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Aquaria => General => Topic started by: Krissy on February 23, 2007, 04:04:42 am
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Alec the IGF Demo. Are you going to make it available public through fileplanet or any other download service? Or will it even be available to us? I saw you mention it in a nother thread and I got curious to know if you'd make it available before you go to IGF, while you are at IGF or after IGF in between that time & releasing.
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Naw, we'll be making a new demo once we've finalized the main game. Our goal is to make the demo its own little scenario, rather than just taking a chunk of the full game out of context. At that point everyone will get to try it out!
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That is a brilliant idea! The demo will show you how the game feels and plays, but it wont spoil any part of the game.
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Yes ! Why not a demo version to discover this game which seems so exciting. It depends of the advancement of the game I think.
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Yes ! Why not a demo version to discover this game which seems so exciting. It depends of the advancement of the game I think.
Hehe, you jst answered your own question. ^-^
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Yeah, we'll definitely be releasing a demo! But only when we're ready... which will probably be right around when we release the game.
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Is this IGF demo like a Beta test? Since it obviously doesn't present the complete version.
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IGF = Independent Games Festival
In September we submitted a version that was like the first chapter of the game (10%?). The last build we submitted in January was like 80-90% of the game.
Right now we're working on the final parts of the central progression; after that we'll be working on adding a bunch more creatures, secrets, extra bosses, etc, etc.
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Hey Alec! For a boss you should make a demented/twisted/evil version of ECCO the dolphin (of course it can be a generic dolphin) But that would be funny to see since it reminds alot of people of ECCO :P
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It would be a pretty cool hidden easter egg. You break a wall, and a dolphin swims free singing some tune from Ecco.
But i think that Ecco is under the protection of copyright laws, so it might be a pain to get a permission to use it.
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If you're going to add hiden things, make a remake of a fish or something from the SNES's "Evo: Search for eden"
You could probably get it from a couple of sites, just to map out the dude. I found out about the game in the 50th issue of Nintendo power. It's one OLD issue, man. It has Kaepora Gaebora, that owl, on the cover.
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Hey Alec! For a boss you should make a demented/twisted/evil version of ECCO the dolphin (of course it can be a generic dolphin) But that would be funny to see since it reminds alot of people of ECCO :P
ROFL.
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Hey Alec! For a boss you should make a demented/twisted/evil version of ECCO the dolphin (of course it can be a generic dolphin) But that would be funny to see since it reminds alot of people of ECCO :P
It would be a pretty cool hidden easter egg. You break a wall, and a dolphin swims free singing some tune from Ecco.
But i think that Ecco is under the protection of copyright laws, so it might be a pain to get a permission to use it.
If you're going to add hiden things, make a remake of a fish or something from the SNES's "Evo: Search for eden"
You could probably get it from a couple of sites, just to map out the dude. I found out about the game in the 50th issue of Nintendo power. It's one OLD issue, man. It has Kaepora Gaebora, that owl, on the cover.
I'm really against adding all those Easter eggs. As much as we all can't help but think of all those great games which Aquaria reminds us of, Aquaria is its very own game. Whether or not there are obvious similarities, I want Aquaria to do its own thing. This game should keep any straight references from other games to a minimum or to nothing at all. Aquaria is, from what I can tell, tiring to be one of those games with a deeply impressive story and I don't want to have to any thing that would break this pattern and say all the sudden "Look, you found Ecco".
However, this is simply my opinion and if anyone here has played Eternal Daughter and found the secret room you'd know that there where a few, "in you face" references to Metroid, Cammy and something else I think. So I think there is more of a chance you'll see something like that in Aquaria, rather than not.
Other than that, I'd love to see game related hidden eggs.
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Yeah, we're not putting any external game references in.
Except... maybe... hmm. cough
So... yeah. :)
But yeah, I still find the idea of an evil Ecco boss amusing. ^-^
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Maybe you could do a not-so-straight reference, by adding a dolphin you can sing with? Then you could go to its lair to have some cool laidback jamming sessions 8)
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Or Rescue a Zora who then returns to Hyrule.
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Or Rescue a Zora who then returns to Hyrule.
Uh, I doubt that's possible as the Zelda franchise is lively. Myself, I think Zelda should die, and if you had a Zora, that sort of defeats the whole game itself.
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First I was only joking, I would Like Aquaria to be as origanal as possibl. Second Why would you Like Zelda to Die? thats Like asking Mario to go back tobeing a plumber, or Gordon freeman to give up and Die.