Start of The Official Charas Game Making Contest

[Rayonius]

My game is called Rayonius RPG. You take the role of me, Rayonius, and you wake up one day. It's Saturday. Your mom seems to think you have school today. After you ask what's wrong with her, she sends you to a friends and starts crying. You meet your friend, who shows you the latest thing he has been working on with his computer. The Undernet. Similar to the matrix, the undernet is an online world where many things can happen. That's all the sneak peek I'm giving for now.

[Bluhman]

Originally posted by aboutasoandthis
My game a is called "The Witch King," a survival-horror/adventure/puzzle. It's supposed to play out like an authentic fairy tale. You start the game as a mermaid who lives in an area next to an ancient Atlantian castle underwater. The castle is made of metal and full of machinery, but it still looks like a castle.

One day on the surface world, a great battle at sea occurs. The mermaid sees a giant demon in the ocean and gets caught in the crossfire. She wakes up in a sunken ship that has been lodged into a grotto. Several of the people on the ship are dead, and the ones who survive die in her arms. Only one survives, a young man.

The two do not speak the same language, but after a while follow each other as they try to escape. The mermaid eventually come to realize that she is in the same underwater castle mentioned before. The goal of the game is to escape the castle.

Notes
+The game will have 35 40*30 maps (Maybe less). This means 28 puzzle rooms and 7 bosses).
+Even though both of the two will have AI, you can switch between the two like a tag-team puzzle.
+They each have their own set of controls, special moves, and limits as to what they can do. For example, the mermaid can be on land, but walks slowly. She also can't really climb, only hang from things. The man will have Prince of Persia/Ico like moves.
+Many of the puzzles will be based on machines/static electricity. So if your in school, and got to see the machines that make this stuff, you should be good. The puzzles won't be excessivly hard.
+There will be combo moves and actions.
+I'm hoping that if you know exactly how to solve the puzzles, the game should be done in 20 minutes. I'm using the music I'm putting in the game as a timer. It's a midi set of the "Carmina Burana" and it plays for 53 minutes. If the game gets to long, I'm cutting it shorter.
+Bosses only take one-hit kills.
+Except for a "Once upon a time..." thing, there will be no dialogue, only wierd voice acting.
+There is a reason I called the game survival horror.

If this is sounding like an Ico/Zelda rip-off, I admit I went back and played the two for ideas. I tried to make the plot as original as possible. Even if there isn't much to read, there is still a plot. I've got three pages worth of it, but if it gets  too wierd or hard to understand, I will admit it to being my fault.

I like your game idea Glitch.

Can I have some beta-testers? PM me if you're interested.

Oh, what's the point!? With competition like this, I'm definitely going to lose.

But oh well. I'll share my game as well.

The Alpha Force

So basically, this is a game that takes place in Roosevelt City; a city of America which was founded in late 2007. Quickly, the city grew in size and fame until it matched the size of other large cities, such as the city of New York, which was shortly to the north. The city also offered a fresh start for anyone. As the city grew, people came to it. Businessmen, College students, Politicians, Families, Workers, Scientists... And criminals.

When criminals began coming in, the new city was practically defenseless against the gangs and robbers. It was at that point the mayor reformed the Police Department of the city to be more effective, and much larger. By 2009, the city was back on its feet and mostly safe from crime.

But then a second wave of criminals began coming into the city. Instead of the thugs and burglars of the first wave, these people were truly malicious, gifted, and powerful beings. Mad Scientists, Ruthless Assassins, Illegal agencies; all came in when they heard of the near destruction Roosevelt City had met when the criminals had originally escaped to the city. With that, the city became a nightmare. Civilians lived in terror from day to day.

That was when freelance Agent Alfrod Grant, and his gadget builder, Rick Selphen, moved into Roosevelt City. Grant and Selphen were originally unaware of the great threat that was in Roosevelt City, but it was not long before they found out. Assailed by a super powered villain, who deemed herself as "The Destruction's Dawn". Alfrod and Rick were forced to fight to the bitter end for their lives, but with the aid of a group of policemen, they subdued the villain and arrested her. Seeing the skill Alfrod had in fighting her off, the Policemen asked if he could possibly help out with the crime problem that was in Roosevelt City. Though Alfrod agreed to the deal, his partner, Rick, was terrified by the encounter with the super villain that had happened earlier that day, and, not wanting to ever witness anything like that again, declined the offer, and faded into the crowds of everyday men and women in the city. Alfrod went on to form the famous superhuman agency known as the AUB, or Association of Unusual Beings. The group was an organization of people who wielded a single power, and only a single power. A member of the AUB could not exert more than one type of power, or would be deemed too powerful to claim membership. Nonetheless, the AUB served as an effective means of controlling the incredible crime in the city.

