Crystal Towers 2 - It's over

[davidn]

I've finished Crystal Towers 2. Shut it, I have. No excuses or technicalities this time - I've created a folder for a copy that I'm calling a release (unless there are any objections from testers or major flaws discovered), I'll give it a last test whenever I can be bothered, put together a demo, and it'll be up on Fastspring by the end of June. Four years and two months after I wrote the very first post about plans for it.

I didn't mean to spend the entire long weekend on it (come to think of it, I didn't mean to spend my entire marriage on it), but it just didn't quite let me go until this afternoon. I'd been experiencing something of a block at the last crucial moment when one piece of music remained to be written and nothing was sounding right at all - but then I found a Megadrive soundfont that absolutely revitalized me and caused me to come out with this for it. Now I just need to resist the temptation to go back and re-stylize the entire rest of the soundtrack the same way.

I would put it here if Livejournal would allow me to embed the bastard. Click here instead.

Good night.

Comments

[davidn]

The potential to do some other projects without the guilt of a big one nagging at me will be a very welcome experience :) I have a couple of ideas for short-term ones in the near future, but then there's a platform adventure that I've wanted to do for a while...

[kjorteo]

You did mention that your history of created games has suspiciously nowhere near enough furries....

[davidn]

Which is absolutely true! Somehow I've never used them - perhaps a lack of ability to draw anything decently discouraged me before (though the version of you I did on the spur of the moment worked out pretty well). So I want to venture into that, and also do something that allows me to write more...

[kjorteo]

I think you've gotten over that problem by now, to be sure--other than getting my foot the wrong color because you forgot the spikey boot patterning, I think the me-specific edits you made in making that spur of the moment thing for me are actually better than the surrounding areas of the base sprite, now--at the very least, the fur and such are shaded while the clothing very noticeably isn't. You definitely have it in you to make something suitably pretty now, I think!

And linking to my icon there reminded me that apparently I'm sometimes better with pixels than I thought I was, too... so I guess I could maybe offer a bit of help here and there, or something. :)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Platform-adventure? Why don't you just say you're already thinking about CT3 ;)

Joking aside, congratulations on making it to the finished product! I'll be looking forward to seeing this pop up on all the gaming-news sites once it's released :)

[davidn]

What I have in mind for this is something more like Tombi (or, less massively, Dizzy) - something more based on a continuous world than individual levels. Perhaps some of the environments of CT2 can feature, though, because over the last livening-up phase I've really felt myself growing attached to the world as I write more of it together.

And - we can hope :)