Netto Yarooze

2009-06-28T22:19:00.014+02:00

NecroQuest merchandising thread go!
How 2d characters go 3d. (^_^)

The idea is to make all characters from my NecroQuest game. I started with the succubus Tzuko. In the game Tom finds her in his basement in the middle of a summoning pentagram. She waited there a couple of month already. After she saw Tom, she tried everything from seducing him til ordering him to free her. So I gave her kinda angry pose.

I used few modeling putties to make her (mostly FIMO and green stuff) and then cast her in resin. Now everyone can get this figure (and later other characters) from Alionas online store.

As you know, Yarooze games are freeware. By buying this figure, you not only get a figurine to place it on your PC monitor, but also help me making more games. (bla-bla-bla, more propaganda for me...) (^_^)

I'll make more figurines later. If you wish your favorite character will be made next, just drop me a line. I'll try to notice your wishes. But it depends of my free time and of how successful this figure will be.

Click here for more pictures... Beware of nudity! (^_^)

2d Tzuko <-> 3d Tzuko

Tzuko on the NecroQuest Poster

Unpainted Tzuko.

I also made special base for her. (^_^)b

Size comparison. She is about 10 cm high.

"Free me! Right now!" (^_^)

2009-05-06T20:43:00.001+02:00

WWII girls in 1:72

Here is my new figure in 1:72. It had to be something WWII german, but I didn't want to make just another soldier with MP40. It makes simple more fun to sculpt girls. So here it is: Nachrichtenhelferinnen, Oberführerin, service dress.

2009-04-01T00:00:00.011+02:00

Silent Hill 2 for GB Arrives in April!
The port of the PS2 horror-survival hit title is coming...

Hurray for Konami and their long-running horror-survival series! It seems that the second installment in this series, Silent Hill, will be ported to the Game Boy after being a major hit on the PS2. Would believe if I told you that Silent Hill 2 is the reason for me buying the handheld console in the first place? The game ruled, although I have two things to comment upon it: it's way too short and it has too many locked rooms for my liking.

In case you're wondering what's up with the April release date, it was spotted up on Amazon, so we can only believe the site, for now. According to a couple of rumors, Climax, the developing team who worked wonders with the first version of Silent Hill 2, will be taking up the GB version as well. In the meantime, we remind you that Silent Hill V is in the works for the NEC and Tamagotchi, promising to take the horror-survival experience to the next level.

For those of you who didn't even know that there was a PlayStation (One) Silent Hill, this game will surely eat enough hours of your life to become a hobby. It serves as a sequel for the original PSP game and pretty much explains the story of the Silent Hill movie, clarifying all the mysteries. What impressed me the most in Origins, were its graphics, the vast amount of weapons I could use and the quality of the AI.

I admit that it was frustrating to get killed each time I reached a new landmark, but that's life and gaming, so you'd better start training and replaying past SH titles, since this baby's coming to the GB! I'm curios if we'll see other similar ports in the future, not from Konami, but from Capcom, who haven't delivered a GBA Resident Evil title, so far, if I'm not mistaking.

Original article from Softpedia’s editor Alexandru Stanescu. Published without permission.

There is also a video on YouTube that demonstrates some gameplay.

2009-03-14T02:25:00.006+01:00

High elven standard bearer. There are not enough girls in the high elven army. (^_^)

After I assembled some new GW high elves, I still had spare parts. They were not enough to make the whole figure so I had to finish the model with green stuf.
I took the feet, head, dagger from the mage plastic kit, and arms & banner from the general plastic kit. Then I made the wire skeleton and put some green stuff on it. Et voilà!

2008-10-01T00:09:00.003+02:00

Besieged. Or how to get out of a castle...
...without being catapulted.

Together with BaRoN we are making new adventure game...

The King has been besieged for weeks in his castle, and the garrison doesn't have a rat left to eat. In desperation, a plan is hatched to launch a hero over the enemy lines -by catapult! -to try and get help. Of course everybody shirks the task off onto someone lower down the medieval hierarchy, and the buck stops at the lowly Dung Shoveler. Now the Dung Shoveler must break the siege, or be catapulted!

will be finished: November 2008

See the teaser here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3qJXAjPm-g

For more information see Production thread

FEATURES

- AGS game engine
- resolution: 320x240
- length: short game
- theme: medieval adventure
- violence: medieval level
- Low-res nudity: this time very limited.

progress:
animations: 95%
backgrounds: 100%
plot: 100%
puzzles: 95%
music: Funkmast will honestly make the cool medieval music

2008-09-26T00:01:00.011+02:00

My home made MIDIs.

