Charas-Project
Off-Topic => Archive => Old Game Discussion => Topic started by: SilverBlade on October 01, 2006, 08:28:06 AM
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"Long ago, when there was only darkness, a strange power was formed. A goddess was created, Ghayla, also named the ArchAngel. She gave birth to 4 elements, Igni(Fire), Aqua(Water), Venta(Wind) and Humi.
Together they made the world that we now call Gor. As the elements ruled their world, they began to get jealous of eachother and soon enough, a war was started.
Mother Ghayla was furious, ashamed for her daughters greed she made a Blade, the ArchBlade, a holy blade that made the war stop.
Ghayla took the rulership of Gor for her own and banned her daughters to the darkness. But they refused...they killed their mother and with the last words mother Ghayla told them that 10 000 years later, someone will revenge her with her ArchBlade. And when that day will happen, she will rule once more.
Well, that is the folksstory at least...want to know the real story? Follow me, Yeru, a normal peasant. My life was normal and I never complained, but then something happened. Some sort of punishment...And now I have to do something terrible. What did I do wrong? Why do I need to kill?"
When you first read the story you probably think 'CLICHE!!!' and I'm aware of it. But that's what I want you to think. I am also sick of clichés, so this RPG will have major twists and slowly, the main subject, the 'ArchBlade', will fall to the background.
I'm making it on RPG Maker XP, it's a ABS System with magic and Combos.
Yea, indeed, combos! You can mix your magic attacks to create even stronger and new magic!
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Features
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-Made on RMXP(=good graphics)
-ABS System
-Magic+Combo's(20+ different combinations!)
-50+ monsters
-Food and Drink system
-HP, MP, Food and Drink bars, verry accurate(up to 10% exactly!)!
-Lots of items
-6 Different outfits!
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Tell me what you think about it,
SiLvErBlAdE
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Mmm... It's good, but you should work on it a little more, try to explain a little bit more about what's going on.
[GLOW]BraveHeart[/GLOW]
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Sorry, I didn't have much time to type it. I added some stuff to the text. I hope that's better. It's just hard to explain a mysterious story, I don't want to spoil it all :happy:
Anyway, Is it now better?
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It actually sounds pretty good. ABS's are always cool.
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Thx :) , it's a lot of work, but it's worth it.
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Ok, here's some information about the characters.
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Name: Yeru
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Gender: Male
Age: 22
Personality: Caring, brave and always optimistic.
Weapon: ArchBlade
-Yeru used to be a normal peasant boy, raised by his father(his mother died when he was born). He's father learned him to battle and to farm. Everything was going well in Yeru's life untill one day a messenger tells him that his best friend Redek died. This event lead to a mysterious discovery that threw over whole his simple life-
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Name: Redek
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Gender: Male
Age: 23
Personality: Direct and a good judgement.
Weapon: -
-As Yeru's best (childhood)friend he often came to visit Yeru. Redek always thought that the gods were made up even that Yeru didn't agree. On one day, he was murdered on a horrible way... -
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Name: Waram
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Gender: Male
Age: 35
Personality: Intolerant against anything that's weak.
Weapon: Double Katana
-This mysterious person is a member of an organisation named R.E.G. . But for some reason he keeps getting in the way of Yeru.-
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Name: Ralph
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Gender: Male
Age: 15
Personality: Cheerful and always try to prank people.
Weapon: Rod
-Ralph is an orphin and was adopted by Bishop Everu who learned him the powers of magic-
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Name: Bishop Evero
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Gender: Male
Age: 72
Personality: Wise and mysterious
Weapon: Hands(magic)
-Bishop Evero is the one that gives Yeru a mission, a mission that would turn Yeru's life upside down-
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Name: Marak
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Gender: Male
Age: 28
Personality: Not often sure of what he's doing, he seeks comfort with Waram.
Weapon: Axe
-Another member of R.E.G. . He always follows Marak and believes anything he says.-
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Name: Iava
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Gender: Female
Age: 19
Personality: Direct and cheerful
Weapon: Knives
-A thief and spy that joined R.E.G. Always smart but also treacherous.-
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Name: Infergi
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Gender: Female
Age: 26
Personality: Rash and easily angered.
Weapon: Staff
-Infergi is the queen of the Fire Empire. Even though she is short-tempered, she's a good and beloved leader.-
The rest is secret. How do you like it 'till now?
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Well, I'm curious, but we need some screens or something now.
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Hmmm, sound nice so far. I like the idea of using a cliche to build up to an original plot; it worked in Tales of Symphonia, and I'm using that method somewhat in my plot. I also would like to see some more though, and don't worry about spoiling the plot too much. If we don't see enough of the original parts, it doesn't do much good to tell us that the story isn't really cliche.
