Also, I'm looking for people that can do sprites. I'm pretty good at graphic design but I'm probably in over my head a little with this. Any help is appreciated
Here's the general idea:
Title
Camilla's Adventure
Characters
Camilla - a girl who lives in the town of Eshaire. When the game starts she is simply working at the general store as the cashier.
Laurena - an evil (or is she? =P ) sorceress that is slowly but surely taking over all of Elandra Province. She aims to rule the world.
Arlene - a girl from the village Irma (north-northwest of Eshaire) who is captured by monsters and thrown into a dungeon.
Franchesca - another girl that's been captured by Laurena.
... there will certainly be more than this, but I can't ruin all of it for you =P
Intro
It was supposed to be a day like any other. Camilla's closing down shop at 8pm, as usual. Suddenly a wave of darkness covers the land, seamlessly propagating straight through walls and people. Camilla runs outside, and the sight is terrifying. The whole town is in uproar, with people running aimlessly about and screaming. Monsters have appeared out of nowhere, and are coming out of buildings everywhere. A giant minotaur suddenly approaches Camilla, and before she could even scream a sharp blow to the head makes the world go dark. As she comes to, Camilla finds herself in a dimly lit dungeon, chained with another girl to a huge wooden stake in the middle of the room. "Hi my name is Arlene, what's yours?" .....
Storyline (a.k.a., what happened)
Laurena has recently acquired an item called the Amulet of Venus. With it, she cast a planar effect that turned all men into monsters under her control. It's important (for later) to note the not all men were affected. The effect was planar, meaning that only those roughly at ground level were affected. 17 men survived by being either underground, in the sky, or simply very very very far away. Laurena's power is not yet complete, however, as the next important magical item, the Amulet of Mars, is required to finish the spell and turn all women into monsters. This would understandably be very bad and should probably be avoided at all costs, so there's your mission after you get out of the dungeon. If you get out, that is.
As it turns out getting out of the dungeon will be quite difficult, seeing as all exits are blocked, save one. The only exit is through the sewers at the bottom, but the sewer drains outside, where it is blocked by a giant iron grate. That questionable looking potion in the corner? It's quite possibly the only way you'll be able to shrink down that small to slip through. Your choice---shrink yourself and escape to the world outside or stay, get re-captured, and fed to a hungry, playful succubus above. (I know it's a tough one.)
Gameplay
The gameplay will be pseudo-overhead, Diablo-style. This means that all combat and magical attack resolve immediately. If you manage to dodge a fireball, good for you. If not, then well better luck next time. There'll be none of that turn-based RPG tomfoolery. This is done intentionally to make fights between multiple characters more realistic. If you're up against three people you face a severe disadvantage as there will simply not be enough time and concentration to fight all three.
Vore
There will be plenty of vore, but it will fit where and how it naturally fits. Not every character will eat you or want to eat you, but those that will will make the experience worthwhile, trust me =D Vore styles included will be: soft oral, maybe some hard, digestion, full tour (fatal and non), f/f, m/f (if requested), and especially monster/f, since it fits the storyline excellently.
Technical (Yes, read the text, and be rewarded with a picture)
I'm in the process of quickly assembling an engine for the game, mostly in C#. There's some speed issues that I'm working out by linking with C++ assemblies that optimize the code. So far I've gotten fonts and sprite sheets drawing correctly. Sprite sheets are grouped into larger sprite sets, each set containing a color sheet, a collision sheet, and a bump map sheet. The bump map sheets are fed through a homemade utility to turn them into normal maps, which are then applied when calculating per-pixel lighting. I know it sounds terribly complicated and futile, but the results are promising:
The normal mapping makes the lighting appear "realistic" by factoring in the dot product between the angle of light and the normal vector to the surface at each pixel. Unfortunately it takes A BLOODY LONG TIME to render a frame. With C#'s array bounds checking and other abominable foolishness this 800x600 window runs at a blazing 7 frames per second. I'm pushing the lighting function into C++ code to hopefully speed this up, and am considering storing precomputed dot products at each pixel. It amazes me that memory access is apparently now worth more than multiplication, and floating point operations are faster than integer arithmetic, but that's what my test runs show. If the normal mapping speeds up sufficiently I'm considering adding bloom. Yes, bloom. You heard me.
)... Have you got any estimations what the playtime might be in the end?
