It's Zesty's, Design 'A Nyght's Tale' Round 2!, CONTEST CLOSED! WINNER ANNOUNCED SOON! Options

[zestygrapefruit]

Hello all!

The 'Design a Nyght's Tale' contest has offically ended! Ive had some great designs and im really excited to get stuck in and produce some art of them.
All the monsters entered will feature in the game, and each particapant will get some art of their monster.
The winners [2] will get their monster featured as a boss [on of 6 main bosses] and full colour illustrations!

Thank you to all that entered! It was great so see the different designs!

Expect news soon, if your the winner, and a little art if your not.

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[Show/Hide] What am I looking for?

This time I want 2 Bosses. Any Boss.. a big boss, a small boss, a chocolate covered boss... ANY BOSS!
Creating 6 funky and original bosses for the game is a tall task and I need some help. The winning bosses will feature in the game and have its own story woven into the dreamworld it is set in.
Im leaving it very open, to encourage lots of unique ideas.
As with before, each boss design will be made into a sketch by me which will be yours to keep. The winning one will be fleshed out in a full colour illustration and also a black and single colour silhouette [to fit with the games style]
[All bosses created specially for this contest will feature in the game as normal enemies if the creator so wishes

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The Dreamworlds...
With the dreamworlds, they're centered around 5 main elements [fire, earth, air, water, ice/dark], so u make a boss and Ill add it into the dreamworld that is most appropraite [if ya get my meaning].
Ie, you create a Flying boss so that would obvisouly go in the air based dreamworld. The stories for each world are briefly fleshed out and the bosses can be 'slotted' in when created.
Oh and dont constrain your ideas to the element's ive given. [Ie, a forst based boss could easily go in the earth world etc..]
[PLEASE NOTE-The game has changed alot since I last updated its thread, dont base your ideas too much on the old game thread please, I would love really open and unique ideas!]

EXAMPLE BOSS-
Name- Umber Wendigo
Brief Description- Large hairy ogre like creature. Mistakes Nyght for trying to hurt it�€™s baby. Can get enraged and increases own attack power
Size[eg. Small/Big/COLOSSAL]- COLOSSAL
Elements[Most common elements feature in the game]- Normal [Fire when Enraged]
Main colours- Light Brown
Main attack- Club Bash
Secondary attack- Flamethrower
Weapon[if applicable]- Giant Stone club

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Name-
Brief Description-
Size[eg. Small/Big/COLOSSAL]-
Elements[Most common elements feature in the game]-
Main colours-
Main attack-
Secondary attack-
Weapon[if applicable]-

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amaro57-
Piscies

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Poisonousjoy [Deviantart]-
Hellsbaine

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Aerronog
[Awaiting sketch]

Moreeni [Deviantart]-
He did some wonderful drawings of his two designs!
Wind Demon

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Klaus

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DEADLINE- LATE JULY/AUGUST [date will depend on amount of entries]
So.. Bring on the Bosses.... please! =D

~Zesty

This post has been edited by zestygrapefruit: Jul 28 2011, 03:04 AM

[Harryb412]

Ack! Why didn't I notice this sooner!?
THIS TOPIC NEEDS SOME SERIOUS ATTENTION GUYS.
Anyways, I will be coming up with something for this. TIME TO WORK MY MAGIC.

EDIT:
What are the current dreamworlds/do we make a dreamworld up for this boss?

This post has been edited by Harryb412: Jun 23 2011, 02:01 PM

[zestygrapefruit]

Ack! Why didn't I notice this sooner!?
THIS TOPIC NEEDS SOME SERIOUS ATTENTION GUYS.
Anyways, I will be coming up with something for this. TIME TO WORK MY MAGIC.

EDIT:
What are the current dreamworlds/do we make a dreamworld up for this boss?

I can always rely on Harryb =D hehe
Thankies for the reply!

With the dreamworlds, they're centered around 5 main elements [fire, earth, air, water, ice/dark], so u make a boss and Ill add it into the dreamworld that is most appropraite [if ya get my meaning].
Ie, you create a Flying boss so that would obvisouly go in the air based dreamworld. The stories for each world are briefly fleshed out and the bosses can be 'slotted' in when created.
Oh and dont constrain your ideas to the element's ive given. [Ie, a forst based boss could easily go in the earth world etc..]

