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Off-Topic => Archive => Old Game Discussion => Topic started by: Bluhman on July 16, 2005, 07:58:03 PM

Title: The Blade of the Rural
Post by: Bluhman on July 16, 2005, 07:58:03 PM
Well this is an RPG that has been put off for a long, LONG time. I've been recently crawling along with the storyline, and now I've decided that it's time to lug this pile of undefinable valuables into the limelight.

STORY: YOU... Are a farmer, named Darund Thraywust. Your farming skill has been recognized by the emperor, Rayegar, who guides his empire, Nigdan. He has ordered all the farmers within the land to deliver their crop to his castle for a mighty feast, celebrating Rayegar's seventh year of Emperorship. Even with all the assistance of his fellow farmers, Darund is squelched. Seeing this, Rayegar advises his advisors to tell you to take a break. Darund decides to go over to the Nigdan Fair and meet up with his friends. Unfortunatley, a strange man shows up, he doesn't seem to be doing anything worthwhile at the fair. Suspecting something, and attempting to try and understand what he is doing, your friends ask him what he's doing here. This man, Zises, tells them that one day he shall ascend into the heavens and join the gods. Of course, your friends don't reply to that too politley, so Zises goes and slaughters them. After that, he flees the scene, when two unwitting guards come in and suspect that you killed all of the men laid infront of you. So you're transported to Nigdan Castle to be put under maximum security. From there, you escape, and then I refuse to go on because the rest is a bit more segnifigant.

(Heck might as well go a bit further)

So you escape. After escaping from the dungeon, you confront the emperor trying to convince him that you didn't kill the friends. The Emperor is unsure what he should do, so he takes the matter to court. They conclude that Darund did kill them, so he is sent to be beheaded by Cloog Moos. Cloog actually witnessed what had happened at the fair that day, and thus refused to execute Darund. Darund and Cloog flee to a nearby town, where they plan what they should do next. Thus they travel along to find more about Zises and stop him, whilst running from the empire.

CHARACTERS:
Darund Thraywust
Age: 28
Occupation: Farmer
Weapon: Polearms of many shapes and types
Bio: Look above. I'm too lazy to reiterate myself. Nice person, if not a bit less sacrifical for the cause of others. The only thing that drives him is the fear that such a thing that had happened at the fair were to happen again with the friends he gathers on his hunt for Zises.

Cloog Moos
Age: 24
Occupation: Soldier
Weapon: European Long Blades
Bio: The guard who expirienced the murder of Darund's friends first-hand. Incedentially, he's also the executioner sent by Rayegar to end Darund once and for all. Of course, having seen what had happened to Darund's friends, he sided with Darund in his hunt for Zises. He's strong willed, if not somewhat direct. What he believes, he believes is right, which is not always so.

Liann Nabamona
Age: 25
Occupation: Gloomhunter
Weapon: Fist-weilded weapons (Including knuckles, punchblades, claws, and katars)
Bio: A traveller met upon the road. Seeing this, her past is somewhat rough to Darund and the others, though she seems to have some sort of link with Zises. She's unforgiving and uncooprative, but she knows what she's doing very well, and will do anything to get back at Zises.

Dateri Meatpoof
Age: 37
Occupation: Magician
Weapon: Canes (Just to note, he uses it like a rapier)
Bio: A master magician. His tricks are admired by all, even trained wizards raise an eyebrow to this man. Dateri joins Darund when he is found amongst the desserted ruins of the town of Tualda Vale. He is an incredible actor, a very strong sense of personality, though he is very haughty, being used to his servants taking care of him.

Lacaye Alddarenth
Age: 18
Occupation: Guardian
Weapon: Warhammers and Axes
Bio: Lacaye is a soldier over in the foreign continent of Roth'ton. She takes in Darund after an incedent with the empire. Because no boats go to Nigdan from Roth'ton, Darund is stuck there. Lacaye is compassionate and smart, but at heart, she is quite cowardly and will back away from many a challenge if she's not sure what will happen.

Mosdrae Athos
Age: 63
Occupation: Agent
Weapon: Crossbow, Musket
Bio: ?!!?!?!?!@#@#

Now... With SCREENSHOTS!


Darund shows a guard how awesome he is by posing like a weirdo.


The world is a dangerous place...


