Black Lotus

Overview

Black Lotus is a teambased hack'n slash mod for Warcraft III.
It's based in dark asian fantasy world. 2 Teams named as
Wolf Clan (good) & Black Lotus (evil) fight each other to achieve victory.
Battles are fought between hero's and armies +50 men and demons.
Between fighting you need to do tasks to win your enemy. Tasks
include things like capturing objectives.

Wolf Clan's goal is to close the demon gate of Black Lotus and defend
thier village.

Black Lotus' goal is to destroy the village of Wolf Clan and defend
their demon gate.

Features

This mod introduces hack'n slash combat system to the warcraft III.
It has been done by following some of the greatest hack'n slash console games
like Dynasty warriors and Ninja Gaiden.

• BNet compatible.
• Can hold up to 10 players online.
• Fluid combat system with loads of action, blood and gore.
• Exciting arcade feeling.
• Custom skills, models, animations, skins, sounds and music.
• More information when the mod progresses.

The Crew

demonic pidgeon aka v3Bu (Project leader, Terrainer, art, sounds and music)
Diehard@Azeroth (Triggerer)
You?

Recruitment

Black Lotus is looking for people to fill the seats in our team. If
you don't mind joining the team, single requests are also very welcome.

We currently need:

• Triggerers - GUI/JASS, to tweak the combat system
• Modellers - We need 2 models for our demo map... (and doodads)
• Animators - ...and those two needs to be animated...
• Skinners - ...and skinned.
• Effecters - Yes, you need knowledge of gui and artistic eye to make skills look cool using effects.
• Story writer - Also needed to make this mods background information more interesting

Credits
People who have already given their effort for this project:

KiD-X
YoshiRyu
RED BARON
valkemiere
Black_Stan

Thank you!

Early stages

In Asian clans, We were doing a micromanagement-game-system based in your mouse reaction time and speed. Then we came to a conclusion that arcade style hack'n slash would work better and be more interesting
(especially in Bnet, which is full of DoTa these days). Our goal is to be something "different" and to give people something "new". We started again from scratch and now we are working with terrain and triggers.

No pictures available yet since I'm trying to find a good atmosphere for the testmap. Testmap is about defending your village from Black Lotus -waves. It's only for testing the combat system and showing people what to expect. Now we need some help to get our testmap out. Triggerers are the most wanted people at the moment.

Other things:
Suggestions for resources of doodads of asian nature replicas are also needed or something which looks similiar.

Game overview might change if people demand this to be a survival hack'n slash.

11/10/07
Major progress in triggering. Diehard@Azeroth achieved to make the combat system work with great quality.

I have been doodling with map editor and made some sketches and measurements of the testmap.

11/11/07
Valkemiere did some really good job with skinning. Chech attachments for result.