[UDK] Might and Magic Tribute

[clockwork2]

hmm..could you post a trailer plz?
also good god those faces are hideous (no offense) could you make more, better looking faces? either that or hair away most of it...
also i'd be willing to beta-test...
nathan looks ugly though, i am really srry i just can't stand cheery faces in rpgs (i mean like the kind of cheery where you look totally out of it) i mean grins or smirks are ok. But THAT is just creepy.

[Xian]

Originally Posted by clockwork2

hmm..could you post a trailer plz?
also good god those faces are hideous (no offense) could you make more, better looking faces? either that or hair away most of it...

Heroes always had horrid faces (well except for H5), And there are no trailers from 1-3,i've only seen 4-6 (but 4 kinda sucked... HARD)

[clockwork2]

can the faces be H5 then??no offense but nathan looks FREAKY!!!!
also nice pun with you avatar "Ghost of Christmas Future"
LOLZ!!!!!

[Xian]

Originally Posted by clockwork2

can the faces be H5 then??no offense but nathan looks FREAKY!!!!
also nice pun with you avatar "Ghost of Christmas Future"
LOLZ!!!!!

It's hard to draw H5 faces,Nuff said,i'd like to see you draw if you can do better than the graphic artist of the mod
Also,don't post really offtopic things like "cool avatar" or "nice pun",etc.

[clockwork2]

ok and i'm not that great a drawer.
also is there a beta atm?
i'd love to test this tribute to might and magic (I'm too lazy to go and buy one of the rpg series to try it lol)

[Xian]

Originally Posted by clockwork2

ok and i'm not that great a drawer.
also is there a beta atm?
i'd love to test this tribute to might and magic (I'm too lazy to go and buy one of the rpg series to try it lol)

IT'S NOT AN RPG,its a Strategy Game with turns

[Asomath]

Originally Posted by Xian

IT'S NOT AN RPG,its a Strategy Game with turns

Its both. Might and Magic is the RPG. Heroes of Might and Magic is the Strategy.

They have follow the same storyline, but they alternated the games. So if you wanted the full story of the games, you had to play both of them.

MMT is an RPG. It is a prequel to Might and Magic VI and Heroes of Might and Magic I.

The faces arent MMT's faces. They were test faces so the programmer could work on the dialogue system.

~Asomath

[Xian]

Originally Posted by Asomath

Its both. Might and Magic is the RPG. Heroes of Might and Magic is the Strategy.

They have follow the same storyline, but they alternated the games. So if you wanted the full story of the games, you had to play both of them.

MMT is an RPG. It is a prequel to Might and Magic VI and Heroes of Might and Magic I.

The faces arent MMT's faces. They were test faces so the programmer could work on the dialogue system.

~Asomath

i get it now,thanks for pointing it out for me

[Talavaj]

being made in UDK what are your assets quality expectations/requirements ?
do you have any concept/design ideas already ?
if so could you provide us some ?
also are you thinking of using original assets exclusively ?

[Mechanical Man]

Will be this any similar to Might&Magic: Dark Messiah?

[Joe-black-5]

Originally Posted by Mechanical Man

Will be this any similar to Might&Magic: Dark Messiah?

Me want

[Asomath]

In the story sense, Dark Messiah takes place on Ashan, Ubisofts new world for Might and Magic (the same world as Heroes V and VI). MMT takes place on Enroth (native) or C.O.L.O.N.Y (ancients), the same world as M&M I-VIII and HoMM I - III (and to a lesser extent IV).

Gameplay-wise, Dark Messiah is the only First-Person Single-Character RPG in the series. All other M&M games are Party-Based (Standard Might and Magic) or Turn-Based Strategy (Heroes of Might and Magic).

Party-Based Might and Magic's (like MMT) use a class-based system. You control 4 heroes of different classes. The start general and get more specialized as the game goes on. You do promotion quests to "promote" that class of a specific hero.

For example let me say I have a party at the start of the game:

Ephraim (name) the Adventurer (class)
Xena the Adventurer
Kel'thuzad the Student
Xanatos the Student

At some point in the game, I decide that I want to promote my heroes, and unlock a new set of skills (ill explain skills later). I do four different promotion quests. Now I have this:

Ephraim the Warrior
Xena the Agent
Kel'thuzad the Apprentice
Xanatos the Acolyte.

Well I keep playing the game doing quests and that sort of stuff. I then decide to upgrade my heroes a final time to unlock the final level of skills:

Ephraim the Knight
Xena the Assassin
Kel'thuzad the Necromancer
Xanatos the Saint.

There is also an experience system, in which heroes gain levels. The levels give you skillpoints that you can spend to increase the potency of that skill. For example I could spend skillpoints in such fields as:

-A school of magic (there are 10: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Spirit, Mind, Body, Grey, Dark, Light)
-A weapon (Sword, Mace, Dagger, Bow etc.)
-A utility (disarm, alchemy, identify item, etc.)

You spend points to increase the potency, but you also learn specializations in skills that have different effects depending on the skill. There are 4 levels of specialization: Standard, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster. You must have a certain number of skill points to specialize in a level of skill. Also, higher levels of specialization require you be a certain Class level (tier 2 or 3).

If you need any gameplay clarifications, please feel free to ask.

I will answer the Asset question in a few hours. In the mean time, feel free to register at our temporary forums (our six year forum isnt available at the moment) here: http://mmtribute.forumotion.com/

Also, browse our wiki for other useful bits of information: http://castlegobs.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Cheers,
~Asomath

[deepstrasz]

Dude, you still haven't proven that this is legal :). As a mod or custom map yes but as an entire new game ?

So you still want the four hero-type gameplay. Would be looking better as a 3rd person or at least as an Unreal Tournament first person shooter type.

Checked the site. Interesting images. Seems this started long ago but hasn't really progressed. So you've got some artists I reckon as I see those lively images and that trailer. Listened to them three songs too. I liked the one with the piano. The other two aren't really getting to the Heroes style.

[Asomath]

"Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic, and the titles of the episodes, are trademarks of UbiSoft Entertainment, reserving all rights without warranties of any kind regarding content. Might & Magic is a registered trademark of Ubisoft. Might & Magic Tribute is NOT connected with, produced, endorsed or supported by Ubisoft in any way. Might & Magic Tribute is a fan-made freeware game that is a tribute to the Might & Magic series originally produced by New World Computing. Our intention is to help keep interest in the Might & Magic series alive until such time as Ubisoft will hopefully be in a position to produce a new installment in the series."

Basically Ubisoft has full legal power and right to shutdown the game at anytime. In 8 years that hasnt happened, but that doesnt mean they wouldnt. M&M luckily has a nice history of being kind to fan-made games, a few being branded as "Officially Approved Fan-Games."

The Party-Base RPG will be kept. The industry has largely abandoned this playstyle because its risky to get mechanics working right. But M&M did it, allowing to compete against two other key RPG players at the time... Ultima and Elder Scrolls. It wouldnt be a M&M game without it.

3 songs? There are 11 in the current soundtrack.

What basically has happened is that the first couple of years ironed out the geography and story... then there was alot of concept work (I beleive there are 300+ concept art files atm)... some more filling out of assets towards 2009. However, there werent enough 3D assets, so basically a cumulation of other assets that could be "implemented."

It wasnt until the last few months that work started back up again, and problems were being worked through.

Thats why a thread hasnt resurfaced until now... the projects starting to turn its gears again, but the same 3D assets problem will occur. I thought since the Hive was a modding site as well, I would open the door to artists here to participate in doing one or two tasks for the project.

Cheers,
~Asomath

[clockwork2]

sounds good.
pm me when a beta is present i'd love to try the game.