A scene... involving a kid who knows too much and a SHADY MAN!!!

Oh, and people agitated by the slow movement, you can press shift to start running.
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Post by: Lighting Half Dozen on July 18, 2005, 06:17:36 PM
Interesting, why not call it Finda Morkan1?
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Post by: Moosetroop11 on July 18, 2005, 06:39:28 PM
Wow, love the character names. Cloog moos? Genius!

Not a bad story, although a bit strange at points. The king advises his advisers to tell a farmer to take a break???
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Post by: Bluhman on July 19, 2005, 01:14:08 AM
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Originally posted by Moosetroop11
Not a bad story, although a bit strange at points. The king advises his advisers to tell a farmer to take a break???


Rayegar IS a rather fair emperor might I tell you.
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Post by: RPG LORD on July 28, 2005, 07:02:40 AM
What's the difference between European and American long blades?
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Post by: X_marks_the_ed on July 28, 2005, 03:05:03 PM
One's from Europe, and one is from America.
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Post by: True Evil on July 28, 2005, 05:33:07 PM
This is gonna be a great game! And for the title, you could call it  The Life of Darund Thraywust or  Darund Thraywust's Quest or something like that. I can't wait for a demo  :jumpin:  :jumpin:
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Post by: Bluhman on July 28, 2005, 05:57:50 PM
Anyone who cares can visit the unfinished gamesite here: http://www.freewebs.com/bluhman/

And now the game demo is up for grabs at http://rapidshare.de/files/3787434/BOTR.zip.html
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Post by: drenrin2120 on July 29, 2005, 02:40:16 AM
I never get it... how the hell do you use Rapidshare?
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Post by: chocobomaster09 on July 29, 2005, 05:07:58 AM
looking good man, keep up the good work!
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Post by: Bluhman on July 31, 2005, 08:16:41 PM
OK... Well I need some sidequest ideas for my game. Anyone who can give me one will be credited.
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Post by: chocobomaster09 on August 01, 2005, 05:24:04 AM
you could put maybe a farming mini game or somthing, since your char is a farmer, add some more side quests that maybe make him a better farmer. and maybe a better farmer, will do better in that mini game, and maybe you could win like stuff or somthing...maybe     (Z)
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Post by: Bluhman on August 04, 2005, 06:42:43 PM
If i'm going to actually finish a game, I'm going to need some idea of what people want to see.
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Post by: Unknownkid on August 07, 2005, 07:23:23 PM
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Originally posted by drenrin2120
I never get it... how the hell do you use Rapidshare?


scroll down, you will see 2 buttons: Free and Premium. Click on FREE and you will be directed to a new page. scroll down again and you will see that there is a timer, means you have to wait 25-22 secs. then the link appears...

EDIT: edited out xD

Edit2: edited out xD

Edit3: When I go out, I suddenly stuck in the door and he says "Ah, finally I am in..blah", and it seems like that he is talking to the side of the door....if that supposely should happen IN the bar, then this is a mistake..^^'
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Post by: Bluhman on August 07, 2005, 08:10:56 PM
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Originally posted by Unknownkid
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Originally posted by drenrin2120
I never get it... how the hell do you use Rapidshare?


scroll down, you will see 2 buttons: Free and Premium. Click on FREE and you will be directed to a new page. scroll down again and you will see that there is a timer, means you have to wait 25-22 secs. then the link appears...

EDIT: edited out xD

Edit2: edited out xD

Edit3: When I go out, I suddenly stuck in the door and he says "Ah, finally I am in..blah", and it seems like that he is talking to the side of the door....if that supposely should happen IN the bar, then this is a mistake..^^'


Err... I mistakedly placed the start point completley wrong. FIXING... :eyes:
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Post by: Bluhman on August 07, 2005, 08:24:20 PM
OK! It's fixed, you should start out on a black screen with a text box that asks if you want to skip the intro.

WARNING1: It's 11MB...

WARNING2: You need WINRAR to open it up.

WARNING3: There are savegames that were left over from testing. I never would intend them to be used for start points if you're stuck, but do what you will with them.