This time, I have no pictures to post. This post is about music.
d('-')b d(-_-)b d('-')b d(-_-)b d('-')b <-- it's me hearing "uts-uts-uts"
I made a couple of tunes in the last years, so I can proudly (or not) present some of them. Here they are:

1. The Basement theme. - this is a part of sound trek from my game NecroQuest. I wanted to make something enigmatic and a bit dark.
2. Hurry! - from the same game.
3. Tribal Drums theme - I made for BaRoN's game "Charlie Foxtrot & The Galaxy of Tomorrow". You can download this brilliant game from his page www.vanwijst.com.
4. Clone Lord Walz. from the same game. This tune isn't really my music, but I found the changes I made amusing. I think they fit to the game. More...

Some words about music making software:

Most of all I use Tabledit. It is very handy if you play guitar. You can use notes, keyboard or tabulature but unfortunately not paino roll. This program is not free but isn't very exspencive. You can download a free demo version to try it. I've got it from my wife on my birthday and I'm happy. (^.^)

I also tried AnvilStudio. This software hase some advantages against TablEdit (for example you can add voice to your music and use piano roll) and it is free but has no tabulature. Just try it, it is good.

If you have money, you can buy FL Studio. It is worth it! If you are not rich - download a demo version and try it. If you like it, try this one: LMMS. ('°,°)

If you like techno, don't want to learn anything about music and like to remix instead of compose, try Magix Music Maker. It is good, simple and not really exspencive.

PS. I'm also looking for a good free hosting service for MIDI or mp3 files. Please let me know, if you found it.

2008-07-12T21:29:00.006+02:00

Necroquest. Part One: The Inheritance.
Beta version is available to download. It is fully functional and playable.

Tom has to success his grandfather’s business, who was a necromancer in Transsyberia. His Grandfather disappears and another evil necromancer attempts to take over his business. Help Tom to fight back the bad guys, get their girls, and become the real necromancer!

NB: This game is for adults! Please check if you are adult, before downloading it. (^_^) More...

You can download NecroQuest from AGS-Game page for free. No charge, really (^_^)
don't "save as.." it, it doesn't work. Use "open in new window" and then download it.

You can discuss NecroQuest in this thread.

FEATURES

- AGS game engine
- 320*240
- My very own lo-res graphic
- many round headed characters
- some lo-res erotic and violence (this game is not for kids. Sorry...)
- some black (but not only) humor
- weird (but hopefully interest) story
- weird fictional world
- some bonus stuff...

2008-02-18T23:16:00.005+01:00

First Necroquest teaser.

I'm pride to present you more Necroquest. Here are some parts from the intro and new screen shoots. Enjoy the teaser: More...

More clips here.

For more information see Production thread

2007-12-26T23:16:00.002+01:00

Pofiger Intro.

Every game needs an intro, and usually it starts with some kind of producer's logo. Here is my mascot - "Cptn. Pofiger". I think he fits good for this task. The idea was, to let him turn something on with the big switch. Then I found this music and made a story board. He is looking for the switch, he walks, and then he turns the switch on.

2007-11-01T22:45:00.000+01:00

Sylvanian knights.

I was thinking about making an imperial army, but allways found them a little bit boring. After I saw the article about Sylvania, I thought: "Why not? I have allready their undead army." I also found some pictures of the imperial knights in the books like "The Empire at war" or "Mark of Chaos. The collected concept art", so I started with the knights.

Here they are! I made five guys using the parts I saw on the pictures. The normal schields are to small, so they've got the chaos warriors shields - two painted and one modelled (for the Champion). I added some bits on the horse barding, like in the book "The empire at war". Last but not least I made the Banner.

2007-08-06T20:20:00.000+02:00

Easy Toon and b/w animation.

