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Cyral

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My Game "Zarknorth"

EDIT: 1/21/14, I seriously need to clean up this post. Check out our new video! http://youtu.be/lWv-HaeLYi0

Sign up at http://www.zarknorth.com/

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Been quite a while since I was here. So, After I quit this game, with my programming knowledge of bots and such. I've been working on a game along with a few friends. You may now know me as "Cyral".

Zarknorth is a 2D sidescroller style game coming soon! It combines adventurous and unique landscapes with a retro feel, sandbox creation, and infinite combinations. We are driven by an indie developer team, and our amazing community ideas. Level up and build your empire to become a hero in your kingdom! Fight off intruders to your base and train your skill! With a randomly generated universe, so many blocks, and tiers of technology, weapons, and items, what more could you need?

The game will feature Story, Survival, and Free build modes. In story mode you can travel to planets and level up as described above. Survival is similar, allowing you to create a new planet to survive on, and have access to all recipes throughout the tech tree. Free build which gives you an unlimited amount of materials and gives you immunity to mobs, perfect for building!

Items can be crafted from recipes found along your journey, and attachments can be added to existing items. You must use skills and perks to advance through a "tech-tree" of objects, they can also be disassembled so you can always get the majority of your materials back.

The game play mechanics will be very involved, my goal is to put the player into an environment that feels real with everything going on, the wiring system for example will be a key game play feature. Even more complex than games like Minecraft, it will feature lots of controls and items to build your own contraption.

I would love to have everything unique, weapons, enemies, skills, and more. Only some of that is possible in the time frame I have, and will continue to develop and add as much as possible in updates after the release.

Planets are randomly generated with unique biomes, structures, and a world full of potential. Exploring will never be the same! Non player characters (NPCs) you find can help you conduct research and learn about these alien planets you find. Zarknorth is yours to mold, a story within a sandbox!

The game is expected to be released late 2013, for now I would really like it if you would check out the forums and help shape the game! If you like what you see, please feel free to leave a comment or tell your friends. It doesn't have to be a huge community, but you never know what we could make if you told your friends and joined the conversation!
Here are some pictures!

Day/Night cycle (x40 speed)

Lightning

Fire

Sand physics

PICS

Fire and Ice Mushrooms

Crafting

Click here to view more media!

I know you will say its like terraria or minecraft, but this is just the basic game engine. Were working on ideas of original game play!

Now is your time to have your voice! Sign up at http://www.zarknorth.com/

~Cyral / EE Beast

Last edited by Cyral (Mar 11 2014 3:06:06 pm)

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Muffin

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

The character looks a bit out of place, and this looks identical to block miner right now. I hope you come up with cool gameplay.

Monstar43

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

The character looks a bit out of place, and this looks identical to block miner right now. I hope you come up with cool gameplay.

I agree, it looks like Block Miner, just replaced with a Halo character.

treejoe4

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

It would be more original if you used a CoD character.

Cyral

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Just to let you know, as I said "enhanced graphics coming soon" that was sprite we made in a few minutes. And disabled physics in that pic so thats why the position was messed up a little.

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imtn

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

I think that it looks nice. Maybe you could make a giant island turn out to be a boss?

Cyral

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Thanks!

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skullz17

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Posts: 6,699

Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

The character looks more like megaman to me but without a face. What kind of game is it going to be? A normal platform or a game about mining?

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Cyral

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From: United States

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 2,269

Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Inbetween, and haha, our artist is a fan of megaman
UPDATE: Messing with the site, sorry about the messed up layout, bare with me for a while.

Last edited by Cyral (Jun 1 2012 2:28:25 pm)

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Different55

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

There's no translation for random characters typed in a row, but there is a delete button.

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"Sometimes failing a leap of faith is better than inching forward"
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Cyral

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From: United States

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 2,269

Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

So, Zarknorth is about 1/3 of the way done. We have finished the basic game engine, and are going to add features that will make it actually fun in this phase.

Its summer now, So we should be picking up the pace on development (Ahh if only I could stop watching Youtube the whole time)

Quick Teaser (I was testing out my own graphics since Nick and CTW seem to be gone)

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milk

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Nice

Cyral

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Thanks!

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plat aka kingpooultra

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

I can come back. But I'm not sure if it's worth it seeing how I cannot animate.

Master1

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

So, Zarknorth is about 1/3 of the way done. We have finished the basic game engine, and are going to add features that will make it actually fun in this phase.

Its summer now, So we should be picking up the pace on development (Ahh if only I could stop watching Youtube the whole time)

Quick Teaser (I was testing out my own graphics since Nick and CTW seem to be gone)

I feel sad now :<

Last edited by Master1 (Jul 4 2012 1:33:49 am)

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Cyral

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From: United States

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fNFOYHslU[/youtube]

Feedback appreciated, don't forget about the forums!

Last edited by Cyral (Jul 23 2012 3:35:40 pm)

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Monstar43

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Eh, the video's ok, but it could use some gameplay footage.

Cyral

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From: United States

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Eh, the video's ok, but it could use some gameplay footage.

Its in game 99 percent of the time.

EDIT: Sorry, your probably saw the other vid, I was trying to see why the link wasnt working, check it out now!

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Btw, Forum glitch, not sure why the link is not rendering correctly

Just check out the channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Zarknorth?feature=mhee

Last edited by Cyral (Jul 23 2012 12:03:37 pm)

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Monstar43

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Ooh. This is much better. Keep up the good work!

Cyral

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Posts: 2,269

Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

Updated the Images.

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Drew12345

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

looks pretty sweet let me know when you get done so I can play!

272

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

looks a lot like a 2D 1 player minecraft.

Cyral

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

We are looking for suggestions on crafting, Please reply here or on our forums

http://cyral.bplaced.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=110

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Raiden

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

:O That's a pretty awesome game there. You're right though, my immediate reaction:

Holy crap, the blocks look like minecraft.

Holy crap, it's 2-D like Terraria.

Seriously though, I really want to play that game. :3

plat aka kingpooultra

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Re: My Game "Zarknorth"

The character looks a bit out of place, and this looks identical to block miner right now. I hope you come up with cool gameplay.

I agree, it looks like Block Miner, just replaced with a Halo character.

I did make quite a few graphics for the game, but after quite a bit of discussion with EEBeast(Cyral), I decided that I did not want them to be used in game.
Looks alright so far, maybe the graphics could be a little more smooth, the trees look really awkward, I would definitely recommend fixing that. Overall the game looks interesting and I world probably play it, but honestly I would only really play it in my free time.

Good luck.