2015-10-05, 01:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 2015-10-05, 03:12 PM by vongrimmsy0.)
Hello all! 
I've been a lurker here for a little while but just recently registered; and in the past few days, I've been working on an idea that I wanted to run by the KF fan community:
King's Field as a side-scroller, along the lines of Castlevania.
I do pixel art, and was thinking of trying to make a game that would tie together aspects of the whole King's Field series (from the 1st Japanese release, up to The Ancient City), while featuring some things from Shadow Tower, and the Demon/Dark Souls series as well! I think something like this is long overdue, as all of these games essentially share the same universe (in my head, anyways~).
A few things I'd feature:
-A hybrid stamina/power gauge system where you will get fatigued as energy depletes; no wildly slashing with reckless abandon, as it will get you killed
-Dodging and blocking, ala Dark Souls; being on a 2D plane would make mastering these essential
-A level-less, class-less advancement system, much like Shadow Tower's
-Many deadly enemies and traps, pitfalls, and other dangers to keep you dead, often. 
I have more ideas as well, but these are a few to give you guys a peek; I guess what I'm really wondering is, does any of this sound interesting to anyone...? I know a big draw of the King's Field series has been the first-person perspective, and losing that obviously changes the game rather drastically. But I think that the same atmosphere and setting can be achieved, even with simplistic, 2D graphics; and I'm hoping (with the assistance of a good programmer; I kind of have one, but the guy is always busy... -_-) I can be the person to do that. 
In closing (and apologies for such a long first post, hehe), I'll leave you guys with a Headeater animation I made the other day; he's rather tiny at his original size of 32x32 pixels, so I blew him up a bit - hope you guys like it!
![[Image: headeaterlg_by_vongrimm-d9bw95c.gif]](https://orig00.deviantart.net/f5b6/f/2015/277/d/e/headeaterlg_by_vongrimm-d9bw95c.gif)
I've been a lurker here for a little while but just recently registered; and in the past few days, I've been working on an idea that I wanted to run by the KF fan community:King's Field as a side-scroller, along the lines of Castlevania.
I do pixel art, and was thinking of trying to make a game that would tie together aspects of the whole King's Field series (from the 1st Japanese release, up to The Ancient City), while featuring some things from Shadow Tower, and the Demon/Dark Souls series as well! I think something like this is long overdue, as all of these games essentially share the same universe (in my head, anyways~).
A few things I'd feature:
-A hybrid stamina/power gauge system where you will get fatigued as energy depletes; no wildly slashing with reckless abandon, as it will get you killed
-Dodging and blocking, ala Dark Souls; being on a 2D plane would make mastering these essential
-A level-less, class-less advancement system, much like Shadow Tower's
-Many deadly enemies and traps, pitfalls, and other dangers to keep you dead, often.
I have more ideas as well, but these are a few to give you guys a peek; I guess what I'm really wondering is, does any of this sound interesting to anyone...? I know a big draw of the King's Field series has been the first-person perspective, and losing that obviously changes the game rather drastically. But I think that the same atmosphere and setting can be achieved, even with simplistic, 2D graphics; and I'm hoping (with the assistance of a good programmer; I kind of have one, but the guy is always busy... -_-) I can be the person to do that.
In closing (and apologies for such a long first post, hehe), I'll leave you guys with a Headeater animation I made the other day; he's rather tiny at his original size of 32x32 pixels, so I blew him up a bit - hope you guys like it!
*ill-fated is the wind that does not blow a single mind*