What can I say about Easy Toon? It's cool... ;) The program itself isn't very powerfull. But you'll have your fun! Really! Just try it. It is very easy to learn. And it is free... ;)

I found the idea of black and white animations also very interesting (really b/w, not grayscale!) and tryed to make some. (this one made with GraphicsGale)

Here are some links about: b/w animation and EasyToon:

The EasyToon place
EasyToon (japan)
Some great animations (french)

2007-06-24T11:10:00.000+02:00

More Necroquest.

I'm still working on my adventure game "Necroquest". I allready have two music themes (of eight?) and more backgrounds.

I also made a short demo video, so you can see the animations and hear the music:

2007-02-10T20:53:00.002+01:00

Necroquest. Part One: The Inheritance.

Another adventure game from me... ;)

Tom (boy 17 y.o.) has to success his grandfather’s business, who was a necromancer in Transsyberia (my very own weird founded land). His Grandfather is dead now and another evil necromancer attempts to take over his business. Help Tom to fight back the bad guys, get their girls and become the real necromancer!

Part one will be rather short game (about 7 screens). May be I'll make more parts later...

Development Status (09 april 2007):

Story: 80%
Backgrounds: 85%
Characters: 41%
Puzzles: 35%
Sound: 0%
Music: 10%

The game will be finished: (I hope) summer 2007.

For more information see Production thread

FEATURES

- AGS game engine
- 320*240
- My very own lo-res graphic
- many round headed characters
- some lo-res erotic and violence (this game is not for kids. Sorry...)
- some black (but not only) humor
- weird (but hopefully interest) story
- weird world
- some bonus stuff...

2006-11-21T22:28:00.000+01:00

More "The White Company" pixel art

Here are some characters, that I allready made for the game. At first - Robin. (Press his picture to see more) He will be the first player character in the game, so I made the 4 views and the walking animation for him allready. So I have enough views for a demo game. Now I have to make more highlander willagers...

Nifirtist. I do not really need her sprite right now, but I just wanted to make something girly. I am working on the chapter 1 right now and you can see her first time in the Chapter 4 , when she uses some magic against the enemies. I think, I shall animate her later... ^.^

And of course Sir Nigel. I have a great task for him at the end of the charter one and he needs a lot of animations, 'course he has to fight the monster...

That's all at first. I hope, you like them... ^_^

2006-09-25T19:54:00.000+02:00

Concept art for the White Company

I am still thinking about our "The White Company" project. I mean the game and the animations. I've allready showed some in-game graphics in my previous post. I don't know, if I whant all my TWC-animations to be pixelart. I like pixelart! It is cool. But it is hard work, with little fun. Sketches make more fun. I'll show some of my Pixelart highlander later. This post is not about them.

Here are some Pofiger-style highlanders. May be I use them for intros only. But it is still possible to make the whole game with them... ^.^ So I can make more funny animations in the game or may be some short films. I can even draw without my computer. O_O

2006-09-03T21:07:00.000+02:00

My very first green...

I'm afraid it is impossible to find my very first figures, that I made as child. That were some 50mm roman legionaries. I made them of plastelin, molded with gypsum and cast them 1-3 times (after that the mold was usually broken). But I can show my first green. The first figure I made with green stuff. :) Here is she - Helga the thief (painted by Elhena). We played an adventure on the BLIN and I wanted to make all members of our adventure party. I managed to make her and two more figures. I even casted some of them and sold couple of Helgas. I had much to learn, so I made more Figures... :)

2006-08-09T09:52:00.000+02:00

Artoonix

A couple of months ago I found Artoonix. This software is in the development now and costs only $20. (It is shareware without time limit, so you can try it as long as you wish, before you buy it) I think, it is possible to buy it now, and then wait until it will be powerful like Toonz or Animo...

I've tested Artoonix, it is really simple to learn. There are some tutorials on the artoonix page, so you need about 30 minutes to learn, how to animate with artoonix. After I tried the "Pony Tutorial", I made this two sketches (the coloured one first).

2006-07-24T13:05:00.000+02:00

More Animations.

Just some rough sketches.

1. The fighting knight. This one is from "The White Company". There are many battle scenes in this adventure and I need fighting knights, highlanders and monsters. I'll show them later. Ok, this is only an animated skeleton. At first I make his movement and then I can draw and colour him.

