NEWS

UPDATED 06/26/09

ARCADEHEROES.COM have posted an article on our new site and our new SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ARCADES initiative! Check it out here
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Our new site has gone live!
Several new screenshots posted

UPDATED 04/28/09
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All sites are being redone, please check back to see all the news updates.
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Galloping Ghost Production is starting an initiative to help arcades grow
and expand their business.  Check out the new
SUPPORT YOU LOCAL ARCADE page
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10/09/08

Our 42" Dark Presence arcade cabinet is nearing completion.  The game is currently playing from the cabinet.  Check back for a full breakdown of the cabinet very soon, but to see pictures of it now CLICK HERE

08/15/08

New Galloping Ghost Productions and Dark Presence T-Shirts and other merchandise has been added to the store!

05/24/08

Check out our downloads page for the new Dark Presence desktop wall paper.

Also the new Dark Presence arcade flyer is finished.  Check out all four on the main
Dark Presence page.

We have a new Dark Presence logo!

Now you can check out the latest
Galloping Ghost news on your Mobile Phone.  Just go to: http://www.gallopingghostproductions.com/mobile/index.html

03/24/08

When Dark Presence is released in arcades, it will be available with four different monitor sizes  26", 32", 42" and 65"!  Each cabinet will have a basic and deluxe version.  Stay tuned for more information.


02/29/08

Veil is fully chromakeyed!  236 basic moves consisting of 12,105 frames.

01/29/08

We boosted our games' resolution to 1920x1080p!

12/08/07

Vamphyrial is fully chromakeyed!  239 basic moves consisting of 16,105 frames.  The most frames per character so far.

11/12/07

We have posted a new screen shot of
KIN KADE vs. MIND MASTER!
  

Our energy bars and shadows are still being worked on. But this will give a look at what our in-game action will look like.  More to come, please check back often...we will be posting more screen shots as well as a fight video soon.

11/08/07

We are currently hiring sketch artists.  Please check our employment page for more information!

10/04/07

Thanks to everyone who responded to our weekend giveaway promotion.  Check back as we will have more contests and promotions soon.

In other news, the chromakey process continues.  We are working on the new Vamphyrial background (a sketch will be posted soon.  We have been working with adding more moves to the playable game...we may be posting a demo video soon...please check back. 

09/28/07
GALLOPING GHOST
WEEKEND GIVEAWAY
(CLOSED)

As a show of appreciation to our fans who have been watching our site thought the game production, the first 10 emails we receive will win prize.  The first 3 emails will get a Galloping Ghost Production Staff shirt and then following 7 emails will get two of the Dark Presence or Conquering Light character pins.  Send us an email with "Galloping Ghost Contest" in the subject line to Ghostlord@GallopingGhost.Com

09/19/07

Kyla is fully chromakeyed!  256 basic moves consisting of 15,787 frames.

07/26/07

WILSON fully chromakeyed!  233 basic moves consisting of 12,173 frames.

07/23/07

The Dark Presence finishing move contest is over. Thank you for all the responses.  Check back as we will be doing this again in the future.

07/17/07

Added a screen shot of Mind Masters background entitled the Road to Nowhere.  Check it out in his character page.

07/13/07

Galloping Ghost finishing move contest is here!  Be one of the first 10 people to contact us and we will let you see one of our finishing moves in action.

07/12/07

New items added in the Galloping Ghost Store

06/10/07

Attended day 2 of the Midwest Gaming Classic.

06/01/07

3d artists working on 2nd background.  Screenshots coming soon.

05/22/07

3d artists working on 1st background.  Screenshots coming soon.

05/01/07

MIND MASTER fully chromakeyed!  168 basic moves consisting of 9,324 frames. 

04/24/07

RAVONA fully chromakeyed!  245 basic moves consisting of 13,795 frames.

04/09/07

TITAN fully chromakeyed!  244 basic moves consisting of 14,983 frames.

03/14/07

Kin Kade fully chromakeyed!  216 basic moves consisting of 14,966 frames.

12/12/06

Moving into new post-production studio.

09/17/06

Moving out of filming studio. 

