06-22-2018, 11:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2018, 02:48 PM by MrSecuPupps.)
Hello! Today I want to present you the game that my friend, Mr.Magician (the director, the story writer and the graphic an the character designer) together with the team (Cucky-the programmer, Ari-the scienarist and ThePoochyKid) are working on. My job is, to manage the promotion of this game. We don’t have any footage or gameplay because this is in very early development, but we try to launch a demo as soon as possible.
❓ - WHAT IS PROJECT SHADOWS?
It is a game inspired by the Paper Mario series, or in more official terms, a spiritual successor. It keeps every element of the series (partners, story, original cracters and the beloved battle system) thought with some changes. I will explain later more about them.
❓ - STORY (Updated) :
Skuldoo’s sister, Skornette, went on a journey in a history and technology based land called „The Clockwork Kingdom”, but never returned from there. The reasons of the disappearance are unknown. Skuldoo, together with his friend Ra bittus, are going to find Skornette, but without knowing the dangers which await them. I don’t want to give too many spoilers on the story, I would just say that there is much more going on, dark twists and lore.
❓ - GAMEPLAY ELEMENTS:
The gameplay will be mainly the same as the Paper Mario series, mixed with some Mario & Luigi elements (especially visibe in the battle system).
🔙 - Returning Elements: The 'Paper Mario: The Thounsand Year Door' battle system, the partners, the badge system, the recilpes, the additional quests (including pit of 100 trials).
🔮 - Mirror travelling: A „mirror” is a portal leading to parallel dimension (or a mirror world). This parallel worlds are presented through out the entire game and they are very important in making progress.
🆙 - The Ability System: The Abitlity System is different from the Paper Mario’s, now each partner having 2 abilities instead of one. One ability is available from the beginning and one is earned later in the game. I also need to mention that there will be 10 partners.
💖 - Soul Energy (Or Soul Points in battles): The Soul Energy works like a fuel for a wide variety of attacks. The partners are using this energy in order to use one of their special abilities or for performance of some particular attacks. The Soul Energy can be obtained after battles or found in different locations of the Kingdom.
📬 - Delivery Submissions: Delivery submissions can give coins or hepful items if completed. They don’t affect the gameplay during the story and are completely optional.
❗ - IMPORTANT CHARACTERS:
💀 - Skuldoo: He is heavily based on Luigi’s personality, thought with a hidden dark side which will be revealed during the story. He is sensitive to the sunlight and that’s why he wears that many clothes and a skull. His main ability is to transpose the characters into a "shadowed reality", like how the shadow levels work in Super Mario 3D World. He should have had a 2nd ability but, though we didn’t establish anything major about it yet.
🐰 - Ra Bittus: He is Skuldoo’s best friend and the first partner of the game. (joins in the Prologue) There isn’t an established order of the joining in team of other partners yet. He is a massive rabbit and a skilled spear fighter. He is always smiling, even if you can’t see his mouth. He tries to help everyone and to be nice, but don’t hurt his friends, because you would get in big trouble anyway.
- Abilities:
- Unzip: Useful for unzipping some special marked sections (this ability requires Soul Energy);
- Bounce: Useful for reaching high arenas. (earned later in game).
🤖 - -1: He is a edgy robot that has a lot of useful gadgets, like a laser gun on his hand. He can also fly but he isn’t able to carry or to lift up any character.
- Abilities:
- Scanner: useful for seeing invisible objects (this ability uses Soul Energy, earned later in game);
- Blast: useful to destroy cracked walls with a laser gun shot. It will also be used in other ways too.
🎃 - Pumpkin Head: He is an illusionist magician that has a very weird personality and dark thoughts, though he is a good guy. He isn’t actually a pumpkin creature, that’s just a costume he wears.
- Ability (this character has only 1 ability at the moment):
- Cloning : Thanks to his Illusion powers he can create up to 5 "pumpkin clones" of a character (this ability uses Soul Energy).
🦅 - Cutodd: He is a crow with a scissor back. He is a fearful character and doesn’t like nonsense violence. Though, something will happen to this character during the story that will make him change his mentality. He works at a delivery service, so the player can get helpful items time to time.
- Ability (this character has only 1 ability at the moment):
- Cut :Useful to cut special marked sections.
🗡️ - Ammi: She has a Japanese inspired outfit. She can control the water and is a great Katana fighter. She hasn’t an established personality yet. We are working on it.
