Welcome to my thread for SOUL: Paradesha.

I made this thread as a way to get some hype for SOUL, as I finally got tired of playing your average cookie cutter MMORPG's.

This thread will serve as a placeholder to start the hype about SOUL before the website goes up. so i'll be updating this with news as to how the game is coming along, as everyone here at OnRPG I consider family :o

First let me tell you a bit about SOUL.

About SOUL: Paradesha
Online Action/RPG (About 128 Players MAX per server, not massive)
Fully 3D
First Person and 3RD Person Perspectives (First person recommended)
No Mindless click, wait 5 minutes, click Gameplay
No killing thousands of monsters to gain a level

to list a few.

Let me go indepth here,
Well I was sitting up and was ranting on in my head about how im sick of all the cookie cutter MMORPG's that take no skill at all to play, I hate click and move, I hate leveling up, I hate clicking on a monster and occasionally pressing a button, they call that a fighting system?

Anyways the aim of SOUL is to create a "User Inspired" game of such, using the resources available to me.

The Name
SOUL: Paradesha, why Paradesha? well I wanted the ultimate goal for SOUL to be something important, not just becoming wealthy, or powerful, mind you those are always important, plus if there was going to be a story I needed a backdrop, so...

I thought of it! why not make the players ultimate goal, to find a Paradise, a place so beautiful, perfect in every way, now I needed a word, you might think Paradesha is made up, but the reality is, its Sanskrit (one of my favorite's mind you) It means Supreme Country, or Paradise.

Inspiration
This game is inspired greatly apon by The Elder Scrolls(TM) series, one of my long time favorites, so if you dint like Morrowind, you probly wont like SOUL.

The Team
James "Hayloe" Hartley - Programmer, 3D Modeller, Project Lead, Ect.
"Kattuz Strophius" - Concept Artist

I might take on some 3D modellers or a Webmaster, talk to me, maybe we can work something out, I need to see your work though as this needs to be consistant.

Leveling and Skills
I'll either use the Morrowind level system or design my own, ditching levels and making stats and skill dominant, this is an Action/RPG you know, think of intense battles requiring skill rather than just how much time you get online to click on monsters.

Screenshots
First house, a common architectual design you will see in Western Tearna
http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/552/tearnahouse4hq.png

News:
June 2nd 2:41AM -
Edited the house in the screenshot a bit, fixed the scaling on them, ingame the door opening and window was huge.
Programmed in doors, with sounds and animation, yay for me! doors can be either locked, or freely opened, if there locked they wont open unless someone has the key in there inventory, Hmmm i'll leave you with my last concept thought of the night... "lockpicking"

May 30th 5:38PM -
Concept artist has been hired to work on SOUL this will get things done faster, and alot cleaner =) say hi to "Kattuz Strophius"

May 30th 4:50PM -
Tearna has been invisioned!, see my reply for details

May 30th 12:50AM -
Im up late posting this thread! news? bah i'll get to it tommorow =) all concept right now

Comments please, what you think, what you like, what you dont, Constructive critisism is great, just no flamers please? lets keep this civil, no discussion on me never finishing this, as I have every intention to, and am dedicated to this project, unlike most people deciding they want to make a game, I have experience in programming, 3D modelling and Design and overall computer knowledge to get through this, I believe in me, Will you?

Most people don't care unless you can post that you have the ability to do anything. Constructive critism will come when you post indepth information. Any ways good luck.

Most people don't care unless you can post that you have the ability to do anything. Constructive critism will come when you post indepth information. Any ways good luck.

Once I get it cleaned up a bit I'll show screenshots, Maybe clos(er) to the 5th, I dont really want to show test screenshots as there ugly, as soon as I get a town Modeled I'll make a video of a guided tour ^^ that should make people happy, and prove Im worth my weight in Quickcrete!

I do realize this thread looks kind of worthless, and It wouldnt draw my attention, so I guess it will be a dead thread till then right, anyways its late (err. early), Im off to bed. Peace!

The average passerby will be more attracted to images/screenshots/concept art than a rather general description of the game. I suggest creating a progress thread when you have something to visually show in order to maximize hype. :)

I've decided on the first place im going to create, Tearna, the village of the forest, I spent all morning thinking about how the layout of this place will be, Tearna is going to be split into two smaller villages, East and West Tearna, inbetween them is a lush and huge forest, surrounded by mountains, a man-made river will surge through the forest, coming out of a tunnel in the mountains, which is what keeps Tearna so lush, I did draw a concept map of the easternmost region of it (the only area thats really inhabited), but I dont think im going to post that up because I cant draw for beans and Im really embaressed by it =P

But it serves its purpose, helps me set up the terrain and get an idea of how it will be laid out, Im off to model some buildings right now, hopefully show you some Screenshots of those ^^

You should think about making phpbb discussion Board. Log all your ideas about the game there. Share thought with other people about whats going on, people always like then. Then it branches out into a website before you know it.

