Jayc Santos » Neolithic

August 10 Updates

Jayc Santos — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:29:02 +0000

Well, this will cover most of my interest. I’ll be posting these kinds of updates from time to time for non-specific topics and can cover any category.

Neolithic – bad news, on hold again. My pc had some troubles this past few weeks but I’m going to get it repaired as soon as funds have arrived. My pc is running good as of now but I really can’t work that much well with cpu intensive games, either the application/browser crashes or windows just freezes. Although neolithic isn’t too cpu intensive that causes major lags and its size is only 2Mb the FLA project file is huge approx 75Mb as of now (a lot of graphics and details are on it too).

PuttBase – my new puzzle ball game. I’m hoping to get my sponsor to release it in a few days or so, still waiting for replies though. Really fun and challenging, everyone should watch out for it.
All other projects still have the same status as expected. Now I have a new project on the works, although it isn’t a flash game but a redesign of a flash games portal, expect some news about it soon. Ciao…

Neolithic Teaser

Jayc Santos — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:32:06 +0000

Well, I really have forgoten about this video existing & had no intention of releasing it to the public but after having a chat with an FGL admin Bryan then I remembered and decided to leave it public (since it was private all this time).

Video from Vimeo.com.

This was made around last february when the basic engine was made together with some basic art. I made the music while playing with my Adobe Audition (my first time to use and got the hang of it). Those characters and backgrounds are the initial intended designs later ended up being redrawn after having to use a tablet (see that here). And finally the video was rendered using Adobe Premiere which is awesome and also my first time to use and still exploring some of its features so the direction of the video is not that good. You may probably see some inconsistencies & ugly stuffs in the video, well thats just it maybe if you read this long then how about leaving a comment to help up my confidence to work on Neolithic more. Xiao…

June break & Neolithic on the move again

Jayc Santos — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:58:06 +0000

Its been a month since the last time I posted something here so time for some updates. I haven’t been around this past few weeks and was away from my pc to do any progress but now it is time to do double work. The new updated release on neolithic demo was supposed to be available sometime before but will have to hold for now due to major changes. I was really hoping to plan out everything but we just have to sometimes make changes for the better and everyone’s sake.

The village elder and our friendly witch doctor.

For neolithic, the primary village (the default map) and other villages to begin with will no longer be using the same engine as the battle engine, it will work on a seperate engine which will just be an animated village view having all NPCs and other important stuffs to work out with point and click events. This way, players no longer have to move their men from house to house just to talk and/or interact with NPCs. I had even started out some cute designs (I think) of initial NPCs of primary village, its displayed above to show what I had done for now.

So I’ll try to keep updated on major stuffs as development is on the move again.

World Map but not a map of the world

Jayc Santos — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:49:08 +0000

Updates! Updates! Updates! Here is another of my endless updates… I actually had incorporated the main game engine to communicate to the world map. Well it isn’t the map of the world but a map of the game world. The NPCs will be interactive now. And I am now applying some stuffs for controlling the quest and handling them with respect to the NPCs response which is quite complex. The game is progressing good so far and expect an update of the demo within next week. Cheers!

Neolithic Demo is here finally

Jayc Santos — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:33:51 +0000

The demo is now here after a long period of wait. Now is the day I release my underdevelopment game Neolithic. Its too early so it is still in alpha, estimated around 20% done. The game would stay here for some time until it is partially playable.

Click here to play the demo (currently not available – 11 Sept)

And I hope you didn’t just click the link because the page is password protected. The password is “neolithic5288“. I will change the password regularly but will also update this post. Please leave any feedback about it after playing the tutorial.

Screens and Things to Look Out For

Jayc Santos — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:42:42 +0000

Here is small update. I haven’t work on this game for most of the past days and was busy with other stuffs so the demo was moved even farther. Sigh.. I really want it out now especially this blog is now up. I actually released something like last week but pulled it out quickly because of security issues.

So here is what to lookout for: Welcome to your village

I just need to cheat proof it, fix some glitches and game engine exiting. When these 3 things are fixed and finished I will definitely release this demo here but is password protected and well secured for everyone’s sake.

Just a few days more for Neolithic demo

Jayc Santos — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:24:06 +0000

I have been working very hard these past few days. I had dried out my imaginative side of my brain with all the draw art that I have to think of. Anyway, I haven’t fixed all known bugs within the codes but had been making more designs for the game to be playable. So as a proof here is a small hieroglyph or so its called within the tutorial. Yes it has a meaning and can be deciphered if you know the small symbols in it and can translate it. I know its tidy, I will be still fixing the positioning of the symbols properly.

So here is something to look by. The layout would probably be similar but this would do for now. So send your email for you to test out the demo gameplay of my game Neolithic.

Hoping for a demo to be released

Jayc Santos — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:23:32 +0000

So okay, I feel that the game is progressing. I just got to redraw all weapons, shields and other items but not their icons yet (has temp icons) but will be soon. A few more character designs were made with this and those stuffs as well. So I think I can release a demo in a few days time. I can actually release it now but the only thing stopping me is that I haven’t made a menu or some sort. The game starts as I press play on the flash player, well it is in the developing stages. Now if you want to try the game play before anyone else, drop a message or email me so I can send you a link when the demo is available.