Still Alive

This might be late but.. happy new year! First of all I would like to apologize for missing all of sudden and let the blog die without any post progressing anymore. I'm still alive, obviously, I (just) haven't dead yet. Well, alot of personal things happen and been on ups and down recently, that's why I decided to went off for awhile and having "me time" to think about stuff.

It's been so long that I didn't open up the blog and quite surprise that actually there's 600+ pending comments (including bots spams) and yes, I have read them one by one when I was open the blog again after been a long time. I've also got alot of inbox on my secondary email: andreariona@yahoo.com which I haven't check it since like last august, so my apologize if you was emailed me there and I haven't reply. I just rarely open that secondary email of mine though, my primary e-mail name is.. kinda awkward actually since I was made it long ago when I was still on mid school so I didn't share my primary one. But if you felt like to ask me something directly, you can always ask me on my personal twitter since I'm checking it occasionally or leave the comments on my blog here.

Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic - The Magic (Still) Continuous On!
Most of the pending comments I've got was ask about Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic project, I'd like to announce to that project is back again after a year of hiatus. Actually I was still made some progress up until december last year about the project and secretly developing the guys from Grimoire Heart as a secret playable character (beside Meredy and Ultear that I have announced May last year before). Perhaps these Tenrou Arc characters has already out dated since it's already like a year passed eversince the original event.


Secret Project: A New Year Gift
If you visiting Hive Workshop or following me on twitter, you probably already know about this project I'm developing in recently, World of Warcraft: Heroes Return, perhaps more likely an experimental project of my curiousness that I'm unable to achieve on my previous Dota 2: Open Role Playing Game map so I made another fanmade experiment with another title. World of Warcraft: Heroes Return is a total conversion Multiplayer Open Role Playing Game (yes, WoW map in multiplayer!) that inspired from original World of Warcraft franchise that developed by Blizzard. I'm trying to made 1st ever WoW total conversion in multiplayer ORPG version as I haven't seen any. My aim on this project is to create a simple yet fancy and fun gameplay with eye catching fantasy-like terrain and effect that able to made the players has a World of Warcraft feeling when playing the game. As an ORPG, the project is designed to be played by multiplayer in order to experience a better result playing the game (especially for ORPG fans).

Terrain Art
Instead of medievalist one, I'd go for a fantasy theme kind of terrain for the project. Some cracked area terrain on this project is inspired from World of Warcraft: Cataclysm patch when there's a crack on land filled with magma deep in caused by Deathwing. Check out some sneak peek screenshot of early development:

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

These terrain design are still temporary and will be change and improved from time to time as the project progressing by.

Enemies
There's three type of enemies on the map: Normal, Elite and Boss which is carefully developed and has their own attributes and abilities to made the battle challenging instead of total hack and slash on a battle. Normal and Elite type creeps can be found around world map and will respawn each time you kill them. Meanwhile Boss can only be found exclusivelly on a dungeon and require a teamwork with other players of your team in order to bring it down due to Boss type creeps aren't designed to be battled solo. Boss doesn't spawn when they died so player only able to beat them once per game. Curious about the Bosses and their lair looks like? Check out these sneak peek!

#1 Ajzol-Nerub: Lair of Fallen King (Early Terrain Concept)

#2 Molten Core: Lair of Firelord (Early Terrain Concept)

Demo Release
I have release a test version, feel free to try it out, have checked it multiplayer and worked fine, so I know it wouldn't be like my previous Dota 2: ORPG map last time. You can follow the project development on Hive Workshop  also I made the thread on MODDB as well hopefully for larger feedback and audience to made the progress on the project better.

Gray and Lucy Announcement [Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic]

Done animating both Gray and Lucy as well as for their basic alternate Hyper Mode animations (will add some extra animations as well later), was already include them on work in progress character list in the main page but never really announce them so I guess, now is the right time to announce them as playable characters on my Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic fanmade project. Here is their sneak peek shot in the game, as well as their magic information.

Gray Fullbuster, The Static Ice Maker
"A man who has a disturbing habit of unconsciously removing his clothes at inappropriate moments. His magic allow him to create objects or weapons from ice."
— Description

Gray using Ice Make as his primary magic, a form of Molding Magic that allows him to create ice at his will and to shape it into objects. Ice-Make is known as an extremely versatile form of magic, coming in useful both in battle for offensive and defensive purposes and outside of it. Specializing in it and having been practicing it for years, Gray possesses extreme mastery over it, being capable of creating countless amounts of objects for a multitude of uses. Unlike Lyon's Ice Make, Gray uses Static Ice Make - meaning he can shape his ice into inanimate things or weapons.

