Red Sands Extended
 

Heya all :)
Im working on an extended version of Red Sands, wich is changed in a way of new lands and dungeons.

I wanted to check here if there is any interest in a huge version of Red Sands.
A bunch of islands are getting bigger with nice graphical changes, so it is gonna be more of everything, more dungeons, a whole bunch of them, more heroes, like 20+ more items also 20+ , more shops, a lot and new islands, not under clouds, but travel through teleporter, if I pull that off, wich I belive I can do now, I let you know.
more quests, maybe....
a lot more fights, digged chests with fights , you only get 1 try.

If anyone from the Red Sands team still reads those forums, I wanna thank them for a nice work with Red Sands wich got my interest back for a nice game, and also want to ask them if I can release this extended version.

I upload a couple of screenshots from the new Debir, so have a look.

FAQ
Why didnt you do this earlier - well took some time to learn this editor tool wich is a very powerful tool.
When is this coming out - hard to tell , but working pretty hard with it, but it takes time to create new lands, if its gonna be nice to explore.

Greetings ecania

Update

Debir and Bolo layout now finished, 1 dungeon on Debir finished.
Minimaps added, sound added for new land.
Solved a crash problem when fighting in new Caves.
Now working on blue collar tomb, its a huge underground Place.
New screens added from Blue Tomb and Bolo.

It will be great to see extended version of Red Sands. Many thanks for your work.

eye-candy
 

First of all thank you Ecania. I appreciate your efforts to breathe more or a prolonged life into the game. It's the icing on the cake.

It would be great to see a re-vamped version of Red Sands:). I never had the chance to play the original RS-mod but always have been curious to play it since knowing of its existence. It is hard to find, especially now the English update lags behind.

So I am quite happy to read such news:-P. If you ever are in need of "play-testers", I gladly volunteer.

I own the latest GOG-version of Crossworlds and have Warriors of the North with the Fire and Ice DLC from steam. On a side note, I wonder if there are modders out there tackling the latter:wink:.

I wonder
 

how one (i.e. ME) could FORCE ecania to slave... er I mean WORK towards the completion of that project faster!
(in case it is not obvious I would love to see it completed yes please - and well done ecania. Now stop reading forum messages AND GET TO WORK!)

Nice ideas and really ambitious of you ecania :-)
As ilias71 said, if you need testers, or bug hunting players say it here, and post your mod so we can do at least that to help out.
All in all, good luck and hope to see some of your wok soon :-D

Thank you for the replays guys.
I will surely think about you when i am at the step of testing.
Some stuff like passability and other stuff I am testing while working, but I rarely find all bugs.
This is going to be a heavy download, since i am doing the islands bigger and also know that some people dont have Red sands, so putting out the whole Campaign, since there will be many files to install manually.

Update on progress.
I run into a texture problem on Scarlet Island and I had to rebuild the whole Island with textures and also got a problem with a few spots where i could not change texture, I solved it and now finishing Scarlet, wich has become a beatiful tropic Island and very very big.
Also the huge tomb Blue Collar is done graphically and it is very big, can compare it with size of the normal Debir.
Bolo is done graphically and I am satisfied with the result.
Next step is Rusty Anchor, will start it prolly tomorrow.

and last:
last weekend I worked 34 hours with this and this weekend 22 hours due to spring like weather, so I actually openend the door and Went out and enjoyed the sun.

Well I couldnt resist open up my old Photoshop and made a new starting Picture, enjoy it......
back soon with some screens from Scarlet.

Ecania :)

Update
Rusty Anchor is now done except treasures and stuff, will add later when done with templates, and next step will probably be Tekron, I have decided to only make smaller changes to Verona and Montero, running into some texture problems on Verona, thats why, Island is big enough and very nice, so will see what Changes I do on montero.
Here are some screens from Rusty.
If You get black screen , just click on the middle of screen and it should open picture.
Does anyone have suggestions where I can upload this Campaign?

ecania

This looks fantastic ecania, thanks for all your hard work.

I think most filesharing sites will be ok, like mega.co.nz. If you upload to one site, the rest of us can help out to upload to other sites.

Hi everyone
A little update....

I have now finished Tekron, its now a little bit bigger.
I have also been busy with making some dungeons.
New dungeons so far is
Blue collar Tomb
Black Sun Tomb
Red Raven Tomb
White Falls Cave
Magic Circle Cave
White Crystal Cave
Purple Cave
Old Mist Cave
and some of them are pretty big, a few more is planned.
Also making new actors for the stores and new heroes, 20 done so far.
Doing Umkas next, gonna resize it a bit, and then checking on Dersu, uzala and elon.
Game is growing very much, so it may be pointless to resize the islands after those last mentioned.
Any suggestions?
and ty very much blamzooie for the tip

showing screenies from some dungeons, please give some feedback on the pictures
it is the feedback that make us designers work faster and harder, so cmon give feeeedback.

ecania