OK, this is not the first game I ever made. Just the best out of all of them. You see, I have a very very low attention span. So I get board with things really easily. I've actually been forcing myself to work on the game. I'm just really lazy. That's why all the characters look so much alike. Plus I don't know how to make things look different, while also going along with the 8-bit style. (Also the only type of art I can draw well.) And I must admit. I really suck at drawing. I really do. But a thought came to me. If I draw everything myself, I can add anything I want, without messing up the color, or shapes and stuff like that. And thank you for telling me about the tittle. But I really don't know what else to make for the tittle screen. I don't want to change the name, but yeah, the tittle screen could use a bit of work. And I'll make the character bios and items list and things. But I do have one idea. Unless I draw all the graphics, and someone else makes them better. But they would have to redraw all of the graphics to make them fit, and I really don't think they would want to do that. So I'm not even go to ask. Well if anyone can make a new tittle screen, I'll edit it into 8-bit mode, and I'll use it. There is more things that I have in my game but just didn't put them in the screen shots. I will soon though. And again, I'm really sorry for messing up the download once again. But hey, this is the first time I ever made a public game forum thing like this.
Characters:
1) Zack is the main character of the game. The player has almost complete control of all his actions. You can even choose his class and name right at the beginning. I'm also working on another part where you can choose what he looks like. I just have to draw all of the possible posses. His personality is that of the players choice. So you can choose his fate.
Well, that's all the playable characters so far. I'll post more as I make more.
The storyline is not set. As I have said before, your actions, and the computers AI both are joined together to choose your fate. Now here is the story graph currently. The red lines mean the main storyline. Like play that path to get an "A" ending. But you don't have to do those things. Green lines have a name next to them. Those mean spots where you get a new character. (Or several) Black lines are just regular paths. Grey lines around the path show what I currently have finished. Letters mean the choice label, while the numbers represent the path number. Now here is the choice key:
Choice: A (1-3)
• Zack is at the docks when he sees a slave ship off in the distance. If the player chooses to stay and fight, the pirates will beat him, and he is captured as a slave on the slave ship, as well as everyone else in town.
• Zack sees the slave ship and the player chooses to panic and run. By doing this, he starts climbing up a ladder into town, when a flaming arrow is shot and hits the ladder. It burns, and Zack falls off. He is also captured.
• Zack sees the slave ship and the player chooses to go and get help. So Zack runs up the ladder without stopping to panic and draw attention to him, and is able to escape to the castle. He tells the kind and then the King drafts him as a soldier to fight back.
Choice: B (4-5)
• Zack has just become a soldier to fight back against the pirates, when another knight bursts into the room. The knight says that the town of Varter is also under attack, but taking no slaves. Zack then chooses to protect his village. The pirates are defeated very easily by you and your team of knights. But Varter is destroyed and from fear that they will be attacked again, the town’s people pack up as much as they can carry, and leave town. The party travels with them to protect the people.
• When Zack hears that Varter has just been attacked, the player chooses to go and protect the bigger town, and save them. They are saved, but Garth is defeated and all those people are captured and taken as slaves. But no one dies.
Choice: C (6-7)
• Zack is on board the slave ship, if Zack has helped out Garter before they are taken, Garter helps untie you. Then Zack unties him.
• If Zack did not help out the traveler, then he is not helped. When the ship arrives at land, Zack is sold as a slave.
Choice: D (8-9)
• After Garter frees Zack, Zack asks him to come along and hijack the ship before they are caught.
• Zack tells Garter to stay and free the others while he sneaks around the ship.
Choice: E (10-11)
• Zack has just finished killing all the attacking enemy’s, when one of the King’s servants rides up on a horse. He says that the King is ordering them to report back to him at once. But Zack is tired, and chooses to stay at the Inn for the night, and go back in the morning. But in the middle of the night, he wakes up to find the village once again under attack.
• When Zack hears the King’s orders, he races back to the castle along with everyone else. And the King orders them to gather up all of the supplies, weapons, knights, and everything else. So they leave the castle with the king and head over to the safety structure to protect the King in case of another attack.
There. Now here is the story map to go along with it.
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/928/strikebackstorymap.png
Done. Well if you think that I should have a good solid demo ready, then I'll wait a few more days before I post it.