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Well, I don't have much ingame screens because I'm now experimenting a lot with the ABS system. But here's a pic from the intro. Tell me if you like it. I edited the world with photoshop to make a new world :D
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It's a little grainy around the sprites.
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Looks very nice. The planet doesn't look very spherical, though, and I think that the background could use stars or something. It's a bit empty.
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Is it just me or does the Earth Godess seem to have more kingdom, as earth primarily makes up the planet?
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The screenshot looks interesting, but it really should have stars, planets and such things.
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One of the things that bugs me m ost with RMXP is the font, and the charas. If you could have original font+old style charas with the power of RMXP it would kick!
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Originally posted by EXO Muffin
Is it just me or does the Earth Godess seem to have more kingdom, as earth primarily makes up the planet?
Thats when it gets technicl. Water would have a massive surface, earth would have the crust, but what about the molten core? Would the be the domain of the earth because it is molten rock, or of fire because of the intense heat that keeps it liquid.
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It's a little grainy around the sprites.
This is because I had to save the file in GIF. Or else, I couldn't upload it.
Looks very nice. The planet doesn't look very spherical, though, and I think that the background could use stars or something. It's a bit empty.
Is this better(see attachment)?
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Originally posted by EXO Muffin
Is it just me or does the Earth Godess seem to have more kingdom, as earth primarily makes up the planet?
Thats when it gets technicl. Water would have a massive surface, earth would have the crust, but what about the molten core? Would the be the domain of the earth because it is molten rock, or of fire because of the intense heat that keeps it liquid.
Well, each element has an eaqual power and the planet can't exist if one of them are destroyed.
Fire: The deep core of the earth, if this shouldn't exist, the earth wouldn't have a base(so the core is from the element fire, not earth)
Water: To drink, to sail and much more. As you know, we would die without it.
Earth: The mountains and the crust of the core. We wouldn't have much to stand on without it :happy:
Wind: The power to destroy houses, but makes weather changes etc.
As you can see, all is necessary.
PS: Is the picture better now?
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Here's my title screen, also made in photoshop. I know it looks kind of messy, but that because it's a gif.
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PNGs=Yes
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Ok, better?
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Big A looks like a U
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I know, I'm still working on that...I just can't realy find a better 'A'.
But how about the rest?
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Here's a new in-game screenshot. It's a cutscene where he's washing himself in the river.
Does it look good?
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The sprite is weird... and the mapping isn't too great either.
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I think I know your point, but it haves some reasons.
The sprite looks weird because of three reasons:
1. You didn't see him in his normal pose yet.
2. The pose that he's taking, is one of the three animations where he washes his face: They're are actualy three graphics of the character washing his face, rapidly shown after each other. This is just one of his last pose. That's why it gives a weird effect.
3. He's sitting on one knee, it might give a unlogical effect if you just see it like this.
The mapping is quit simple because it's a cutscene and I need it to be simple so the player won't be too much distracted.
Considering I said this all...I should post a better screen :happy:
Thanks for you comment anyway, do you(or anyone else) got some good advice perhaps?
PS: I made some new characters
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Okay, well atleast the sprite now makes sense. But a cutscene should have, if anything, more detail then a regular map BECAUSE it is a cutscene.
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Ok, I edited and put some light in it. Is it better now?
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Yes, but you might wanna do something about the top tree's square base.
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Do you have any kind of demo so I can play it a little because screens and words are not enough to judge the game.
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ACK I think you should tone down or take out that light.
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I hate square-tiled water.
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Yeah dude, the light is killing my eyes and doesn't make much sense.
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K, I'll fix that. But how can I fix the water?
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K, I made some updates but the river looks crappy to me. How can I make it better?
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make it less blocky. that's all I can say.
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I found a way to make the river less blocky:
I'm also following a mapping tutorial for RMXP. I will show you new screens soon!
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How's this!:
PS: There will be butterflies and birds later. I'm now just making the map without events.
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The shadows should be transparent. There's also an error in the cliffs in the circled area, I believe. Other than that, nice.
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Thanks, I didn't notice the error in the cliffs, I fixed it now. And about the shadows, I'm afraid I can't do anything about that :( .
I'm making my city now, it doesn't have citizens but as I said before, I'm making my map first(the reason is a bit tricky to explain, it has to do something with my ABS system).
Does it look good?
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Newest update of my city:
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It looks nice but isn't it stupid to have flowers on roof then on the window.
