Project Seal

Way back When Guinea was working on a Project called "Danger Mike", I offered him some help by making him some tilesets.

However, the project never got that far and it became forgotten.
Few days ago I found the old tiles on my Photobucket and thought up I should revive the project myself.

That's where the Seal came in. I didn't have an idea/the time to devote making a complicated Character, so I sprited a Seal with a helmet. It came out great.


The Next thing was the Map. I thought it should be quite Metroid-ish, where you can do all kinds of stuff, but still complete the area even if you broke it all up.
So I made the map. Notice how even if every single rock is broken, the player can still continue without leaving himself to a dead end.


The next thing was the tilesets. They were pretty easy. Check 'em out:


Now I'm off to make the character sprites even more, such as hitting something with Spoon, walking, running and all that.


THE PLOT
One day, a Seal named Michael went to a cave to mine diamonds.
Just when he stepped in to the cave, the entrance collapsed, and
now he searches deperately for an exit. Help Michael to find a way
out by using different kinds of Spoons.
Watch out for wasps and slime monsters, they can be a nuisance.

Here's a concept image of the First Room:

Any ideas are Welcome!


Update log

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~Tuesday, 10.10.2006. Writing started 14:46.

I made a concept animation for the spoon swinging.
Sorry about the quality loss, but that's what GIFs Do.
Spoon is not included because It's not even done yet, and I figured I shouldn't add it since it's not a dynamic sprite. The Spoons change occasionally in the game, so It'd be a waste of time to make the same sprites all over again. I started mapping Part 2 of the Main Map's Area 1. It'll be quite fun exploring the caves and all that. Metroid fans should like this

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~Tuesday, 10.10.2006. Writing started 15:15.

Fixed a typo.

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~Tuesday, 10.10.2006. Writing started 18:01.

Made a new concept animation. Apparently he can either make a Spoonslam, destroying a chunk of 32 pixels from Up, Down, Left and Right, or just poke something with it, breaking a 16 pixels block. Here you go:

The progress of Part 2 of Main map's area 1 is coming up pretty good.
I'll post a screenie whenever possible. Until then..

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~Tuesday, 10.10.2006. Writing started 18:07.

Fixed some errors and added more lines to the separator.

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~Tuesday, 10.10.2006. Writing started 18:09.

Fixed even more errors. Yep.

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~Saturday, 14.10.2006. Writing started 15:35.

Tri made an "Item Found" fanfare, which turned out really great!! Listen up, peoples: Link.
Part 2 of Main map 1 is going to be delayed a bit because a recent crash of AppleWorks.
And on a side note, Black Squirrel made the concept design for the Diver men from Part 2 of Main map 1. Ain't it beautiful?

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~Wednesday, 18.10.2006. Writing staretd 20:30.

Fixed a broken link. :X

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This post has been edited by Raccoon Sam on Oct 18 2006, 12:30 PM

It certainly looks interesting, good luck with this!

sounds like a mix of metroid and StarFox...

Starfox?
o_O

humanoid animals...

Ah.

Nice concept.
I'd honestly like to assist you with that.

So... how big are you planning to make this game? As big as a Metroid game?

Anyhow... sounds great! Best of luck to you!

I don't plan on making the game itself. I'm a Mac OS X user, and Macs have a serious lack of game designing programs.

So I'll just make Maps, Sprites, Maybe music and all that. Whoever wants to, can make the engine.

And yeah, it's probably gonna be big. That's only the first area, and there's gonna be tens of them. Spoons will probably go up to level 15, that's for sure.

Looks cool

Update.

Metroid, Seals, and kick assery. I 100% approve of this.

Updated.

My approval rises to +6373647364%

Nice to see a original game idea!

Map #2 50% done.
There's gonna be water. Lots of it.

And you can't swim yet =X

Haha, awesome, like i said on MSN:
"Seal with a helmet= God with a helmet"
Keep working on it, i can see a hell load of good aspects in this idea.

Do you mind if I try my balls at a seal

You shouldn't make every area always accessible. C'mon, secrets!

Oh, there are going to be secrets.
An ASSLOAD of them!

And yeah, Soup, if you feel like helping me with the sprites, go nuts.
I'm in a need of a Walking anim.