Tantum

[Conscientia]



[CLIENT 0.1.2 DOWNLOAD](http://www.sendspace.com/file/6onj4f)

**Introduction**
This is a private project started long ago by me and my friend, Carl.

We decided that we wanted to create a game, but not only a game created with an engine, but to create a game not filled with features and cool stuff. Just simply, gamplay features. Things that people want, things that are more retro than newer games. We're pretty much done with the base, we just need more team-members. I will need alot of help with the communiting, moderators and co-leaders that can help me manage people.

[Click here to go to website](http://tantumsite.webs.com)

**Information**
Tantum is meant to be a medieval-style ORPG. I've put together a few basic features which will improve gameplay. As it is, I'm missing out on a story, since I though I'd start the game before I created lots of imaginary features and mobs etc. Physical gameplay comes first to me:D.

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* Layer system:
**v** Layer(0): NPC/Player/Item
**v** Layer(1): NPC/Player/Item
**v** Items can only picked up if on same layer
**v** NPC's can only see you if on same layer, or a spell is cast
**v** Items can be dropped/spawned on different layers
**v** NPC's can be spawned on different layers

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* Developing
**v** Remade all the editors for simplicity.
**v** Created a completely new Admin Panel.
**v** Editor layouts optimized.
**v** No more frmIndex, the index is on the Admin Panel. Load different lists to edit objects.
**v** Guides in all of the editors, explaining them.
**v** Map editor remade, double tile-set width, mapping guide with info about all attributes/layers.

**v** Guild creation costs 20k gold, can be created via GUI.
**v** Full guild panel.
**v** Crafting stat for crafters, any class can be a crafter, but limits PvE/PvP.
**v** Stacked items will go as far as 1 to 5 million.
**v** Bank will stack all items.
**v** Compressed graphics, small client.

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* Equipment events
**x** Reflect damage (All but weapons) % of damage taken.
**x** Life-steal (Weapons) % of damage done.
**x** Cleave (Weapons) 1-120% of original damage.
**x** Spellcast (All) % chance to cast any existing spell
**x** SadScript integration with Items/Spells/NPCs/Tiles

* Mappers, 3-4, I will choose.
* Developers, 3-4.

* Alpha-testers.
* Webmaster + website editor.
* PLAYERS! :)
**SCREENSHOTS:**

_Main-menu_ –-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  _Login_
          
**IN-GAME**
_Inventory_  –------------------------------------------_Getting a quest_                       
 

_Trade_
Note, these boxes are in a Fixed-single picture-box so they have black borders. :)

First in-game screenshot:

[Big screenshot of T-F](http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4011/ingame2.png)

If anyone can mirror the client for me that'd be great! :)

[Harris6310]

Wow, just wow. This project looks amazing. To bad your website isn't working, if you need a dedicated website host, I'm your man! I can also mirror your client.

[Dark Crusade]

Looks just like Silverdale's GUI style, no originality sadly. Did you download the old source DFA supplied??

[IceCream Tuesday]

So I see you were heavily influenced by Silverdale, gui looks almost the same besides a different layout.

Edit: BLAST!! got to it right before me.

[Harris6310]

Guys, his work is good. It may be the same sort of style as Silverdale's but it is still very different.

[Dark Crusade]

I checked old some old screenshots of Silverdale. I'm pretty sure its a rip, everything is identical in some way or another. All he did is moved some things around, changed the font, and added textures over the graphics, and some other small changes like swapping the icons and filling in the inventory squares black. And added a background. Sure, you might be thinking "That's still a few changes", but in the bigger picture, there's a damn lot more that's the same/similar.

[Conscientia]

You there, Kreator. You should really ask me before stating anything.

I did every pixel of this gui from scratch, indeed with Silverdale as influense, it's called INSPIRATION. I made it all in photoshop, with NOTHING underneath, I've done EVERYTHING myself, and since I'm nowhere near a good GFX-artist, I'm pretty happy with what I came up with.

And moving stuff around, that changes alot, doesn't it?
You haven't seen 100% of the GUI and not even 10% so please, leave it.

My website is messed up, I really hate freewebs lol.
The game server is currently up and running, so if anyone hosts the client anyone can login, hehe. :)

(Updated the website link, should work now…)

As for proof, I've got over 40 MB of PSDs which I spent SO many hours working on, so don't come around telling me I ripped anything, that'll just piss me off, ALOT.

