Kingdom Hearts:KeyBlade Academy (Fan game.)

[nick11h 63]

Maybe we should scale down to a retro, 2D rpg? That's my field of expertise.

 

It would be much easier to manage and could be completed rather quickly

[Whimsy-Mimsy 99]

This sounds like such a cool idea! 

 

I had a couple questions, though: chuksxy, have you ever tried using Maya? WIth my little experience, I found it easier to use than Blender, and if you are a student of any kind you can get it for free!

 

Also, I'm not a particularly good artist, but I would love to help with character designs if possible. just let me know!

[Pretium 234]

This sounds like such a cool idea! I had a couple questions, though: chuksxy, have you ever tried using Maya? WIth my little experience, I found it easier to use than Blender, and if you are a student of any kind you can get it for free!Also, I'm not a particularly good artist, but I would love to help with character designs if possible. just let me know!

I Would Also Like To Work With Character Designs,

[chuksxy 21]

Hey guys, sorry for my long disappearance. Anyway, this project is officially re-open. If you were on the previous discussion team, we are getting back together . Things are about to kick off again. i'll try my best to come online at least twice a week from now one. Since the project was quite an ambitious one, we' are going to have to scale it down even further. For now i'll stick to making 3d models and other stuff. i'll also try to have an open discussion more about the game. anyone who is interested please feel free to join in. 

So right now, i'm looking for concept artists, programmers, 3d artists and  basically anyone who wants to see this game completed.

we may have to reevaluate some things we previously discussed though. 

As a parting gift, here is the new model of Kiaru. (it's not finished though) only head shots for now.

  Mr Mancer, we have tons of things to discuss as well.

[Neo Neopolitan 88]

have you chosen what program you are going to use to build the game? if not you could try the unity3d or unreal development kit. since they both have free versions. 

Edited June 25, 2013 by ☣Angel☣ of ☠Death☠

[chuksxy 21]

Yup. We've chosed Unity 3d since the learning curve is quite easy.

[Neo Neopolitan 88]

this is only my opinion but have you thought of making a group on deviant art for the creation of this game you should be able to find alot of people willing to help. (from music creator to scenery design) 

Edited June 27, 2013 by ☣Angel☣ of ☠Death☠

[TheFelineFive 5]

Awesome!

[KMR 0]

well the thing is that since Sora or the characters we feature from the original game are involved with the academy, i don't think they would allow the head master and his comrades to go about with these. That is just my opinion though. However, if we were to have two separate organizations who each want to manipulate the key blade wielders for their own selfish reasons that could be possible. however, two separate organizations would lead to tons of work unless we find more 3d artists. (since the characters would have to be modeled and textured, rigged and animated). unless however we can make them put on masks or something to hide their face and hair and were a distinct costume like (organization 13). This would greatly reduce the amount of work done since we can probably reuse textures and models.

 

so i guess we have to agree once and for all where this story should head.

 

should we go with

1.  have a main antagonist who has two disciples. one is light and the other is dark. (probably come up with a motive later)

2.  have a main antagonist who just happens to be a light user and wants to eradicate darkness at all cost.

3.  two separate organizations, one light and one dark with each going after the academy for their own specific reasons.

4. the dark organization should exist but the light organization would consist of the headmaster and his comrades.

5. A single antagonist.

 

if anyone comes up with any more ideas we can probably Add them to the list.

 

 

 

As awesome as that sounds, implementing such would be tough. so for now lets just keep it simple. we can probably have the player make decisions in the game but nothing to great that can change the entire story.

i also thought it would be cool if there was some mysterious students who wears a mask that you run often into, we can make it that he/ she is neither bad nor good. maybe sometimes he/she would help you or sometimes attack you. this could be exploited in many ways.

 

@Shera, how is the poll coming along? you can probably make a deadline. 20th of this month seems cool to me.

oh yeah, if any of you guys are interested, here is a high-poly model i did a while ago for a previous kh fan game i worked on. it was originally intended for a cg poster but i got lazy and didn't finish the materials.

here is the original concept.please note (this wasn't done by me) it was done by a guy called cassidy.

 

here is the link to the model.

http://www.mediafire.com/?98nemqeha1ace1c

i remember a pic of lightning i saw last year before the release of Dream Drop Distance. apparently it was meant to be an April fools joke and it was actually just a drawing a person made.

 

Hey there, chuksxy. Good to see your project is coming along as well. Now, not to sound like a total douche, but may I kindly ask you why you are using the character art from "Linnea", one of the main characters me and my pals came up with for our Kingdom Hearts fangame project, which started on KHinsider about 2 years ago (and is still alive)?

 

The post I quoted is back from February and I cannot remember you asking us our permission to use this. Again, not to sound like a complete douche but... What is going on here? You were planning on leaving our project for a new project, which we were fine with but that doesn't mean you can take stuff from our project and use it yourself, y'know..

 

Don't want any trouble here, not here to start a fight but.. I expect some answers, man. This is not cool. I'm not gonna go through the whole thread to find more similarities but please, don't do this anymore. We've worked hard to get where we are now, it would be awful if someone would just go and make all of that available for everyone.

 

I hope you understand.

Edited June 30, 2013 by KMR

[chuksxy 21]

 

Hey there, chuksxy. Good to see your project is coming along as well. Now, not to sound like a total douche, but may I kindly ask you why you are using the character art from "Linnea", one of the main characters me and my pals came up with for our Kingdom Hearts fangame project, which started on KHinsider about 2 years ago (and is still alive)?

