Another Realm, online WIP *Demo now available*

Game Engine Works in Progress and Game Demos
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Hi,
Recently there has been this charity type project at school and we have to get into groups and create ideas to raise money for a charity, ideas will be put forward, again and once again until the best one out of the whole year is chosen.

Me and my friends (After having quite alot of experience with BGE ect.) decided we’d make a game. Our idea is based around ‘WoW’ and ‘Guild Wars’, however we may decide to create it a bit more cartoony. We have 'till March to make it but may only be able to make the first, main Place.

Name: Another Realm [This has all been edited since change in the game and is more RPG]
Idea: EditAn online RPG like WoW but not as advanced :smiley: But same contexted.Edit
Setting: Medieval/Modern/futuristic (Different timed places)
Things able to do in game: Socialize with anyone else playing, Fight stuff, acquire new weapons and armour. Travel around.
The game wil be totally online (no offline mode) and chat will be in a chat box (Current decision however) NPCs will be around areas to chat to and do things for. Money can be made and veichles and more can be bought.
The game will be free to play
If there’s anything I’ve missed, feel free to ask.

!Screenshots of current progress!
These are screens of early demo stages. Everything you see will be enhanced and made better. Nothing here is complete. They are just base stages of what we have so far.

Screen of a race being attacked by one species of monster.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8759/arscreen1nl6.th.jpg

One Race that you will see in-game with starting armour and no weapon.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7976/arracefi4.th.jpg

Top left- Screen of a section of land outside the main city in which boar-lie creatures live :slight_smile:
Bottom Right- Screen of a race attacking a sludge monster in a wasteland
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7622/arscreensmq0.th.jpg

More on their way

Thanks,
Artharos

http://another-realm.wetpaint.com/ (Site constantly updated, early stages atm)
Demo downloadable on the ‘Download Page’ (left hand side)

.blend can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?y1g499exnzd

W,A,S,D to move Q,E to strafe
L-Shft to attack
i to bring up iventory bckspace to close (Put together quickly bkground doesnt show second time of opening, put together very quickly that’s why)
Space to jump and that’s about it.
(castle is very early stages, basically, just a incrediably badly lighted model :stuck_out_tongue: But as I said, everything in-complete)

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do you want to earn money whith this? :no::no:

anyway good luck. it will be a interesting BGE project

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Well, I just say I’m not in it for the money. If we don’t earn money, I’m not to bothered, however if we have to earn money for the charity we will sell copies of the game. But we will still post different stages on here to give you guys a look and we’ll talke it from there.

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this idea is really tough to pull off with blender, how much have you done so far?

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Use Bzoo if you want to make it an online game.

Also, many BGE projects that start like this barely even get a lot of playability before it’s abandoned. Show us an in game screen.

About making money I made perhaps 30 dollars off of selling CD’s full of my games using GameMaker, I find artwork way more profitable and I just do games for fun.

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Thanks for your thoughts,
NJROTC: We have got alot of the main city done (which is more our aim for the project for school) and a few different character idea models have been made, we just have to choose mour favourite. some veichles have been done aswell.

Cyborg Dragon: Yeah, we are going to use Bzoo for the server and chat system but we will make our own inventory and controls. In game screen, I hope, will be ready in just under a week, when it is, I will definately post some including actions from the character. Once we have a decent demo/template we will post it up here so you guys can play some of the content by that point (online)
But as I said, the money isn’t my point for this project, but I know, if we do get a decent amount finished by March our school project will be a hit.

I’m also very contributed to blender projects ect. I’d stick with it if my friends dropped out and I do create goals to be completed by certain times. We havn’t had it for that long anyway so there’s still development time.

~Artharos~

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This sounds cool, I dislike second life because you have to pay so much money, it doesn’t seem worth it to me since I could be saving up for more important things. I like the idea of ingame money and all that :)… this could become my favorite online game… good luck on this

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Okay, you lost me:spin::D. You don’t want to make money that bad. Your supposed to be making this project to make money right? Also, why will this game be a hit? At least in my school hardly any girls play games (just to add another mystery to them :spin:) but whatever. good luck :smiley:

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All the profits going to charity is a sweet idea, very cool. GL with making it.

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Thanks for your replies guys,
In answer to the money charity thing, I’m not in it for the money, but all money made will go to charity. It’s if we ever sold it as a game rather than a project i wouldn’t mind to much about the money, but money may be made just because it’s for charity, I know our parentswill buy copies :slight_smile:
Girls may not want to play it, although there wil befemale characters, and anyway, some may fancy it for the freedom and socializig, like a 3D msn if you like.
There will be an ingame money system (I hope) but it will all be earned ingame.
Anyme questions will be happily answered, thanks for your support

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Isn’t there some law (forgot the name) that says if you make money off of something that you made using something free, you have to contribute a certain percent of your money to the person who made the program, or it’s illegal to make money off of it?

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i seen alot of blender games buti havnt seen one that runs online and your game sound a little compicated to make it would be great if you could post demos of your project in time youd get alot of pointers and help from many poeple on the forum
good luck

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I think that you can sell it and make money off of it. Professional developers don’t use Blender because it’s free…At least that’s my idea…

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Isn’t there some law (forgot the name) that says if you make money off of something that you made using something free, you have to contribute a certain percent of your money to the person who made the program, or it’s illegal to make money off of it?

Nope. But it’s a nice thing to do, though.

i seen alot of blender games buti havnt seen one that runs online and your game sound a little compicated to make it would be great if you could post demos of your project in time youd get alot of pointers and help from many poeple on the forum
good luck

There have been a few online blender games before. Just do a search on the forums with the keywords “online”.

I think that you can sell it and make money off of it. Professional developers don’t use Blender because it’s free…At least that’s my idea…

Many “professionals” don’t use blender because they have their multimillion $$$ dollar engines that could do more than Ogre and Irrlicht put together.

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No.

(The appropriate use of free programs is defined by the license under which they are distributed. Blender is distributed under the GPL v2. Read the GPL text that is in your main Blender directory if you would like to know what you are allowed to do and what you are not allowed to do.)

Edit: Grr… Delta beat me to the post…

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Yes, but for modeling, it’s top notch…

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I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some commercial licenses which mandate that, but the GPL doesn’t. It mostly deals with the things you’re allowed to do with the source code.

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Thanks for the replies guys, Yeah demos will be posted, some of the content I’ve said may have to not be put on as the time limit we have is a little tight :frowning:
But the main models is coming along well and the world is looking good, veichles are coming nicely and the overall progress is pretty good.

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Need any help? At the moment I can only make models since my stationary is fried :frowning:

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I’m afraid you can’t help until after the project deadline as we have to work in groups from our school