hey guys, I know we haven't posted progress in a while. Everyone has
been really busy with life and all i guess. Anyway, I had some free time
so i decided to work on kiaru. I'm almost done with the textures. just
remains a few minor tweaks here and there. i also have to fix his hair
and redo some part of the hair textures. anyway, here is a pic of my
progress. I'll probably rig him and throw him into the game engine later
this week. and hopefully have game play to show later in the month. ^^

 

Edited March 12, 201312 yr by chuksxy

I'd have liked for there to be a main antagonist, but since two henchmen representing light and darkness would be working together it would seem superfluous. Unless another writer could pull that off I'd think it would be an either/or situation on who the bad guys are. So I'd probably vote for light and darkness org. working together to genocide the Keyblade wielders. As for my second choice I'd have liked to see a main light antagonist set out on extracting the darkness from people's hearts by force and destroying whatever was formed as a result of it in an attempt to purify the world, even if it meant people's lives would be lost if they weren't strong enough to recover from it. Which could lead to targeting the keyblade academy, and a possible death scene for the headmaster. Also, the ending could be attempting to use all that light to try to reshape the universe as pure light, similar to Xemnas's goal except with nothingness. 

 

As for 2 and 3, I'd say use the amount Kh has. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

Is there any symbolism behind all of the names you've chosen, and what reasons did you pick them for?

i like the whole idea about a light and darkness organization but pulling this off might be tough. yet again, the whole light antagonist set out to destroy darkness and all seems interesting.

 

Since light and dark don't tend to mix very well, perhaps, the two right hands on the main antagonists can scheme against each other?

 

They could trick the heroes into doing harm to the other, by feeding them information.

like you said, the whole idea of darkness and light teaming  seems far fetched . they need to have a serious motive to actually do this. although i like the idea of them scheming against each other as well , do you guys think that we can actually pull this off. or should we just come up with more ideas and vote on which story we should go with?

Maybe there could be two whole separate evil organizations:

 

A light one that thinks it's doing good, and a dark one that simply knows that its goals and methods aren't very nice.

 

In terms of the academy, perhaps the headmaster can be obsessed with the light, a bit like Eraqus, and not realize he's doing harm.

The second protagonist could be an organization, not directly related to the academy, rooted off darkness.

Both of these groups would like to harm the other and don't object to using the heroes as tools to do so.

 

If one of the heroes was to fall the slightest bit into darkness, the headmaster and his light aligned comrades could pounce on that, while the darker group is willing to harm everyone.

 

This gives the writers the ability to inflict drama from two sources, come up with more quest and plot ideas, and refresh the player after fighting one type of enemy by switching to the other side. (One thing I loved about KH2 was that the Heartless, Heartless, Boss, Heartless, Heartless... pattern was switched to Heartless, Nobody, Boss, Heartless, Nobody...)

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by nick11h

Maybe there could be two whole separate evil organizations:

 

A light one that thinks it's doing good, and a dark one that simply knows that its goals and methods aren't very nice.

 

In terms of the academy, perhaps the headmaster can be obsessed with the light, a bit like Eraqus, and not realize he's doing harm.

The second protagonist could be an organization, not directly related to the academy, rooted off darkness.

Both of these groups would like to harm the other and don't object to using the heroes as tools to do so.

 

If one of the heroes was to fall the slightest bit into darkness, the headmaster and his light aligned comrades could pounce on that, while the darker group is willing to harm everyone.

 

This gives the writers the ability to inflict drama from two sources, come up with more quest and plot ideas, and refresh the player after fighting one type of enemy by switching to the other side. (One thing I loved about KH2 was that the Heartless, Heartless, Boss, Heartless, Heartless... pattern was switched to Heartless, Nobody, Boss, Heartless, Nobody...)

well the thing is that since Sora or the characters we feature from the original game are involved with the academy, i don't think they would allow the head master and his comrades to go about with these. That is just my opinion though. However, if we were to have two separate organizations who each want to manipulate the key blade wielders for their own selfish reasons that could be possible. however, two separate organizations would lead to tons of work unless we find more 3d artists. (since the characters would have to be modeled and textured, rigged and animated). unless however we can make them put on masks or something to hide their face and hair and were a distinct costume like (organization 13). This would greatly reduce the amount of work done since we can probably reuse textures and models.

 

so i guess we have to agree once and for all where this story should head.

 

should we go with

1.  have a main antagonist who has two disciples. one is light and the other is dark. (probably come up with a motive later)

2.  have a main antagonist who just happens to be a light user and wants to eradicate darkness at all cost.

3.  two separate organizations, one light and one dark with each going after the academy for their own specific reasons.

4. the dark organization should exist but the light organization would consist of the headmaster and his comrades.

5. A single antagonist.

 

if anyone comes up with any more ideas we can probably Add them to the list.

