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

[Lady-Succubus]

Yay, congrats! ^^

[r_b_bergstrom]

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...

This is great news. I'm really excited to get to see and play your mods in the near future. The screen shots you've shared are really lush and beautiful. Visually dense... but in a serene way. I really like your style, and think it's a great match for Aquaria.

[Sindhi]

Thank you for the kind words! I wanted to emulate Aquaria, but I have a different style (glad you like it), and obviously I am a decorating fool. Yogoda keeps telling me to quit using so many tiles. We hope you guys have some pretty good systems as this will not be a small file. We have had a few problems extracting part one from the main mod and are having to redo some things, but it is really fun to collaborate with both Danger Mouse & Yogoda, and use Dropbox to trade files and graphics back and forth. Odd little things are happening (the latest being totally my fault), but they are helping us to fix bugs and make the mod better, just as you said people's suggestions are helping your mod.  Actually, I can hardly wait to play it myself! Here is a photo from the Cave Passage, to which I added some critters; that map is finished now.

[Danger Mouse]

Lookin' good, Lookin' good!

[Sindhi]

Speaking of "lookin' good", Yogoda added Moogie's long-haired sexy Li to our Magic part one mod (with permission); I have to say, being a fan of long hair, that he looks pretty hot to me!!! Thanks again, Moogie!



This is in the cave passage, to which I added some more "monsters" yesterday; it will be a fun "ride".

[Alphasoldier]

He may look sexy, but he also looks a whole lot darker, character-wise, is that also a development in the story?

[GMMan]

Red eyes?

[Nericor]

Red eyes?

  He's been possessed by an evil jelly fish!  Don't trust him Naija!


  As for the mod, looking good!

[Sindhi]

Whoa, he does have red eyes; I took a really close look. No, there is no "darker" theme happening in our mod. I know one of the fans mentioned making Li a villain in their mod, but we are not going down that road... good guy, long hair, maybe a little hung over? Rainbow soup? Don't know what Moogie had in mind.  I will see if we can change the color to brown so he doesn't look like some Devil Spawn Li. Sharp eyes there, trusty fans... I will ask Yogoda if we can use the smiling face, also; there are five or six faces, and this one looks like the angry face to me.

[Align]

There seems to be red in his hair too, maybe it was just a slip of the hand?

[Sindhi]

Yeah, I see a blush of red too...not as freaky as red eyes, though... I fixed the eyes and saved to another file, but haven't heard from Yogoda yet... it's tough workin' with a guy halfway around the world sometimes. The graphic is very small so it's a pixel at a time... don't worry, we will remove all vampire tendencies and unhealthy taints... nothing shall sully Naija's innocence or honor...

[Sindhi]

Better?

[GMMan]

First time seeing entity part layering in high-res. Say, was the layering for the turtles fixed? I haven't tried the mod (I need to finish the game first), but in the original game when Naija (and Li, if he's present) ride the turtles, the layering is sort of messed up so that their hands (and I'm not sure if their legs) are layered in front of the turtle, so that they sort of look like they're sitting sideways on the turtle.

(Addendum: I think Li's hair is tie-dyed, because it also has a bit of green here and then. Maybe the red parts of the hair were original designs along the "tie-dyed" theme?)

[Sindhi]

Our mod isn't done yet; we will release part one in a couple of months. The hair is by Moogie; I saw streaks of blue and red, no green; covered them with shades of black and changed the eyes to brown. Don't remember the look of the transport turtles.. someone else perhaps can answer that. No tie-dying, I just think Moogie was going for highlights to make it look more realistic, and I have noticed different monitors have different colors; my desktop looks more purply than my laptop. Big difference in the Beach map! The shades of grey in the rocks are way more contrasty on the desktop monitor.

[GMMan]

I'm sure there is green in his hair, though. It looks quite different from the green foliage in the background, so I know it's not a transparent alpha.