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

[Gringamuyloca]

Maybe someone would be willing to start a Facebook page?

  I would be more than willing to 'Like' it.  It might be a way of getting a little more exposure for both the game and the awesome mods...

Just a thought

[Aristobulus]

Honestly, I think the best way is to just convince some person in the gaming spotlight to help Aquaria out with getting noticed - like I said, this was how Minecraft took off, when Penny Arcade wrote those comics and newspost about it.

How to do that - get people like that to be willing to help, is another thing entirely though. Tycho is generally pretty supportive of the indie gaming scene, and I would've thought he'd love to help Alec/Derek out in this regards considering the power he has to publicize a game, but I'm sure he knows of Aquaria but yet as far as I know he never made a single comic or newspost about it, which is a little distressing.

[Sindhi]

Yogoda set up a server and is the main admin person for Minecraft; that is why he hasn't been working on our mod. He is easing out of that, though... I think his energy was helping to make the game more popular, and a lot of people have their creations stored on his server. He is moving to Lausanne (from Geneva) and is changing from a bank to a coffee company (much better) so he is kinds busy but he wants to work on the mod again. I don't think setting up a Facebook page would be hard, but looking at it every day would be time consuming; I don't even look at MY Facebook page every day... I like the idea of publicizing Aquaria and the mods...Don't know who Tycho is. It would certianoy be much cheaper to set up an Aquaria Facebook page than to get it onto PS3!

[KS-10]

In http://www.moddb.com/games/aquaria/mods Beauty of Aquaria and Magic of Aquaria mods possibly to post. When Magic of Aquaria been released then post in main page and get many of people. Before releasing of mod possibly to post some news about development Magic of Aquaria and these news also seen many of people in main page of ModDB.

[Aristobulus]

Don't know who Tycho is. It would certianoy be much cheaper to set up an Aquaria Facebook page than to get it onto PS3!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/ ?

They pretty much helped jump start Minecraft becoming so popular - they made a series of comics/newsposts basically talking about how good the game was and many people jumped on the game from there, who had never heard of it before. It went from a game most people had never heard of, to wildly popular basically with their help, because they extremely large in the gaming scene - lots of people turn to them to find out about games and such.

[Alphasoldier]

See, even Yogoda went with Minecraft instead of Aquaria. =p

[Yogoda]

Minecraft is really an amazing game, it is truely infinite, I think you could play it forever, or at least years. A true sandbox game

It is still getting more and more popular, it reached 1'000'000 sales.

Also the community is great, there is a team of developers that creates an API for other developers to create plugins. Hundreds of plugins have been released, it allows to modify every aspects of the game and to make your server different from others, this is truely amazing.

I did create myself several plugins, and one became very popular, MoveCraft. It allows to create vehicules out of blocks (craft) and make them move, in a world where everything is pretty much static. Thousands of downloads, 50'000+ views, wow (but it was a lot of work)

Now I've stopped developing my plugins, but I still have an amazing server that did run for months with awesome buildings and structures. Hundreds of players have been playing on it (but like 20 connected at the same time), I've made friends, my brother and his friends are playing on it, my players spent countless hours creating a world, so you understand it is very difficult for me to stop the server like this.

My goal is to stop the server at a point so I can go back to Aquaria, but I'm not really sure how to do that and how much time it will take.

[Yogoda]

Look at Minecraft - that was a game that existed for years and only a few people knew what the fuck Minecraft was, and even less knew who Notch was. But Notch, unlike Alec/Derek, was lucky enough to get lots of publicity - his game REALLY started taking off when he got those comics made about how great his game was, on Penny Arcade. If Aquaria could be so lucky, it could take off just the same. Even now.

I think the main reason Minecraft became so popular is because you can play it in the browser directly, for free and on multiplayer servers. Aquaria can't do this

[Alphasoldier]

I know a lot of other browser games that aren't as popular, but that's not really the point.

Besides that, wouldn't it be possible to "maintain" the server and work on Aquaria as well? Maybe even recruit some people you trust to maintain the server.

[Yogoda]

Besides that, wouldn't it be possible to "maintain" the server and work on Aquaria as well? Maybe even recruit some people you trust to maintain the server.

I have already people I trust that maintain the server, but only I can do the complex technical aspects.

It is not possible to do both at the same time I'm afraid, both need a 100% dedication.

I plan to spend 2 more months on the server, then I will stop playing Minecraft on the 31 march. After that I will still pay 2 more months the server, then stop.

[Echolocating]

My goal is to stop the server at a point so I can go back to Aquaria, but I'm not really sure how to do that and how much time it will take.

I can only imagine that maintaining a server is a huge commitment. You may want ask your community if anyone is willing to take the reigns. When you do shut it down, maybe make the game server files available. I know I always appreciated that when I used to play NWN, which was all private servers.

Glad you chose to take a break from Aquaria and recharge your underwater metroidvania fuel cells.

[Sindhi]

Hey, guys, Nightmareshadow is helping us with the story/script/dialogue and puzzles; he has some great ideas so we are invigorated and I (Sindhi) am working on the mod again and Yogoda will be helping a bit too as he disentangles himself from Minecraft. I will be posting screenshots again soon as we get part one of Magic ready for release, possibly by June? Nothing written in stone yet. But Yahoo!!!!!!!! We are thinking of our mod as a transition between Aquaria and a possible sequel.... not to get all ego-proud on you...I still think it would be cool for people all over the world to work on a sequel together, with Alec's blessing, of course.

[Sindhi]

I played around yesterday in the home cave. Still working on adding transit turtles to the game; need to talk to Bear.




When you right-click on a treasure, there is a message and it goes into the Treasure Cave, where all fifty treasures have black silhouettes until you collect them; then the treasure shows up. This helps the player find the other ones!



I decided to put every stove and kitchen accessory from Aquaria in here; what can I say, I like to cook!



Naija and Li's bedroom, with Lucien's cradle, and some treasures and spoils they carried from Aquaria by turtle. As you can see, we are using the long-haired Li.

[Echolocating]

We are thinking of our mod as a transition between Aquaria and a possible sequel.... not to get all ego-proud on you...I still think it would be cool for people all over the world to work on a sequel together, with Alec's blessing, of course.

I like that idea very much.  I'd suggest that Alec helps outline the story though. A sequel just isn't a sequel to me if the creator doesn't have a hand in it.

Nice stuff with the screenshots. It really inspires the community when you share your progress. Honestly. Great stuff!

[Sindhi]

Thank you, Echolocating, and I agree that an outline from Alec would be perfect! I am sure any group working on a sequel would want him to have more than just a hand in it as long as he is willing. And I'm sure fans will be coming out of the woodwork to share ideas and work on a sequel if Alec gives his blessing (and an outline)...

We have, I imagine,  another six months or so of work on the Magic mod ahead of us. Nightmareshadow is playing with our mod this weekend so he can begin fleshing out the script. He already has a great idea for a greedy monster (mini-boss) blocking the cave passage...