Highfantasy RPG]Era Of Twilight
by Peter Elvin · in Jobs · 06/27/2005 (5:27 pm) · 8 replies
Era of Twilight is the first chapter of three. The name has a symbolic meaning and that is already more then enough of what i want to tell you about its title.
take these notes of my parts as a joke if you wish. some of you may not be to interested in my background history so just skip to the "fun part" if so may be, and read up on the basic story.
-BORING PART
Almost 4 years ago, I started working on the project, back then i was writing a book about the world, however, never finished it beacuse i started to develop it further, not only its story but the whole world. Eventually it beacame the home for my Pen And Paper Roleplaying sessions, the land was given the name of Kynskavion. Soon thereafter I started making less pieces from the game as modifications using the Construction Set for the all still to popular game Morrowind. This included a cave and a forest from my world. However, as i realised the scope of the world I started thinking about making a Total conversion for the game. It was going rather well, and then it suddenly hit me... Why oh why don't i take the whole project to the next level, to continue expanding upon it and from a fresh perspective I felt the way to go, was its own engine. I tried many things Looked at Ogre, to complex, I looked at Irrlicht, which was an improvement, yet I as a true 3d artist did'nt make much of any of them, yet i came somewhere and atleast gained some knowlage of the hardships of the Programmers. I even tried teaming up with programmers to make our own engine from scratch. But luck was not on my brightest side so to speak. And all these paths has finnaly summed up to me beeing here, recently bought the Indie licence to take a more indepth look at the engine, the more I look the more i see it feels more and more right.
-HALFWAY THERE ;)
Im not extaordinary in 3d either to be honest, my more recent work can be seen here, most of the textures suck but im steadily improving in that area, beacuse i realised its importance. My work in 3d can be seen at:
http://81.8.200.147/front.html
-AND NOW THE FUN PART
Where to start without spoiling is a good question, ill start with half the intro to see if its spawns any interest.
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IntroPT1:
Lately, my family had begun falling apart. It had beacome apparent to me that things would not last much longer, I was right.
My father died from a mysterious death, which cause was cast in shadows. I was left alone in this world, carrying the curse of my Bloodline. All alone in the lands of Kynskavion...
The curse which in fact is the fate which we have so far always strifed against was not sealed for me, as for my elders. Before it could be done, all known realatives to me had died.
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Our team is currently searching for programmers, if you want to join you atleast need to showcase something you have created. Personally ive been decieved a few times, and there is nothing worse then untrustworthy people in the team.
We are also searching for a texture artist capable of 'thinking outside the box' the world we are creating is a High-Fantasy one, you need to imagine materials of properties not of this world.
The team as it is now consists of me Peter, aka Mireneye my positions are Leader,Loremaster,Modeller, Texturing, and a few other 'positions'.
These are the few others who followed me from the Morrowind TC
Rogue Shadow Duskvale Designer
AnOldFriend Modeller/some texturing
ThinZappa(Old nickname) also known as Fredric Music
Also, there are also a bunch of other people who more or less 'owe' me a 3d model or 2, and even a few code-snippets in favors ofcourse.
Thanks for your attention
take these notes of my parts as a joke if you wish. some of you may not be to interested in my background history so just skip to the "fun part" if so may be, and read up on the basic story.
-BORING PART
Almost 4 years ago, I started working on the project, back then i was writing a book about the world, however, never finished it beacuse i started to develop it further, not only its story but the whole world. Eventually it beacame the home for my Pen And Paper Roleplaying sessions, the land was given the name of Kynskavion. Soon thereafter I started making less pieces from the game as modifications using the Construction Set for the all still to popular game Morrowind. This included a cave and a forest from my world. However, as i realised the scope of the world I started thinking about making a Total conversion for the game. It was going rather well, and then it suddenly hit me... Why oh why don't i take the whole project to the next level, to continue expanding upon it and from a fresh perspective I felt the way to go, was its own engine. I tried many things Looked at Ogre, to complex, I looked at Irrlicht, which was an improvement, yet I as a true 3d artist did'nt make much of any of them, yet i came somewhere and atleast gained some knowlage of the hardships of the Programmers. I even tried teaming up with programmers to make our own engine from scratch. But luck was not on my brightest side so to speak. And all these paths has finnaly summed up to me beeing here, recently bought the Indie licence to take a more indepth look at the engine, the more I look the more i see it feels more and more right.
