[tsc-devel] Re: Would you be interested in rejoining our (SMC) project?

Chris Jacobsen | Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:39:12 UTC

> I may join the new forums and perhaps participate a little bit in the community, however I am unsure if I'll be able to contribute much to the project as I am already working as the main artist for a few games with a friend and that will be taking up most of my free time.
That's fine.  Feel free to contribute as you get time or just be involved in discussions if you want.  Any form of contribution is welcome.
> If I do however find myself with plenty of free time this coming year, I hope my recent practice with spriting might satisfy what the TSC project is looking for in both animation ability and also the fact that one of the games I am working on will actually have a similar artstyle to SMC (Which is comically enough pure coincidence, it was simply the style my friend wanted).
The new jewel graphics were made in blender.  There will probably be a place for some more 3D rendered graphics in the new game.  The artwork for the girl you made looks good.  We've been playing with new story themes and new artistic styles to some extent, so a new direction would be good in the game.  Also, download the game and check it out.  You can either build it from source on Linux from the github link I gave earlier, or we will probably be releasing another Windows beta soon.
-Chris (datahead)



 

     On Friday, January 9, 2015 1:21 PM, Jonathan Moss <…4@h…> wrote:
   

 #yiv9208951775 #yiv9208951775 --.yiv9208951775hmmessage P{margin:0px;padding:0px;}#yiv9208951775 body.yiv9208951775hmmessage{font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;}#yiv9208951775 Hey Chris,

It is great seeing the SMC (or should I say TSC) project being worked on again!  I will certainly be watching its development now that I know this and cannot wait to see what you all do with it!

I may join the new forums and perhaps participate a little bit in the community, however I am unsure if I'll be able to contribute much to the project as I am already working as the main artist for a few games with a friend and that will be taking up most of my free time.

If I do however find myself with plenty of free time this coming year, I hope my recent practice with spriting might satisfy what the TSC project is looking for in both animation ability and also the fact that one of the games I am working on will actually have a similar artstyle to SMC (Which is comically enough pure coincidence, it was simply the style my friend wanted).

- Jonathan Moss (Crabmaster), Skype: crabmaster4

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 00:09:11 +0000
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Subject: Would you be interested in rejoining our (SMC) project?

Crab Master,
We have continually been working toward Release 2.0 of Secret Maryo Chronicles.  It will be the first release in five years.  We are getting fairly close to having a tangible release now.
Actually, we are changing the name of the game to "The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M" (also known as T.S.C.). This is in order to remove "Maryo", a clear reference to "Mario". We are likewise swapping out other Mario graphics with new, original graphics.  Bugsbane (helios) has posted a number of new graphics for this, but there are still a number left to change.

Quintus is the project lead, and Luiji is second in command now.  I have been working on a draft for the new story myself.  We have 4/5 programmers, up to 3 musicians, up to 2 artists, and a number of beta testers now.  
Many of the artists have limited time (or sometimes get busy), so if you are able to contribute any artwork again, it could help us keep the project moving quickly.  You had contributed a good number of assets to the SMC game before.  We'd love to see what you might be able to produce for the latest version of the game.
Quintus has posted a new website on a new server and with a new forum at: http://www.secretchronicles.de/en/.  This will give us the admin access we need to manage the site and allow us to directly combat spam bots.
We maintain the issue tracker for features/bugs (along with code and assets at): https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC
Our IRC Channel is #secretchronicles on freenode.netOur mailing list is …l@l…

Thank you,
Chris Jacobsen (datahead)