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I see your point but as I said before, I did a mapping tutorial for rmxp and it was a hint to do the flowers on the roof to. Maybe it looks better for you if you see the whole house(look at attachment).
And about the window flowers, it's not like I don't have none(look at attachment).
Thanks for the comment anyway :happy:
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It just looks funny to see flowers on roof.But do you have any demo of your game so I can try it out.
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Yeah, flowers on the roof are kinda weak, as well as those curves on the sides of the house, but otherwise a nice job.
Just because a tutorial you're following says "Do this" doesn't mean it's always an excellent idea. It's always good to add your own spin.
As for the shadows, I might be able to help you with that if you link to a copy of the XP chipset you're using.
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Ok, I deleted the flowers on the roof.
The demo is going to be out soon, I'm working realy hard on it.
Here's the chipset I'm using. It's a mix of two RTP chipsets:
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Hello again,
Like I said, I'm busy with the demo at the moment. But now, I'm going to learn some more about RMXP scripting and playing some other RMXP games to improve my game. Then I will continue with creating the demo.
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Ok, enough hesitating! I'm going back to work!
I made the Inn in my first town, Ciram Town. Notice the new frame below on your left. I made it today, it looks better than the previous bars, isn't it?
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Yes! It's finaly there, ladies and gentlemen!
Demo Version 1.0 of Archblade!
It's only a small demo that take 20 to 30 minutes and the combo system isn't used there yet.
BUT, this demo has been made so you can have a little taste of ArchBlade. I hope you enjoy it and make sure you put a comment.
PS: Also tell me if there are errors or bugs.
Here's the link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1660395/Archblade.exe.html
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How to play the game:
1. Download the file
2. Extract the file
3. Doubleclick on the red sun that has 'Game' after it.
4. Play!
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Now working on demo version 1.5:
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Features for demo 1.5:
-Combo System
-A hour or two gametime
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BUMP!
Lol, nobody played my game of 20 mintues yet...
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Second Bump -_-
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Well the thing is that at least I don not have a copy of RpgmXP and therefor I guess that I canīt play this...
And on a side note, I donīt think that there are that many members with it either.
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Well I downloaded the demo and tryed it .Now here is the problem the 2 bars are slowly emptying for no reason and you must allways make food to have them full.When I get to fight mode it wont attack characters.I press z to enter attack mode and press z again to hit enemies but it doesn't attack instead he sheets his sword back.It's happening to fast that he gets the sword.I thought for shore you'll have to play little more through game and he finds the sword.That sun is so bright.
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Lol, if you have read it well. You should know you have to press another button to attack -_-.
With Z you go in and out attack mode.
And again, if you read the tutorials then you should know that the bars are Food and Drink bars! You need to eat and/or drink to fill them!
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Originally posted by Prpl_Mage
Well the thing is that at least I don not have a copy of RpgmXP and therefor I guess that I canīt play this...
And on a side note, I donīt think that there are that many members with it either.
You don't need XP to play games made in it.
I'll try it out, since no else seems to be.
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You don't need XP to play games made in it.
Really? So if I download it I can play it using Rpgm2k3? Or doesnīt matter if I have anything installed?
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Don't need a thing but a working computer.
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Originally posted by Hell Angel
Don't need a thing but a working computer.
So I have passed on all those good-looking games all this time because I thought that you actually needed the maker...
Ah just crap.
Well Iīm gonna play this soon.
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Fighting is just way too hard. Nothing flows.
I don't know about you, but I sure don't get hungry that fast. The hero starves in like 15 minutes.
Aside from the systems, nothing seems real original. Throw some rocks at a cliff wall to have a cave magically appear? The whole 'using mortals for revenge' thing? Elementals as Gods? A great war? Having a close one die before the player even meet them? Come on, it's all very... Yes... Cliche. The story is boring and the character himself is the same as every RPG hero.
Sorry, but I don't think this one was ready for a demo, quite yet.
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Ehh... I don't know about this one dude... Fighting was pretty damn hard, I couldn't even attack and I was massacred by bats... BY BATS. I got cornered in and was unable to figure out how to attack. Plus, the storyline is cliche and kind of boring. The characters are boring and unrealistic, too.
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You should feel honored.
It's not very often I download other people's games.
The only reason I wanted to download this is to see how another created his ABS systems.
So, I downloaded it.
But, it didn't work on my computer, and I'm too lazy to figure out the problem.
Yes, feel very honored.
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Sorry that I didn't replie in a time. That's because I stopped this game a while ago. I'm making a new game, much better. I'm not going to tell anything about it yet, it's secret.