RPG "The Sorrow of Gadhlan' Thur" from Kai Magazine

The game looks good and visually seems a (good) mix between Faxanadu/Ys3/Golvellius

Music is provisional?

Because remind me a lot the first stage og Super EDF for Super Famicom

Thank you, guys!

One word. Graphics are standing. Especially sprites.
@Kai are you using hw or sw sprites?

Ciao Oscar,

I mean from 33 sec.
I do not know why, but it reminds me that melody line.

Anyway, not a problem for me, only pure curiosity

I've already preordered the game :)

Sprite Graphics are stunning, i can assure you ;-)
About the necessity to use hw sprites to let it run on z80 i think it is mainly a VDP blitter issue not z80 unless you use the cpu to do sw sprites instead of vdp. But i think it is crazy.

4 sprites per humanoid (16*32 pixels), using 2 sprites for each 16x16 area, 3 colors per line.

finally a game where you can jump...

The sprites OR operation is nicely used. Surely you miss (like everyone) a good tool for creating sprites in SM2 (Sprite Mode 2) with OR.

Any update on when the game will be released?

BTW, for the people who are quick to click on things, here is the PSG version of the dungeon theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_pYVh8LcZc
Will be deleted soon so get it while it's hot. ;)

Thank you. Yes, the entire soundtrack of the game will support SCC. This is how it will actually sound in the game with SCC (but there are PSG versions, too).

Thank you to Artrag for his hard work into making this possible
This was supposed to be a secret/surprise and the information given here is wrong:
The game will be delivered with psg and FM support, as the original announcement states.
The SCC support is an unannounced extra which will only work with an external scc. The game cartridge will not include scc chip.
We might do a limited batch with scc included in the cartridge for those interested in it but it will be more expensive since the cartridge itself is more expensive.
Also, while the game works flawlessly on z80 with psg or fm musics, Trilo tracker replayer + the 3 channels psg sound effect replayer consume a huge amount of cpu resources (way more than opl4!) so the game suffers small slow downs with scc on z80, so we might condition the scc usage to turbo machines.
I insist: this is an unannounced feature that we are experimenting on at this very moment. There are no guarantees.
Do not buy the game thinking it will have an internal scc or that it will inconditionally work fine on your MSX. We are just experimenting. Noone was supposed to know about this.

Nothing to apologyze for, Artrag, once you saw John's post you felt it was public domain and you added some technical data on the work you did, so there is nothing wrong with that.

By the way, the slow downs on z80 are fixed now, so the game will work on z80 and scc (where available).

Yes. As far as I know, the Trilo tracker FM replayer is incomplete.

Has the game been released?

Any update on when the game will be released?

I pre-paid for this game 6 months ago and I have no idea if it will be released any time soon. An update from the creator would nice.

Oscar posted an update here where max_iwamoto crossposted the same question.

Oscar!
Like many users in this community I admire your work very much and am happy about every new game you develop.
Since you do this with all your heart and soul, I am not angry to wait a few days longer. I much prefer a balanced result to a work completed in a hurry that is finished without love.
That it's not about earning money, but about having fun in your work. Not 'bout limited hardware, but unlimited ideas. That's what you have proven.
My gratitude for all the wonderful games you gave us and above all: many thanks you showed us that MSX still has so much potential. That inspired many to dare similar things.
I understand that it is not possible to make a living from this work and provide safety for children. And I am happy if you have found a job that can give you this security. That is understandable, I act the same way.
But if I may ask you for one thing: Make your actions transparent. The people who now ask about your work trust you blindly. They proved that almost a year ago. Please provide and from time to time with the current state of affairs. That would be great and would give your work the icing on the cake.
Thank you for your work!

Hi folks,
Sorry for my silence. Yes, I should have uploaded a game play video as I said, but I preferred to finish the game and then translate it into English, than to have 2 versions under development.
The game is finished; I am translating it into English. It is being beta tested in front of me for the last 2 days and there will be at least 2 days more of beta testing at my home (the game is long) so I can evaluate correctly the length, difficulty and game flux.
It is incredibly complicated to make an open world RPG game due to balancing many factors that are intertwined together and affect one another. To change an element or a mechanic in the world means to redesign several things and to test it from the beginning all over again, so that was unexpected but it must be done.
Also, depending on how many hours it takes to complete the full game at this moment, and considering the fact that I still have some free space in the rom, I might make the world even bigger (1 week of work) if those who prepaid agree.

I would also like to clarify out that not "many" people prepaid, just 20 or so, 9 months ago.
This lack of support for this game together with the constant lack of cartridges forced me to look for a job outside the MSX world.

Anyway, for those 20 who supported me and preordered, I am finishing the game and I am doing my best with it since they actually went ahead and trusted in me and in the game, so you will not be disappointed.
If it wasn't for those 20 preorders I would never have bothered finishing the game.

I will record a video today (in English) and I will post it here.

Due to some messages I just received,I must clarify:
All those who made the preorder have their cartridge ensured already.
The 25 cartridges batch is for those who didn t preorder the game.
If anyone wishes to order the game, there are only 25 available at the moment and we will not be able to make a new batch for 2 or 3 months.

The game looks really great and the world is really big! Great job!