The Ghosts of Heart Lake

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by drenrin2120

quote:

Originally posted by Jek looks AWESOME can you send me the demo or maybe the finished copy. just send sumthin to clow911@hotmail.com plz. www.narutofan.8m.com is my homepage for info on my Rpg named Jek Rpg

Sure...

XD, I'm laughing at both of you, for various reasons.

[drenrin2120]

Here it is, Samson's Theme, finished, loop'd, and tweaked here and there. Tell me what you think.

 Vengeful Heart

[Meiscool-2]

Very adverterous :p

[drenrin2120]

Originally posted by Meiscool
Very adverterous :p

lol

[aboutasoandthis]

It's got the Vengence thing down.

[drenrin2120]

Blah... Not a good update. I took a long vacation and when I got back, my motivation was pretty much gone. Thus, looking at all the coding I've done for the Materia system I've forgotten the specifics on a lot of it. How n00b-ish of me. So yeah, I just may dump the Materia system, I don't feel like starting over on it. Unless I can find motivation again to tinker with it. Good thing I put in comments so if I wanted to I could go back through and figure it out. God, I'm friggin' lazy.

But, the story gets deeper, because of this latest development, I'm realizing more and more that my game is gonna mainly focus on storyline. Which isn't bad, but if the storyline ends up not satisfying the player, not much of the rest of the game will.

Oh well, we'll see what happens. I may release a demo sometime in September? Maybe late August if all goes well, but don't count on it, it's purely speculation. Well, that's all. Sorry to disappoint.

[drenrin2120]

ZOMG

Sudden break through in imagination. If the Materia falls on its face then I'll just make a system similar to that of Diablo I and II, or Maple Story. You get a certain amount of points each time youl evel that you assign to learning certain skills.

Sorry for the post of really nothing, but I had to say that.

[Meiscool-2]

It's not a bad idea. Of course, I hope it's not limited only to magic.

You could do a SoM style or something, where, when you lvl up, you get to choose where your stats go. Or, like DaD, where, when you lvl up, it automatically places stats on your character (so the mage stays a mage and the warrior stays a warrior), and you get to place a few extra points as well.

[drenrin2120]

Originally posted by Meiscool
It's not a bad idea. Of course, I hope it's not limited only to magic.

You could do a SoM style or something, where, when you lvl up, you get to choose where your stats go. Or, like DaD, where, when you lvl up, it automatically places stats on your character (so the mage stays a mage and the warrior stays a warrior), and you get to place a few extra points as well.

Yeah, good idea. I think I actually like this idea more.

[coreystranick]

This is a pretty sweet idea. Better then the materia in my opinon. There are alot more ways to make this one. Like depending on your class/level you get more or less points then the other guys.

[drenrin2120]

Yep, almost a month later I have an update. I have the final system down. It's simple but original and it IS final. It's an Element based system. Each character is assigned a class. These classes are the Elements and are thus interchangeable. The Elemental Classes are...

Electric
Water
Fire
Ice
Wind
Nature
Wild
Cosmic
Mystic

Now, to learn skills you must find stones called Rudiment Stones. These stones teach a skill an unlimited amount of times, but only to those of the right class and statistic requirements. (Level, HP, MP, etc.)

The cool thing about this is I can add secret classes towards the end of the game that require you to be at Level 70 to use a simple Rudiment Stone for that class. So basically, you can become any Elemental class you want, but if you don't have any Rudiment Stones for that class or if you can't use the Rudiment Stones for that class, it's pointless.

To change classes you'll need to visit a Mystic Teacher. A Mystic Master is, obviously, of the Mystic Elemental Class, which is the hardest known class to be of. Only a Mystic Master can change your class. Also, once you change a class all your old skills will be forgotten. It's also important to note that certain classes are more based in offense than say defense, or more defense than offense, etc.

so, that's really it, any questions or comments are welcome.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, other then this characters learn simple skills called "Techs" which they learn by leveling up. So, you can change a class to learn different Elemental Skills while keeping basic "Tech" skills.

[Meiscool-2]

Will there be different battle charas for the different jobs?

[drenrin2120]

Hm... you know there just might be. If anything though, nothing spectacular because my artistic skills are limited.

[Emerates]

You could probably just do a simple re-colour of certain parts of their attire, like an armband or a belt or something, for each class.  Like Fire would be red, Mystic would be purple, etc....

Food for thought.

[drenrin2120]

Exactly what I was thinking, chap. And/or a little sparkly thing in the appropriate color to the class that shows up in the idle pose.