-HALFWAY THERE ;)
Im not extaordinary in 3d either to be honest, my more recent work can be seen here, most of the textures suck but im steadily improving in that area, beacuse i realised its importance. My work in 3d can be seen at:
http://81.8.200.147/front.html
-AND NOW THE FUN PART
Where to start without spoiling is a good question, ill start with half the intro to see if its spawns any interest.
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IntroPT1:
Lately, my family had begun falling apart. It had beacome apparent to me that things would not last much longer, I was right.
My father died from a mysterious death, which cause was cast in shadows. I was left alone in this world, carrying the curse of my Bloodline. All alone in the lands of Kynskavion...
The curse which in fact is the fate which we have so far always strifed against was not sealed for me, as for my elders. Before it could be done, all known realatives to me had died.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our team is currently searching for programmers, if you want to join you atleast need to showcase something you have created. Personally ive been decieved a few times, and there is nothing worse then untrustworthy people in the team.
We are also searching for a texture artist capable of 'thinking outside the box' the world we are creating is a High-Fantasy one, you need to imagine materials of properties not of this world.
The team as it is now consists of me Peter, aka Mireneye my positions are Leader,Loremaster,Modeller, Texturing, and a few other 'positions'.
These are the few others who followed me from the Morrowind TC
Rogue Shadow Duskvale Designer
AnOldFriend Modeller/some texturing
ThinZappa(Old nickname) also known as Fredric Music
Also, there are also a bunch of other people who more or less 'owe' me a 3d model or 2, and even a few code-snippets in favors ofcourse.
Thanks for your attention
#2
In short we will need a place to talk, most of my other members are gathered from MSN, however, MSN is'nt best suited really for team-meetings etc, if you have any idea be free to drop it by.
Cheers.
06/27/2005 (5:57 pm)
Oh, well, if you help me getting a CVS Server up and running its definietly a do. I will send you an email shortly.In short we will need a place to talk, most of my other members are gathered from MSN, however, MSN is'nt best suited really for team-meetings etc, if you have any idea be free to drop it by.
Cheers.
#3
06/27/2005 (7:03 pm)
Sure thing. I can help you setup a cvs server. Also have you guys thought about Teamspeak for voice chat and meetings and such? I can also pickup msn just so we can talk if need be even though I do not prefer it. Might think of IRC if voice chat isnt a option.
#4
06/27/2005 (7:58 pm)
How do you setup a cvs server?what do you need?
#5
06/27/2005 (8:55 pm)
Tomarrow I am going to be releaseing two TVTs (Torque Video Tutorials). One of them is howto setup WinCVS to connect to the GG cvs server and the other is gonig to be howto setup a CVS Server. While the first pretains to useing wincvs with the gg cvs server it also applys to your own cvs server once you have it setup.
#6
Cheers mate.
06/29/2005 (2:00 pm)
Allright, sorry I hav'nt sent you an email yet. Im quite much in the middle of Drivers License lessons almost all the time haha. RL can really take its toll sometime. 2-3 houers you say, man if I must say, never even heard such promising dedicating words so far, ill try hurry that mail. Cheers mate.
#7
If you have any other valuable skill, that may also give you an position if you can show off your effort and skill somehow.
Cheers
07/05/2005 (2:12 pm)
Im still looking for more programmers, aswell just about any other position. Including Texture artists, 3d Modellers"Environment & characters etc", Animators, and Engine programmers, Graphic Programmers, Gameplay Programmers.If you have any other valuable skill, that may also give you an position if you can show off your effort and skill somehow.
Cheers
#8
Cheers
09/08/2005 (8:18 am)
Im gonna bump this and also say that im also searching elsewhere for programmers and that Torque may not be my choice of engine any more. If however somebody would step up here, id like to speak with him.Cheers
Torque Owner Thomas Oliver
If you need examples and such shoot me a email at oliver at sstelco.com with what kind of examples you are looking for and I will cook some stuff up.