The Month That Could Have Been: Bonus Footage and Credits

[FaustWolf]

The Month That Could Have Been draws to a close with some bonus footage taken while testing out the new playable character and some really really ridiculously difficult-to-reach gag scenes planned for the Choras casino. The second and final video is a credits reel featuring unused sprites created by Chrono'99, Darkken, and others during the project development cycle.

Bonus footage.

Credits reel.

As you can see there was some real awesomeness in store. We'd like to thank everyone for watching and supporting the CEMemorial Youtube channel, which has logged an amazing 134,032 views in just over a month, plus 507 subscribers as of this post. We'll work out some way of distributing the raw video footage in the coming weeks.

[Truthordeal]

CEteam, the sprites for human Frog are AMAZING! I can actually picture this guy not using formal language. His frog form seemed much much older.

Except for the battle animation it came off well.

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Hogan vs. Andre in the 80s.

And I am so stealing "Krag don't like this job no more!"

Gotta love the new remixed OST too. All of the new sprites are amazing! I believe that this was 98% done now. I was holding off until now, hah. BTW, what was the rock lotus sprite for?

Great job guys. It cannot be said enough. You guys achieved something great here. If nothing else, you guys are Youtube stars.

[FaustWolf]

Yeah, the CE team probably felt conflicted about releasing the Human Glenn footage since it was recorded while Chrono'99 was still in the middle of literally assembling him. The Human Glenn stuff was the last footage recorded prior to compliance with the Cease and Desist.

I'm not sure where the Rock Lotus would have been. That's a question for either '99 or ZeaLitY, or Agent 12 if he's back yet. Some of the sprites might not have been used even in the complete mod. To my knowledge the focus in early May was getting King Zeal; Human Glenn; and Sorin in, and if that all happened before May 31 then the team would have moved to the remainders.

[Dapifer]

Sorin and Human Glenn are a definite win, plus the Neo Epoch(overworld and hangar) are awesome, and I apretiate how the Mystic Knights changed sprites after going with Spekkio(CC), I salute that kind of care to details.

Boy, what this Month Could Have Been! I can only applaud the CE Team, great work indeed, I hope that the complete footage gets released, this Month is something that maybe wasn't, but that doesn't mean we don't want it close to our hearts(I know I do), I know YouTube probably will have the vids for a while, but there is nothing like watching the whole thing uninterrupted (I did it last week, on youtube of course, it was a hassle, but the story can be apretiate better that way)

I will definitly be waiting for the CE Team next move, whatever it is, I know it would be of great quality. Never give up guys, you are clearly gifted for acomplishing something like this.

[Mikisho]

Wonderful.  I have no idea why, but I got really emotional when that Crimson Echoes Picture at the end of the credits came up (Box art maybe? =o).  This has been a beatiful Journey you guys.  I am now more determined than ever to make a videogame of my own someday.  The dream of Zeal is Alive.  Probably the greatest line in that whole game.

Either that or Frogs "I'm gonna go Medieval on you" xD. Oh I'm a mood ruiner XP

[anonymouse]

Technically, Choras shouldn't possess such advanced technology...but whatever. Watching Robo be an advocate for safe sex was too hilarious for words. ("You might have a virus!" ROFL)

The credits reel...really brought home to me all the effort and skill put into this amazing piece of work (especially Glenn's sprite sheet O_O) This wasn't the month that could have been, but was a pretty close second. Thanks for showing it all for us! And, you know, if you ever put your experience to good use in a game of you own, well...  ^_^

[Katie Skyye]

Glenn's devolving into pixel-blobs made me laugh out loud.

As did Marle's turning Lonestar to ice. HAH. And Ayla was awesome, as usual. I think she got the wrong idea about Krag... 8P

[alfadorredux]

Poor human-Glenn--first subjected to not-quite-debugged sprite assembly code, and then to a frog that wanted to feel up his...sword... ::snicker::

It's probably just as well that we'll never know whether Magus was joking, though. o_O;;

[mav]

Shit, that was great guys. I'm a sucker for custom sprites, so the credits reel was quite impressive to me. Not a single sprite looked unprofessional...Though I don't think the world was ready for a 100% complete version of CE...

Well done, great work, keep your spirits up and all that jazz.

[Dialga_Palkia]

Hey, are we going to see the staff ending? By means, the Programmers ending. Anything left to show? Is that really it? *sigh*

[FaustWolf]

The programmer's room was shown in Video 61. The closest thing to a "developer's ending" would be the first joke ending (Square Enix trial) in Video 87. To my knowledge.

[Boo the Gentleman Caller]

If only...  Watching the incomplete human Glenn was awesome!  Thanks for sharing, FW!

[FaustWolf]

Chrono'99 did most of the insertion and assembly for Human Glenn if I remember correctly, and personally sprited a huge number of his frames after justin3009 and TheOutlaw started him waaaay back in 2004 or 2005. I think that's how it happened, anyway. I'm just sad that we couldn't capture footage of the complete Human Glenn, because he was really shaping up to be kickass.

[Vehek]

Human Glenn started in 2006, since that's when sprite assembly hacking started.

Edit: There was some experimentation with human Glenn in 2005, but that didn't get anywhere because they didn't have sprite assembly knowledge.

[FaustWolf]

Huh, in that case it's kind of amazing just how recently a lot of the capabilities opened up. Just so everyone knows, Vehek deserves a huge amount of credit for...oh hell, we can't even talk about it now. So does justin3009 (note that while his early contributions specific to CE fell off as he pursued his own projects, he was still one of the first to investigate the tech code). And especially, especially Geiger for...damn, these limitations are cutting out half of what I'm trying to say. But in any case, if you see them around, know that they had a pretty significant role to play too, even if they appear in the credits only once. Everything listed there was crucial to the completion of the project.

Part of the misconception in various communities is that ZeaLitY tried creating this all by himself in his basement somewhere, in some kind of insane fan stupor, which is just so far off base; most probably didn't even have a clue as to Agent 12's or Chrono'99's dedication to CE until we started talking about a "core CE team." It was really the culmination of a lot of people's research and productive labor over the years, and I hope the credits reflect that. I also feel kind of bad that so many either couldn't be reached to learn whether they wanted to be credited in a project of questionable legal status (huge reason why the credits vid was delayed this long) or chose to remain anonymous and essentially uncredited, but such is the nature of choice.