Lucy Heartfilia, The Celestial Spirit Princess
"A very confident woman when it's about her appearance and sex appeal, often exuding a certain amount of vanity. But despite that superficial attitude, she is genuinely a clever, kind, and caring person."
— Description

Lucy using Celestial Spirit Magic as her main magic abilities, which allows her to summon Celestial Spirits - magical beings residing in the Celestial Spirit World, using the Keys of their respective Gates. When summoning a spirit, the Keys are enveloped with a soft, golden light. Once a contract has been made with a Spirit, such Spirit will be available for Lucy to summon on certain time.






Due to some reason, I actually wasn't planned to include them back then so that's why they are not included on the list of 20 playable characters on the previous alpha stage. But well, I've ended up decided to include them due to people request. If you wonder what kind of Hyper Mode that I pick for them, their information will coming in the next 2 updates after I complete developing their abilities.

Oh by the way, I just realize this is the last week for August and September coming on forward. We've been on the middle of 2012 already, time flies isn't it? And so, due to my break time is over, I probably wouldn't be able to updating this project as often as I was. Happy monday people, and happy the end week of August as well. Cheers!

Oracion Seis Strikes Back! [Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic]

Left to Right: Hoteye, Angel, Brain, Midnight, Cobra and Racer

Oracion Seis members strikes back once again and join the battle of magic! On this update I would like to announce them as a new playable characters on my Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic fanmade project. In the Anime and Manga, Oracion Seis was a Dark Guild comprised of six incredibly powerful mages. Their goal was to retrieve the Dark Magic "Nirvana" which was capable of turning "Light" (Good) into "Dark" (Evil). Started to developing them this week, beside character development there is also some new feature and terrain remake on the project that currently I'm working on.

New Characters On Development

Angel, The Celestial Mage
"A cruel, sadistic, harsh and arrogant woman who enjoys toying with her enemies. She does not think much of her spirits as living beings, and is seen mistreating them like tools."
— Description

Angel using Celestial Spirit Magic as her main magic abilities, which allows her to summon Celestial Spirits, Magical beings residing in the Celestial Spirit World, using the keys of their respective gates.

Cobra, The Poison Dragon Slayer Mage
"Dragon Slayer 2nd Generation, a self-confident man who likes to see his opponents suffer. He believe that his new-style Dragon Slayer are superior to the old-style."
— Description

Cobra using Poison Dragon Slayer Magic as his main magic abilities, grants him the power to produce poison from his body and to consume the one produced from external sources to heal and strengthen himself.

Racer, The Speed Mage
"A man with great pride in his own speed and running, claiming them to be unsurpassed. Racer’s most distinctive trait is his extreme fondness for speed."
— Description

Racer using Slowing Magic as his main magic abilities, a time-affecting Magic that change the way its targets perceive time, and thus making it appear for them that Racer is moving around at unholy speed.

Hoteyee, The Earth Mage
"A man who have a big obsession with money and tends to preach out his own personal anecdotes about money and riches to anyone within his vicinity."
— Description

Hoteye using high level Earth Magic as his main magic abilities, which allows him to soften or liquify the ground, subsequently manipulating it at his will.

Midnight, The Reflector Mage
"A man who believe that his power is absolute and higher than anyone. In battles he is often bored by the weakness of his opponents."
— Description

Midnight using Reflector Magic as his main magic abilities, which has the ability to reflect, distort and twist all matter of objects.

Brain, The Dark Mage
"The leader of Oración Seis, a Dark Guild composed of highly powerful mages whose goal is to find a very destructive power known as Nirvana, which was sealed away long ago."
— Description

Brain using Darkness Magic as his main magic abilities, which is his main source of offensive power, he has proven himself masterful in dark spells. His dark magic can pierce through defenses.




New Feature
Hyper Mode: Each character now will have Hyper Mode implemented, Hyper Mode is a feature that can transform character into their powerful alternate state and increase between their specific damage, speed, defense or such for a certain duration. In this mode they also featured Hyper Strike; their ultimate finishing move which will transform back the character to their Normal Mode after Hyper Strike executed.

Dark Guild: Oracion Seis is now available as the first Dark Guild in the game, currently making the interior terrain for the guild. Like the previous Legal Guild, Dark Guild can provide jobs for player to earn money and guild point by doing guild quests. The different? They are not associated with Magic Council and quest given is based from assasination and stealing.