Ill pop this in the first post the clear it up for other peeps. =D
Thankies, i look forward to your ideas!

[amaro57]

How does this game's combat work? So I can know what kind of bosses to suggest.

[zestygrapefruit]

How does this game's combat work? So I can know what kind of bosses to suggest.

Good question. It uses a standard side view battle system [yanfly's updated one], and the main idea behind the game is to equip seals that give certain elemental skills during battle, so exploiting the bosses elements are vital.
Theres alot of freedom in terms of mixing up the standar battle, with quick time events and other things possible. Go ahead and give me any ideas and well see if they can work! =D

Does that help?
~Zesty

[amaro57]

Well, here's a variant of one of my ideas:

I'd suggest you read the description at the bottom first.

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Pisces

[Show/Hide] Brief Description-

Two Angler Fish. Since they're NightGhasts, their fins and tails are covered with a flow of nightmares (darkness -3). Their lures have globes attached at the end.

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Big

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Water/Dark or Nightmare

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Red, Blue, Indigo, Purple, Grey, and Black for both fish.

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I didn't decide if the attacks affect the whole party, several, or only one member.

When only globe is emerged:
1- Flail: The angler fish flails the party with its globe. Physical attack, neutral.
2- Wave: The angler fish thrusts its globe in the water producing a wave that attacks the party. Physical attack, water.
3- Flash: The angler fish flashes its globe with a bright light in succession. Status inflicting. (Possibly blind or such.)
4- Water Slice: The angler fish creates a water blade that attack the party. Magical attack, water.
5- Dark Energy: The angler fish creates a wave of dark power that attacks the party. Magical attack, dark or nightmare.

When provoked:
1- Bite: The angler fish uses its jaws to attack the party. Physical attack, neutral/dark. (This means that the dark is only effective if the member(s) of the party hurt are weak to it. If a member or members is/are resilient to dark, it is not taken into affect and changes to neutral.)
2- Tidal Wave: The angler fish jumps and slams back down into the lake creating a huge wave that attacks the party. Physical attack, water.
3- Flash: The angler fish flashes its globe with a bright light in succession. Status inflicting. (Possibly blind or weakens damage dealt, or such)
4- Water Lock: The angler fish produces a orb of water and traps a party member or members within. The member(s) contained receive damage each turn and may only use magical attacks, which deal less damage. Magical attack, water.
5- Water Blade: The angler fish creates a water blade that attack the party. Magical attack, water. More damage than Water Slice.
6- Trap Lunge: The angler fish submerges and globes appear at every waterfall. After a set number of turns, the angler fish lunges from a waterfall and attacks the party. Physical attack, neutral/dark.

I prefer 5 attacks and a signature move, but here's another:

5- Dark Sonar: The angler fish creates a wave of dark power that attacks the party. Magical attack, dark or nightmare. May inflict a status alignment. More damage than Dark Energy.

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You could include the "Flash" attack mentioned in the main attacks but I wasn't sure where to put it.

1- Globe Shift: The angler fish changes the color of it's globe from red to blue or vise-versa. Later on, it changes the colors depending on an element and tints it red or blue.
2- Globe Extinguish: The angler fish forces its globe to stop glowing, but in return it's damage dealt is increased.

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Jaw. (Teeth, fangs, whatever you decide.)

[Show/Hide] Description-

This battle starts around a deep lake with several waterfalls falling into it (Maybe 4, more or less, read on to see why). You could use some sort of symbolism that the waterfalls feeding the lake are dreams or part of the fear. Pisces is dormant deep in the lake feeding on the dreams and turning them into fears, or just feeding on fears.

At first, only two globes emerging from the water glowing differently. A red glow means that the respective globe can be damaged by Physical attacks. Magical attacks will damage it, but they'll be weak. A blue glow means that the respective globe can be damaged by Magical attacks. Physical attacks will damage it, but they'll be weak. The two globes may alternate between red and blue during the battle. At this stage, with only the globes emerged from the lake, they fish will only use simple Physical and Magical attacks. The difference is one fish is more resilient to Physical attacks, regardless of globe color, while the other is more resilient to Magical attacks.

