Monsters!

Hello guys!

Another phase done! I'm happy to announce that all of the monsters from Blood are complete. In a previous post I stated that I might add some more creatures from Blood 2 but not all. You might comment which creature is your favourite and I might consider drawing some of them. Until that enjoy the finished graphics here

And the first release of monster gfx are here (duplicate link, nothing new)

So the next phase is to animate all of the monsters and maybe make them killable as I progress or after all the animations are done I don't know it yet... The animations are partially done for some of the creatures as you could see.

To swim or not to swim

Hello guys!

I'm getting closer to the end of drawing the enemies. The next big question is that:

Should Caleb swim?

If yes, then I must draw 2 more monsters, the bone eel and the gill beast. Plus I have to make Caleb able to swim and draw his animation while swimming.

Maybe the bone leech and some bigger Blood 2 monsters will appear too...

After all this stuff I can start to work on the "ai" of enemies. Ai is a bit harsh, rather say "mindlessly attack" with different types of attacks. Then I can draw the levels and reveal the story in depth. Oh, I can't wait to shoot the sh*t out of them... So I'm gonna let you decide by commenting:

Do you want Caleb to be able to swim?

Shogo and Blood 2 music on XP

I just had a feeling I'd like to play some good Shogo. You all might know that Blood 2 and Shogo is powered by the same engine so they both suffer from the same problem on windows XP. I dig up some info on the problem and found a site which explains how to solve this problem. The guy used some debugging environment and found out that the game must call a different dll on XP than on win98. I can't find the article and I don't want to explain how to solve the Shogo/Blood 2 music problem just give you a link for download:

Get it from fileplanet

I hope this will be helpful for some of you. Any questions into comments.

New graphics

Ahoy there!

 I had some time (that's just not true, I don't want to learn for the exams :) ) and I draw some "enemies". I put them together for you to see them in motion. Just like you I can't wait to shoot, blast, burn them to hell :D Enjoy the cultist, the zombie and the "innocent" guy!

Enemies1

More enemies to come!

Cultist

Hi guys!

 I had some time so I made up this little stuff:

Cultist

The cultist from the cabal with it's basic animation. I can't wait to continue to develop the game. I need mostly enemies, some level design and that's all :D Okay, I know it won't be that easy but I have to start it somewhere. Hurting the enemies is basically ready as the barrel has some damaging features. I hope you like the priest gfx. The exam season is coming but after that I hope I'll have some spare time in the summer to create more gfx and features in the game engine. I'd really like to finish this game because I just love Blood!

Keep your eyes open, more to come :) 

And any ideas are welcome!

School

The school is on. So the development will slow down a little bit but I swear I wont stop the project! That's all, folks.

Check out the progress!

Check out the progress! The weapons are almost done, just need the altfire for the woodoo doll and the tesla gun. And the damage to the pitchfork. Any ideas and comments are welcome. The controls haven't changed, arrow keys, shift and ctrl. Have fun!

Preview4

Thank you!

Going pretty well

The progress is going pretty well. I decided I add the alternative fire mode. In the real Blood the altfire is a bit different in the Cryptic Passage add-on version. The napalm launcher has some alternative shots and the lifeleech staff. I will use the original altfire modes.

 Most of the projectiles are done. Caleb is able to shoot his flare gun, shotgun and tommy-gun. The hitTest with the walls or enemies are quite okay. I'm working on the projectiles and after that I continue with the enemies. First will be the priests and the zombies. The pitchfork and lifeleech graphical issue is fixed now.

Stay tuned, ideas are welcome!

Weapons done, story going

 All the weapons are drawn and the animations are added to Caleb. You can switch between all the weapons at this preview. The Lifeleech and pickaxe are not perfect, I will fix it soon. Switch weapon with numbers 0-9. Shift key is the fire button. There's no alternate fire mode :( The controls will be changed in the final game and you might can customize.

Weapon preview

 The story will take place between Blood and Blood 2 - The Chosen, close to Blood 2. I still need events, places, ideas to add. Please comment if you have any.

Story in progress

 I got some nasty, funny, cool ideas to the story of Flesh Game. I need a boss name. I want to make 4 episodes, at the end of each episodes, there will be a boss. So I need 4 boss names and a look for them. And I also need a name and a look for the final boss. He looks like a human, like Gideon.

 So. I need 4 little boss and 1 big boss (not Metal Gear :) ) look and name. Ideas are welcome! And still I need ideas to scenes, places where Caleb can fight through his will.

Working on engine

Hello everyone!

I'm on the right way, I feel it. Hamish Wilson told me that I should draw the game myself instead of using the sprites of the game. Anyway, I don't like using raster in flash. I'm done with Caleb, now I'm working on the basic engine, the walk-jump-shoot stuff. I'd like to make indoor scenes, such as entering a storage through door or blast through way into a wall. When Caleb is indoors the wall fades out.

Caleb will have the basic weapons from Blood:

-pitchfork

-flare gun

-sawed off shotgun

-thompson gun

-dynamite (the normal and proximity versions only)

-napalm cannon

-woo-doo doll

Caleb might have:

-some electric weapon

-spray with lighter (flame gun)

If you have any favorite weapon that you like I might add it into the game.

Don't forget, I still need ideas with the story!

Here's a little preview:

Caleb preview

controls so far:

Left/right arrow keys - run left/right

up/down arrow keys - aim up/down

space - jump

soon to be controls:

numbers - weapon select

the arrow keys will be replaced with WASD

some fire buttons

action button to open doors or use switches

Story help

All right guy. I'm getting close to the point where I have to think about the story. The story of Blood and Blood 2 is known. It's a fight against Tchernobog and his worshipers. Caleb's love is Ophelia, there's Ishmael and Gabriella. I don't really want to deal with the Chosens. But if you have any good idea of a story or just parts, please leave a comment and let me know. The game should take place at various places, such as dark forest, cemetery, hospital, running train, cult church, old town, etc... Please help me with ideas!

Sounds

All right. Sounds are ready to use. It is very difficult to get the sounds of Blood. From Blood 2 it's enough to have WinRez. It can extract every data from games using LithTech engine. In case of Blood it's more difficult. First, get GFE (Game File Explorer). Extract all the RAW files. I found the SFX files useless. Then get a sound editor (I used SoundForge) that can open RAW files. You have to set the Sample Type (it's 8bit or 16bit) and the bit rate (it was 11025). Then I re-saved the files as WAV files. There's no header to RAW files, that's why you have to set these manually. This cause a glitch at the beginning of mostly every sound files. I did all this and sorted out the files (level, monsters, weapons, caleb, announcer, etc). If I need a sound in the flash game I still have to remove the glitch. I didn't do this because there were more than 400 sound files in the archive. I hope I can help anyone with this review of extracting sounds from Blood or Blood 2.

In addition: the sfx files might have a purpose to be of help when opening files, I don't really know...

Introduction

Hello everyone. I'm starting this stupid blog just to make you informed. I hope the development will go well and this blog will have it's purpose.

So, this is gonna be about a flash game about Blood. You can see the first on Newgrounds.com. You can read an article about it on Blood Wiki. I started to make this because they showed me how people can love a game (not mine but the real Blood, of course... ). Any ideas, comments are welcome. I hope to add a sample of what it's gonna look like soon.