Hey all,

If you remember or heard of my Knytt Stories project called "The Morbid Mill" -- it was a college project my friends Ian and Thomas were assisting me in. The project was voted best in the class and the teacher, Danial Young, wanted me to put together a video to be looped in their lobby's TVs along with other student works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4sXpKweHY8

I wanted to share the video with you all as well, perhaps get some feedback. Please be professional and respectful

This is my first knytt Stories project, so you'll notice all the art and tilesets are custom, we focused on the gameplay first and ran out of time, but it came out well regardless

A download link for the game will be provided at a later date if anyone is interested
The game is catagorized as "Hard/Very Hard, Challenge"
The video does NOT show the story or cutscenes we added in, just the gameplay for show
All the music and most of the backgrounds are custom, the tilesets are the only things I left default -- other than the boat that EgoMassive graciously let me use

Please also note the video itself is not finished, but will be at a later date
Thank you!

Hey everyone,

This is a project I've been working on with my team mates Ian and Thomas at the International Academy of Design and Technology.

A mysterious factory shuts down somewhere in the forbidden forest outside the village of Morbid. The parents did not tell their children why and the Elders pretended not to know, but Juni a young and curious girl, sneaks out of her parent's house in the dead of the night to discover for herself the secrets of this mysterious Morbid Mill.

She quietly escapes through her window, shivering slightly as the cold wind brushes her. She is started to see her brother, Tobah, standing on the roof with her. He questions her intentions, she explains her quest, and he does not argue. He hands her an umbrella, tells her to keep dry, but most importantly, come back alive.

As she transverses through the forest, she encounters a strange spirit that haunts her, taunting her with mind games and discouraging remarks, suddendly she trips and stumbles down an over grown shaft leading directly into the Morbid Mill, now possessed and haunted by the same demonic creatures that inhabit that forsaken forest.

Eventually she escapes the factory to see the forest in flames as the possessed robotics and demonic creatures raze it, she runs back to Morbid to see the same fate for her people. She packs into a small boat where the survivors spend 3 days traveling to the nearby city of Setian to seek refuge. Juni grieved with guilt and remose she plans to return to the factory to destory it and save humanity from the terror of the Mill. (super-summarized game plot)

Type: Challenge/Puzzle (Hard/Normal)

So, obviously, this isn't what most people may be used to, as from a lot of Knytt Stories games I've seen are rather serene and joyful... ehh... this is kind of, well, gloomy, however it starts off very dark it picks up right away to a heavy upbeat guitar rift sound as the player tackles all the challenges in this game.

The music, tileset authors, and all other related matieral in the game will be credited to their owners and creators.
Below I have posted screenshots...


Title Screen


Intro Text 1


Intro Text 2


The Town of Morbid


An example of our transition, a similar effect occurs on the screen Juni is in when she shifts to a change of enviroment


The first screen of the Forbidden Forest, here Juni just managed to escape some deadly spikes as she prepares to enter the next screen


One of Juni's first encounters with Syliva, the ghost of a young girl who died long ago now haunting the forest, she taunts Juni with mind games and discouraging remarks, this is also the screen where she stumbles down a long shaft over grown in the forest and finds herself deep within the Morbid Mill itself!


The coolant room of the factory


One of the screens in the main sector of the factory


Here, the umbrella is being used as a shield to block the incoming projectiles


Don't fall!


A screen from a strange forest she finds enclosed outside the factory, the path leads to an underground cave strangely locked with a key she can not find here


After finally escaping the factory she sees that the possessed robotics and demonic creatures have razed the forest! Her eyes water as the grim thought of Morbid suffering the same fate plague her mind, will she return in time?!

So there you have it, out of my testers it took the average gamer maybe an hour to complete the game so far (about half way done). The story is actually far more indepth with some twists and turns, but above is just a quick summary really... I'm just way too tired to write out the whole thing right now, but you get the idea

Since we are also being graded on documentation, I wrote a short Enemy Guide Manual to be attached to a full-on game manual I'm writing, the link to download it is here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/6epmtc - it is in .doc format

Music used is from the soundtrack of the games Quake, Quake II, Heretic/Hexen, and Doom II.

Is there a way to run the executable Knytt Stories program in full screen in anything other than 800 x 600? Reason being is my monitor doesn't support the resoultion Knytt Stories normally runs on at full screen

I notice when playing on several screens which use the same track, after a while, once the track ends -- it doesn't loop... is there a way to change this so it plays indefinatly?

I hope this is the right place to post this, but I was curious if there was a possible way to create animated cutscenes, and how do I do this?

This is for a college project and it's due sometime at the end of the month, so I hope for an answer very soon, thank you  

Also, I'm curious to know if you can actually set motion paths and actions for NPCs outside of cutscenes

Edit: One more thing, about music, will anything work as long as it's in .ogg format? Or will I need to name it something specifically like 'song21'