ELLENICA: DUSK OF THE GODS - New Ultima-style RPG in development

[McValdemar]

Hi everyone,
just wanted to make public that I am actively porting/developing an Ultima-style RPG for MegaDrive.
It is based on an RPG I have been developing for 4 years on PC but didn't manage to finish as ideas were flying higher than the time I could spend into development.
Recently I started working with SGDK and I am amazed by the way you can easily progress from zero.
It will take time as I have to adapt everything. Graphics were supposed to run at quite a different size/resolution/color so I am playing around a more cartoonish approach, gameplay needs to be heavily revised/trimmed and adapted to a pad, world must be sized down massively, yet, the result should be quite different from the usual MegaDrive titles around.

I will try to post updates every month and half/two months and, possibly, after summer, I will be able to state a realistic deadline.

If I will be satisfied with it, for sure I will try to run a small production of physical copies with proper manual, cloth map, etc... like those kind of games deserve.

Cheers!

[Black_Tiger]

Looks cool. I love the look of the overworld.

[LinkueiBR]

Beautiful project.
Keep it up!

[Scrobins09]

This looks gorgeous! I’d absolutely buy a physical copy when it’s available!

[EPSYLON EAGLE]

I really love greek mythology themed games! Good luck in your development journey!

[ComradeOj]

Very cool, please keep us posted with updates!

[NeoVamp]

That looks amazing, keep up the good work!

What do you mean by downsizing the world though? does the MD have a certain limit to how big a map can be?

[roce]

That font on that bg is barely readable on these emulator shots; it will be completely unreadable on a real TV.

[McValdemar]

First if all thanks alot for the comments, as you can imagine this gives alot of energy to keep the project running

About the question from NeoVamp. As I said the original project sinked under the ambition (and the time a single person has) but consider that the world was shaped on satellite maps of Crete and archeological maps of towns from 1500bc. It was aiming for a maniac detail I can’t keep. So the world will shrink from almost 2.000.000 tiles to roughly 4000 loaded on the fly to keep variety. And I need to move probably from Crete to Delos as setting.
Another challenge will be animation frames, and lots of text.
I swear, I will keep the forum up to date.

[McValdemar]

Hi Roce, I know, I know. It is a bit too big and/or I need to improve the contrast of the font. For sure I will take care but not a priority as is just opening screens. If you see the in-game font is way more readable as I opted for a 5x5 over darker background that gives much more clarity.

[crazyteknohed]

Looks fantastic. I hope you manage to find support from the community as it looks like a very ambitious project for a lone developer.

I am very interested in this, moreso than any upcoming MegaDrive game currently in development.

[BigEvilCorporation]

Very very very very interested in this!

[McValdemar]

Very very very very interested in this!

I am more interested in your Bio Evil ;o)
A patreon of yours

[Raistlin]

I am more interested in your Bio Evil ;o)
A patreon of yours

You confuse the great PSCD guys with the great BigEvilCorporation guys. But as both teams are awesome it may happen to confuse both.

But I am here to tell you that your project looks fantastic as well and I sure want to buy a copy when its finished.
Keep up the great work.

[McValdemar]

You confuse the great PSCD guys with the great BigEvilCorporation guys. But as both teams are awesome it may happen to confuse both.

But I am here to tell you that your project looks fantastic as well and I sure want to buy a copy when its finished.
Keep up the great work.

Man, you are right!
Shame on me! :/