 

 

it would be cool like if the story constantly changes on your decisions, so you could be a protaganist and antagonist. so if you made good actions the world would return to peace but on the other hand if you walked down the dark path, the world would burn and be engulf in darkness. other from the one way story of past kh games (this is also something id like to see in kh3) now there should be romance but slow and building up in my opinion.

 

As awesome as that sounds, implementing such would be tough. so for now lets just keep it simple. we can probably have the player make decisions in the game but nothing to great that can change the entire story.

i also thought it would be cool if there was some mysterious students who wears a mask that you run often into, we can make it that he/ she is neither bad nor good. maybe sometimes he/she would help you or sometimes attack you. this could be exploited in many ways.

 

@Shera, how is the poll coming along? you can probably make a deadline. 20th of this month seems cool to me.

oh yeah, if any of you guys are interested, here is a high-poly model i did a while ago for a previous kh fan game i worked on. it was originally intended for a cg poster but i got lazy and didn't finish the materials.

here is the original concept.please note (this wasn't done by me) it was done by a guy called cassidy.

 

EDIT: due to complains from the owner of the art, I've decided to take it down. Sorry for the inconvenience 

 

 

here is the link to the model.

http://www.mediafire.com/?98nemqeha1ace1c

i remember a pic of lightning i saw last year before the release of Dream Drop Distance. apparently it was meant to be an April fools joke and it was actually just a drawing a person made.

anyway, i thought it would be cool if we actually added lightning to the game. ^^. like how tidus and wakka appeared in the KH1. she can probably be an npc in the village. so what do you guy's think, should we add her? and if we do, should we add more final fantasy characters or non at all?

 

Edit: we have decided to go with a combination of options 1 and 2.

Edited July 2, 201312 yr by chuksxy

Loving the work you guys are coming up with here Just remember that once you finish all your designs and exterior work and this does become a game you can play in the community this will need to be renewed as a thread in Forum Games!

The picture of Lighting gave me an idea. Maybe the weapons everyone uses in the academy are the foam swords that Roxas used as the beginning of KH2.

At some point, the main characters can "break the rules" and summon their keyblades.

 

Also, maybe add some old men to the game, whether working at the academy or living around town, and name them after the heroes in the early Final Fantasy games.

I also think it would cool to have Barret from FF7 somewhere in it. Maybe her daughter can be a keyblade wielder.

Look, guys, when I said that Ghilt and Krad represented light and darkness, I didn't mean that they were aligned with good or evil. I just meant that they utilize the power of light and darkness. Both guys are evil, at least at this stage.

The picture of Lighting gave me an idea. Maybe the weapons everyone uses in the academy are the foam swords that Roxas used as the beginning of KH2.

At some point, the main characters can "break the rules" and summon their keyblades.

 

Also, maybe add some old men to the game, whether working at the academy or living around town, and name them after the heroes in the early Final Fantasy games.

I also think it would cool to have Barret from FF7 somewhere in it. Maybe her daughter can be a keyblade wielder.

lol. funny i had the same thing in mind. this will definitely help since we wouldn't have to model a key blade for every student in the school.

Look, guys, when I said that Ghilt and Krad represented light and darkness, I didn't mean that they were aligned with good or evil. I just meant that they utilize the power of light and darkness. Both guys are evil, at least at this stage.

The word Arashi is Japanese for storm. I chose it because I intended for Sora and Kairi to be the founders of the Keyblade Acadamy as well as the village. Since storms can be associated with water and wind(i.e a storm at sea), I thought it fit well enough.

 

As for Ghilt and Krad, I chose those names because they are both anagrams of light and dark, respectively. That's about it.

 

There is no particular reason why the headmaster is named Rionus, or why the villain is named Ko. Those just seemed like interesting names to me. You're free to change them if you want.

Thank you for clarifying that, I recall Zexion using light as well. I do like the scheming against each other option, but that makes it easier to have 2 different types of boss fights and still get to have a main antagonist. As such, I change my vote to Main antagonist with dark and light user bad guys. I'll probably say it again below to make sure there's no confusion. And I like the reasons for all the names, was just curious. Carry on.

 

Since light and dark don't tend to mix very well, perhaps, the two right hands on the main antagonists can scheme against each other?

 

They could trick the heroes into doing harm to the other, by feeding them information.

i like the whole idea about a light and darkness organization but pulling this off might be tough. yet again, the whole light antagonist set out to destroy darkness and all seems interesting.

 

like you said, the whole idea of darkness and light teaming  seems far fetched . they need to have a serious motive to actually do this. although i like the idea of them scheming against each other as well , do you guys think that we can actually pull this off. or should we just come up with more ideas and vote on which story we should go with?