09/06/06

All filming complete for both Dark Presence and Conquering Light!  Hundreds of hours of filming all done!

06/10/05

Filming begins for both Dark Presence and Conquering Light.

11/01/04

Pre-Production begins for both Dark Presence and Conquering Light.

 

PROGRESS

11/07/08

We have finished greenscreening all the characters for DARK PRESENCE!!  It was almost a two year effort to complete the greenscreening process (its easy to see why other companies just go with 3D characters.  Our final totals are, 2571 basic moves consisting of 151,044 frames.  Again that is not counting our finishing moves.  

11/06/08

We have finished finally wrapped up our filming studio completely!  We finished taking our photos of our cabinet on the greenscreen and will be posting them soon

11/04/08

Kyla's stage music is now fully arranged and should have all its tracks recorded soon

10/22/08

We have finished filming again! We've filmed 30 new reaction moves for each character.  300 moves for Dark Presence and 570 moves for Conquering Light.  We are finishing up greenscreening for basic moves, which will be a huge step forward in post production.

10/18/08

We have finished greenscreening Veil's new basic moves.  He comes in at 270 moves and reactions and 13,990 frames of animation.

We are down to 75 basic moves to greenscreen!!! 

10/09/08

   We are wrapping up our filming studio again.  We have two filmings to go and then we will be back in full post production mode.  

Trenton is almost fully greenscreened.  Only 57 of 305 moves left.  Easily our biggest and hardest to greenscreen character so far.

08/15/08

Our arcade cabinet design has been finalized!
Check back as we will post pictures soon! We have really put a lot of effort in to make even our arcade cabinet stand out.  It will still have the prize dispenser and several other features!

Ravona's background - Inside the Mansion, 1st Floor is in its modeling and texturing phase.  Its looking really impressive so far and will be one of our largest fighting areas!

The greenscreening of Trenton continues.  About 120 moves of his 307 basic moves are done!

05/24/08

Our other sites are all up and running:
GallopingGhostProductions.com
Dark-Presence.com
ConqueringLight.com

28 NEW moves are being added to both the Dark Presence and Conquering Light moves list.

Titan's Alley stage is almost complete.  It will be out longest level so far, clocking in at over 6000 pixels.  Check back for screenshots

Ravona's stage music is in the recording phase and should be done very soon.

03/03/08

1,987 of 2,255 basic moves chromakeyed.

9 of 10 characters chromakeyed for 
DARK PRESENCE.

Current frame count for DARK PRESENCE basic moves is 117,641.

01/27/08

NEW Background completed and posted!
Veil - THE DOJO.  Martial Artists and fans of Wushu will hopefully like the collection of Chinese weapons that hang on its wall.  3 backgrounds done, 7 to go.  

12/08/07

1,751 of 2,260 basic moves chromakeyed.

8 of 10 characters chromakeyed for 
DARK PRESENCE.  Getting close to being done with basic moves.

Current frame count for DARK PRESENCE basic moves is 105,477.

11/12/07

We are currently working on 2 new backgrounds, Veil - Dojo and Vamphyrial - 2nd Floor inside the Mansion.  Screen shots will be posted soon.

09/19/07

1,512 of 2,260 basic moves chromakeyed.

7 of 10 characters chromakeyed for 
DARK PRESENCE.

Current frame count for DARK PRESENCE basic moves is 89,372.

07/26/07

1,389 of 2,260 basic moves chromakeyed.

5 of 10 characters chromakeyed for 
DARK PRESENCE.

Current frame count for DARK PRESENCE basic moves is 65,241.

07/23/07

MIND MASTER background The Road to Nowhere is complete!

07/12/07

1,256 of 2,260 basic moves chromakeyed.

Current frame count for DARK PRESENCE basic moves is 53,068.

4 of 10 characters chromakeyed for 
DARK PRESENCE.

KYLA, ??????, and WILSON are all over 50% done and nearing completion.

1 of 10 backgrounds modeled and animated, WILSON - Rooftop.

2nd background in final touches stage, 
MIND MASTER - Road to Nowhere.

3rd background in sketching stage,
VEIL - Dojo