Topic: Look what I found today...

[piscesdreams]

After all these years, I thought I had lost the source to CV - The Bloodletting...

[X]

Oooooo, does this mean you can continue it? And possibly Bloodstorm as well? 

[piscesdreams]

I could continue it. I also found my source to Bloodstorm. But I probably won't because I'd want to redo the engine and I'm too enveloped with Anathema. Maybe one day though.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

I could continue it. I also found my source to Bloodstorm. But I probably won't because I'd want to redo the engine and I'm too enveloped with Anathema. Maybe one day though.

Could you at least do a bit of physics tweaking and bug removing? I wan't this game playable, dammit!

[Jop]

I could continue it. I also found my source to Bloodstorm. But I probably won't because I'd want to redo the engine and I'm too enveloped with Anathema. Maybe one day though.

I love to make sprites for one of your projects if you want so if that days come you can send me a pm.

[piscesdreams]

Could you at least do a bit of physics tweaking and bug removing? I wan't this game playable, dammit!

Maybe I'll get around to doing it one day. I would eventually like to see it in a finished form. Konami's cease and desist order be damned.

I love to make sprites for one of your projects if you want so if that days come you can send me a pm.

Maybe once I finish Anathema I can finalize Bloodletting, if so I will be sure to let you know.

[X]

Maybe I'll get around to doing it one day. I would eventually like to see it in a finished form. Konami's cease and desist order be damned.

Yeah, f@#k 'em. If they don't care about our beloved series then why should we obey an unreasonable C&D? We're not doing these things to make money, it's done for free and for the love of the series itself. If Konami doesn't want us to make CV fan games then they should get off their @$$ and do it themselves.

[piscesdreams]

Yeah, f@#k 'em. If they don't care about our beloved series then why should we obey an unreasonable C&D? We're not doing these things to make money, it's done for free and for the love of the series itself. If Konami doesn't want us to make CV fan games then they should get off their @$$ and do it themselves.

Agreed. I understand it's their IP and all that jazz, so I really am not in a legal position to argue with them. At the time I started developing Bloodletting, it was because they hadn't released a Classicvania since CV Chronicles in the US. Shortly thereafter, DXC came out and was fantastic. I used to hate on Iga hard, embarrassingly hard. But now I realize, it feels like Iga, Yamani and Kojima are the only ones that had love for the series at Konami during those times. Even if it isn't the style of games I wanted, it was still something worth playing.

Anyways, back on topic. It wouldn't be necessarily HARD to fix all the issues with it, but I know I'd basically rebuild the game from the ground up with a way better engine. There was a lot of design mistakes I made in the engine as I was very inexperienced and took the easier, more noob options. The biggest being a backflip and using the built in Platform Movement option on the sprite itself, instead of a custom movement engine that the sprite moves with and masks the hitbox. I could write a damn book on all the things that would be different in its overall design.

Once Anathema is finished, I may revisit this. It would be fun to add some more levels, balance the gameplay and beef it up. It had potential, but I was just too inexperienced at the time. Six years later, I feel very confident.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

If you don't mind me asking, can you give us the sheet you made for this? Specifically the one for the red richter guy.

[piscesdreams]

If you don't mind me asking, can you give us the sheet you made for this? Specifically the one for the red richter guy.

I wish I had made the sprites, but I can't recall the exact source I found them. I did a quick search and it looks like Las posted a sheet here - http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3650.msg97105.html#msg97105

[ProjectDread]

Neat, I love that feeling you get when you're digging around old hard drives and CDs and you end up finding an ancient project you thought was lost forever! You should post a download to an executable, I'd like to try it out.

[piscesdreams]

I believe the beta 1.3 exe is available on various websites. That was the beauty of it, Konami c&d'd the beta, but it was already uploaded to other websites by other people.

[ProjectDread]

Every link I found online was an "installer" package to the demo, and I haven't been able to determine if it was legit or not. Even so, in my opinion installers for fangames are a big no-go for me. If there's a link to a .zip or other archive for the game, I will give it a try.

[piscesdreams]

I did compile it with an installer, but I can do a straight exe build.

[SabinFigaro]

Well, I still have the legit 1.3 beta exe. file. Problem is that it's 40.2 MB. Can't upload it via the dungeon because of uploads size restrictions.