Shamensyth wrote:

Party Castle, the latest UGC-based community online game of Square Enix has entered its open beta test recently.

Japanese-style Party Castle is a massive virtual community MMO on the basis of the interaction of 3D characters. Its most notable feature is the character customization system. Maybe you will be surprised, who dares to boast its strong system in front of AION? It is known that AION is featured with delicate graphics, even a hair can be seen clearly in the game. However, Square Enix laughed. It said the character in Party Castle will be drawn by gamers instead of being scrolled.

Now I wonder if You can put in a face of Your favorite Anime Character in it and use it as well or if You really have to draw it Yourself.

How to draw? First, basic character models are prepared in order to be recognized by computers. Later players are free to draw other parts, including hairstyle, clothes and face. Players can even color them, just like drawing cartoons (Wow, anime style). The high flexibility means that you can put on any clothes to your character or even copy yourself into the game.

Character Motion Customization—besides several basic movements provided by the game, players are allowed to create other motions as they like. For instance, players can confer their habitual actions on a favorite character.

Not quite what I imagined but I guess the paste-a-face I was thinking of would be too much.

More interestingly, the character appearance and motions customized by players will be saved online and can be traded, which is similar to the free trade system in Second Life.

If you don't have the talent of drawing, what should you do? Will your character be ugly?
Take it easy! Like AION and other Korean online games, Party Castle is also in possession of a character adjustment system which provides great convenience for those players who are not good at drawing. Through this system, some basic faces, mouths and other materials are available, players only need to paste the organs to their character model and make some adjustments. Yes, your beautiful character can be created so easily! The official also plans to update more resources continuously.

Some basic faces, mouths and other materials are available, players only need to paste the organs to their character model and make some adjustments

I guess it can also cater to everyone, not just those with drawing talents.

Party Castle has the ability to convert 2D images into 3D models. That is to say, the 2D characters drawn by players can be transformed into 3D characters that will exist in the game. Additionally, players can even draw 3D characters directly if they know how.

In the motion customization system, the character's joints are quite flexible. Like making a flash, players can create several momentary postures by setting the motion frequency, period and other parameters on a timeline. After that, motion tweens will be generated automatically by the system.

Compared with AION and C9, is Party Castle better in the character customization system? 

I think yes but I doubt many will be playing this one since most Gamers like the usual killing stuff, ganinig levels, pvp, etc.

It is known that AION is featured with delicate graphics, even a hair can be seen clearly in the game. However, Square Enix laughed. It said the character in Party Castle will be drawn by gamers instead of being scrolled.

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