[Summer 08] Despair

Eh, why not? I'm not too active here, and despair's coming along well enough. I'll just copy & paste from PureZC's expo thread.

Despair
By Plissken

http://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/1.gif

Story:
Link awakens on the day of the trading voyage, he says his goodbyes and prepares to leave. The voyage is a success and on the way back to his home town his ship is attacked. He is but one of three survivors and is being held captive. Link manage to escape and he floats on the ocean for three days. Managing to get back to his town it's not as Link remembers it. Everything is completely destroyed but Link find some survivors of this apparent attack within a cave. The survivors tell of demons who destroyed the land and placed evil entities all around. The main source seems to be in Tulaurin the Lava Fields up north. Link sets off to save his village but little does he know the source of the problems isn't just in Tulaurin. He soon gets caught up trying to save the world from this unknown source of evil.

Info:
Level 1 is currently under development. I'm mainly entering this in the expo because I've talked to a lot of people who don't even know about the game, so I'm just giving it some attention. Progress has increased dramatically since I quit my QPF spot, and I feel really motivated. Hoping for a 2009 release, but you never know when that all to familiar rut will come along again now do we?

Pics:
Before town's destroyed:
http://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/2.pnghttp://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/3.png

Pirate Ship!:
http://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/4.pnghttp://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/5.png

Destroyed Beach:
http://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/6.pnghttp://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/7.png

Mountains:
http://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/8.png

Tulaurin's Catacombs:
http://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/9.pnghttp://expo.purezc.com/2008Spring/Plissken/10.png
Videos:
Part of a now slightly changed intro! (Bo-ring) :P:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=msrSoIthQE8

Tulaurin's Catacomb's Boss Fight! (Not Boring! But with weird boomerang animation! Just ignore that part):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=doP-so8voEQ


Credits:
I'll just give you the list I've been writing down as I go

My special and utmost thanks to these people for teaching me how to use Zelda Quest:
erm2003
Alphadawg
idontknow

For ideas, support, partnership, palettes, and tiles:
Evile
Ebola Zaire

For graphics, music, and scripts:
Mr. Z
Relic
Linkus (I can't stress him enough. ;))
NoeL
Exate
Evile
Frario
7th Saga
pkmnfrk
Matthew
Joe123
Gleeok
C-Dawg
Smithy-GCN

For support:
Many members from AGN and PureZC, it'd take way to long to list them. (Expect a list in the actual game's credits though)

For assistance in teaching me many skills to use within ZQ:
Conor O' Sullivan
Joe123
Shoelace
Many photoshop tutorials throughout the web

For entertainment, motivation, and hope to complete this project:
1984
Half-Life
Scrubs
Arrested Development
The Office
Firefly
Dragonforce
Tales of Symphonia
Tales of the Abyss
Many friends from the internet and my outside life

A very special thanks to:
All ZC Developers
Wild Bill
Nintendo


I may edit a bit, add in more screenshots. PureZC's expo was limited to only 10 shots, so I'll most likely post some more.

This looks awesome Plissken! And also seems very innotative. Can't wait to see the finished game :)

The last video of the boss fight seems pretty cool. I've just started working with ZQuest and let me tell you it's kinda hard, but you get used to it. But the fact that you used a different tileset than the original and the boss fight is customized means you are definitely ahead of me. I'm definitely looking forward to this quest!!

The screenshots look amazing! :D Also, I like the colors of the title screen. The story is very interesting. I will look forward to this!