Well, just like Kh there's always the option to do each of these ideas in a different saga. I'd say go with what's easiest, even if my revised answer above of a main antagonist with 2 bad guys using darkness and light powers respectively doesn't work out.

 

Edit: these might not be the most recent questions so check below.

 

well the thing is that since Sora or the characters we feature from the original game are involved with the academy, i don't think they would allow the head master and his comrades to go about with these. That is just my opinion though. However, if we were to have two separate organizations who each want to manipulate the key blade wielders for their own selfish reasons that could be possible. however, two separate organizations would lead to tons of work unless we find more 3d artists. (since the characters would have to be modeled and textured, rigged and animated). unless however we can make them put on masks or something to hide their face and hair and were a distinct costume like (organization 13). This would greatly reduce the amount of work done since we can probably reuse textures and models.

 

so i guess we have to agree once and for all where this story should head.

 

should we go with

1.  have a main antagonist who has two disciples. one is light and the other is dark. (probably come up with a motive later)

2.  have a main antagonist who just happens to be a light user and wants to eradicate darkness at all cost.

3.  two separate organizations, one light and one dark with each going after the academy for their own specific reasons.

4. the dark organization should exist but the light organization would consist of the headmaster and his comrades.

5. A single antagonist.

 

if anyone comes up with any more ideas we can probably Add them to the list.

 

As awesome as that sounds, implementing such would be tough. so for now lets just keep it simple. we can probably have the player make decisions in the game but nothing to great that can change the entire story.

i also thought it would be cool if there was some mysterious students who wears a mask that you run often into, we can make it that he/ she is neither bad nor good. maybe sometimes he/she would help you or sometimes attack you. this could be exploited in many ways.

anyway, i thought it would be cool if we actually added lightning to the game. ^^. like how tidus and wakka appeared in the KH1. she can probably be an npc in the village. so what do you guy's think, should we add her? and if we do, should we add more final fantasy characters or non at all?

 

Option 2 sounds easiest since we have the framework for it. Not just saying that since it's my idea but option 4 could work too. And option 5 seems to be a simplified version of 2 which might be necessary due to time constraints.

 

The masks idea sounds awesome, I'd love to have a bunch of Vanitas clones walking around. My avatar proves that, and it would help reduce the amount of 3d artists needed.

 

I'd say only add FF characters if you're gonna add Disney characters as well. If you really want FF characters and don't care about the work required to add them in I say go for it.

 

Edit: Like I said in a different post if this is the most up-to-date questions you should edit your first post, ask a mod to delete it, or say it's archaic at least.

 

Loving the work you guys are coming up with here Just remember that once you finish all your designs and exterior work and this does become a game you can play in the community this will need to be renewed as a thread in Forum Games!

Will do.

Edited February 14, 201312 yr by Indecypher

Chuksxy, Inecypher, Nick11h and I have decided on a story. Here are some points of importance:

 

-Ko will be the main villain. His motive will be to eradicate all darkness from the hearts of people.

 

-Ko will have his own Organization of Keyblade Wielders that support him.

 

-There will be a second academy located at Radiant Garden. It will be headed by Sora and Kairi. There may be travel to it later on.

 

-There will be a masked Keyblade Wielder named Quill. They will be a neutral force, neither good nor bad.

 

-Ghilt and Krad are now the apprentices of Rionus and Ko, respectively. This means that Ghilt is now allied with Rionus.

 

Here is a brief synopsis of the story's background so far:

 

 Sora and Kairi are the ones who founded the academy. After they did this however, they left to form a new one in Radiant Garden. In order to keep everything in check, they left three of their friends as well as Sora's two apprentices to raise the next generation; the two apprentices being Ko and Rionus. However, Ko began practicing brutality on the heartless as well as those with dark hearts, so Rionus and the other Keyblade Masters banished him and his followers from the acadamy.

 

We still haven't decided on who the three returning characters will be. Personally, I'm sided with Indecypher. Lea, Aqua, and Riku are my choices.

 

Let us know what you think!

Edited February 16, 201312 yr by Mr. Mancer

GUYS GUYS GUYS WAIT UP AND STAY ONLINE IF YOU CAN IM POSTING THE POLL SOON

Hey, I Would Love To Help With This Project!! I Have No Experience In Game Making Though.. Please Let Me Know If I Can Help.

Edited February 14, 201312 yr by Pretium

Hmm...I don't think I'm interested in the project judging by what's been presented thus far, but either way, good luck!

The picture of Lighting gave me an idea. Maybe the weapons everyone uses in the academy are the foam swords that Roxas used as the beginning of KH2.At some point, the main characters can "break the rules" and summon their keyblades.Also, maybe add some old men to the game, whether working at the academy or living around town, and name them after the heroes in the early Final Fantasy games.I also think it would cool to have Barret from FF7 somewhere in it. Maybe her daughter can be a keyblade wielder.

