Hello people,
I'm sure some of you (well, Horace) are aware of my efforts to get my project Tank Wars Deluxe finished and basically the graphics have been a major stumbling block for me. I had AB Positive over at EAB offer to help and I sent her some stuff but this was a couple of months back and she hasn't even logged in for a week which is unfortunate as I sent her a PM asking if she can get this done in fairly short order.
So I'm now assuming she isn't going to be able to and as there seem to be one or two creative types around here I thought I'd throw this out to you lot. Really I need graphics. Maybe a bit of music and sound effects too but graphics are the priority. And for personal reasons I wish not to discuss yet (it's a bit early, all will be revealed in due course) this needs to be finished and released by about mid to late February and not any later. In normal circumstances I wouldn't be in much of a rush but these aren't really normal circumstances so it needs to be done.
I need some tile graphics -16x16 pixels in 16 colours - for the game's maps and I need several different themed ones (i.e. desert, forest, arctic). There aren't very many and they need to be organised in a way that you can load a level with any theme and it will display fine. Also I need a few small power-up icons, and maybe some bullets and indeed some tanks (though not necessarily - I could go with what I've got - though a small explosion-type anim would be cool). Also not necessary but would look nice would be a small status panel at the bottom of the screen, and maybe a nice title screen too. None of it has to be spectacular by any means.
I know it's all a bit vague but anyone interested post here or contact me and I'd be happy to provide more details and game files too. You can find the original Tank Wars on Aminet (http://aminet.net/package/game/2play/TankWars) if you need an idea of what it's all about.
This has suddenly become fairly important to me so if anyone could help I would massively appreciate it.
Thanks!
Well, I can't draw to save my life, but Dastardly over at EAB offered some help and he seems rather keen on doing something on the Amiga. I'll tell him about this thread and hopefully he'll help you :) Would be nice to see that game.
Thanks TCD, I would appreciate that and hopefully he will be able to help! I'm really determined to get this game out now, and as I say, the reasons for it will become clear soon enough.
good luck GH!
I struggle enough with my own gfx... :S
Thanks Horace. It's always been a bugger trying to get people to help with graphics, I've noticed. Not a problem if you've got artistic ability of course...
And AB Positive has officially ruled herself out of this now too. So I mention it here, about how she hasn't been about for a week, and suddenly I hear from her. Funny how these things happen.
EDIT: Oh, and should things get moving I would, of course, be interested in writing one of those development diary thingies. Watch this space ;)
hm.. interest idea ,is like Artillery style ? like tanx ?
dunno if can help,i can paint some flat grafics on PC..
Not really - it's basically just a single-screen multiplayer game where you shoot each other and last one standing wins. To be fair I should have metioned that in my original post I think...!
I also notice that on this forum links are impossible to distinguish from 'normal' text so if you click on Aminet in the original post you can download the original game to have a look at. But I'll put it here too: http://aminet.net/package/game/2play/TankWars (http://aminet.net/package/game/2play/TankWars)
hm.. im on work now.. but soonest i test it on my A1200..
have you one shot of this? 2-3 shots helps your first post.
No sadly I'm also at work so no screenshots at the minute - but I'll take two or three later on. Be warned that it's not visually exciting...! But yes I agree it would help so people had a better idea of what it's about. Thanks!
well.. i run it on A1200 and i take message : "Cant find cyber.font!"
dunno where is the problem.. folder and file "Cyber/Cyber.font", is on the game DIR..
maybe cyber.font and cyber/8 need to be in FONTS:
Yes Horace has nailed it.
Sorry no pics yet. Drunk. Will follow tomorrow, honest.
is pretty cool for multi ;)
Thanks!
Some pics...
(https://www.ultimateamiga.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg691.imageshack.us%2Fimg691%2F9210%2Ftankwars001.png&hash=ec54a93df594753baab0a7c9f77cf075062ebde3) (https://www.ultimateamiga.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg25.imageshack.us%2Fimg25%2F9254%2Ftankwars002.png&hash=2e4ee489d765aa595129bc8f723420a5dab291ea) (https://www.ultimateamiga.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg69.imageshack.us%2Fimg69%2F4973%2Ftankwars003.png&hash=c121088eadf1c648340d79e3c0cb3676012313f1)
dunno if this can help.. all is made from my self :)
and IFF amiga format.. ::)
Sorry, haven't checked here for a few days. Thanks again Anemos.
Quick update - I've got two people who seem very interested in helping out so hopefully things will start to move quickly now.
I have not idea how to use this pictures,and if this help you,(i think you can cut it and converting to small size..ect)
if you want other format or size,also and others colors tell me to help..
I wonder whatever happened with this project of Graham's? :-\
Hey, I forgot all about this place! (Sorry.)
I know it's been months since the last post but as you've probably gathered, I ditched it. This was totally due to personal reasons and my reasons for wanting to do the game in the first place, not a lack of discipline/talent etc (well, maybe the talent part!). I still don't wish to disclose the reasons for this in public but all I'll say is, it was for a charity event but it didn't happen when it was supposed to (which was nothing to do with me), and if it does happen I'll now never know about it.
Sorry all. And I'll try and visit here more often!