[PROJECT] Sunset Blood

[LordAres]

First off hello guys my name is LordAres and I am sure you have seen my posts around WoW Development forums before. I am new at this but I learn fast and I dont give up. I have big ideas for Sunset Gaming but I realized I cant do it alone and if I were to do it alone it would take years!!

So what is Sunset Gaming? Sunset Gaming is a network of private servers I developed a long time ago before Antrix came out, back in the old school days of world of warcraft emulation. I loved the name I randomly came up with (back then Sunset WoW) and it stuck. I hosted a WoW server that had a little less than 100 active players, a lineage server with 50-100 active players, and a Runescape server with easily over 100 active players all on the same PC. And never got complaints for lag!!  Im bringing back Sunset Gaming Network with Sunset of Blood first.

Now what is Sunset of Blood? In my head the idea behind Sunset of blood is a custom world. Im tired of seeing all the World Of Warcraft servers that arnt custom at all. Lets give players a custom gaming experience! Something for them to remember! But with a custom world has to come custom lore, npcs, factions, mounts, regions, tier sets, dungeons, raids, pvp arenas, pvp battlegrounds, basically everything!! Which will take a long time to develop! But I cant do this alone. Any help would be awesome.

My general concept of lore for Sunset of Blood. Sunset of Blood takes place in the continent of regalia with 2 factions - The Lawful and The Evil. Originally the Land of Regalia was a battleground of the Gods armys. Gods using the world for a place to see who was better and more powerful,  Angels and Demons clashed in a epic war. Not realizing the effect on the world. When the war was over the world was shattered, barely surviving. With help from certain angels giving their life in order to restore the balance, and demons using their blood to corrupt the land the world molded into what it is now. Gods created the creatures that inhabited Regalia. They evolved and adapted into superior races. Separating the land into regions with each king running a region, emperor Deskhan ran the empire. A cruel faction that wanted to control regalia. All but 5 kings joined Deskhan, but the other 5 resisted his grasp eventually shattering and banishing the Demonic Emperor to the underworld.  After the banishment King Ake'l decided to create a faction that believes in doing the right thing, following the laws he set, and to defend their land. This faction was called The Lawful. Many regions joined him, but the ones that were so corrupted by Deskhan they created their own faction known as The Evil. Thus is the world of sunset blood.

What I need in a Team -

* Lore Developers, writers, editors.
* Map Developers - I cant do this alone!
* Npc Developers - We need custom npcs, and tons of them!! We can create them in WoW Model Viewer.
* Quest Developers - People who can create balanced quests to help the player progress at a steady blizzlike pace but with Sunset Bloods Lore.
* Item Developers - Taking WoWs original tier gear isnt enough, either reskin them, mix them up to make custom gear sets that match and fit the lore!
* Mount Developers - Mounts are a status in sunset of blood. certain ones will be super hard to get!
* Battleground Developers - Sunset of Blood is all about pvp and the Gods and Demons effect on the mortal kind.
* Website Developers - Need a good themed site that looks like something Unique to attract players!
* Music Developers - Either using WoWs current music, finding cinematic music to fit the region or dungeon or battleground, or composing your own
* UI Developers - People with good photoshop skills to reskin or recreate the ui in the game. Loading screens, character creation screen, login screen, and the screens behind character screen.
* city developers - Laying out custom cities to fit the lore, deciding what npcs go where, and what type of environment it will be for the player.

Note - I can not pay anyone for their work. So all jobs are volunteer jobs, for people who want to be apart of something big. Have their hands in helping create a custom game! One for players to enjoy!

If interested Head on over to http://sunsetgaming.net/forums/index.php  Or post here. Our forums would be easier for us to chat tho!

Heres some teasers



Seeing how all of regular wow is not accessible heres a new starting area for dwarfs. Yes they get their own island (Valia)



Thanks!

- LordAres

[Ascathos]

Some of these things you mention would legitimate a paid job...

[axel0099]

looks well organised why did you stop running server?
and also you got the skills to do this?

[LordAres]

@Ascathos

This is why I said its a volunteer job. Like Maruum, sunset blood is just a project that wants to create a game using WoWs resources. People can come and go as they please. Im not in this for money and no one else should be. Im in it to create a awesome gaming experience that separates Sunset of Blood from the WoW clone servers. I want to give a player to see a new game, and enjoy it for free. Donations would go back to server development but there wont be a donation system for a very long time.

I am still in the learning process of many things. No one starts skilled or a expert in anything. Like building muscle no one understands at first everything there is into building muscle. They have to learn nutrition, and ways to build the muscle. They cant start by deadlifting 400 lbs. You have to start small and lift 80lbs or whatever you can do with proper form and work your way up. The same can be applied to every aspect of life.  This is why I ask questions, yes I am new at development. But like others I have a goal, and to reach the goal I will ask the masters before me to share their wisdom. And in return I will share wisdom to the ones who come after me.

@Axel

Yes I still have a lot of the MySQL skills I learned when I developed a WoW server back then. As for map development I am learning. UI changes = learning, c++ = Learning, Lua = Still have a good grasp of writing boss fights, Lore Development = Im a very good story writer, and If i spend a long time on a story i can draw people in ive won multiple Story writing contests including one for Cabal Online NA when it first came out. I learn things fast though. Just dont want to do this alone.

As for why I stopped developing a server, I had to devote my life back then to fitness. I was 284 lbs of fat and I needed to drop down to 188 to join the USAF. All my energy went to fitness and I felt like i couldnt give Sunset Gaming the attention it needed. I left it with a friend who ended up turning it into a profit server and using all the money to buy himself a car. Then he shut it down. So he wasnt as good as a friend as I thought.

I also could never bother ressurecting it and starting this a long time ago because I was living in the military dorms using the military internet. I have moved off base 7 months ago and now have my own internet.

[Steff]

My experience are that they will not come and if they promis stuff you never get it. There are a few exceptions but as I drive Maruum now for 2.5 years and have done the most stuff alone, I can say it will not work without one or two guys list the promises and hit people from time to time with a big bad black boot in Ass.

First progress post on Tue May 18, 2010 9:57 am

[LordAres]

Yeah I know, I'm not going to rely on others and I'm aware ill do most the work. Just hope this post maybe gets some interested people

[fearless_wind]

Nice world map.

[LordAres]

Thank you. I cant figure out how to make a high res map like in World of Warcraft of a area. I know i can copy the lakes and rivers and buildings on the map but idk how to paint the green or white or lava like on blizzards maps. Is there any tutorials?

[fearless_wind]

I'm trying to figure this out. I think Blizzard has some more layers in their template. Like grass, lava, etc. While watching some Blizzard's maps I found that they can have even two-three layers for grass. There are three colors of it: dark green, green, and light green. When the landscape is lower, the green colour is darker.

[LordAres]

Added a new teaser