Thursday, 10 July 2008

Hmm... where did the BLProductions Wonderland go?

Okay, I find having 3 blogs is a bit mafan. So I just scrapped it away. Now, I can spend more time hanging out in my own blog and 3D blog. Oh, yeah. I just remembered something...

Remember the game I was talking about? Mr Ball? Now, I recorded a video on the game that started all that.



That is BeeCatzArena. Now, I've got to be honest. Originally, that is not my game. The owner of the original game is Gogs Productions. I just modded it for fun. My cousin and I had a lot of fun modifying the game, but we didn't release the game because we've stolen a lot of stuff, namely, the graphics. Like the sprite of the cat (the player), it's not drawn by me. So, that's why, it'll never be released into the wild. It's just for entertainment purposes for me only.

Now, how can that inspire me to start making a 3D game? A lot of things were incorporated into Mr Ball, for example, the spears, the ice stalagmite, the diamond, the water gun and lots more. I had a lot of fun making Mr Ball Arena.

Okay now, let's talk about how the secret battle ever came to be. A lot of RPGs I played have those optional boss battles that you can win to get cool things for your characters. That is what made me place an optional boss battle in the game that you can only access if you have the password, which you can get after defeating the final boss. The fun thing about creating an insanely hard secret boss is that you don't need to take the "balance of power" into consideration. I mean, in a normal battle, I must make the battles possible to win, but not so simple. So, the boss' power must not be so good, and the attacks must not be so lethal.

But, the insane version of the secret battle is not meant to be won. Why? Come on, all games must have at least a way to win, right? Err... I guess, but the insane secret boss is merely just for fun. It's just to test how good you are in the game, and how long you could survive. So, since it is not meant to be won, I can go nuts with the boss's attacks and also it's AI. If you've watched the video I posted, somewhere halfway through the video (I think) shows the recently added desperation attack. No, not the one with the evil laugh, it's the one when the diamond go floats up in the air, then recites an incantation and then all the spears come flying out from nowhere. Now, that really highlights my true mean-ness in creating harsh attacks. But, that isn't really my limit yet. I can go further in designing deadlier attacks.

Okay, 1 more thing. About the voices. In this video, you can't hear many voices. The only 3 man-made voices in this game are the evil laughter, sort of a"taunting" speech and err... some kind of an incantation. Would you believe that I made the evil laughter? .... Haha, joking only. But, the latter two voices are actually my voice. "But Bee Lee, they don't sound like your voice!!" Yeah, I know. That's where technology comes into play. I altered my voice because I'm no good voice actor, and my voice's a bit odd in the microphone, so, I changed my voice and added a little reverberation!! Lol. What did I say actually? Yeah, it's a bit fuzzy, but this is what I said:

"Know what true power is!"

"Oh lord of darkness, give me your power and bring my enemies to their destined annihilation!"

Yeah, that's it. Hope you liked it. I'll post more videos of this game soon. So, I hope you liked it.

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