[Role Playing Game] Iceborn

[PurgeandFire]

I can't see it...

I can't see it either. Is it from a private album?

 

[xAerox]

Me either.. Can't see it :/

 

[sonofjay]

Checked AP's album and saw that its set to private album. Looks like only us on his friend list can see it.

 

[APproject]

Sorry about that, I set it to Public now. Some of you might have missed another update on 2D art as well because of being private. I used GIMP 2.8 for that.

 

[Heinvers]

WoW. It looks pretty awesome.

 

[APproject]

Thanks.

Was working whole day to develop the thread for the map section and it is finally completed, so I will just have to paste the code and it is ready to be uploaded on monday.

EDIT: 11 WIP pictures added to the first post. I removed almost all information from there, story, half of description, previous videos, screenshots as I planned to do.

 

[sonofjay]

One more day to go! Can't wait!

 

[xAerox]

Wow. That 2D art is nice! :3 Also one more day left..

 

[APproject]

I don't want you guys to expect too much in case of disappointment, and I can not predict that. But of course I appreciate it.

And finally some illustrations of the storyline below. I strongly recommend reading the storyline which will be written in the thread of map so that player would have a firm grip to what is going on. Probably last update here.

Story Illustrations (6)

 

[xAerox]

Wow.. The illustrations are awesome. Are those illustrations going to appear in-game?

 

[Heinvers]

WoW, that looks awesome:3

 

[APproject]

Thanks! No, they will not. These illustrations will only represent the storyline written in the map thread which will be made tomorrow. It illustrate the events BEFORE now, it shows past and so the story continues on the game. Of course it is hard to catch what's going on in each, but it represent a certain paragraph of text.

 

[sonofjay]

You made those? All of them looks great although the cloth effect is bugging me.

Anyway, isn't it kinda bad to force players to read the map description before playing the game? For me, a good narrative is always a must for me to keep playing a game cause that is what really keeps me entertained and engage.

 

[APproject]

Yes, these are made by me, of course the background environment art is taken from other art found around the internet. As for the robe, I wanted it to look more painting-like.

It is not something like if you didn't read the description, you would not get anything what's going on. Loading screen contains the short version of what is going to be told on the thread. Of course reading it expanded is a plus in terms of following the story and the information on thread contains no spoilers at all.

 

[sonofjay]

Well if that is the case then I guess I'll really just have to wait and see the story unfold myself.

Although the map filesize isn't really that attractive.

 

[Heinvers]

Well if that is the case then I guess I'll really just have to wait and see the story unfold myself.

Although the map filesize isn't really that attractive.

You can just close an eye to the file size! Here the story and environments will attract me. So be patient and download when the time comes:>

 

[APproject]

Yeah, for people with lower internet speed going to be painful. Probably the most important thing is to make it worth downloading. I tried making the thread as much appealing as I could so now I just hope the game itself will prove to be as much appealing as the thread.

 

[neo_sluf]

Well if that is the case then I guess I'll really just have to wait and see the story unfold myself.

Although the map filesize isn't really that attractive.

My god jay your right... the filesize is not beautiful.. i hope for the best on my internet...

 

[APproject]

Hehe, sorry about that. I wonder if there is any bigger map around Hive? The largest I have seen was campaign The Chosen Ones at size of 120 MBs, have anyone seen anything bigger than that?

 

[sonofjay]

Well I guess a few minutes of downloading isn't that much if the gameplay is around 4-6 hours.

 

[xAerox]

Few minutes downloading this is pretty fast for me Probably I'll have to take 4-6 hours to download with my poor internet T^T

I really like the 2D art and just wonder how you did it..

 

[APproject]

You can calculate it right away since I suppose Hive doesn't restrict any download speed. Just divide the size of map by your KBs/sec download speed turned into MBs/sec. It would take me two minutes to download at home and 16 seconds at university. Yet uploading is a different subject, that is why I picked monday to upload, I'll be at university by then enabling me to upload in a minute or two.

