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Casey McDonald @Xiphon

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What happened, and what's happening now

Posted by Xiphon - June 15th, 2009


What Happened

A lot of people keep asking me about projects. I get asked about "Shadows of Azeroth" quite frequently, and to a lesser extent, "The Quest".

I can't stand keeping things secret, so i'm gonna go ahead and share a little of what all's happened.

I was making Shadows of Azeroth part 2, in fact it was nearly done. At some point though I lost my willpower to keep the series going. Honestly, i really liked the story, I loved the jokes, but something didn't sit right.
There's a number of reasons why this might of been, I never planned out a real ending, just sort of wrote the script based on whatever I felt like doing at the time, so it really didn't have any structure at all.
Also, i've never been good with parodies, in fact, Shadows of Azeroth wasn't really a WoW parody, it was an original story where I stole the names of locations to have as settings. All in all, i felt like the project could have been much better and I wasn't doing it real justice, so work got slowed down as I felt more and more depressed over the matter.
Than my computer fried and I lost everything.
I felt bad that it was lost, but at the same time somewhat relieved, and I'll get to why in a moment.

Between constantly moving around cross country, coming out to everyone, finding jobs, losing jobs, and diving into the fast paced media industry head first, life was pretty busy. Nonetheless, Somewhere I got the idea I wanted to start making video games. I started work on "The Quest" you can find demo's of it on Sheezy Art. It was a neat game, but my lack of Action Script knowledge held me back in the extreme and I had to restart work more than once.
David Orr was writing the soundtrack, and doing fantastic with it as well. But since work kept getting held back and ultimately lost when my computer got fried, he wanted some of the work to be shown. (The Quest boss tune can actually be heared in Castle Crashers at the final boss. When things weren't panning out he gave the track to Tom Fulp. It's pretty neat, you can actually hear the theme song he developed for the quest in part of the song)

Ultimately however, everything was lost and with my world going crazy, i wasn't really able to get things back on track.

Eventually, Joseph Blanchette started up "The Matrix Has You Again" and i got my dream part of doing the Highway Chase scene. That project didn't work out either, but it rejuvinated my want to get back into the flash world,
and that's when I started working on Canthos (my current major project) which is nearing completion.

What's going to happen now!

So there's everything that's happened to me. I'm sorry to the people who've been let down, HOWEVER, don't despair. As it happens, I made the decision that I wanted to re-invent shadows of azeroth as an original trilogy. I've got Joseph (aka legendary frog) doing voices and character design, I'm working on scenery and script as well as production and direction, Mark Shnider (Th1rt3en) doing the animation, and i'm so far undetermined as to who will write the soundtrack.
I didn't round up 2 other artists because I wanted to be lazy, keep in mind, but because I wanted it to be like a real movie. I wanted to have a team of people dedicated to their individual part of the production.
The new working title is "Legends of the Black" and the groundwork is already being laid while i finish up Canthos and the Compass of Fate. All 3 parts of Legends will be released in a row so there's no chance for me to get sidetracked.

There's other future projects in the works as well, I won't name any titles or ideas yet however untill they're more developed.

Keep your eyes open for Canthos! I'm only days away from finishing up the demo (first level and first boss with cutscenes in place)!

What happened, and what's happening now


Comments

Good luck! From most of what I see, flash trilogies are hard to pull through. I can't wait to see what you and Joey come up with. I loved the WoW parody you did however so long ago, and I'm a little disappointed that your PC died and I won't get to see the sequel.

But this new thing sounds totally awesome.

yeah, it's really exciting! Since Legends of the Black is a remake of the WoW thing, the overal plot is fairly similar, but i've built on the characters and universe a little to make it more in depth.

The first episode is somewhat similar, and though I tried to re-invent a lot of the humor to be totally original, a couple things i just couldn't get rid of (The wolf eating river for example) but fortunately I've taken great care to build into it and add a lot more in that I'm sure will overshadow anything i've done before.

"bet you wont finish it"
submission: WoW-ShadowsOfAzeroth pt1
date: March 6, 2006

Me: it was great, the warlock was funny, he's an idiot but he's not the stupidest character, not sure what the gnome was supposed to be, but i hope you dont get bored with the series and cut it off in the middle.
Author's Response:

Why in the world would I do that? I'm already getting all the art and voices done for Part2 as we speak.

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ah well...judging from the first one, it looked like too much work.

well, i had gotten all the stuff together and it was nearly done, but i can't help that it all got lost. a remake to the entire series i think is more than what you get from most people.

I just have to finish Canthos first, which has hit some snags in the musical department as well as we're climbing nearer and nearer the file size limit and i'm trying to find ways to be creative to get around it.

Yo man, can i have a part in Legends of the Black? :3