Once again: The download link: http://rapidshare.de/files/3787434/BOTR.zip.html

Edit: The link is updated to ver 1.2. It doesn't require WINRAR anymore, but it's moved up to 13 mb. >_<;
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Post by: Unknownkid on August 08, 2005, 01:01:39 PM
Hm, ok I really like the game so far.
I found these bugs so far:
~ After my friends got killed and after I met Dallas, when I got to one room somewhere inside there, there are some Javelins, right? I seem to get unlimited javelins, each time i 'talk' to it..O.o

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~When we are in Cotswold, after I found Cloog and when i go into his house (or is it?) and when i go out of it, Darund still asks himself where Cloog is....and the woman also still says that Darund seems to look for someone, even if I already found him...^^'

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edited out xD

Edit3: After I am out of the cave, I see the new party member and a troll. After Darund striked it, an error appears "char148 cannot be opened..." <_<
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Post by: Bluhman on August 08, 2005, 07:52:56 PM
About the javelins' I'm not quite sure how to limit the ammount of them you get...
The other problems, I'm on it.
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Post by: Bluhman on August 08, 2005, 08:32:56 PM
 _sweat_ Stupid placeholder titlescreen now. Looks like this:
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Post by: Bluhman on August 08, 2005, 09:16:58 PM
Hopefully this is completley fixed. Download updated. Go to previous posts for the demo.
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Post by: Unknownkid on August 09, 2005, 12:04:15 PM
nice title. ^^
found a bug in pendrake:
~ When I go into the Potion shop, and when i exit it, i am staying in front of the weapon shop instead!

Gonna post more, if I found any...

Edit1: W00t, that's the end of the demo, when i rest at the inn?? ^^
That stinks. I want to play more :P Oh well. I find it very good so far, i must really say ^^
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Post by: Bluhman on August 09, 2005, 01:51:45 PM
Yes the demo ends at the inn. I knew of the bug RIGHT after I zipped it and uploaded it. Didn't wanna go through all the pain of uploading again. Anywho, Working on Ver 1.3 now.
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Post by: Unknownkid on August 09, 2005, 06:31:58 PM
hm, did u used a faceset generator for the facesets? or did u found them on the net? sorry if this sounds noobish but, if you made them with a generator on this site, then i couldn't find it at all...>.<
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Post by: Bluhman on August 09, 2005, 06:44:16 PM
Used a generator.
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Post by: Unknownkid on August 09, 2005, 06:52:06 PM
really?! cause i can't seem to find that basic face.... _sweat_
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Post by: Bluhman on August 09, 2005, 07:30:25 PM
Sorry. Used a DOWNLOADED generator. Tis very nifty. Shame it's not on the site...
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Post by: Pythis on August 17, 2005, 08:22:04 AM
Nice game man. 4.5/5. It was very short and kept me longing for more, that is what keeps me wanting to play. If you need someone to make charactersets midis or ideas I'm your man. I'll even beta test heack Ill do all 4. This game is looking good so far keep it up. By the way the game is way to easy when your able to get javalins. There unlimeted wherever you see the javelin boxes. Limit it to 5 or just 1. There really powerful and it makes the game really easy. Nice effects too.
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Post by: Bluhman on August 17, 2005, 06:22:43 PM
Thanks. I'll try and figure out something with the javelins.
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Post by: Bluhman on August 24, 2005, 06:30:02 PM
Version 1.3 is up for download!

This version goes a bit farther into the game, up to the point where you join forces with Dateri, and meet Lacaye. A few graphical tweaks with a few characters, the javelin bug fixed, and a new sidequest in Pendrake.

Download available  here (http://rapidshare.de/files/4329232/BOTR.zip.html) .

Warnings:
Actually, Just discovered the Javelin Bug is NOT QUITE fixed...

The new sidequest in Pendrake is actually kind of buggy; you can end up doing it again and again.

Almost 14MB in size, due to sound effects
Title: Pah, who the heck cares!?
Post by: Bluhman on August 31, 2005, 05:02:34 PM
I've decided that, obviously, nobody even cares this one exists. So I've decided that I'll NOT stop working on this game, but instead won't release another version of it until it is completley done. On the other hand, I'm going to try and make another game, So don't expect this thread to be updated in a LOOOOONG time and look out for another game!  ;)
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Post by: RPG LORD on August 31, 2005, 05:05:47 PM
Well, I just checked this, I  do care. It's just that I still have lots of work to do on my own game and that school starts tomorrow also.