- Abilities:
- Air Bubble: Useful for breathing and walking underwater.
- Freeze: Helpful for travelling on water. Can be also be used for extinguishing the fire.
🔫- Blind bullet: He is a cowboy-cat. He is actually blind because of some events that happened in past that will be explained in his backstory. He is a serious guy that doesn’t smile and tries to hide his sad past. He is a skilled shooter and good at finding hidden treasures.
- Abilities:
- Hat Toss: works similar to Shell Throw ability of the Koopa Troopas in the Paper Mario series;
- Shot: Useful for breaking certain objects. Unlike the Blast ability, the bullet shooting direction can be set with the mouse and the bullets can go through tiny spaces. (this ability uses Soul Energy, earned later in game);
We’re sorry but we didn’t establish any battle attack for Skuldoo and partners yet. We also need ideas to fill the 4 remaining slots for the partners (preferable: female characters).
- CHAPTER THEMES:
- Prologue: 30’s themed, located in the main town of the kingdom;
- Chapter 1: Medieval themed, located in a old forest;
- Chapter 2: French themed, located in a sweets region;
- Chapter 3: Hawaiian/Amazonian themed, located on a jungle island with a volcano;
- Chapter 4: Egyptian themed, located in a ancient desert;
- Chapter 5: Japanese themed, located in the sky;
- Chapter 6: British themed, located in a haunted mansion;
- Chapter 7 (this one is an exceptional case):
- Chapter 7 Act 1: (not established yet);
- Chapter 7 Act 2: Western themed , located in a crystal mine;
- Chapter 7 Act 3: Greece themed, located underwater;
- Chapter 7 Act 4: Roman themed, located in a battle arena;
- Chapter 8: North/South Pole themed, located on a mountain;
- Chapter 9: Located in an “erased world” (the erased worlds are distorted and glitched universes that disappeared after terrible events);
- Chapter 10 (the last one): located in an another dimension
- THE GEARS:
In number of 9, they are the main collectables of the game. They are collected afer the end of each chapter (In chapter 1 to 9).
The attacks presented down are only available to use during the battles.
⌛ Time Gear: The first gear. It has power of stopping the time;
➖ Minus Gear: The second gear. It has the power to decrease the power and defense of enemies for 3 turns;
💓 Heart Gear: The third gear. It has the power of recovering(if player has a higher lever,the higher the recover will be);
🍨 Frezee Gear: The fourth gear. It has the power of freezing the enemies for 3 turns;
🌠 Star Gear: The fifth gear. It has the power to start a shooting stars rain;
➕ Plus Gear: The sixth gear. It has the power to recover or to increase the power and defense or to give bonus items;
⏮️ Backward Gear: The Seventh gear. It has the power to reverse the evens of a turn, giving you posibility to redo the attacks;
🛡️ Shield Gear: The eighth gear. It create a impenetrable Shield around the player for 3 turns;
💥 Explosive Gear: (Not established yet).
- OTHER CHARACTERS:
- Gee-R: it’s an usual enemy in the Clockwork Kingdom, especially in the early game. He uses his horns to attack.
- Icytode: It’s a friendly NPC that can be found in the sweet region. The scarf is supposed to be a placeholder for arms… weird, right?
- Ibisculb: This species live in the jungle island. The Ibisculbs can shine in the dark, thanks to their bulb form the top of their head.
- Nolem (hint: read it reversed): This guys can shot seeds and can also fly thanks to their leaf-propeller. They live on the same island as Ibisculbs.
- Clawberry: Clawberries are crabs made out of gingerbread and strawberries. They live in the sweet region.
- Jelly enemy variations (all of them attack similar to Fuzzy enemy in Paper Mario):
- Jerple: Found in the 1st chapter. He takes 5HP.
- Jellow: Found in the 2nd chapter. He takes 5HP + Increasing the defense
- Jeen: Found in the 4th chapter. He takes 10SP (Soul Points)
- Blelly: Found in the 6th chapter. He takes 10HP and 10SP, he also multiplies in 2 smaller versions after the first hit.
- Relly: Found in chapter 8. He takes 25HP and 25SP, he can also take any status effect the player may have (no matter if it's good or bad)
This enemies can be also used as a trampoline, and they can drop jelly as an item.
So, that should be enough for now, some basic concepts and sprites. This is supposed to give first feelings for the art direction of the game.
