Celestial Romance

[Shady Ultima]

This is the first game that I have begun working on in quite some time. I thank True Evil for his co-operation, and bid him farewell as he leaves the project.

We have been putting together the beginnings of a game and we are nearing our first demo. The release date will be sometime around christmas.

The characters are
Lieutenant - You get to choose his name (I'll use Stan)
The lieutenant is a 27 year old man who was born in Tanzaria, to a poor family. His father was a soldier, his mother a serving maid. His father left when the new emperor took power and began his conquest of the world. Shortly after his father's departure, Stan's mother died. His father never returned from war and was assumed dead. He was placed in an orphanage where he was trained day and night for the emperor's future army. As he grew he became much stronger, and upon turning 18 was admitted into the army. He quickly moved up through the ranks becoming a lieutenant at the age of 21. But as time passed, he became disillusioned by the war, and did not want any part of it. His most trusted friend Kenny planned to flee the war, and on the eve of a great battle, Kenny informs Stan there is a nearby cave, and they were to flee there

Soldier - You get to choose his name (I'll use Kenny)
Kenny is a 24 year old who was raised in a small farming village on the outskirts of the Tanzarian empire. The small village is often attacked by barbarians, and Kenny became a part of the town's militia at a very young age. When he reached the age of 18, he was invited to join the army, but refused. Shortly after, when Kenny was out hunting with his younger brother, Tre,  there was another attack on his hometown, and the village was burnt to the ground. Upon returning to find his home destroyed, Kenny turned to the only thing he had, the invitation from the army. Tre also joined the army, and for the first few months were inseperable. He met Stan at this time, and they became friends over a short period of time. The constant battling was changin Tre, he was becoming much quieter, and stopped eating. He soon fell ill, and under the care of his older brother, died of lack of nutrition. Kenny's depression began shortly after, with frequent nightmares of his brother. He attempted to resign from the army, but his requests were denied. In a last ditch effort, he ran from the battle hoping his friend Stan would join him in his flight.


Alright, so there we have the bios of the 2 starting chars, Screens will be up soon.


Alright, now here's the beginning of the story.
You are the lieutenant of the Tanzarian army, which are at war with the Olansian army. Both armies are competing for world domination. You do not feel the cause is worthy, and you abandon the army during a particularly bloody battle. This leads to you being chased by the Tanzarians. You flee to the capital city of the Olansian empire, and in your inn room you find a journal laying open upon the desk. Upon further investigation, it turns out to be Stan's father's journal, updated to a few weeks before the date of finding it. You set out to seek out your father to understand why he left and never returned. The story is not as simple as it seems of course, and there are many twists in the works.


This game does NOT have any fancy menus or battle systems, simply because I feel simplicity is better.

Features:
The game will have 12 (10 stay for full game)  playable characters, each with many solo sidequests available. This includes 2 secret cameo characters, who at the moment will be left un-named.

The game will have over 30 bosses, with 5 bonus bosses.

A custom inn system

Alternative way of learning skills/magic (instead of leveling)

3 different continents

A boose system (you can get drunk)

Chocobo racings (as a tribute to ff7)

A colosseum battle arena
and more...

Credits
Thanks to Trevlac for the name title
Thanks to Shadowless1 for the title screen
Thanks to Seth Mitchell for the Battle theme music
Thanks to neb87 for fireplace object

[Trevlac]

Hehe.  Yeeeah boy.

So tell me the secret characters!!!

And if you don't have all of the bosses picked I can suggest a few.

[True Evil]

Our demo would probally be released earlier if I didn't keep forgetting to send Shady the maps i made   , but i'm confident that our demo won't, well, suck. I'm also making a website that should be up sometime soon, hopefully.

[Shadowless1]

just saying hi i had a sneak peek at this game and it looks cool
will enjoy testing it

[Shady Ultima]

First screen shot, it's a screen from the very beginngin scene

(I don't know how to make them small like everyone else does...)

[Bluhman]

Nice screen. Love the charset you're using...

[Shady Ultima]

Murky buckets for the compliment

(I love french :p )

[Shady Ultima]

On that note, here is another screen, this one coming from the inn of the first town.

Notice it is a Pub/Inn, which would be very common at the time

[Meiscool-2]

.... I spy with my little eye something black and Linky.

[Shady Ultima]

Indeed you do, he's a cameo character in the game, and shows up in quite a few random places, this is only the first time you meet up with him.

[Moosetroop11]

Nice. Screens lookin' sexeh

[Seth Mitchell]

I love the added musicians in the bar screen, keep up the good work.

[Shady Ultima]

Thanks, actually they're posing as one of my favourite bands, but I'm debating changing it, at the moment, they're 'playing' Walk by Pantera, but that may change... not 100% sure on it.

[Shady Ultima]

Another screen, from the throne room of the first level

[Shady Ultima]

Newest update, I had put this here, but was debating takin the event out of my game, but I've figured out how to work it.

As you can see if you read the first post, I have a new (I think...) way to learn skills. You must find a warrior trainer, and he can teach you various martial skills. I intend to include this feature in the first demo, which, as stated before, should be done sometime around christmas time. This feature will take a lot of programming, so if you are interested in this please comment, and I will go more into detail about it, and you will be able to test it in about a month

More to come...