Chao Land teaser thread (single player fantasy Cha

This is a bit of a teaser/development tracker for a project that I'm working on with a friend. It's a fantasy RPG starring Chao, the AI pet from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. I just feel I'm not ready for a project page until the release of alpha version 0.1. Developed in Construct 2 r90.

First up are some sprites. Some are in the game at this point in development, or aren't even implemented in-game at all. They may change in the future, graphic wise.

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5899974/Graphics/FirstEyecandySpritesheet.png" border="0">

1. Chao statues, 2. Pause button and toggle menu/close current menu buttons, 3: Rust mote (enemy), 4. Potions (empty, HP, MP, both), 5. Test object (currently for testing, will likely serve the function that Chrono Trigger's tab items did), 6. Normal tree growth cycle, 7. Stone brick, floating platforms (gold and silver with rune markings), and a spike hazard

The following are some screenshots. These are taken from the current version in development, which is alpha version 0.1. They are very likely to change, however.

Login screen v.3

Test map at night

First HUD menu

New Chao (using the BR palette) color scheme

Stat menu 1 (finished)

Stat menu 2 (finished)

Finally, last but not least is some lineart concept art that's quite new. This is my first attempt at drawing concept art, so the style is likely to change. Suggestions on improving are welcome, and very much appreciated.

Giant's Maw (a network of caves in a circular ravine)

Shroom Gardens

Felink Wraith (concept and design by Inf3rnal)

Felink Reaper (concept and design by Inf3rnal)

I'm following your project, i haven't seen any good rpg game made with Construct 2, so hopefully this one does, good luck!

If your game is purely pixel art, you may want to turning on the pixel rounding and set sampling to point, it'll stop your game from being blured.

Bumping for a good reason! New sprites! Also probably the last before the release of alpha version 0.1.

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5899974/Graphics/Newsprites.png" border="0" />

Left: Normal seed, mana seed, strong seed, reworked tree sprites (including new mana and strong tree sprites), normal fruit, mana fruit, and strong fruit.

Right: Chaos shards (yellow=swim, green=run, purple=fly, red=power), and the following small animals: penguin, boar, parrot, and gorilla.

I love the sprite work, they look just like the animals in Sonic Adventure 2 :D Following!

This project has been intentionally on hiatus for about a year.

This is mostly because me and Inf3rnal (the head developer) did not want to continue to develop the game until an actual save system existed in C2.

Now, development is back in full swing.

Here's a demo capx, as promised!

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5899974/Gaming/Chao%20Land.capx

With a mostly working save and load system, including save slots.

No delete save slot system yet. This requires manually resetting a bunch of local/object instance variables one by one, and I'm looking into a better solution.

Wow this project looks pretty awesome. Being an avid Sonic fan myself whom wishes Chao was featured in the newer Sonic games, this interests me!

We have temporary forum hosting for our Construct 2 project, and a thread for the first alpha release, and a details thread for the next alpha release.

We would like new members to join our forum (so you can keep an eye on CL!), but we would also like new dev helpers/team members!

z13.invisionfree.com/The_Hydeout/index.php

Alpha release 0.2 is out!

z13.invisionfree.com/The_Hydeout/index.php