King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella VGA

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FatherGhostface · #1 Post by **FatherGhostface** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:07 pm

Is anyone at all planning on make this game? Cuase if they're not.....I WANT TO! But how? I don't VGA stuff? Well I'd like to know if anyone is becuase would more than love to do this!

Broomie · #2 Post by **Broomie** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:46 pm

Yes, Muzlak's group, Sponge Factory is making it. Yet I've lost the link to the site.

ThreeHeadedMonkey · #3 Post by **ThreeHeadedMonkey** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:52 pm

Bromios wrote:Yes, Muzlak's group, Sponge Factory is making it. Yet I've lost the link to the site.

It is on Infamous Adventures. Here you go:

http://www.nancycarterdesign.com/spongefactory/

Last update May 30, 2004. Doesn't look too good.

FatherGhostface · #4 Post by **FatherGhostface** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:15 pm

Oh darn it! Well....the screenshots looks good.

MuzlakOofmay · #5 Post by **MuzlakOofmay** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:36 am

Yeah, it's not looking too good is it?

I'm really sitting on this one. I haven't decided whether I'll ever find the time in my busy life to work on this anymore.

Bryce

Blackthorne519 · #6 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:20 am

MuzlakOofmay wrote:Yeah, it's not looking too good is it?

I'm really sitting on this one. I haven't decided whether I'll ever find the time in my busy life to work on this anymore.

Bryce

It's hard to remake a game. I know!

Bt

Alias · #7 Post by **Alias** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:34 am

It doesn't matter if theres another remake yopu want to do, you only want to practice anyway, that my opinion anyway.

Klytos · #8 Post by **Klytos** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:41 pm

These things take time to do. Ask the AGD's they'll be able to tell you.

MuzlakOofmay · #9 Post by **MuzlakOofmay** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:41 pm

Yes, it does take time.

It's a real shame, because when I started the project, I had just got done with a (very) long RPG project with an engine I coded from scratch. And I was ready to start an even bigger project.

The thing that really sucks about all of this, was that I had all this free time, and I spent all of it on the game. But a few months into the project, I started going to college, and a few months later, I got a job as a software developer.

I ran out of time. I became really really busy. And now, several years later, the game could have (i'm sure of it) been done a long time ago if this real life stuff didn't happen. But I guess that's the way things work. It would be awesome to finish the project.

FatherGhostface · #10 Post by **FatherGhostface** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:59 pm

Well, don't put yourself down Muzlak, I said I wanted to do the VGA remake but I don't even know how! I don't know how to make sprites or anything like that! It's a shame really....I could write a story but I hate always having write stories! I'm sick of it! At least you can make a game, I may never make one......

Radiant · #11 Post by **Radiant** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:59 am

FGF -> You could always start with something small. Think five rooms, three characters and a dozen objects. Just hand-draw it, we'll still play it (think Larry Vales for a sample of how one does not need top-notch graphics for a fun game)

Muzlak -> ooh, RPG? Which one?

Klytos · #12 Post by **Klytos** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:44 am

Though I don't know how much writing you'd need to do on a remake, as the story is already complete.

MuzlakOofmay · #13 Post by **MuzlakOofmay** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:45 pm

Radiant,

Our RPG project culminated in this:

http://www.nancycarterdesign.com/sponge ... snbeta.zip

It's really very sloppy, but quite enjoyable. We originally had plans to create a serious game with it (titled Arean's Wish), but we couldn't find any writers that were serious enough to devote to the project. It ended up with us writing this short game with the finished engine.

Even though the code is terribly written, and I'd never work with it again if my life depended on it, it is pretty impressive for a 15 year old kid to have done (this was several years ago). It had:

-A scripting engine (primitive)
-Several external editors (nothing was hardcoded, one could create several original games with it)
-A decent battle system

I'm still pretty proud of it, but would take a totally different approach now, several years later.

ThreeHeadedMonkey · #14 Post by **ThreeHeadedMonkey** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:56 am

Very nice. Esspecially for a 15-year old! 8o

No, seriously, that's pretty cool.

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