The Damage when attacking the globes won't affect the actual NightGhast, when enough damage is done to a globe, the respective angler fish provoked emerges. The globes of the fish will still be glowing, but when a fish is provoked to emerge the globe of the fish will sometimes stop glowing. When this happens, the angler fish who's globe stopped glowing will normally receive both Magical and Physical damage without penalties such as when a globe glows.

When provoked, they attack with various Magical and Physical attacks outlined in the above form. When a fish is provoked, it will sometimes use the attack "Trap Lure". This is the bosses signature attack. The provoked fish will submerge and several globes will emerge from around all the waterfalls. These globes will be glowing either red or blue. The trick here is that one of the globes is the "right" one, a certain amount of damage must be dealt to the "right" globe. After a set number of turns after the attack is begun and the player has failed to damage the right globe enough, (I have no idea if the enemies are animated so I'll just throw this in) the angler fish will lunge out from a waterfall and severely damage the party. (Or...you could choose a certain number of members or just one.) The angler fish will use this attack more when their in critical state, when their HP lowers below a certain amount. Resilience to the opposite attack type is increased, and Physical damage of the fish is increased.

After one fish is killed, the remaining fish will submerge into the lake and fully heal. (Yes, I'm sorry.) After it emerges, it will repeat the above cycle, but this time the globe will glow different colors to indicate different elements, but the catch is that the globe will also glow with a tint of red or blue. For example, if the globe is now glowing brown with a tint of blue, it's damaged by earth elemental Magical attacks. When provoked, the fish stays in critical state and the new globe rule from above is applied.

[zestygrapefruit]

Wow, amaro57 that is very detailed and an extremely good concept.
I love the idea of having the two angler fish and the changing globes and their resistances etc. The idea of the waterfalls and fins being made of dreams/fears etc is perfect!
Some of it may be a little difficult to do with a standard rpg style battle system, but im sure it could be done with playable sequences in between. Ie, go out of the battle screen and go back to normal adventuring to seek out the correct globe and deal with it. In fact this would work very well [adventuring is done as a platformer and Nyght can shoot some elements to kills them.. Perfect for shooting globes?]

Fantastic Idea, Ill get you a sketch of the designs asap.
[Please note that the game has a very stylized art style, so the design may look alittle different to how you hoped, you will get a full colour illustration if u win though, but it wont look exactly like it does in the game =D]

Thank you, its given me lots to think about, and fits in the water dreamworld nicely =D
~Zesty

[amaro57]

Thanks. Your style is lovely and original as it is, I wouldn't expect anything else.

I do draw also though, I could sketch some concepts of the battle if you'd like.'

As for the shooting idea, it sounds good. It's your game overall so use my idea as you see fit.

This post has been edited by amaro57: Jun 24 2011, 11:42 AM

[zestygrapefruit]

Thanks. Your style is lovely and original as it is, I wouldn't expect anything else.

I do draw also though, I could sketch some concepts of the battle if you'd like.'

As for the shooting idea, it sounds good. It's your game overall so use my idea as you see fit.

Id love to see a sketch, would help me out alot! =D
And thank you! =D

[zestygrapefruit]

Ive cleaned up the first post [put things into spoilers to make it a little clearer]
And there are a few changes...

Im now looking for 2 bosses...
All entires will make it into the final game as normal enemies [If the creator wants it too]
Deadline is Late July/August

I would love lots more entires please!

[zestygrapefruit]

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES INTO THE CONTEST!

Boss designs wanted for the game, Deadline will be VERY SOON as I hopefully begin major development on the game very soon.
ILL END THE CONTEST IN ABOUT A WEEK!

=D

[zestygrapefruit]

CONTEST ENDED...
WINNERS ANNOUNCED SOON

[Harryb412]

So sorry I didn't manage to get an entry in D:
Been pretty busy with life and stuff ;_;

[amaro57]

Oi, I also apologize about the colored concept, I really did complete it but it slipped my mind to scan it. Would you still like to obtain it?

[zestygrapefruit]

So sorry I didn't manage to get an entry in D:
Been pretty busy with life and stuff ;_;

Thats alright, im sorry I had to close it so soon too.
Life is more important though =D

And amaro57, no worries, but if u do want to scan in etc, then go ahead! it will help! =D