Sorry, I Know I'm Not A Part Of This Project Officially, But What If All The Students Start With Wooden Keyblades Instead?? Just Like Terra'sAnd, What If There's A Keyblade Maker For The Academy, Who Makes Them And Infuses Them With Magic So They React To Potential Keyblade Wielders, The Students Who Pass The Test Of Using The Magic Through The Wooden Keyblade (Or Some Other Test To Get In) Use Those Wooden Ones As Training Keyblades Until They Create A Key, Or One Officially Chooses Them

Edited February 14, 201312 yr by Pretium

Hey, I Would Love To Help With This Project!! I Have No Experience In Game Making Though.. Please Let Me Know If I Can Help.

welcome to the project. ^_^.

 

 

Sorry, I Know I'm Not A Part Of This Project Officially, But What If All The Students Start With Wooden Keyblades Instead?? Just Like Terra's

 

And, What If There's A Keyblade Maker For The Academy, Who Makes Them And Infuses Them With Magic So They React To Potential Keyblade Wielders, The Students Who Pass The Test Of Using The Magic Through The Wooden Keyblade (Or Some Other Test To Get In) Use Those Wooden Ones As Training Keyblades Until They Create A Key, Or One Officially Chooses Them

lol. no worries your suggestions are welcomed. well concerning what you said, we haven't really decided what the students would start with and criteria for joining the academy but we would probably put your idea into consideration since we are currently focusing on the main story.

Update: I didn't feel like making a new post for this. Anyway, here is my progress on the school. just started working on it recently. just a little update.

sorry for the camera distortion.

Edited February 15, 201312 yr by chuksxy

Well i finished it. But as Photoshop failed... Thaks pc. I color it manually. I have the original still in blank for change of colors... 

 

Tell me if i need to change or modify something. Also, do you need concept art of Radiant Garden? and how many years have passed on this game?

Well i finished it. But as Photoshop failed... Thaks pc. I color it manually. I have the original still in blank for change of colors... 

Imagen207.jpg

Tell me if i need to change or modify something. Also, do you need concept art of Radiant Garden? and how many years have passed on this game?

Shoes aren't large enough.

 

But seriously, awesome.

welcome to the project. ^_^.lol. no worries your suggestions are welcomed. well concerning what you said, we haven't really decided what the students would start with and criteria for joining the academy but we would probably put your idea into consideration since we are currently focusing on the main story.

Thank You, •﹏•

Right, I wish to do the stained glass, perhaps for all characters who'll be...'landing' on it?

 

I'd be a little happier if I have a concept art of those characters and somebody please update me from the scratch of this project.

 

Here's what I get so far:

 

• The story is set 10 years later from KH3D (?)
• Is in an academy for keyblade weilders, training to be masters
• Was founded by Sora and Kairi
• Second one in Radiant Garden
• Main Antagonist is Ko (?)
• Not too sure with the Protagonists
• Ko's motive to eradicate darkness from peoples' hearts
• He has an org of his own
• Has two apprentices
• One is like DiZ the goody-bady guy

 

Sorry if I'm being trouble again

-Wizard

 

• Not too sure with the Protagonists
• Ko's motive to eradicate darkness from peoples' hearts
• He has an org of his own
• Has two apprentices

What do you mean you're "not too sure with the protagonists"? Do you have a question about them?

 

As for Ko, yes, he is the main antagonist and has his own organization. But he only has one apprentice, Krad. Ghilt is Rionus' apprentice.

Edited February 16, 201312 yr by Mr. Mancer

What do you mean you're "not too sure with the protagonists"? Do you have a question about them?

 

As for Ko, yes, he is the main antagonist and has his own organization. But he only has one apprentice, Krad. Ghilt is Rionus' apprentice.

 

eh um

 

I dont really know who they are owo

 

Like who will you be playing exactly? Will it be choice of male and female? If yes, then will they have their separate stories?

eh um

 

I dont really know who they are owo

 

Like who will you be playing exactly? Will it be choice of male and female? If yes, then will they have their separate stories?

Look back at the original characters post I made earlier in the thread. It shows everything you need to know.

Look back at the original characters post I made earlier in the thread. It shows everything you need to know.

 

I did see it, but my questions still remain, the two will be playable characters, as in how? Like BBS?

 

• The story is set 10 years later from KH3D (?)

i was told ten years after khII

i was told ten years after khII

It's actually ten years after the last installment. Which would be Kingdom Hearts III, which takes place at about the same time as Kingdom Hearts 3D. So yeah, its about 10 years after the events in 3D.

It's actually ten years after the last installment. Which would be Kingdom Hearts III, which takes place at about the same time as Kingdom Hearts 3D. So yeah, its about 10 years after the events in 3D.

oh, i guess i read it wrong