any demos?

Das Mole · Emo Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1018 Location: Chicago

i know i ask this, like, every 5 weeks, but i guess i'm a little too excited about there being a demo sometime...

...anyway, the only reason i'm posting this is b/c i was reading through some threads, and there was one (i think it's called "so....", it should be a few threads beneath this one) where you said you (james) were working on the demo and you had to debug some of the puzzles or something? Confused

and you said it was a pre-alpha....i was just wondering if there's been good progress, if it's almost done or something...

i feel like i'm being really pushy and that i need to back off a bit...but i'm not trying to be pushy, really. sorry if i'm bothering you...if you want me to stop asking, please say so, b/c i get the feeling you do, but you're not telling me...i know i'd be irritated, but i wouldn't say anything.

anyway...sorry for asking, if i'm being annoying...i just wanted to know. then again, i always want to know....but wadeva.
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Steve · Moderator Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 776 Location: Belgium

I wanted to ask the exact same thing today.
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James · 3run Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 3756

Well, the art is kind of flaky, and that is necessary for the demo.

Mark is working well, he's got the bedroom and the lounge done, but we still need a lot more rooms.

And with the character art, I don't even know who the character artist is Razz

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But all the other progress is going well. But everything has to be done before a demo can be released.
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Das Mole · Emo Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1018 Location: Chicago

what happened to, um.......that guy. uh...inkoddi. is he still doing the background art? and, do you need me to design any more rooms or whatever?

and the character art....did okii just quit or something?
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James · 3run Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 3756

Inkoddi.. well, we keep asking him, but whenever we ask him if he's gonna do it he says "Meh, too busy. Might do it soon" or something Razz

. He hasn't done anything in afew months, so Mark's doing it now.

And, we hadn't spoken to Okii for weeks, but he just came back saying his PC had crashed, but he's willing to start again. That was about a week ago, and I haven't seen him again since. We do have someone else called Michael who wants to do character art aswell.

It's all very confusing.
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Das Mole · Emo Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1018 Location: Chicago

those damn artists! Razz

we need to find someone who can just dish out art quickly and efficiently, and won't have something come up.

i'll bet you that both mark and michael will not be in contact with anyone here within the next month and a half. and then we'll need to find someone else, and 80% of the art will need to be redone again.

*bing!* i have an idea! since we have to keep getting new artists and all this, why don't we just have all the screens look different and weird, and have billy match what the surroundings look like or something...that would make the game, uh...unique. *cough* *looks nervously from side to side* *runs away*
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James · 3run Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 3756

Mark is on MSN loads, so you don't need to worry about him Wink

, and I think Michael comes on a bit, but i can't remember.

The different scenes idea could be ok if we did a different artist for each part, so the desert is different style from the house etc. Like that idea?
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James · 3run Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 3756

The News:

1) Okii spoke to me again a few days ago, saying that he had done the work... now i'm just waiting for a chance where he can send it to me.

2) We may be changing background artist again, because we found someone who has plenty of time, and drew this:

Well, actually, someone else did the line art, and he coloured it in, but he will be doing the line art, and has been on art courses, so should know what he is doing Wink

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And, if anyone wants to know what we're going to do with the un used art, well, I'll probably put it in a deleted scenes thing with bonus content. Maybe I'll release a collector's edition with a bonus CD full of bonus things, and then other stuff like posters, tshirts etc.
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Steve · Moderator Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 776 Location: Belgium

So for all you people that think DOTA game is dead, it's not! FAR FROM, ACTUALLY!
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Das Mole · Emo Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1018 Location: Chicago

that pic looks nice Smile

btw- just so everyone knows...starting jan.16 (start of 2nd semester), i'm going to take a class in computer programming-java, c++ Very Happy

so then i can expand my elomsad productions omnimedia empire and join the ranks of programmers as well! don't know if 4 months will teach me everything there is to know, but at least i'll know something. *shrug*
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James · 3run Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 3756

Hey, that would be great. The language used to programme DOTA has been simplified for adventure games, so if you learn some of that you should be able to learn how to help with DOTA too Smile

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monkey_05_06 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

James · 3run Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 3756

No, it's a different Michael - Michael Geismar.
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