The Official Project Y Thread

[Rapha.7]

Have you guys heard about a new role playing beat 'em up game to be released this year for the Mega Drive? No?

So WaterMelon happily presents to you all: Project Y.

For more information, visit WM's Magical Game Factory official page. And also their boards.

Here are some leaked w.i.p. images:







That's a post from Luis Martins, the artist behind this project:

Hi all,
here is a new picture release of the progress of how I created our pixel art characters.

You can see the Evolution and also how big our sprites are compared to SOR ones and also how big is one of our main characters in our game ( HUGE sprite size ).

Until next time.

Let the discussions begin!

[Don Vecta]

I still don't get what's the comparation with the big sized shadow of Rugal at the end of the character concept.

[Mr.Din]

I still don't get what's the comparation with the big sized shadow of Rugal at the end of the character concept.

It's to show the size of their sprite style, something that didn't seem possible for a genesis styled beat 'em up.

Fully invested in this project, I'm always down for another beat em up, especially one on the Genesis/MegaDrive.   

[BigDarsh]

Impressive graphic, I hope the gameplay will follow.   

[Mr.Din]

Impressive graphic, I hope the gameplay will follow.   

I'm looking forward to this myself. The team is a fan of SoR and Golden Axe series, hopefully that transfers into this game.

[Charco]

Yes I've seen this a while back, the graphics look very detailed and the sprites are really big. Groovemaster303 is working on the music  

[Don Vecta]

Well, if they need a designer for backgrounds and some enemy sprites... I could provide...

[iceweb38]

Looks neat, can't wait to see it in motion!

Well, if they need a designer for backgrounds and some enemy sprites... I could provide...

Oops, completely forgot you were able to draw sprites/scenes and didn't quote you in my facebook post ^^'

[Don Vecta]

Looks neat, can't wait to see it in motion!

Well, if they need a designer for backgrounds and some enemy sprites... I could provide...

Oops, completely forgot you were able to draw sprites/scenes and didn't quote you in my facebook post ^^'

I have lots of scenes done that probly would never see the light in a SORmaker mod, guess in another project could look better.

[Rapha.7]

Well, if they need a designer for backgrounds and some enemy sprites... I could provide...

Hm... So maybe you should see this: http://magicalgamefactory.com/en/blogs/?rdirectlink=16.

[Charco]

Not sure if there are colour restrictions etc. with this running on actual hardware.

[Rapha.7]

As far as I know, there actually are colour restrictions. But they know some tricks to make the Genesis show a lot more colours than what was known to be possible back then.

[klares]

I have tried to contact them but did not answer me , the truth is that I would like to enter into the project , I have experience doing sprites for characters of Sor 2 and 3.

[Mr.Din]

I approached Christuserloeser about spriting for the project, he seemed impressed by my work. Still waiting a reply back from him as well, they all seem ridiculously busy however.

[Groovemaster303]

We have a music sampler for Project Y!.

The entire OST was composed by myself and Trevin Hughes (Jredd) and features around 50 tracks with a real mixture of styles.

Project Y Sampler

[iceweb38]

If you made this with the limitations of the Megadrive, hats off seriously!   
I so want to hear the one from 00:46 to 1:00 in full!!

[Groovemaster303]

If you made this with the limitations of the Megadrive, hats off seriously!   
I so want to hear the one from 00:46 to 1:00 in full!!

Thanks man. When the game releases, this is exactly what the music will sound like in game on the Megadrive. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about specifics just yet but given the tools available we are making the most of them.  

[Don Vecta]

This sampler rules in all ways possible!

[Charco]

Yeah, this is great stuff. I had hit the like button within about 2 minutes of you posting it on Facebook!

[badjab326]

Awesome sampler, definitely looking forward to hearing those tracks in-game  

[Mr.Din]

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
  

I cannot wait for this, excellent pieces!

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