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Off-Topic => Archive => Old Game Discussion => Topic started by: SilverBlade on January 02, 2007, 10:12:23 AM

Title: Yin Yang
Post by: SilverBlade on January 02, 2007, 10:12:23 AM

Hi all, I present to you my game...:


                                       -Yin Yang-
                                 -Thread of Memories-  

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Story
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A man wakes up in a forest, next to a calm river. He keeps on mumbling 'Zamerden...Zamerden...' . Suddenly, he woke up, took a look around and figured out that he had no idea where he was or how he got there.
He only rememberd his name(You can choose his name).

After getting out of the forest, he asks around in a village what Zamerden is. It looks like it's a place far away. The hero is determinate to go to Zamerden, perhaps he might restore his memories in that way...

In his journey, he experience a lot of strange events. Sometimes, he gets dejà-vus about certain places or people(that's how he start remembering things). He also hears the complaining of villagers about the king, King Silaan. The hero remembers that he had a twin brother named Silaan...He could be his brother... King Silaan looks just the same as the hero...except that Silaan has white hair and the hero black hair...

Is this pure coincidence or is this the work of the Yin and Yang spirits?

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Bio
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-Hero-
Age: 22
Character: Coldhearted but a good feeling for justice
Background: (To be discovered in the game)
Weapon: Twin Blades

-Gorak-
Age: 18
Character: Always cheerful and always sneeky...
Background: Gorak's parents were killed in the Great War so he stayed with his uncle. Unfortunatly, his uncle wasn't wealthy either and so was the head of a thief Clan.
Weapon: Knives

-Maya-
Age: 19
Character: Clever and a big mouth
Background: Melissa's biggest desire is money...lots of money and lots of adventures! That's why she became a bounty hunter.
Weapon: Bow

-Viana-
Age: 21
Character: Supporting and trustable
Background: Viana has been chosen as the bride of King Silaan, even she didn't want to.
Weapons: Staff(/Magic)

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Features
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-Custom made battle chars
-Farming
-Banking
-Secret language to learn
-Extra menu where you can learn your skills, options and check what your current mission is
-Editable options(3 battle BGM's, 2 windowskins and textspeed)
-Skills learned by scrolls
-Lots of sidequests
-A big world to explore

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Screens
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Title Screen

 

Battle

 

Vimar Woods

 

On worldmap

 

Variden(town)

 

Extra Menu

 

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So, tell me what you think!

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Post by: Shadowless1 on January 02, 2007, 11:54:28 AM

sounds good, slightly cliche but whose game isnt, your maps look ok, keep up the good work

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Post by: aboutasoandthis on January 02, 2007, 04:44:57 PM

Will this feature the Ying-Yang twins? XD

If not, I'd change the title to Yin-Yang. This does look good like Shadowless1 said. I like that battle screen for some reason. My only real problem, some of the tiles like those wooden bridges look a little wierd. Keep it up.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 02, 2007, 05:06:06 PM

First, thank you all for the good comments :).

Secondly, they are indeed twins, I didn't realy made it clear in my intro story: I just said they were brothers. But it isn't a secret or anything, so it's not like I'm giving all the big secrets away ;).
Early in the game he remembers that he had a twin brother :).

Third, yes, I also think the wooden bridges are a little bit stupid...I'll work on it.

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Post by: aboutasoandthis on January 02, 2007, 05:27:09 PM

That isn't what I mean...

The Ying Yang twins are rappers who spelled their name wrong on purpose. The real term for the symbol is called "Yin and Yang."
There is no G in the first word. It was just funny.

Still looks good though.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 02, 2007, 05:27:24 PM

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The Ying Yang twins are rappers who spelled their name wrong on purpose. .

Oh lol, my bad. I don't know them ^^.
Anyway, I know that grammatical only Yin-Yang is correct but I think that Ying-Yang...sounds better. I don't know really how to explain. I just think it's nicer.

I fixed the stairs anyway. They look better now, don't they?

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Post by: aboutasoandthis on January 02, 2007, 05:34:03 PM

Much better.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 02, 2007, 07:16:58 PM

There, everybody said it should be Yin Yang, so there! I made it yin yang(look at the new title screen).