It's pretty easy with GIMP, I just had to watch few several-minutes tutorials about certain subjects and the rest flew fluently.

 

[neo_sluf]

Its 21..!!! the map.. WHERE IS THE MAP?... lol..

 

[sonofjay]

*Eagerly waiting*

 

[andreariona]

today's the day!

*frequently checking map section*

 

[bethmachine]

Stop pressuring him its not easy to make a map like this.

 

[sonofjay]

Stop pressuring him its not easy to make a map like this.

How are we pressuring him? His map is already done and he will upload it today. Isn't that something to be excited about?

 

[APproject]

Sorry, I will upload it in about 9 hours from the time of this post. Then I will be having a decent internet to do so.

 

[Heinvers]

Oh my, the big moment arrives!

 

[sonofjay]

Sorry, I will upload it in about 9 hours from the time of this post. Then I will be having a decent internet to do so.

Just set a CountDown timer on my phone. XD

 

[xAerox]

OMG! That's 12am here XD Guess I'm not sleeping then haha XD

 

[Krolan]

Will there be a new game + option?

Just discovered it on the day its supposed to be released... lucky me.

 

[sonofjay]

Will there be a new game + option?

I think no.

 

[APproject]

Will there be a new game + option?

What do you mean?

 

[sonofjay]

What do you mean?

Being able to re-play the game but you can bring some data from your previous play through like items, level etc. Its doable for War3 but will be a pain.

 

[xAerox]

Pain to script all those.. :<

 

[GreeN!X]

OMG OMG OMG Today's the day. *Squeals like a little girl* <3

 

[Gekigengar]

Waiting!

 

[APproject]

Alright, going off for now and the next time I log in, going to upload it right away, around 4 hours remains. Thank you for everyone who followed and supported Iceborn through its long development, it was essential, I hope it will be worth your time.

 

[Gekigengar]

With almost 200 MB File Size, I do hope you will release a torrent too

 

[Stachu]

Your project looks great, AProject! Can't wait to download it.

 

[APproject]

It has been uploaded just now.

 

[sonofjay]

Time to DL!

 

[Heinvers]

I already did)
You're slow jayjay.

 

[Joresh]

Wow.... this is by far the most stunning map i have seen in recent years!

You have a few grammar mistakes in there but they are easy to ignore I havn't played it very far but what i saw from the landscape, the setting, the unitskins and the soundtrack is amazing!

 

[FaLLeN]

Great stuff just saw your trailer. Amazed stuned awed. Anyway i am onto a project myself 80 % done but map exceeding 250 mb without audio files... any insight might help me ... and taking years to load ...

Quote: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

 

[APproject]

Thanks.

@FaLLeN
I believe it is mostly the amount of coding that takes it long to load and not much can be done here, but your main concern should be making sure people would want to download this kind of huge file. Even being 180 MBs people complain a lot and yours may be nearly 300 MBs, you must make it worth downloading.

 

[FaLLeN]

Yeah I know people have lost thier interest in WC3 sob... i wish Blizzard could have done something about it... A new patch or something... I tried beating the loading problem by importing all model to WarLocal.mpq ... it works great... thnx any new project you are part of.... and plz tell me varios tool you have used like i mainly use magos War3model, mdlvis, jassgen, blplab... auadcity ( plz tell me if you have any thing better )

just started using iceborn great... only map worth downloading after The Epic map: the chosen one... ..
you should write a jurnal on project development so others like me can read and understand tips and tricks of wc3



Long Live WC3 and hive....

 

[APproject]

Hehe, thank you, FaLLeN. Yeah, this is sadly a dying game and the number of community is decreasing within every year. Not really something new with my tools, to addition to those you mentioned, I also used Wave Pad Sound Editor and Autodesk 3d Max. And I don't really know much tips are tricks.

 

[Karassu]

I voted "Something else."

Well, I know they don't really help that much statistically for your hero, but I like non-quest NPCs with realistic dialogs and they should react if you're powerful or something like that. You know like when they see you, they will be like "Woah he looks awesome" or something like that.