Topic: SOTN Unity by Esco gets Christmas 2018 update

[KaZudra]

I can confirm first-hand, 16:9 confirmed.

[Gaawa-chan]

Very nice sprite-work.  Shame about the personality, though.  Has he done anything involving the demon form Alucard rarely takes when he's petrified?

[Dracula9]

Any critiques on the new animations?

nope, excellent work as usual

just because i have some gripes with the lead dude doesn't mean the talent of his teammates should go discredited or ignored

[eryson]

pretty much it.
But i'm very worried about a patreon idea said in the video, everybody knows that trying to start a patreon usind a IP of a big company like konami is much like trying to catch a shark with bare hands

[Belmontoya]

pretty much it.
But i'm very worried about a patreon idea said in the video, everybody knows that trying to start a patreon usind a IP of a big company like konami is much like trying to catch a shark with bare hands

Bingo.

[TheMeadTree]

He's not worried about it in the slightest.

[Belmontoya]

He's not worried about it in the slightest.

Good talk.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Esco worries about nothing. His ego gets in the way of him seeing any possibility of failure.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

He's not worried about it in the slightest.

What he is worried about is of very little consequence to Konami.

Fact is the guy is talented and I love his work, but objectively speaking as someone who saw his attitude before he got banned he became a egomaniac which was sad to see as a fan of his.

The thing is whether he is worried about it or not does not change the fact that asking for money for a modified version of a established IP is VERY risky and he has a very high chance of getting his project shut down, he reasoning behind it is that he has put so much time and money in it himself that he feels its only right that he get some help from his fans when really Konami isn't going to care less about that since they themselves did not ask him to put his money and time into their IP to turn around and get money for it later. As a actual fan of the project I would love to see it finally make its way to the fans but given his previous attitude and reluctance to even give a estimated release date or at the very least a small demo to his fan AND him asking for money leads me to believe that he will either a.Just choose to never release it for "whatever" reason or b.Konami sends him a cease and desist because he is asking for money although fingers crossed I'm hoping we get option c.which is sometime before we die of old age we get to play this game or at the very lease a demo lol.

EDIT

A good recent example of Ego over logic when it comes to this kind of thing is Soulja Boy who recently released a video game console which featured  a emulator with 1000s of games from different publishers and sold it for a profit and claimed he would never get in any trouble because what he was doing for legit, even had the nerve to talk smack to Nintendo directly and say they would do nothing, recently its come out that Nintendo DID do something andhe immediately pulled all his consoles down and had to give a refund to people who hadn't gotten their yet lol, hopefully the same doesn't happen here but when you get money involved with established and owned IPs than there is obviously always that high chance and to ignore it would be foolish.

[golpebaixo]

Any critiques on the new animations?

Your new Alucard animations are pretty much perfect.
The only exception is the new running animation, it looks kinda like he's trying to lower his head to dodge something or to crawl into a place with low ceiling.

Also your Richter's head seems kinda too big.

[VladOfWallachia]

Top tier sprite work Mead!

[Abster]

True to his word, Esco has opened up a patreon for his future work.

https://www.patreon.com/sotnhacked

[eryson]

I believe that his work have everything to be awesome, and could be a huge waste to both the team and (most important) the Fans that are rooting and have cooperated with the project to see it alive.
So I'm still pretty worried about the patreon stuff...and if Konami shut down his project, maybe it could offer a risk to other developers that are developing awesome projects without any personal gain?

Edit: seems that the patreon until now is not that "blatant" enought to call the attention of konami, at least by the title... (oof!) all the luck to the project!

[XombieMike]

Hey all! I decided to dedicate a little time and my experience of setting up forums to help the SotN Hacked project. Check it out:

https://sotnhacked.freeforums.net

SotN Hacked is a game engine being written by Esco, and will use existing and new resources to recreate and expand upon Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

I love supporting the fan community, and I hope this project will extend the love of SotN to new people and inspire collaboration and creativity.

[Castle34hk]

SOTN HACKED MINOR UPDATE 1-6-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zc9fF7hOEQ