/362569
Thats something id like to touch on. In each of these groups of people there is something i have learned about most of use around Garage Games, DreamGames are divided into 3 fields of Folks. There is the game in a day type, they expect games to be popped out in a day. id say half of those folks in this catagory succeed its a small manageable task. The second group is the folks that understand that games time time, these are people that have done their homework, are usually avid gamers. They know that a game can take 6months a year , even 5 years to make. These are the folks at GG that you see getting published. Then there is the last group and sadly its a majority. Folks that come into the community either expecting the material to be hand fed to them (this is not withstanding the lack of complete documention; which is coming???) but rather dont even bother to learn the material. Then get mad and bewildered that were being mean and uncaring. These kind of folks typically are part of the shooter generation12-18 range, and seem to have forgotten this is a indie community. Most of us have beenin the same spot they were at one point. I know i was, i havehad my liscence for TGE for just over 1 year. Thats right and im still learning. For those in the later group, heres my advice. If your serious about making a game, start small. Pick up some material to read. I dont care how you get it, im not condoning piracy, but read the books there are several printed that offer a very wide variety of informative stuff on how Torque and games work. I read at least a hour a day on the forums sometimes more. So Guys bottom line of this paragraph. Learn the material!! Dont Expect your first game to be Halo3 or Gears of War. Expect it to be a POS, but learn from each version, if you do your homework the first verstion of most games is a ugly mass of blocky characters and stand in items. Yes even today, this is what they do. Anyway On with the show.
As this second quarter comes upon us we note that we have lost a few folks. Either via them no longer showing up since the first tally, or the few that have actively announced their exit from the contest. We are hopefully they have had fun, and wish them the best of luck in their endeavors, but we are moving on. 6 more months to go.
The last tally 3 months ago, we were asked what we thought was our top 5 picks for the finalists. We be announcing the point tallys when we get them as always. What we will do is post the last tallies and their point value. We wil highlight the top 5-6 with addies and commentary.
NOTE: These are the 1st quarter tallies, not this quarters tallies, they will be posts as soon as they are made available to us
Isles of Midgard: 6400 (Our number two choice for winning this contest. If we dont win, we nominate these guys.)
Frayed Knights: 6200 ( What a awesome concept, original, fresh, and most sidesplitting funny.)
Arcanoria: 6100 ( Why is this 3rd place again?)
Pelorea: 6050 ( This is a sleeper hit from behind)
Fantasci: Hidden War: 5950 (Thats Us. Drop by our World often)
Inspire: 5900 ( No longer called Inspire but titles Templar Skies, also looks like it moving along nicely.)
MMORPG (Working Title) 5100
Neoastra: 4850 (awesome site, could be our underdog pic of the quarter)
SmokeJumpers: 4600 (This team has a good game under their belts if they pull off the programming.)
Foundations of Hope: 4600 (Lots of characters, wheres the rest if it?)
B.r.a.v.e: 4550 (Looks good, should be interesting to see at 3rd quarter)
Bit Battles: 4120
Aeges Road: 3900
Docoto Defense: 3800
B.A.L.L.S.: 3755 (We have seem some nice screenies)
Exodus Project Online: 3600
Watcher: 3100
Legendary Journeys: 2100
Forsaken Sanctum: 2100
Game of Builder: 1900
Rifts MMO: 1950 (this got points why?)
Solar Battles: 1800
Forbidden Dawn: 1550
Last Ancient: 1500
Combat Robotic Games: 1500
What i would like you folks to do is take a moment and check these previous tally leaders. and Give your commentary.I have provided the blog posts for the top 6. Why have i reposted this 2 reasons, we feel secure that this is a contest that you the fans will be selecting, we want to allow other folks to see what were are up against and how we feel about certain games. The second reason, We think that some entries are worthy of note. Its going to be a fun 3rd quarter no matter how you slice it. We have alot of time to bring our secret weapons to bear. And trust me , we have a few cannons to fire off still. Interested stick with us, as we bring you the last 2 quarters with a continued promise of movies and the more exciting screenshots, our big look outs for next quarter, the release of our playable characters, our server test shots, movies that include our melee combat system in action.
Next week we will be visiting the Fire Elves.
Well thats just about it for our 2nd quarter massive post and tally of this last quarter.. did we forget something.. oh we did.. We have put together most of our Character concepts into one area and added some spice and a introduction by myself. Its a bit dark but its a teaser We do plan to introduce each of our main folks this quarter. To allow each of the team members to let fans see what goes on behind our scenes and how they feel about this race to the finish.
A brief movie for you to enjoy
files.filefront.com/FantasciIntroBwmv/;8647211;/fileinfo.html
We are glad to be here, you the fans can make us the winners of this contest. Show your support and keep coming back week to week. Dont forget we are looking for new members of our team, interested in contributing your talents, programming, art, scripting we can use you to make this game the best it can be. See you next week from the World of Fantasci: Hidden War, Have a great 3rd quarter!!!
About the author
I am working on my first large Game with a team of programmers and artists. I am a avid gamer and am the lead producer and director of Fantasci Hidden War. I have my first published game credit with Chariots as a Level Designer and Interior Artist.
Torque Owner Ed Johnson