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Post by: Linkforce on January 02, 2007, 10:56:43 PM

Haven't read the story yet, but the screens are nice.  I'll read it when I have time.  ^^'

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Post by: Yhtomitsu on January 03, 2007, 03:10:50 AM

looks good silver blade can wait to play it and i like the screens

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Post by: coasterkrazy on January 03, 2007, 03:45:19 AM

Looks good! :)

Did you make that bchar? It looks nice and it's not the spritesized template. If you didn't, it's cool anyway. :p

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Post by: drenrin2120 on January 03, 2007, 04:36:46 AM

If done right, the story could come out really good. The maps are a good quality too. Keep up the work.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 03, 2007, 09:20:04 AM

Thank you all again for the good comments, it's a good motivation :).
To answer your questions: Yes, I made the battlechar but I did it as a big edit of another battlechar I found. It realy took some time.

The system2 is made by me :D. But if you don't like it, you still can switch it with another one in the game(which I didn't make).

About the demo...I don't know when I'll release one yet. I have written the story already, but I don't know where the first demo ends.
Anyway, I'm working hard on it and I hope to make a demo as soon as possible.

Title: It's going good!
Post by: SilverBlade on January 03, 2007, 04:07:13 PM

I'm working really hard and the gamemaking is going good. I'm now making the 'Mapmaker' who gives him a map of (a piece of) the world. In the game, you can open the map whenever you want.
The map is pretty simple and not complete, I didn't want to give away to much!
Tell me wat you think.

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Post by: Shadowless1 on January 03, 2007, 05:40:44 PM

it would look a bit nicer if the black lines blended in with the scroll colour to make it look older

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 03, 2007, 06:19:41 PM

Is this better? I kind of like the previous one more, but if you say this one's better, I'll take this one.

And I tried to make brown inkt instead of black inkt but that really looked bad! So don't tell me to do that!

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Post by: Shadowless1 on January 03, 2007, 06:40:48 PM

yes, looks very nice now

Title: New Screenshots!
Post by: SilverBlade on January 04, 2007, 01:32:08 PM

Here are some new battle screens! This is the battle with the second boss: Soldier Rox and Sergeant Vox

In Battle
 

Vox uses a potion
 

After Battle(The soldiers are kneeling btw)
 

Title: Demo Release
Post by: SilverBlade on January 04, 2007, 04:54:00 PM

My game's now about half an hour and I will release the demo when it's 1 to 2 hours.
So a demo will be released soon, I think.

I will need some betaplayers though, anyone wants to be one?

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Post by: Linkforce on January 04, 2007, 10:37:26 PM

I read the story and its basic.  Basic but can be made into something pretty good.  I like where this is going.  You've got some great screens and what seems to be interesting battles.  I think this is a game to look out for.  I await the demo release.  :)

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Post by: Moosetroop11 on January 04, 2007, 11:10:08 PM

Overall, it looks pretty impressive. Keep it up.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 05, 2007, 09:16:01 AM

Thx!

Anyway, I made a new titlescreen but I don't know wich I must choose. I like them both. Which one do you guys pick?

Old

 

New

 

 [SHADOW]SilverBlade[/SHADOW]

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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on January 05, 2007, 09:51:07 AM

I think if you too that bottom, made it less blurry and turned the white to red it'd be great.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 05, 2007, 10:19:47 AM

Like this?

 






Edit: Whoops, forgot the picture

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 05, 2007, 01:08:12 PM

-----------------This is my 100th post--------------

It looks a little blurry lucas, but what did you exactly to with it?

In my 100th post, I got something special to show, my new character in the game, Gorak the Thief!:

 

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 05, 2007, 01:52:11 PM

The blur tool, eh?

Anyway, I think I'm going to take my version. I kind of like yours to, but If I try it out on RPG Maker it looks a little big messy.
So thanks for helping me anyway, I apreciate it  :happy:

Title: let me know you made you game
Post by: lonewolf on January 05, 2007, 02:05:36 PM

looking good
i like to get to have a go at your game as
i like the looks of it

i was thinking it be like a japanese game
as you called it yin yang

but it good keep up the good work
you doing on it :bend:

Title: Rage!
Post by: SilverBlade on January 05, 2007, 03:44:50 PM

I just wanted to let you know that there's a special option in battle when your HP is low: Rage( it's a bit like the FF's Limit Break or Overdrive).

You will be able to do the best attack that you have!

