New Game, Unique (i hope)

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I may still be considered a noob on this forum but I'm not a noob to RPG Maker. I've started many games but so far i've finished none of them.
I hope with this game I can hope to change that.

I didn't know where to put this so I stuck it here.
I'm creating an RPG (no duh sherlock) about a guy who loves his 'hood so much he calls it a utopia. A Ghetto Utopia. Yea that's the title. (Corny huh?) It's got it's thugs, druggies, hoochie mamas, rogue arms dealers and convenience shops (thank you, come again) packed up the rear. Oh, plus a mcdonalds.

The setting is modern... set in some semi-urban neighbourhood in North America... or similar to North America at least.

The basic story is that this new guy from deep Africa (or somewhere, still working on that) moves into the neighbourhood and the main character, along with the rest of the hood sort of gives him a hard time. Turns out the guy knows black magic, and he curses the hood to be in chaos. The Mcdonalds food tries to cook the employees, weed plants start smoking potheads, evil spirits wander around empregnating baby mamas, and gang members turn into zombies. That kind of thing.

So the main character, set on restoring order to his hood, gathers up a mismatched team: his asian bredrin, his theif of a cousin, his tech-junkie neighbour, a baller girl who never lets go of her basketball, a hoochie mama with attitute, and a latino club owner. (At least I made it multicultural...)

Did I mention I'm trying to make it all voice over? Meaning, instead of message boxes, the characters will speak for themselves. I know I know... thats going to take up a lot of space. If anyone has any suggestions please suggest. (Question: are *.ogg files smaller than *.wav files?)

Anyways I'm trying to encorporate a bunch of systems into the game.
The Custom Time System with complete Time in hours, and days of the week is 100% complete. (I designed that)
My Custom Menu System (CMS) is 45% complete
I'm happy with the DBS, so no changes there.

Well, thats about it for now. I just wanted to put it out there about my game. Maybe in a bit I'll post up some screenshots but not now. It's friggin 5:20 in the morning. I gotta get some sleep. Later
- The Strakes

ps. Thanks to whoever made that MP3 patch for RM2K3.

[Grandy]

Original, really, not an medieval RPG, this is original.

 

weed plants start smoking potheads

 Scary Movie 2?


DDIT: BTW, this should be in the games forum

[Moosetroop11]

This sounds really original. Good luck. But if it ends up that you either make a good, long rpg or have a voiceover, I'd scrap the voiceover.

[strakes]

Hm... I want to make it long enough to have fun playing it, but not too long. Hopefully I'll be able to use a lot of the same voice overs again without it getting annoying.

Oh and to grandy: yep I got that from Scary Movie 2. figured it would be even funnier if I managed to show that in RPG maker. And thanks for the heads up. I'll make a note of that for next time.

[Janne]

Sounds pretty original. Good luck.

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here are a couple screenshots i have so far:

1st: a shot of the corner convenience store at evening time

2nd: a shot of my personal CMS (data isn't entered yet, but the background scrolls horizontally)

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pic 2

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**Update: 27/05/05 **

I added character profiles:

Main Chara: Kurtis (Spectacular) Miller, aka Spexx
Title: Hustler (works hard)
Age: 20 something (17 at the beginning of the game)
Story: Works hard for mama and does what he can to keep the hood in somewhat order.

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2nd Chara: Wu Sai
Title: Cashier / Kung Fu Master / Chi Master (later on)
Age: 20 something (16 at the beginning of the game)
Story: Works at the convenience store with his mom (Wu Ming). Befriends Spexx at the beginning of the game when he stop some shoplifters and helps him throught the game. (Gives you acces to the Kung Fu gym to gain skills)

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3rd Chara: Nigel White
Title: Tech Junkie
Age: 20 something (17 at the beginning of the game)
Story: The darkest negro in the hood. Neighbour to Spexx, he works in the lab in his basement all day.

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4rth Chara: Mashal Patterson
Title: Quick Finga
Age: 20 something)
Story: Spexx's cousin and lives in the basement. If anything goes missing he's the first person to look at. (I gave him a West Indian accent)

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5th Chara: Carla O'Brian
Title: Baller Girl
Age: 20 something
Story: This girl loves basketball so much that she never lets go of her ball except to dribble or to knock a guy on his head. If you need to find her, go to the basketball court. (Complete with her own set of basketball weapons!)

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6th Chara: Indira Khan
Title: Hoochi Mama
Age: 20 something (17 at the beginning of the game)
Story: Spexx's ex-girl friend, and hoe of the hood. This coolie girl comes with attitude though so don't mess with her! (Gives you access to the gangster hideout)

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7th Chara: Diego Martinez
Title: Club Owner
Age: 28
Story: Hot latino stud and owner of the hood's only nightclub, Spexx is lucky to have this guy as a friend. With him in the party you get VIP access. Trained in long arms combat and speaks fluent spanish.

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Thats about it for the updates. I might be scrapping the CTS (custom time system) cuz it looks like my game is goign to be mostly indoors. ah well...

-The Strakes

[Syntax]

cool. old school style !

[mind-master: brain(mmb)]

wow! this sounds cool, and the screeny are cool too:)

[kodakumi]

wow finnaly something that aint elderly school.

sounds good.

[strakes]

thnx 4 the support guys

also if u have any suggestions please feel free to make them. i want to make this game as best as possible.

here are some new screens you guys may like:

guess what this building is?

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here's the inside

>>EDIT--->>> don't mind the people. I just put them there to test the map. I'll be taking them out later and replacing them with non-RTP charas. <<<---end EDIT<<

thanks to Sanjuro and NoJoy for the chipset:

[ZeroKirbyX]

Thank you for adding one of the things I've always wanted to do in an RPG, order a Big Mac

[Syntax]

LMFAO! Mc Donalds