Some in game statistics

I want to share some statistics of my game. You can see on Development completed that the development time, including learning AS3 + art creation + finding the right music/sounds, took about three months and fifteen days. Sure that finding the right sound/music wasn't easy, but I think that the cards drawings and the art creation took at least the same time of the code development and this I didn't expect.

When you try to make a game, in an medieval environment, you should consider one big thing, if the game will not be comic/cartoon you have to deal with very good designers, because you will need a lot of graphic details to immerse the players in this environment.

I had the help of my brother TalesGalu and a friend Gabriel Luis, and finally I was satisfied with the game art, here are some game statistics:

• 400 Library items (yeah, a lot of folders to arrange them)
• 77 Movie Clips
• 35 Sounds (including music and soundFX)
• 24 Custom AS3 Classes (sounds a little big, but I think that each one have their work to do)
• About 7422 lines of code (counting the lines of code on frames too)
• FLA size 60,4 MB
• SWF size 6,89 MB

The game screen size is 640x480 px. I think that the game could be bigger, I saw a lot of games with 800x600 or 800x500 or 700x525, and some with 600x400 or 640x480...so there is a good range of game sizes, try to match the size you will need, depending of the type of the game, if you want a proportion of 16:9 go ahead and do it, because you have some liberty here =).

Development completed

It is with great pleasure that I create now, this simple blog. There were exactly three months and fifteen days of pure development, we try not to be too perfectionist, despite this being our first game, we did not want to let anything ruin the player's experience =P.

The 7 Elders is based on the card game Triple Triad from the famous Final Fantasy series (read more about). Triple Triad is a completely separated game and didn’t have influence on the main plot of FFVIII and is considered by many a mini-game and therefore may not have been properly addressed.

Yet, since there is a huge number of fans, some projects were created around the world, but the sad story is that few have reached the end ... Here are some examples:

• Triple Triad PSP (for the Sony PSP)
• Triple Triad Silver (desktop)
• Triple Triad Extreme (desktop to server multiplayer)
• Elemental Dusk (for iPhone)
• Triple Triad Advance (Browser online multiplayer game)
• Triple Triad Flash Online (Flash online multiplayer game)

You can see that the Triple Triad Extreme or Elemental Dusk came to be completed and this is very good, but I wanted something more for me and for the fans. I wanted to give excitement, a reasonable storyline, intuitive gameplay, something fast, simple, free and accessible to all, like most games Flash are.

And now, for those anxious fans, or players who expect something different in the Flash universe, The 7 Elders, a dream that began a long time ago, is at the first version and ready, and that's just the beginning!

Here is a screenshot for the curious.
Note: This post was from the game version 1.0, for the recent version see the recent posts.

Soon I'll post here a video called: The 7 Elders - Gameplay Trailer