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Post by: Linkforce on January 06, 2007, 05:06:29 AM

Nice rage thing man.  This is an overall solid game.  I'll definetly give the demo a try.  It makes me glad that there's one more RMer who knows what he's doing.  :)

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Post by: Meiscool-2 on January 06, 2007, 05:47:30 AM

Meh, I was bored, so I made a title. The text is hard to read, but in game its 400% sized, so it's easy to read in the game.

Use it if you want. I don't care.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 06, 2007, 08:53:38 AM

Wow! That's one awesome screen!

But the game's name is 'Thread of Memories' instead of 'Threads of Memories'. And if possible, could you make the background a little bit darker with black or red?

I'm not sure if I'll use it though, it doesn't really match the style of the game. Still, I appreciate it ;).

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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on January 06, 2007, 09:02:26 AM

I can't read the text. At all.

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Post by: Meiscool-2 on January 06, 2007, 10:17:41 PM

I didn't save the photoshop file, so I can't change the text. I could change the color, if I wern't so lazy.

Title: Going slower
Post by: SilverBlade on January 08, 2007, 03:44:31 PM

Now that christmas break is over, I can't work much anymore. An hour a day perhaps >.<...

So I will release a shortened version of my demo after it's ready and betatested. I will post it as soon as possible.


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Post by: SilverBlade on January 08, 2007, 05:55:05 PM

I thought you already was :D. Yes, you and an other friend of mine will betatest(and will appear in the credits btw ;)).

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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on January 15, 2007, 02:11:56 AM

...You're a bit touched in the noggin aren't you?

Title: Demo Release!
Post by: SilverBlade on January 17, 2007, 01:19:58 PM

-----------------Here's the one and only Demo 1.1 version of Yin-Yang, Thread of Memories-------------------

The demo takes between 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. It depends on how good you explore everything.
The game isn't realy hard yet, it doesn't  have much puzzles or anything but I'm CERTAINLY going to do that in the next area.

If you have any problems or errors, please PM me or just post it in this thread(with a screenshot, if needed). I hope you enjoy it and comments would be nice :happy: .

http://rapidshare.com/files/12421951/Yin-Yang.rar.html

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 19, 2007, 04:30:29 PM

More errors have bene found and fixed. Demo version is now updated and now is called "Demo Version 1.1".

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 21, 2007, 08:52:11 AM

I found some grammar faults that will be updated in the demo version 2.0...

Anyway, did anyone else play the demo?

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Post by: coreystranick on January 21, 2007, 02:12:31 PM

Once I get RPGMaker on the new computer I'll test it for ya.

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Post by: coasterkrazy on January 22, 2007, 10:37:06 PM

I played a little bit, but didn't get too far. The only thing that really bugged me was the fact that the dialogue was really slow. Other than that, the movement was a little bit slow, but that didn't bother me as much. Aside from those little annoyances, this seems to be coming along well. :) I'll play further if I get a chance.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 23, 2007, 03:33:59 PM

1. That's why you can edit the textspeed :)
2. I find the normal movement speed way to fast, so I just slowed it down a little bit. You'll get used to it soon.

Let me know if you played the rest of the demo ;).

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Post by: coasterkrazy on January 23, 2007, 11:51:43 PM

Oh, heh. Well I must have missed something then. Sorry I'm still too busy to continue but I'll let you know if I do.

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 24, 2007, 11:28:55 AM

If you don't how to edit the textspeed:

Go to a save point and choose Extra Menu. Then choose Options and select 'Text Speed'.

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Post by: Yhtomitsu on January 29, 2007, 07:48:54 AM

silverblade i played the demo for ya i found a few spelling mistakes and a few other things but yeah it was really good i loved it i can wait till the full version comes out

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Post by: yuio tokido on January 29, 2007, 11:11:58 AM

I don't see no demo

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Post by: SilverBlade on January 29, 2007, 03:33:32 PM

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Originally posted by SilverBlade
-----------------Here's the one and only Demo 1.1 version of Yin-Yang, Thread of Memories-------------------

The demo takes between 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. It depends on how good you explore everything.
The game isn't realy hard yet, it doesn't  have much puzzles or anything but I'm CERTAINLY going to do that in the next area.

If you have any problems or errors, please PM me or just post it in this thread(with a screenshot, if needed). I hope you enjoy it and comments would be nice :happy: .

http://rapidshare.com/files/12421951/Yin-Yang.rar.html

[SHADOW]SilverBlade[/SHADOW]

It says right here -_-