Purchase Additional Magic: Remember that in the game each character has some Additional Magic beside their main one? Now they can also buy some additional magic on some NPC that selling them. Each NPC in cities selling different kind of additional abilities.

New Status Ailment: Poison, poison does 2% cut of your maximum HP each second for certain duration. Poison buff can't be cured.

Dynamic and Close Up Lock Camera: Want to see the game in full quality view? You can now use lock camera close up feature to make it happen and make it like in typical mmorpg. Dynamic view make you possible to rotate the camera freely. And of course this option is optional, you can always revert back to the original camera view. (Unperfect, still under experiment)

New Arts
Beside new characters and new features, I've also made some new arts for this project update contains wallpaper of current Oracion Seis members Hyper Mode and special cover of Oracion Seis Angel's prayer.

Hyper Mode Wallpaper

Angel Hyper Mode: Caelum Sword

Cobra Hyper Mode: Cuberos

Racer Hyper Mode: Dead Grand Prix

Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic - Oracion Seis Strikes Back Title Logo

The Angel's Prayer Cover

Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic - Requiem of Angel

The Dark Wizard Awakening [Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic]

Zeref, The Dark Wizard is the current character that I develop as a secret character on my Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic fanmade project. Zeref is considered the strongest and most evil mage in all history who possesses very dangerous and powerful black magic, but of course I wouldn't making him way too imbalance on this project.

Zeref, The Dark Wizard (currently animating)

Beside secret character, he is also appear as a neutral NPC on Tenrou Island area (and becoming as a BOSS later in game). His spell that I develop here is mostly a Dark Magic which can cut enemies HP and has a chance to direcly kill enemies. I ended up decided to include a Living Magic as well on his main magic list which make him able randomly call between Lullaby or Deliora for short amount of time to attack his enemies.

Recent Development Preview
A few preview sneak peek screenshots of Zeref. For some reasons, I only made Zeref's living magic summon only appearing half of their upper body instead of full body summon with dark aura around them.

Living Magic: Deliora

Living Magic: Lullaby

Casting Death Pillar

New Special Cover
Also I've made another special cover for the project featuring Zeref when he summon back Deliora and Lullaby to bring pandemonium once again. Probably that wouldn't ever happen in either anime or manga since both of them is already wiped out. ;p

Fairy Tail Battle of Magic: Zeref Special Cover

2012 Brand New Models Announcement [Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic]

At long last, finally I have completed the brand new models that I will use on my Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic fanmade project development. They will replace the models that I was use in previous alpha stage. I think now I have anything that I need to make this fanmade project become similar like actual mmorpg. lol
Though, I still have to animate every single one of them and make them playable on the game. Quite a pain but I guess it's not really a big matter since I'm enjoy developing this project and would love to put my whole effort on it. ;p

Characters Design by Hiro Mashima (Actual Fairy Tail manga and anime creator).

Playable Characters
  Fairy Tail Guild

[Above] Left to Right: Erza, Lucy, Natsu and Gray
[Below] Left to Right: Elfman, Mirajane, Lisanna and Juvia

[Above] Left to Right: Alzack, Bisca, Cana and Loke
[Below] Left to Right: Bickslow, Freed, Evergreen and Laxus

[Above] Left to Right: Mystogan, Wendy, Gajeel and Levy
[Below] Left to Right: Droy and Jet

Lamia Scale Guild

Left to Right: Jura, Lyon and Sherry

Blue Pegasus Guild

Left to Right: Ichiya, Eve, Hibiki and Ren

Oracion Seis Guild

[Above] Left to Right: Angel, Midnight, Cobra and Hoteye
[Below] Left to Right: Racer, Brain and Zero

Grimoire Heart Guild

[Above] Left to Right: Azuma, Rustyrose, Capricorn and Kain
[Below] Left to Right: Zancrow, Meredy, Ultear and Bluenote

Secret Characters

[Above] Left to Right: Zeref, Hades and Jellal
[Below] Left to Right: Mest and Gildarts

Others
Erza's Armor Requip

[Above] Left to Right: Amadura Armor, Black Wing Armor, Flame Empress Armor and Flight Armor
[Below] Left to Right: Heaven's Wheel Armor, Lightning Empress, Sea Empress Armor and Samurai