Thank you!

[Dark Crusade]

@Marcus:

> You there, Kreator. You should really ask me before stating anything.

Me here, I'll do/say/rape whatever I want. Don't get me wrong, I'm not out to attack you personally, the GUI, although it may have been completed from scratch, doesn't feel original. Feels like some sort of Silverdale edit. Take it as a friendly recommendation, when I suggest you should try some originality, to make it stand out and feel unique. I mean come on, things such as the borders are literally identical in size, have the same inner glow, texture, color, and so forth. Just 'feels' like Silverdale, so to speak.

[Jeff]

I have a very different problem with my GUI.  I can't GET inspiration xD.  Everything looks amazing, but is the tileset original?

[Myron]

@Jeff:

> Everything looks amazing, but is the tileset original?

No. It's a Rm2k tileset (I believe).

[balliztik1]

Nah, Rusher, those tiles are older than that. Pretty sure those are from the early 90s and the SNES. Seiken Densetsu 3, if I'm not mistaken.

It looks pretty good, but I dislike the mixing a lot. You've got 2x zoom tiles with 1x zoom sprites. As such, they just don't blend. All the NPCs stand out awkwardly.

Actually, I'm not so sure about the origins of the tileset, now. I dunno. xD

[Jeff]

oh… Well i thought the tileset was original.  It loses some points in my book... but still, looks pretty good...

[Harris6310]

If you send me your client I will be able to host a download for it in five minutes. Is tantum.sgx.me/downloads ok?

[Conscientia]

Anything goes! :)

And Kreator, yea, I see your point, but then again, I'm not aiming for originality, I'm aiming for a pre-release and as I'm no good with graphics, I can't really come up with original stuff in a short period of time, I just want to release this game for beta/alpha/whatever!

I'm a PROGRAMMER, so I won't be doing alot of graphicial work. :) I'm the person who makes the game a game, not the person who makes a GAME look good.

The tiles may not match, but I know it'll work in the long run. When you play you don't really care after a while, and there are alot of other tiles. :)

I ripped the tileset from Seiken Densetsu 3, and stretched them myself, which was alot of work, so I'll stick with them as well, but yea, that's like a 1/100th of the complete tileset. :)

[Conscientia]

[CLIENT 0.1.0 DOWNLOAD](http://www.sendspace.com/file/q5sh23)

If anyone can mirror this, please do! :)

Enjoy the 8 maps we've done so far, lol.

[Harris6310]

I get an error when I first run it saying that the sprites are missing.

Client Mirror: [www.tantum.sgx.me/downloads/](http://tantum.sgx.me/downloads/)

[Zetasis]

When I try and login I get an error saying the sprites are missing but the Sprite.DAT are there.

[Conscientia]

Just put the whole lib folder into system32, or syswow64 for x64 users.

But I'm sure this is caused by zlibwapi.dll not being in system32, so you can just try moving it there also :D

[Harris6310]

The whole folder or the contents of it?

[Conscientia]

I made an installer, I'll upload it somewhere and maybe you could mirror it! :D

Big love.

[Thorn]

Looks sweet, the only thing I'll mention is that at first I thought it was called Tantrum. I was a little confuzzled.

[Harris6310]

I can mirror it, just send it to me in a PM or something.

[Conscientia]

[Client 0.1.0 Download](http://www.sendspace.com/file/bmnimk)

[Robin]

@Marcus:

> I ripped the tileset from Seiken Densetsu 3, and stretched them myself

We take plagiarism _very_ seriously here. Looking at your tileset, you've just taken some popular 16-bit stretched tilesets and just pasted them into one tileset. You did not rip them yourself.

Hell, you've even got the old Rpg Maker 95 tiles in their original format.

[Conscientia]

Robin, you didn't see me rip them, right?

I did indeed RIP them off maps from Spriters Resource, not ALL of it but all of the houses and the stuff I wanted to use. I still spent lots of time rearranging it to fit into the tileset and with the other one I am, or WAS using, since I've edited out all of the SD3 tiles now.

Seriously, what the hell is your problem? It's really starting to get to me, I'm not doing anything that nobody else haven't done, so just drop the attitude? I haven't stolen ANYTHING, at least not against any rules, so I don't see the problem. I don't lie, I don't take credit for stuff I didn't do.

Edit: Oh, and thanks for letting me know it was RPG Maker 95, I had no idea. :) And I edited those as well, so yea.