Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics Feb 15

[Sindhi]

Here are a couple of screenshots of our first creature in the Secret Garden (forest map3) other than the butterflies. He's a tile right now, until Joel animates him. We plan to try using the monkey script for this, but I may have to draw him again. Did him in Gimp with a mouse; put in pictures with him the cforrect size.




A ring-tailed lemur to frolic in the Secret Garden.



A close-up.

[Sindhi]

Yogoda was playing around in My Paint and made these trees from scratch so I  turned the trunk upside down
(turning the roots into branches) and put them into forest map 2 and took a screenshot. This is his first effort
making something without a photo or graphic to copy. I stuck some fern clumps in one of the trees for variety
 of foliage for the shot. Yogoda is getting better and better at making graphics.

[Lady-Succubus]

Wow, I've never even thought of using roots for branches but it makes so much sense when you think of it. :3

[Sindhi]

We're taking a bit of a break, but I have been working on the forest map and it's almost done; also took a shot of the entrance from the waterfall tunnel to the first forest map. I know we are showing you mostly scenery and no bosses but that is how we want to preserve some surprises for you guys when you go to play the mod.



Lots of branches to add; I really like how there are level 9 trees in front and trees and mountains behind on the parallax layers
 so as Naija walks or runs along you can see the scenery move realistically and she walks behind things too. Also the trees
are very tall, so there is lots of opportunity for climbing and discovering treasures and stuff in the trees, and of course
Naija can jump from one tree to another, but I don't think she can jump to the trees in the parallax layer as they are in
 the distance. Yogoda handles all the logistics. I know the ivy on the right part is way too big; it will all work out.



This is where the tunnel from the magic door in the waterfall map ends, at the beginning of the forest map.




This is in the middle of Forest Map 1, where I added some of the fluffy trees behind in the parallax layer; the trees behind
the fluffy guy on the right are on a parallax layer also but they move faster.
 

[Sindhi]

Danger Mouse has kindly offered to share resources with us, and after seeing the feral mod released in chapters, Yogoda thinks we should release the first half of our mod in a couple of months and then work to finish the second half.  So, if anyone wants to do some beta-testing please let us know. We are sharing working files through Tortoise but we can also send and share files with beta-testers through Dropbox. I could use someone to go through the game and find all the treasures to see which ones I haven't used yet! Someone with a lot of free time (there are fifty of them). We still could use some puzzles for going from one place to another of getting past obstacles. I am working on getting all the script and story ideas put together in one file; I think we know what is happening now, and why. So, let us know if any of you want to play! And Alec, if your offer still holds, we would love some new music for our mod; just a piece or two...in your voluminous spare time....



The treasures don't go into the same place they do in Aquaria (although we should be able to change that now), so they go here, a special cave you can access from the home map, to see which ones you have, and the outlines of the ones you don't. The treasures are photos I took of my jewelry from www.bindhu.org; pendants mostly, and a couple of pieces I made myself by casting silver. They are each displayed on an aotea stone, which carries the feminine earth energy. We have fifty treasures in our mod.

[Lady-Succubus]

It looks like a giant bloated hand. :S

[Yogoda]

It was not supposed to be, but yes, on that picture it really looks like 

[Lady-Succubus]

Maybe you should change it so that it looks less scary.

[Sindhi]

That's just a part of the cave... here is the whole treasure cave. Sheesh, wouldn't want to actually SCARE people in a mod, would we......although I concede that the treasures are not supposed to be scary. All the fingers are my fault, I asked Yogoda to make a lot of shelves when he made the map shape; as a female, I like having a lot of options....and storage space, of course.

[Alphasoldier]

Once again amazing new content, sounds like getting all those collectibles will be even more work than the original game, pfew.
Heck, I bet after all the effort you guys put into this it could be seen as a new game. xD

[Sindhi]

Thanks, Alpha. I've uploaded both the Magic mod and part 1 which Yogoda extracted this morning to my Dropbox account, but I'm having trouble sharing the main mod. Yogoda, in Geneva, is asleep, and Danger Mouse, in Hawaii is frittering away the last few hours of his holiday waiting for me to send him the mod so we can share resources. It may be too big. I've been working on Magic part 1 today, redecorating the home cave. We should be finished in a couple of months and will release that part. If you still want to beta-test it will not be much longer. Here's a screenshot from the entrance to the Treasure cave from the Home cave:



and a view of Naija and Li's bedroom after some redecorating. We have pretty much finished the story now.



Yogoda said the home cave was just way too boring, so I went a little crazy....

[Lady-Succubus]

Your mod and dedication to it is an inspiration to all of us. ^^

I just wish I wasn't so wasteful of my time. ._.

[Sindhi]

Doing something that makes your heart sing is never a waste of time...that's how I see it. My spiritual Teacher says we have only two tasks: to take nothing seriously, and to get maximum enjoyment out of every moment.

[Lady-Succubus]

Well i waste my time doing things I don't really enjoy. I should be being creative! D:

[Sindhi]

Sweet lady S: Judgment sucks. Guilt sucks. Beating yourself up sucks. And it makes you grumpy... that's my experience, anyway.

hey, DM, Yogoda and I had a great three-way Skype chat last night, connecting Switzerland in the morning, Hawaii after DM put the kids to bed, and me in the wee hours. We exchanged stuff on Dropbox and talked about dragons.... Yogoda has Magic part 1 separated out and we will work on just that until it is done, and use that for beta-testing. When our mod is done he will help DM finish his mod. We are all feeling really good about committing to finishing both mods ASAP...