Please join the Discord server for more information, and if you have programming or compossing skills and want to join in the team, please contact us!
https://discord.gg/RAqXRAd
❓ - WHAT IS PROJECT SHADOWS?
It is a game inspired by the Paper Mario series, or in more official terms, a spiritual successor. It keeps every element of the series (partners, story, original cracters and the beloved battle system) thought with some changes. I will explain later more about them.
❓ - STORY (Updated) :
Skuldoo’s sister, Skornette, went on a journey in a history and technology based land called „The Clockwork Kingdom”, but never returned from there. The reasons of the disappearance are unknown. Skuldoo, together with his friend Ra bittus, are going to find Skornette, but without knowing the dangers which await them. I don’t want to give too many spoilers on the story, I would just say that there is much more going on, dark twists and lore.
❓ - GAMEPLAY ELEMENTS:
The gameplay will be mainly the same as the Paper Mario series, mixed with some Mario & Luigi elements (especially visibe in the battle system).
🔙 - Returning Elements: The 'Paper Mario: The Thounsand Year Door' battle system, the partners, the badge system, the recilpes, the additional quests (including pit of 100 trials).
🔮 - Mirror travelling: A „mirror” is a portal leading to parallel dimension (or a mirror world). This parallel worlds are presented through out the entire game and they are very important in making progress.
🆙 - The Ability System: The Abitlity System is different from the Paper Mario’s, now each partner having 2 abilities instead of one. One ability is available from the beginning and one is earned later in the game. I also need to mention that there will be 10 partners.
💖 - Soul Energy (Or Soul Points in battles): The Soul Energy works like a fuel for a wide variety of attacks. The partners are using this energy in order to use one of their special abilities or for performance of some particular attacks. The Soul Energy can be obtained after battles or found in different locations of the Kingdom.
📬 - Delivery Submissions: Delivery submissions can give coins or hepful items if completed. They don’t affect the gameplay during the story and are completely optional.
❗ - IMPORTANT CHARACTERS:
💀 - Skuldoo: He is heavily based on Luigi’s personality, thought with a hidden dark side which will be revealed during the story. He is sensitive to the sunlight and that’s why he wears that many clothes and a skull. His main ability is to transpose the characters into a "shadowed reality", like how the shadow levels work in Super Mario 3D World. He should have had a 2nd ability but, though we didn’t establish anything major about it yet.
🐰 - Ra Bittus: He is Skuldoo’s best friend and the first partner of the game. (joins in the Prologue) There isn’t an established order of the joining in team of other partners yet. He is a massive rabbit and a skilled spear fighter. He is always smiling, even if you can’t see his mouth. He tries to help everyone and to be nice, but don’t hurt his friends, because you would get in big trouble anyway.
- Abilities:
- Unzip: Useful for unzipping some special marked sections (this ability requires Soul Energy);
- Bounce: Useful for reaching high arenas. (earned later in game).
🤖 - -1: He is a edgy robot that has a lot of useful gadgets, like a laser gun on his hand. He can also fly but he isn’t able to carry or to lift up any character.
- Abilities:
- Scanner: useful for seeing invisible objects (this ability uses Soul Energy, earned later in game);
- Blast: useful to destroy cracked walls with a laser gun shot. It will also be used in other ways too.
🎃 - Pumpkin Head: He is an illusionist magician that has a very weird personality and dark thoughts, though he is a good guy. He isn’t actually a pumpkin creature, that’s just a costume he wears.
- Ability (this character has only 1 ability at the moment):
- Cloning : Thanks to his Illusion powers he can create up to 5 "pumpkin clones" of a character (this ability uses Soul Energy).
🦅 - Cutodd: He is a crow with a scissor back. He is a fearful character and doesn’t like nonsense violence. Though, something will happen to this character during the story that will make him change his mentality. He works at a delivery service, so the player can get helpful items time to time.
- Ability (this character has only 1 ability at the moment):
- Cut :Useful to cut special marked sections.
🗡️ - Ammi: She has a Japanese inspired outfit. She can control the water and is a great Katana fighter. She hasn’t an established personality yet. We are working on it.
- Abilities:
- Air Bubble: Useful for breathing and walking underwater.
- Freeze: Helpful for travelling on water. Can be also be used for extinguishing the fire.
🔫- Blind bullet: He is a cowboy-cat. He is actually blind because of some events that happened in past that will be explained in his backstory. He is a serious guy that doesn’t smile and tries to hide his sad past. He is a skilled shooter and good at finding hidden treasures.