The post I quoted is back from February and I cannot remember you asking us our permission to use this. Again, not to sound like a complete douche but... What is going on here? You were planning on leaving our project for a new project, which we were fine with but that doesn't mean you can take stuff from our project and use it yourself, y'know..

Don't want any trouble here, not here to start a fight but.. I expect some answers, man. This is not cool. I'm not gonna go through the whole thread to find more similarities but please, don't do this anymore. We've worked hard to get where we are now, it would be awful if someone would just go and make all of that available for everyone.

I hope you understand.

lol. whoa bro. Chill and yes you do sound like a douche right now and do read my post that contained the concpet art of linnea. I didn't steal your art or anything. As you can clearly see in the post I made, I simply posted the art to simply show the peeps here the original concept art from which the 3d model I made was derived from. As you can clearly see, I followed basic protocol by referring to the original work and not taking any credit for the art and stating clearly that it was done by Cassidy as well as giving him credit. If it's hurting you that bad I would gladly take it down. No need for you to act up just because I left your project which seemed to be stagnant at that moment to start mine. if you want, you can go through the whole thread and you'd probably see that none of your art is on here apart from the concept of linnea. So please don't go around wrongly accusing of stealing cassidy's artwork and using the chance to advertise the KHI project on my thread. Thank you

Edit: I was saving this update for later as well as another huge one but I guess since I've already made a post, I might as well post this. Anyway, I've been incredibly busy lately. I've been fooling around with Unity 4, learning programming, animation, e.t.c. tons of work. So I've started implementing game mechanics and stuff. I'm still a newb programmer so yeah it's nothing too fancy. so I've gotten the basic controls set up. Movement and health. I tested it out with a model I made a while ago. I've also solved some other pipeline issues as well. I don't want to go on a rant and start discussing technical stuff. lol
Apart from that, I decided to start drawing again. I'm also learning digital painting. So yeah expect some concept art really soon.
here is a quick pic to show my progress with digital art. Not so bad for my second try

sorry I cant upload all the sketches I've made though. My scanner broke .
I stared blocking out a few NPC's for the game just to fill in space in the game world. Since they're NPC's, I just rushed them and modeled what came to my mind at the time.

So here's One:(Note, the uniform isn't Final and is still a work in progress)

i'm still not done with the model though. i"m still trying to finalize the uniform designs from all the stuff I have gathered.

Anyway, I'm going to save the rest for a huge update. I don't want to spoil it yet though. But this update would contain a character you all know and love and a ton of other stuff.

Edited July 2, 2013 by chuksxy

[Pretium 234]

Hi, I know I'm not really apart of this project (I would like to be, but I haven't the slightest idea how to program a game or anything), but I check in on it from time to time and I have some ideas about how the keyblade system might work at the academy. I had wanted to implement it into my own story.. only problem is, I don't actually have one. Only a few ideas..

[chuksxy 21]

I would love to hear your ideas. like I said in my first post, anyone can join in. Pm me your ideas or if you want, you can just post it here for everyone to see. anything works for me.

[KMR 0]

lol. whoa bro. Chill and yes you do sound like a douche right now and do read my post that contained the concpet art of linnea. I didn't steal your art or anything. As you can clearly see in the post I made, I simply posted the art to simply show the peeps here the original concept art from which the 3d model I made was derived from. As you can clearly see, I followed basic protocol by referring to the original work and not taking any credit for the art and stating clearly that it was done by Cassidy as well as giving him credit. If it's hurting you that bad I would gladly take it down. No need for you to act up just because I left your project which seemed to be stagnant at that moment to start mine. if you want, you can go through the whole thread and you'd probably see that none of your art is on here apart from the concept of linnea. So please don't go around wrongly accusing of stealing cassidy's artwork and using the chance to advertise the KHI project on my thread. Thank you

 

Sorry if I did sound like a douche, not what I was trying at all. Probably reacted a bit too much in the moment. Certainly wasn't trying to advertise our project, because it's nearly impossible to find out about it anyways lol. I just wanted some answers, and I got them.

 

Still, next time you post something here from our project, please, tell us about it. If it was just reference and you asked us, there wouldn't have been a problem. What happened was that I stumbled upon this and didn't know anything about it. First reaction was that you "stole" it (which is a big word to begin with). Again, sorry for sounding like a douche but please, ask us in the future about this. Thanks

Edited July 3, 2013 by KMR

[chuksxy 21]

Sorry if I did sound like a douche, not what I was trying at all. Probably reacted a bit too much in the moment. Certainly wasn't trying to advertise our project, because it's nearly impossible to find out about it anyways lol. I just wanted some answers, and I got them.

 

Still, next time you post something here from our project, please, tell us about it. If it was just reference and you asked us, there wouldn't have been a problem. What happened was that I stumbled upon this and didn't know anything about it. First reaction was that you "stole" it (which is a big word to begin with). Again, sorry for sounding like a douche but please, ask us in the future about this. Thanks

lol Apology accepted. No need to worry about me posting art from your project though. like I said it was just for reference to show the KH13 community what i'm capable of in blender. I wish you good luck with your project. I hope you guys eventually start actual work on the game.

[nick11h 63]

I'm studying Java intensively for school, but I hope to start learning C# for Unity within the next couple years (If that's any help  :unsure:)