Yeah, I was going to make a discussion board but considering its a new project and i dont want to post link to boards on other boards i figured this would be best

Not like I'll be using this forever though :p

This game sounds cool. I can't wait to try it out.:D

sounds cool ill try it for sure

Added a screenshot of one of the western tearna houses! comments?

all buildings the player will be able to go inside and explore! some of the larger houses will have attics, basements and second stories =P

P.S. dont ask about the window, im working on that transparency thing lol

Looks perfect

Nice first house you have going there. Continue the good work.

Okay I thought this would be fun, anyone who has posted so far can own a house in western tearna, If you would like one, post here with some things you would like in your house, and if you want to request something special, and i'll see what I can do ^^

P.S. Most houses will look diffrent so the SS i posted will probly not be what yours looks like XD

Well I figure we are here to give you some ideas and what not, so why not make a house that has a + shaped top? (It has the regular angled top with one going perpendicular to it in the middle) Perhaps making 4-6 different types of houses. But I want one to have a little pop out above the east side lol.

I think I get what your trying to say about the + shaped top, kind of like the one i modeled but with the "pop outs" hehe on both sides? oo

Anyways, who wants what as far a furniture/items laying around inside there house ;) static ofcourse, you cant use them. just for show :P

BTW. The Inn is almost finished, I want to show a video walkthrough of it In-game ;) as soon as I get it properly lighted and filled with furniture hehe its pretty big, with 5 rooms (decent size) at the top story, the bottom is the area you check in at (get your key to which room)

when I wake up its all about programming and possibly some meshes of furniture/basic items

Im setting a goal to have working doors, with sounds ect. of course, that can be locked ect.

and get a working inventory system done, so you can actually hold items o.o

seems pretty important, no? XD

start merging this online chatroom into a real game! ..uhh in the morning lol

Yes that is what I meant, I use to know what it was called, I was thinking something like Nose roof but I am probably wrong. Any ways what are you programming it all in? Have fun doing the interior.

Make a house that has an extra storage room right next to it:
1 - Windows
2 - Doors
.............____._________
.........../.........\..............\
........./............\...............\
......../...............\..............\
......_'------------'-----------'
..../..|................|...............|
../....|................|...............|
/____|..1........1...|.......1......|
|......|................|...............|
|......|................|...............|
|_2__|____2_____|_________|

Heres a top view:
a - Bed
b - Small table with lamp on it
c - Chair
d - Door

(front)
_______...d...________
|b.............................|
|c.............................|_______
|_______...................|...........|
|b..........|.................|...........|
|....a......|..................d..........|
|...........d..................|__ d __|
|_______|___________|

hahaha nice ascii art eleo! ;) i actually dint get much done today because of some school issues that came up -.- im not out yet, and for some reason I got alot of work to do, anyways ima program what I can before sleep time.

what are you programming it all in?

C++ ;)

update:
yay! 2:40am and doors finally work! im tired now though lol.

i also edited the house a bit, dont know why I dint notice before but, the door entrance, and the window, were HUGE ingame

Ahh so are you creating an engine from scratch? Gratz on getting those to work.

No, Im not making the engine from scratch, If i attempted to do that alone, Im pretty sure I would fail miserably, Im making this game with TGE by GarageGames, same engine that was used on Tribes 2

Good news everybody =P despite lack of updates

First of all, ive been gone awhile, dont worry SOUL is not dead, just going through some changes ;)

first off, I have a staff :D

Concept artist, 3D modeller, Architect (BSP building modeller), and Web master

This will be the team bringing you SOUL :D now about the changes.

We've been rethinking SOUL, after doing calculations the max amount of characters we would be able to hold per server would be 50, its not really THAT big of a problem, just means there will be lots of servers ;)

and the paradise idea might get scrapped also, so were rethinking everything, might even rename it... if it comes down to that you will see a new thread after this one gets thrashed, but how it looks now, the name will stay, subtitle will probly get removed.

Rethinking it is not cutting into development time, were still going full-speed ahead.

Now, we need a name for the SOUL team.

Hmmmm....

Wow, I thought you were most likely not going to have a team. Well at least you didn't scrap the project. Good luck and keep us updated.

rofl yeah I dint think I would either, funny how things kind of work out like this o.o ANYWAYS yeah Its decided were changing the game name, much more appropriate

Apologue

it means tale, or fable, commonly associated with a life lesson.

so this would be Chapter one of the Apologue, not going to release many idea's at the moment as that would completely spoil the mysterious part of this game, but it has to do with Sanctums XD

also were not focusing the majority of our efforts on combat, moreso on puzzles, exploration and mysteries

of course there will be combat though

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