Thank you in advance for your interest in Project Tristania 2.
Well, first of all, Tristania 2 will take YEARS of work, since I have no programmers, modelists, graphicsists, so I have to do all this by myself. Whilst this wasn't so bad at Tristania3D which used EoD engine, Tristania 2 will be a bigger fish to fry. I have decided that Tristania 2 should use GZHexen engine, which is modern as can be, it's free, and it's also very flexible and can be easily modified. This also means working wit' it will give me a lot more work. If the game's creation requires 6 years, then it'll be 6 years - but eventually, it will be done. Even the Tristania band was interested in the project - I personally gave their own Collector's CD-ROM edition of Tristania3D at October 2 last year. I can tell you all about it...it was a great honour
This, however, doesn't apply to the Tristania 2 musical album. We can release it along with the game, but also we can release it sooner (I'll upload the album on Youtube once the game is completed, just to keep the whole project more organized). The GZHexen engine can handle digitized music (MP3), so what you and I compose shall be in the game during the levels. Every other song which is not included in the archive is already composed by me, or I will use Tristania songs for those particular levels (I am authorized by the band to do this, but Tristania's own track will not be included at our album of course).
Seeing that this game is mainly owned by the Tristania band itself, I figured that it should be a free project, the game itself will be also free to download & play, just like the first part.
Artists' freedom is not a problem...as you will see, these raw materials I have give them as many freedom as they'd like to have. My only ask is that the remastered song should be considerably similar to the raw material itself Once you listen some of them, you will see what I mean. Above this, I really don't mind - actually, I'm more than happy - to hear the artist's own interpretation of the song, they will also be included to the musical album of course I just really don't want to make the musicians do double-shifts when recomposing an MP3 song to MIDI is hard enough. Trust me, I did this quite a few times during Project Tristania3D with silentzorah.
Above this, you're truly free to remix and remake these raw material songs to your hearts' content. I am really happy that I can work together with such remarkable artists.
I'll respond to the PM right away!
Well folks - here is the package for you! (no virus, no registration, no adware)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1232275/Tristania2materials.zip