Edolas Fairy Tail

Left to Right: Edolas Natsu, Edolas Lucy, Edolas Juvia and Edolas Gray

Edolas Royal Army

Left to Right: Erza Knightwalker, Pantherlily and Edolas Soldier

Exceed

Left to Right: Happy, Carla and Pantherlily


Enemies
Main BOSS Enemies

Left to Right: Grandine, Metalicana and Igneel

Left to Right: Dorma Anim, Dorma Anim: Black Sky and Legion

Left to Right: Lullaby and Deliora

Mini BOSS Enemies

Left to Right: Dragon Rampager and Black Garuda

Left to Right: Doom Tentacle and Pumpkin King

Left to Right: Rukimajiro, Rukima Horn and Rukima Horn Emerald

[Above] Left to Right: Jewel Bearer (Emerald), Jewel Bearer (Peridot) and Jewel Bearer (Aqua)
[Below] Left to Right: Jewel Bearer (Ruby), Jewel Bearer (Amethyst) and Jewel Bearer (Aurora)

[Above] Left to Right: Purplezilla, Blackzilla and Crystaltoise
[Below] Left to Right: Wing Greed and Abyssmal

[Above] Left to Right: Duplicator and Kiryu
[Below] Left to Right: Shimurugu and Kuerebure

Super BOSS

Game Super BOSS: The Dragon of Harmony

Common Enemies

[Above] Left to Right: Electric Jelly, Mochi Jelly, Fire Jelly and Water Jelly
[Below] Left to Right: Earth Jelly, Cold Jelly, Hot Jelly and Wind Jelly

[Above] Left to Right: Balkan, Vulcan and Scavenge Wolf
[Below] Left to Right: Goblin (Axe and Sword), Green Goblin (Axe and Sword) and Disguise

[Above] Left to Right: Water Lizard and Earth Lizard
[Below] Left to Right: Winged Shark and Arclouze

Ultear and Meredy Announcement [Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic]

Been a long time didn't update anything about the project on this blog. In this fine moment, I would like to announce Ultear and Meredy, two of Seven Kin of Purgatory from Grimoire Heart as new playable characters on my Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic fanmade project. I'm still animating their models at the moment, their full information and preview will soon to be announced when I got the chance.

Character Informat and Model Preview

Ultear, The Time Mage

"A manipulative, ruthless and ambitious woman. Ultear has no problem with sacrificing lives to obtain what she wants."
— Description

Appearance
Ultear is a pale-skinned woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes. Her battle suit is sleeveless and skin-tight, being divided into 3 sections; the main body of the suit and the legs of the suit from the thigh down are both white with black patterning, with the space between them being a deep brown. The entire suit is trimmed with gold patterns, and Ultear sports a matching white headband. On her arms, Ultear wears long black sleeves, with the section from her elbow down bearing chunky, gray wrist-guards, from which she can produce her characteristic Lacrima.

Signature Magic
Ultear primary magic is Arc of Time, the Lost Magic that allows her to revolves around the manipulation of the "time" of objects of living things, like a tree, but not sentient beings or any creature. Arc of Time magic able to fast forward an object's "time" into the future, making it decay rapidly or rush to attack an opponent. Her magic can be even used to stop an object's "time" by freezing it in midair. She can also rewind a damaged object's "time" to restore it to its original state, just like turning the ice back into water. Ultear can produce 'bubbles' of time that show the various potential things that the item could do and then pick one of the timelines whenever she want to. Arc of Time was said to defeat Molding Magic mages.

Meredy, The Sense Linker Mage
"A stoic, mature, and calm petite young girl with immense amount of passion and resolve for someone her age, as she is willing to kill herself to protect the one she loves."
— Description

Appearance
Meredy is a young girl of short stature. She has short, coral pink hair and bright green eyes. She wears some kind of gold wing-like headgear around her ears. Her uniform is a tight, purple leotard with brownish thigh-high boots that have white stripes at the top. Over her uniform, she wears a red cape with a golden lining around the edges. The cape's left-shoulder portion has a white symbol of Grimoire Heart.

Signature Magic
Meredy primary magic is Magulity Sense, the Lost Magic that has the ability to make two or more people's senses as one. If one of the people linked with the magic feels pain then the others will as well. Although Magulity Sense doesn't actually share the physical wounds, it is still able to "share" death. Extreme amounts of emotion can also be shared such as crying. Magulity Sense can also create teal Magic swords formed from the Meredy's incredible faith. Using simple arm motions and sometimes verbal commands, Meredy is able to launch the blades, which then hone in on her opponents. The blades are different from normal swords, as they attack the opponent's sense of pain directly.

Preview Screenshots
Early sneak peek preview screenshots of Ultear and Meredy looks in the game. Since 2 of Seven Kin of Purgatory is already announced, I'm eagerly want to add the other 4 of them plus Hades as the Grimoire Heart guild master in the future update.