Elysian Shadows Revolution: Episode 2 Part 7

Game Development Diary

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fODMgH31z-E
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLQQ8GcCrxE
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=begPhY9jLW0
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0M8XI0lm0
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24cUpRVKt2Y
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GozStv5WcCc

http://elysianshadows.com

So it has been 8 long months since any of you have either seen or heard from us on Youtube. Despite popular belief, this is not due to the fact that we have given up on Elysian Shadows or were ceasing development. The truth is that we have been working our asses off for 8 months, rewriting an entire engine, and doing more work in the time period than the entire Adventures in Game Development Series combined.

Elysian Shadows Revolution 1 was our experiment at trying to introduce more than just the software aspect of the game development process to the videos. In episode 2, we try to build on this idea and incorporate the entire development process. At the same time, though, we have made a conscious effort to return to our roots established in the Adventures in Game Development Series. ESRev2 has been in the making for 8 months, and tries to appeal to all audiences. Please watch with an open mind.

The engine has been rebuilt from scratch. It has officially reached the point of functionality that the previous one had and then much more. New features displayed in the video include more powerful Lua scripting possibilities and rigid body dynamics. Hopefully future episodes will be focusing more on game design aspects of programming such as the battle system.

LibGyro--our multiplatform back-end--is effectively complete. Elysian Shadows runs on the PC, Dreamcast, and PSP and will continue to do so until its release. LibGyro offers higher level C/++ engine programmers (Kendall) and Lua scripters (Peter) a complete layer of abstraction from the hardware, so that the Elysian Shadows engine may be developed independent of platform.

Yes, Marcel is back on the team. Due to the fact that he seriously rejoined about a week before this video was produced, he has nothing really to show off. He is going to be designing his own Elysian Shadows "toolkit" that will be demoed in videos to come.

Pritam and Kendall both have been contributing greatly to the artistic area. Pritam has been designing and pixeling our starting area, which is a cave and working on various characters. Kendall has been busy concepting and pixeling enemies.

Cypher--our previous sound composer--has rejoined the team. His talent was truly missed, and we have decided to join forces once again. He has since composed several of his finest tracks to date.

The Elysian Shadows team is looking to recruit new blood. We are particularly interested in the areas of pixel art and web development. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact me (or another team member) on Youtube for the forums.

We would like to sincerely thank everybody much for the continued support and faith in our project even though you haven't seen us for all these long months. We are going to be working harder to ensure that the next video will not take this long. ;)

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[ItsSoFuckingEasy]

Saw each and every one of the revolution videos, really glad you're back in business.

Subscribed

[GyroVorbis]

We humbly appreciate it, bro.

/bows deeply.

[MonkeyMadnessSchool]

Haha, saw myself on youtube!

[GyroVorbis]

Omg, where at? I want to remember meeting you!

[PhysicalMediaGames]

Lol, the guy who voted for linux says so at 2:22. I think I've seen this episode like 3 times and thats the first time I've noticed that.

[DeltaSpartanJizz]

Open your heart, epic choice ;)!

[Mr4NiceOne]

Peter ... is he same dude from JForceGames ????

[Z3r0XoL]

where is peter now?

[adickel9]

damn i was pulling for Linux!

[MoonLightFacade]

@sk8t3rforever Go and do it, man. The Internet is your gateway, though seriously look for a book on Object Oriented Programming (in general) before you really start learning a language. I recommend Java, though if you learn C++ first everything else will be easier from there.

[MoonLightFacade]

@CheesyBerger judging social status from personal interest is pretty lame. Period, mang.

[MoonLightFacade]

Oi, Falco, what happened to Kendell in chapter 17? 

[Logart8]

Nice FF7 music :D

[batchman101]

Great vids. subbed