In 2012, Roosevelt was greeted with the greatest threat it had ever had; An escaped genetic experiment known as Noyau IV. The experiment was an attempt to make a human astronaut that could withstand an intergalactic voyage to Andromeda. To do this, they had to make, from a strand of DNA, a man that was immune to all sorts of hazards, and would not be driven insane by the long wait that the voyage would pose. However, scientists could not perfect the formula to make the man. The experiment  resulted in a genderless human, who had the ability to asexually reproduce himself. That was only the first two of the problems the experiment had. The entire creature had a liquid nature, making it able to shape itself in any sort of form, and not only that, but it could and would consume anything it came into contact with. Quickly, the experiment chewed right through the walls, and soon after the creature escaped from the lab it had been created in, Noyau ran into the street, devouring whatever material matter it could in it's viscous body. No policeman would be able to apprehend this creature. Not even the members of the AUB would stand up to the awry creature. It was up to Alfrod to defeat the menace.

Through long hours of research, Alfrod found out that the creatures could digest any sort of matter they came in contact with, except for one element; Dracite. A deadly, radioactive stone, the material could cause severe damage to the human body if it was even inhaled. Nonetheless, Alfrod put on the necessary equipment to use the Dracite, and began to make ammunition of Dracite, which would be used to shoot the Noyau.

After a thorough extermination of the huge numbers of Noyau, Roosevelt city was safe, for the time being, from the threat. The remaining noyau were forced to flee to the outskirts of the city, and waited quietly, patiently, in the sewers. With this catastrophe diverted, Alfrod decided that, to prevent such an event from happening again, he should form a superpowered elite of the AUB. In 2015, his dream of such an elite would form, as the Alpha Force came together.

Notes

-There are only two characters so far in the game: Akira Stone, or Chisoku, a super fast cyborg, and Alfrod Grant, or Bluhman, who wields a deadly accurate pistol.
-The entire game takes place in Roosevelt City, meaning there's less roads and world map to walk across than other games.
-Battle system is slightly modified, with all attack moves you make requiring MP (Or endurance, in this case.).
-There's also a dodging system. In this, the game freezes for a short second, where a white arrow with a direction will flash. You must press this arrow in time to successfully dodge whatever might be threatening to hit you. (This is outside of battle, mind you.)
-This game won't use the charset size Bchars of my previous games. The sprites I'm using are roughly 23X45 Pixels.
-The game has a bank system, too. Hurrah.

Finally, I must say that my mom would probably love to play the game Aboutasoandthis is making.
I'll beta test it.

[SaiKar]

Good lord Glitch. That assassin idea is about the coolest short game concept possible. I'm really looking forward to it.

Eh, I don't have a game. I might take advantage of the extended deadline to ponder an entry. We'll see.

[aboutasoandthis]

Bluhman is definitely included, but after taking more time to code, the maps will be 20*15 instead. There's no way I'm doing 1200 Fork Conditions.

I'm definitely glad you've offered, especially since your stories are fantastic and you wrote that Cliche guide. I really like this one too.

[Meiscool-2]

I've got no clue about the plot yet. All I know is it's going to have my all-picture ABS.

So far, without much lag, I can fit three monsters on screen with a projectile attack and aura (charge-up effect). I can also fit the hero and her attacks on, but when she uses her aura it begins to lag a bit. I'll probally have to take it out. All I've got left to do is make the damage shower, HUD, weapon connection, and half of the "what hero can't walk on" stuff.

[neb87]

hmm
I will probaly enter this
If I finish my game in time that is!!

[Glitch]

Hmm, considering all the excitement generated by those attention whore's Sai and Osmose (resigning, Charas 3.0), I may just extend the deadline one last time to the end of the month, provided people show they need it, and are at least making an effort.

[Daetyrnis]

I haven't gotten enough done on my game, I've had too much other things that I've had to do.

*bails*

[Meiscool-2]

Same, sorry.

[Vidian]

So whats the news?

I Just read about this now,
Har har

Id like to start now and submit the (Short) Game
At the end of the month,

Is the deadline pushed?

I think Ill make a game anyway.  
Nothing too special though.

I'm hoping to do well in sound.

[thepsynergist]

I was thinking about posting my Hidden Legends game that I have been working on, but the file size is about 50 mb's and I can't upload even a zipped version with my dial-up internet collection.  If you want to see the plot/characters, go to my homepage at www.freewebs.com/thesynergist .

[Dragonium]

I got lazy and got bored of my idea after a while. Sorry, but I'm out.

[Vidian]

Well, It seems everyone is leaving?
I am still going to continue with my project...

thepsynergist It must be a game that You created after
the contest start date..

and If you start today, Like I am.
then you have 5 Days left (If the decide to move
the Deadline to the end of the month)

In the rules it says you can make a game with a minimum
of 10 minutes of game play...

Making one alittle longer than that shouldn't Take too long.
Just don't make any complex systems.

[Bluhman]

I'm still working on my game, but I'm very much not in this contest anymore. Unless a chosen few others stay in the run.

[aboutasoandthis]

Can you push this back till the end of spring break or something Glitch?

As for what I've got, the most I have is this little dude running around, he can attack monsters, and he can move a bit. The enemies don't really attack yet, and I've only worked on one of the bosses and he's basically crappy. I've cut the mermaid out, the puzzles out, the combos out, everything.

I want to stay in this contest, but I can't find the time. Depending on Glitch's decision, I'll decide to stay or not. I might even try to finish it without the contest.