Fraid not. :P
The tutorials in this game will be stuff people have never seen before so I believe it's my job to teach them how to use this stuff. But don't worry there's only a few short tutorials as well as creature selection. I may add the option to allow you to load your personal creature from Black and White 2 but I'm not sure how to make that work yet.
If ppl's real life issues did not get in the way of this development the majority of the planned To-Be-Released features would have been done so but since this version is still in very early stages, its unlikely that u can get past the first land.
Hello. Apologies about no notice. The game is currently on hiatus for development and there is no ETA on when work will start up again.
Sry everyone. :(
Sorry guys but during the development of MP weve discovered the bugs for it and its not fixable since only Lionhead can resolve this.
Im not making promises but in a week's time when I release the new beta if the multiplayer game is finished and ready to go I will bundle it with the game.
Currently the multiplayer game is having issues with players not seeing the same landscape as it is changed by either player.
Well the game hasnt really started yet you know. :(
Plus there isnt much excitement on a tutorial island. If you had read the description on the side of this page it explains whats up with the cuts.
Conclusively this is not a custom map, there are not meant to be features explained, thats the purpose of an intro. Black & White 2's campaign had not explained new features but rather got you started into the game's world. If you want action, wait til the first land. :P
The Verdant Epic Miracle basically is a town-wide miracle that spreads love and peace. Creating flocks of animals, curing the sick and so much more. An epic of peace that ultimately converts a town.
However in BoTG, Lionhead made the verdant miracle transform all nearby villagers into edible creatures like cows, sheep etc.
Hello. Sorry but there have been a few bugs indeed with that version. The second bronze scroll has no content so it was not supposed to work, the ship has some issues in this version and the god relations is a pain in the *** atm.
Give it a week or 2 because the next beta is coming out. Most of this is fixed and gameplay has improved so dont worry, just be patient. :]
Hello fans. All seems to have been quiet but this was not a case of being inactive. Everyone has been working hard whilst balancing a social life but this is still on track. I recently submitted some news about the game's Multiplayer(Online) side which should appear within the next day or so.
Essentially this is a mod but on a larger scale. It will not be released on disc and may be downloaded directly here or any other place that it is available.
Hey. A number of issues have occured with map.txt not becoming a part of the archive of this beta. Follow this link to resolve this.
Well what I can tell you that is has been rather slow working out the bugs of the many things in this game whilst at the same time keeping lag to a minimum.
God Relations is a major part of the ai and will allow you to interact with the other gods on the map and establish friendly relations or become enemies depending on the actions you take towards them. Although at an early stage, this part of the AI is slowly developing towards what its supposed to be but theres still a bit to go.
In general the AI was written so the god hands you see, do actions based on the town's status.
E.g. If the town becomes low on food then the god will proceed to water and gather food from a nearby field(and later on if there is no field present they will either build one or gather food from a different resource such as cows or fish in the ocean).
At the moment we are at quite a minimum on tools we can use including an exporter which allows us to convert models made in 3dsmax to .bwm to use in-game. Without it the closest god hand model was the one Lionhead had created for the purpose of gods in BnW2 which was obviously scrapped.
Hi. If you have the skirmish tool installed, then the OGaM folder with the ccr file and sif are used to install the game without placing files manually. To install via skirmish tool just read the readme upon starting the skirmish tool.
Otherwise install the files manually as it says in the game's readme text file. Like others you may have noticed that there is no map.txt, which I obviously forgot to add to the archive but no worries. Follow this link to my forums and read on for the solution.
Download Beta v4 and follow the instructions in the readme. :)
If you cannot locate map.txt then go to the Installation thread for Beat 4 on the OGaM forums.
It's all in the readme, just scroll down to install in the readme. >_<
It tells you the default directory of where BnW2 is installed and you just place the files that it says in the readme into the specific in your BnW2 directory, it can't be any simpler. :P
Umm, that beta is old, why don't you try downloading the new beta, which can be found in downloads here.
It's called "OGaM Release Beta v4 Public".
lol You cant seriously think the game will be finished in June. God AI still isn't finished even though it's massive already. 00din's AI is yet to be re-done, plus the story and all its elements are to be done and even the main enemy needs work, all which CAN and WILL be done by Q1 09.
Hey, thanks alot. :D
Some of the others do not scale up to this game and are rather minor changes to BnW2. This game rather builds on that and adds more than removes.
Multiplayer I think will be LAN and Online based but the host will need a good pc to host it. Everything it takes to load a MP will cost more hardware than BnW2 did cause of its single-player mode.
Anyways thanks for the comments, I enjoy scripting all this and new ideas are always welcome. :)
Hehe here's more news. Along with the Public beta thats available for download, I am also releasing a video showcasing the new features of the God AI most of which will be in this video. Uploading to Youtube but I might add it here too. :D
Yea it may be a bit difficult atm becausee so many things are different such as the removal of scaffolds so some dialogue from Khazar won't sound too good, but all in time, the others that can be used would only need to be converted to .lug from .sad.
This video refers to the first creature selection script for custom maps and previous versions of this script included in maps created by players and not LH had not featured either creature emotion or dialogue respectively.
Your welcome mate and thanks for the support. Now the game itself isn't a skirmish but the team have been several tools to help players who find it rather difficult and sometimes annoying placing map files and changing map.txt for each map they play.
The tool made for this has recently been released as a test version and anybody who wants to try it out need only follow this link:
Skirmish basically means a free-for-all mode where players are in control of everything. In BnW2 Skirmish the players create custom maps that allow other players to play as long as they want and as much as they want in a type of free play mode.
Well of course, this game will not change anything major or remove anything but rather improve it dramatically.
Skirmish Mode is a definite and should be released some time next week, Online however is as Alcatraz said, not until after OGaM's release for our own reasons.
I can see you are a fan and appreciate it. Yes there was another called Threat of the Creed which unfortunately failed way back then. After this game is released(Q1 2009) then I am going to go bak and redo ToTC again to make sure any issues that came up are fixed and that it is re-released as a fully complete and functional game.
OrderOfDarkness means that before this, custom maps with Creature Selection did not have the option of choosing a baby creature.
Personally I think the God AI alone took me 3 months.
I have setup a Moddb group entry for The OGaM Team. If you are a part of the team and currently aren't of the members of this group, then email me or reply here and I will send an invite to you.
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There's not much to say. I'm a 22 year old who loves his gaming and modding, I am a developer at heart and hope to be a great one, one day.