first update

Why hello again, here is our first update for project Elemental Madness. ( finally made a decision on the name of the game XD) We have been working very hard on this project, sometimes with great succes and other times with a little less succes. But we are making good progress.
We have had some problems with our graphical designs suddenly disappearing, and never reappearing. Luckily our graphic designer had everything drawn on paper before he started to make the digital copies so nothing is really lost. (except some time)
Here are some examples of what you can expect in our game:

Now some technical stuff: (its boring i know, but we need to discuss this)
First off i will give you the general class structure of our game. At the top of our class structure for the objects is the Gameobject class. In this class we define some member variables which we need to use in all of the subclasses of this Gameobject class. The gameobject class is the superclass of several other classes, the most important class of this is the Spritegameobject class, this class represents all of the object in the game that need to be drawn with a sprite. We also have a class that is a subclass of Spritegameobject, called animatedgameobject which we use to represent all the moving objects, such as the player and the enemies.

The player class is dived in different partial classes, one for the general character  and one for all of the actions it needs to do.
In our game you will be able to choose from a couple of special powers to use, these special powers all have a class of their own, which is a subclass of the main power class.
Also all of the enemies will have their own class that will inherit of the main enemy class.
The player and the enemy class inherit from the animatedgameobject and the powers are a subclass of the spritegameobject.

One of our programmers is working on the improved AI from the megaman game for the enemies. Another one of the team is working on creating different maps for the game. At the same time people are also working on  timmy's superpowers.

In the Next update we hope to have finished an alpha version of the game so we can start with some playtesting and maybe even some testing by the readers of our blog.

introduction of Project elemental madness

Hello to everyone that is willing to read this. We are a couple of students from the university of Utrecht that have founded a gaming studio to be able to make our own games.(maybe we were forced to do this but we would rather not talk about it :D). If you want to know more about our team-members you should check out our amazing team page.

The first project of our studio is to remake the best retro game ever (we think): MegaMan. Our main goal for this project is to take the retro game and remake it with modern technology to make it an even better game. This project is called: Project Elemental Madness (Title for the game is under construction).

Before we can make our own version of it, we needed to take a look at our retro game. For the people that have never played or heard of Mega man, here is a short analysis of the game. MegaMan is a classic platform game in which you need to clear rooms to be able to move on to the next room. After a few rooms you will need to defeat a big boss, which will drop a special power/ability you can use to get as far as possible in the game. Then, when you have cleared all the levels of the game, you need to kill one final boss.

The story of our game is set in an asylum, when you play the game you will get to know the world of our mentally ill patient Timmy that has lost it's favorite horse and can't cope with everything that is happening to him anymore. In the asylum Timmy has developed special powers to help cope with the loss of his horse. The main idea of the game is that it is an endless game, so you can never finish it (Muahahaha). When you start this game you will be sucked into the madness of Timmy and once you get into his head you will NEVER get out alive.