2. Pofiger's soldier kung-fu. Ku-i-i-i-a! It is not enough to make him shooting his gun. He also needs some running and jumping. May be even some swordplay...

2006-07-19T19:28:00.000+02:00

Computer Games

There was a time, we hadn't any computer games at all. 8-o There were some gaming machines in the toy stores and cinemas. Just drop a coin and you can shoot some ducks or sink some ships. Usually without computer graphics - mechanic only. About 1987 I've played my first real computer game. It was Digger. I played it on an computer exhibition on some kind of IBM PC-XT. Nothing spectacular but even now I remember: arrow keys to move, F1 - to shoot. :)
Since I hadn't any computer at home, I couldn't try to make my own games. But I've got my calculator! It had the possibility to make 105 steps long programs, but no graphic screen. The screen looks so: [88888888,88] and if you make a game, you have to imagine your graphics, since you've get only the numbers, or make something like that: [-3-1-,-8,__]. 3 is the enemy, 1 is the door and 8 is the hero. Cool, doesn't it... :)
After that I had my ZX-Spectrum. It was cool! Thank you Sir Clive Sinclair! Together with my friends I made some games. For example "Monopoly". The games were sometimes lame, but we had our fun. :) We were also making RPG game about the Wizard of Oz. The picture right is not a screenshot but it was something like that. If I'll find our sketches, I'll show more later.
Then comes PC. I don't know why but our group didn't even start to make a game for PC. We had some ideas, we made some sketches, we spoke about making a game but we didn't make any. Instead of this we were making our own Pen&Paper RPG and tabletop wargames. But now, more than than ten years later, we are started to make a game. It is a mix of RPG and adventure game. We are using AGS engine, so it will be 2d graphic. The theme is "The White Company". I'll tell more about it later... :)

2006-07-15T20:22:00.000+02:00

Animations...

It is strange, but I can't upload animated GIFs as usual. This Blog makes *.PNGs of them. ( --)//~
I have nothing against PNG format, but it seems, that nobody knows how to make them animated. <^_^; I have to post my images on imageshark. Ok. Let's post. Here are two short animations. Just two rough sketches I made.

1. One of the Cpt. Pofiger's soldiers. We wanted to make an animated film about them in 1992. We had an old 2x8mm camera (colour but no sound), because using video was not cool. Since we have a LOT of pictures, there is no film till now. But may be I'll make something later.

2. I think, I saw to many samurai films (films and animes) last time. I also saw "Yojimbo". (((o(^Â¡^")o))) Finally! It is simple genius! Now I'm looking for "Hidden fortress". Last time I saw this film, there were no translation at all! It's pity but: w(^o^)W ooÂWatashi Nihongo Hanase mase--n. I mean, it must be translated. So I wanted to make some Samurai fight. Here are some frames from the starting sequence. May be I'll make more later.

2006-07-14T20:04:00.000+02:00

Some old stuff (miniatures)...

Some figures I made. I always wanted to show them. ;)

1. The monk (15mm). He is already 3 years old. Made by me (I used FIMO), painted by Elhena. May be he isn't perfect by I like him. He is cute. :)

2. I made this pirate woman after the monk. I just wanted to make some really small figures. (She is 15mm to.) There is no ruler on the picture but you can trust me.

3. This one is bigger (28mm). I wanted to make a character for roleplay game we played. I used Green Stuff to make him and I even painted him by myself (ok, I'm not so good like Elhena).

4. The death knight (28mm). I'm really proud of this one. May be he isn't the best figure I made, but he has something... I used Milliput and Green Stuff and casted him in tin, so I have more than one copy. I painted him with NMM (I didn't use any metallic paints on him).

5. The naked female wypr rider (28mm). I don't know, who she is. I just wanted to make a rider for Wypr. There were already some knights or barbarians, so I wanted to make something special. I used FIMO.

6. This knight is about 1 y.o. I used Green Stuff. Since he is a little bit bigger than I needed (30mm), I didn't make any copies. Instead that, I painted the green using NMM.

NY

2006-07-14T17:28:00.000+02:00

Let's Blog!

Everybody has a blog. I don't know if I need one to, but I'll try to make it...

NY