- Abilities:
- Hat Toss: works similar to Shell Throw ability of the Koopa Troopas in the Paper Mario series;
- Shot: Useful for breaking certain objects. Unlike the Blast ability, the bullet shooting direction can be set with the mouse and the bullets can go through tiny spaces. (this ability uses Soul Energy, earned later in game);
We’re sorry but we didn’t establish any battle attack for Skuldoo and partners yet. We also need ideas to fill the 4 remaining slots for the partners (preferable: female characters).
- CHAPTER THEMES:
- Prologue: 30’s themed, located in the main town of the kingdom;
- Chapter 1: Medieval themed, located in a old forest;
- Chapter 2: French themed, located in a sweets region;
- Chapter 3: Hawaiian/Amazonian themed, located on a jungle island with a volcano;
- Chapter 4: Egyptian themed, located in a ancient desert;
- Chapter 5: Japanese themed, located in the sky;
- Chapter 6: British themed, located in a haunted mansion;
- Chapter 7 (this one is an exceptional case):
- Chapter 7 Act 1: (not established yet);
- Chapter 7 Act 2: Western themed , located in a crystal mine;
- Chapter 7 Act 3: Greece themed, located underwater;
- Chapter 7 Act 4: Roman themed, located in a battle arena;
- Chapter 8: North/South Pole themed, located on a mountain;
- Chapter 9: Located in an “erased world” (the erased worlds are distorted and glitched universes that disappeared after terrible events);
- Chapter 10 (the last one): located in an another dimension
- THE GEARS:
In number of 9, they are the main collectables of the game. They are collected afer the end of each chapter (In chapter 1 to 9).
The attacks presented down are only available to use during the battles.
⌛ Time Gear: The first gear. It has power of stopping the time;
➖ Minus Gear: The second gear. It has the power to decrease the power and defense of enemies for 3 turns;
💓 Heart Gear: The third gear. It has the power of recovering(if player has a higher lever,the higher the recover will be);
🍨 Frezee Gear: The fourth gear. It has the power of freezing the enemies for 3 turns;
🌠 Star Gear: The fifth gear. It has the power to start a shooting stars rain;
➕ Plus Gear: The sixth gear. It has the power to recover or to increase the power and defense or to give bonus items;
⏮️ Backward Gear: The Seventh gear. It has the power to reverse the evens of a turn, giving you posibility to redo the attacks;
🛡️ Shield Gear: The eighth gear. It create a impenetrable Shield around the player for 3 turns;
💥 Explosive Gear: (Not established yet).
- OTHER CHARACTERS:
- Gee-R: it’s an usual enemy in the Clockwork Kingdom, especially in the early game. He uses his horns to attack.
- Icytode: It’s a friendly NPC that can be found in the sweet region. The scarf is supposed to be a placeholder for arms… weird, right?
- Ibisculb: This species live in the jungle island. The Ibisculbs can shine in the dark, thanks to their bulb form the top of their head.
- Nolem (hint: read it reversed): This guys can shot seeds and can also fly thanks to their leaf-propeller. They live on the same island as Ibisculbs.
- Clawberry: Clawberries are crabs made out of gingerbread and strawberries. They live in the sweet region.
- Jelly enemy variations (all of them attack similar to Fuzzy enemy in Paper Mario):
- Jerple: Found in the 1st chapter. He takes 5HP.
- Jellow: Found in the 2nd chapter. He takes 5HP + Increasing the defense
- Jeen: Found in the 4th chapter. He takes 10SP (Soul Points)
- Blelly: Found in the 6th chapter. He takes 10HP and 10SP, he also multiplies in 2 smaller versions after the first hit.
- Relly: Found in chapter 8. He takes 25HP and 25SP, he can also take any status effect the player may have (no matter if it's good or bad)
This enemies can be also used as a trampoline, and they can drop jelly as an item.
So, that should be enough for now, some basic concepts and sprites. This is supposed to give first feelings for the art direction of the game.
Please join the Discord server for more information, and if you have programming or compossing skills and want to join in the team, please contact us!
https://discord.gg/RAqXRAd
Hi, I would be very happy if you could take a look at Project Shadows.
https://forums.mfgg.net/showthread.php?t...4#pid13074
https://forums.mfgg.net/showthread.php?t...4#pid13074