A little over a year ago I released what was to become one of my most successful hacks ever, The Great Desert. I had plans to revamp it, even attempted to do so several times but lack of motivation and/or lack of time always got the better of me.
Luckily someone else took the matter into his own hands: Enter DSX8!
He imported the nighttime version of Great Desert, found the sail model that was missing from my stage, made an awesome custom lighting and added a sandstorm.
But Great Desert wouldn’t be Great Desert without a huge elder dragon in the background occasionally trying to sink your sandship, now would it? I revamped my old Jhen Moran animation and adjusted it to fit his version of the stage.
He also added the missing models to my original version of the stage so now you can get both day- and nighttime version of the stage in one convenient pack!
Both versions also have different collisions, making them both play quite differently. Check out the video to see how each version is set up!
Download comes with 3 bstrm’s, day- and nighttime versions of the stage as well as SSS icons for both of them.
hehe im glad this is finally done and released to the pubic! was great workin wit ya dRage!!! Hope we can do another in the near future.
also… FIRST!
I’m going to be honest, I was one of the few that didn’t download the first one. There were a few things that just bugged me about how it was set up and a few hiccups here and there. However, this is a fantastic revamp. It improves upon the first greatly. It’s both excellently structured and excellently presented. I in particular love the sandstorm effect, the new lighting effects and the revamped Jhen Moran animation. They all allow the stage to look a lot more natural.
Anyways, good to see you making a post dRage
The stage is excellent and I’ll definitely be using this one.
Looks like I’ll have to wait even longer now before I can make my feature though since this came rather late (infact where I live this was posted on the 30th XD). Damn timezones….
Well yeah it was 30th for me as well but since most of our audience is from North America it was still well on the 29th for most of them xD
Most of the credit for this new version really goes to DSX8, though. I just contributed my ~2 minute Jhen Moran animation. But there will be a new stage from me next month. No import, it’s built from scratch this time and will be a lot more interesting gameplay-wise than my previous stage.
Outstanding.