Hello Myckel and thanks for your donation :-) Not many donating atm, hope that will change pretty soon. Game is not playable yet, made that more obvious on the homepage at least. I'm working around the clock on getting this up and running, but it's a lot of work. I really need to get more people involved and get things going even faster. Would probably have had a working prototype by now if I wasn't so JS retarded and the people interested in coding the gameplay wouldn't ask for money or put upfront conditions on using certain 3rd party libraries or game engines that don't really suit the project. I would rather move a bit slower and do things the right way instead of just rushing for a deadline, but I need support for things to happen.

Right now I'm working on the user system which will be all about using OAuth2 stuff (allowing players to register/log-in with various accounts they already have created on other websites, such as facebook/twitter and many others), after that will create a table for matches to be stored. In a few weeks focus will be all on game logic coding.

Thanks again!

Edit: Just a bit of something going on around ;-) http://ancient-beast.deviantart.com/gallery/24087798#/d4yqbuc

I'm not working alone on this project, that would be totally insane. I'm constantly trying to get more people involved, having *at least* 5 active people at a time that are contributing. But still, I'm the main guy and the project won't make itself if I don't put the most time into it.

So if this post gets me a bit more support and hopefully some more items under creative commons license, it was all worth it.

Our Freezing Moon website is getting redone atm, so you'll be able to see some new faces on it pretty soon. It's one of the things on the 'to-do list' before we'll be going for crowd funding.

@Myckel, Thanks a lot! I'll do so, no doubt :)

https://twitter.com/#!/AncientBeast/status/201208799648948224

@Scribe, seen you on IRC but you left by the time I got the chance to poke you. Hopefully you'll drop by #AncientBeast sometime.

The creature you made is already modeled actually, will update first post in order to try to avoid duplicated effort, we have widgets in bestiary that show progress of the specific creature http://ancientbeast.com/bestiary/#8 (link might point to another creature at some time in the future, bare that in mind).

Here's how it looks in 3d

Finished - http://seekerofawe.deviantart.com/art/HornHead-Final-300042857?q=gallery...

WIP 2 - http://seekerofawe.deviantart.com/art/HornHead-WIP2-299893484?q=gallery%...

WIP 1 - http://seekerofawe.deviantart.com/art/HornHead-WIP1-297969313?q=gallery%...

Anyway, regarding licensing, you're kinda doing it wrong :D

License for artwork (etc) is listed here http://ancientbeast.com/#license

What that basically means is that you need to have the 3d model under CC-BY-SA 3.0 and credit Kasia88 (she did make the creature, colored it and even made a nice timelapse with the process on top of that http://youtu.be/KBS03PBHtqQ), the Ancient Beast project (hopefully linking) and then yourself, since you made the model :) So please update!

Anyway, even if the model was already done and yours might not actually make it into the game, thanks for making it, it's always nice to see fan art and different takes on existing stuff!

I hope you'll contribute some other stuff when you'll have the time that will actually make it into the final game :-) Cheers!

Try matching the style of the icons in here http://ancientbeast.com/items/

128x128, PNG, trasparent background, brushed/raster, items must fit within the icon, somewhat colorful palette, some shading when it makes sense. Leather boots, studded club and death's touch bow are a bit unpolished, so don't mind those too much.

You can use gimp/krita/mypaint or whatever.

We can always use feedback or suggestions, but for that you would have to "idle" around our IRC channel, #AncientBeast on Freenode; tut on how to join over here (and even IRC applet)

http://ancientbeast.com/chat

Lame bump :)

Survey time, everyone!

Check out the bestiary and let me know which is your favorite creature.

You can even make a top 3, it's alright :)

http://AncientBeast.com/bestiary

You can comment in disqus (at the end of the page) or on the OGA forum thread.

Well, I tried to hire a part time coder, offering about 300$/month and I received answers like "hell no, I can make that amount in 3 hours of freelancing", so unless I code the gameplay myself as well (will need to learn JS and canvas a bit better), get funding or find a gameplay coder, it might take a while.

In my country people get payed about 250$/month at good full time jobs...

Seems in summer there are fewer contributions overall (art/code/money wise). Still a lot of focus on 2d/3d/animation at this stage. I'm really looking forward for progress on gameplay to be going steady. Will prepare some video presentations soon and even work on "fake" gameplay videos after Dark Priest and some more creatures get finished and animated.

Working on that as well actually; it's displayed right on the homepage.

http://ancientbeast.com/#gameplay

That section will get another important update probably tomorrow, too tired atm. It was a very productive day, thanks Mumu for joining the channel and brainstorming with me; lots of good ideas and feedback.

The homepage stuff is just to give an overall idea. Well, I'm actually making a document like that ,describing an 1vs1 match in full detail, it was requested by several coders so far, but it's really tedious work, taking a lot of time and energy; will be adding mock-ups for each step for it and it will eventually become that "fake" gameplay video. Should probably make it higher priority. Thanks!

Bumping this thread.

The game is now somewhat playable as it had it's 0.1 release a few weeks ago, being one month away from a 0.2 release.

We could use more contributors, especially with coding (javascript/php/myself/css...) or artwork (2d stuff, using open source software recommended). Also, financial contributions would be appreciated, as I would like to commission a really skilled artist to create a wallpaper/poster for the project, under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license ofc.

Oh, it's a dead thread anyway, really old xD

Project isn't really on halt, just moving very slow.

I'm constantly working on it, but yeah, I could be doing way more and way better, no doubt.

Hopefully will get things back on track pretty soon.

Yeah, 2D gameplay (or 2.5D), with 3d prerendered graphics, animation sample here https://AncientBeast.com/viewer - anyway, game might support various graphical styles, so a full 2d set might come at some point, maybe even earlier, as I'm getting more into 2d graphics and even animation for smaller foss game projects using some of the Ancient Beast characters as well, so I'm learning Synfig atm, will see how that goes. The 3d creature set is a bit hard to make overall without a budget, especially considering the animation part, so I'll have to do some huge efforts either animate myself, getting an actual budget or blender volunteers to do it.