Europa

[Kiwi27]

I'm making this for Vinka, for obvious reasons. I don't actually work at the server. Think of me as the publicist. Teehee.

Many members may know or have heard of the server Europa, which came up a while ago and was really pretty, before disappearing for various reasons. Now, it's back, and Vinka is working on it. It has the same pretty graphics style, but he has decided on a new style for the server:

"Events will be one of the main drives and stimulators of the economy, with the implementation of the three classes (at level 10) combat/sparring will be a big part too."

So, basically, events will play a large role in the server. Once you reach level 10, through various members, you choose a class (mage, soldier, or assassin), sparring and combat will play a larger role. Here's a background Vinka made for the classes.

Vinka is looking for people to aid him in animations and scripting, but is welcome to people wanting to help in the area of SFX. If you're interested, either contact him through Skype (VinkaThom) or email ([email protected]).

Here are a few screenshots of the server:
The Town Square (it's actually a long rectangle, but you know)

The Magic Shop

The Battle Arena (My personal favourite)

The Events House

The Inn

Blob Baddies

If you want to look around, you can log in right now. The server name is (obviously) Europa.

[shrimps]

Love the graphics and tiles.

[Kiwi27]

Here are the two backgrounds Vinka has made:



And, here's the thread on Graalians. It's probably going to be a lot more active than this, so more questions will probably be raised and answered:
http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11376

[BlueMelon]

Love the style of graphics!
Good work!

[papajchris]

vinkas back?

[JesusFreak250]

Originally Posted by papajchris

vinkas back?

Yeah, Ikr? It looks epic! Good job

[kia345]

Thank god you kept that inn design, that was my favorite part.

[Ducati_Link]

Awesome, as usual

and the Inn is the best design.

[Elk]

very heavy resources

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Elk

very heavy resources

ya, might need a pentium 4 X_X

[smirt362]

Still loving that graphical style

[Kiwi27]

Vinka says thank you. :3

He now has two scripters to help him, which is good, but he's still looking for more. He also says that Darlene should read her forum-PM from Bell regarding his unbanning.

[Kiwi27]

Originally Posted by Emera on Graalians

typing this to make the length okay

[Emera]

This video shows the updates we've made to the karts.

[Ducati_Link]

Originally Posted by Crono

ya, might need a pentium 4 X_X

haha - that made me laugh out loud in an awkward situation.

[Clockwork]

Servers very pretty! :O

You need to update your old stuff tho, you've gotten much better at doodling @ vinka :3

[Emera]

[DustyPorViva]

Why doesn't anyone want to put the effort into getting real car physics in Graal? It's not that hard.

[Tricxta]

Originally Posted by Emera

Needs more mario-ness, some pits and jumps would be cool.

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Tricxta

Needs more mario-ness, some pits and jumps would be cool.

I think it needs a lot more polish tbh.

[Emera]

Originally Posted by Fulg0reSama

I think it needs a lot more polish tbh.

It's not completely finished yet :3

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Emera

It's not completely finished yet :3

It's clear that it's not finished lol.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Tricxta

Needs more mario-ness, some pits and jumps would be cool.

Originally Posted by Fulg0reSama

I think it needs a lot more polish tbh.

needs more bass

[Tim_Rocks]

It's a cute start though!

[Emera]

[Tricxta]

Cool, might I say i'm deeply impressed by your concepts presented in your videos.

[Emera]

Originally Posted by Tricxta

Cool, might I say i'm deeply impressed by your concepts presented in your videos.

Glad to know we're pleasing people. We've been working our buts off for nearly a week now, and we don't plan on stopping any time soon. Our current goal is to get Europa on to the hosted list, which shouldn't be too much of a problem if we keep on with what we're doing now.

Edit: Here's some updated screenshots of some of the content we have been working on.

• Event shop - You can spend EC you have won from winning events here on fun toys and items.
• Normal shop - You can spend Gralats here on different items. We have currently only got hats for sale, but we will be adding some more items soon.
• Game house - Can also be called the event lobby. You will warp here after finishing an event. Event champions will also be shown here on the trophies you can see in the top portion of the image.
• Magic school - This area currently serves no purpose, but it may gain a use in the future ^_^

[Kiwi27]

Europa is now hosted. Huzzah!

[JesusFreak250]

Whoop!

[Tricxta]

Some things.
The server's still way to plain as of yet to actually warrant being on hosted in my opinion. I completely against chat based shops and I think they're a cheap way out. You've got a talented graphics artist, you should be able to come up with something. There's a bug when you exit a building while holding down + left you'll end up repeatingly trigger the exit script.

Go back to hidden and work on something more impressive, then come out and impress us. Pretty graphics isn't going to cut it with this project, nor is replicating kingdoms. Come up with some fresh ideas, activities players can do apart from cutting bushes and then consider unvealing the server. That's only my opinion though.

[papajchris]

Congrats guys!