A charas project community game?

[Prpl_Mage]

So... I had this cool idea.

This HUGE community project. We could have a thread where you sign up and say what you could do (lets say I can make facesets and charasets), and then the mayor, or a mod, makes this other thread saying what everyone will do (lets say you think I am better at faces, so I will make faces). Then we start working on this huge game. We could have like, one person for facesets, one for tilesets, 2 for charasets, and then about 3-5 for plot and 2 or so for character design and we could have like one person to do a cbs and then one for a cms and a couple people working on minigames, and then someone else to put everything together.

It's not a chaingame. It's a community game. Completely different. Honest.
So who's in on it? It'll progress right next to the chain game and all.

Btw: if this fails, its Lucy's fault

Facesets: Ed, HTML
Tilesets/chipsets: Emerates
Charsets/battlechars?(2): Corey, Lonewolf, AFL, Shady
Music: Drenrin, AFL
Story/Plot(3-5): X-treme, Bluhman, Fruckert, Shady
Character design/planning(2): HTML
Mapper: Emerates
CBS: Rahl
CMS: Shady
Mini-games: Cerebus, Felix
Leader:Shady,Purple

We are seeking more mappers and perhaps some faceset makers. Anyone will do really - as long as it's made by the community
Facesets:(Do as many as you like, anything will do really)
1 page - Hero - main face + emotions (happy, sad, pain, etc)
1 page - Selina - Main face + emotions (same as hero)
1 page - Sorcerer - Main face + emotions (same as above)
1 page - Hero's father - Main face + emotions (same)
1 page - Soldiers - several different faces, colours, etc
1 page - monsters, other minor characters
Contact Shady or HTML about faceset questions.


Update
Rahl designed us an ABS with the remaining pieces of the old community game.
The story team worked together(and still is I believe) and made the current story(see below).
Charsets are being made for the ABS as I write this and the general appearance of all the 3 important characters are neatly done.
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[spoiler=Current Story]The gods once walked upon the earth, just like mortal man. They ate, they slept, and they died. The corpses of the gods still lay in their resting places to this day, tributes to what the world once was. Their bodys have spawned mountains, oceans, and forests.

The Ostolian Empire is built above one of the tombs of the god, the god of justice, Ostol. The Emperor, an ambitious, paranoid man, conquered many other nations to protect his borders. Countries he could not conquer, he made alliances with, out of fear that more just Kingdoms would conquer his territory.

His General, a just man, had been a good friend of the Emperors for many years. His own daughter, his oldest child had been given to the Emperor as his wife, a sign of their friendship. The general believed that their marriage would give his wife a wealthy, sheltered life, but this was not so.

The queen's presence was enough to cure the emperor's loneliness, but not his paranoia. The emperor became possessive of his new queen, not letting her leave the castle, not even to vist her father, or her younger brother. She became depressed, and her health faltered.

With the queen's failing health, she was unable to deliver a child and died in the process. The emperor fell into despair, knowing that there was no one to continue his name. The general, knowing the real cause of the queen's death, was filled with tension towards the emperor.

After losing his queen, the emperor ended his ambitions of conquest. He became corrupt, paying his allied countries off to protect him, and his influence became smaller as the corruption became deep-set.

The emperor was known for his public speaking ability, and loved to give speeches to his people. As his influence weakened, people began plotting his downfall. During one of his speeches, a dart flew out from nowhere, hitting the emperor in the temple, and instantly killing him. The general and his son had attended the speech, and the son thought he saw the killer, but took no action to stop him, as it was a crime to speak during the emperor's speeches, and could have perhaps had more consequences than benefits.

The death of the emperor caused an uproar throughout the empire, and there was no heir to the throne. As such, the general was able to take the throne. Many people believed that the general himself had assassinated the emperor, as revenge for the death of his only daughter.

When the general became the new emperor, he swore to end all corruption, and allied himself with the just and good kingdoms to help him in his war.

The general's son is his favourite commanding officer. Despite being only 24, the young man has shown more intelligence on the field than many men twice his age do. He was sent into one of the 'evil' nations as a scouting party, to hunt for militia and weaknesses. But coming across the capital city, he finds it ambushed and ablaze. Deciding to explore the ruins, he and his party seperate. The general's son goes into what was the palace of the King, and he finds an unusual creature. He fights the beast off, but it manages to scratch his hand. The beast escapes, severely wounded.

After leaving the palace, he searches for the other men who came with him. He cannot find even a trace of them, and he leaves the city in despair. He sets out alone to return to the city of Ostol.

As the days pass, the wound does not heal properly, instead scarring into a strange shape, no longer just a scratch, but a strange rune. He does not understand what the rune means, and he ignores it, assuming it will heal on its own.

On his way he hears a woman screaming, and he goes to investigate. He sees a beautiful young woman being attacked by a group of bandits. After defeating them, he helps her to her feet. The woman is one of the last of the Mystics, a race of magic-users, who typically are peaceful. During the short months that the son had been gone, his father had begun to believe that magic is a corruption of nature and had ordered the death of any magic-user.

The girl begs the son not to return to the capital, but he does anyways, and his father sees the rune. He declares his own son corrupted and the son is exiled.

The night he is exiled he has a dream. He sees the young girl, and watches as he saves her, watching as if from another's eyes. Confused, he tells the young girl about his dream.

The rune has begun to grow, slowly moving onto his left arm, the dark, red symbols becoming more and more complex as the time goes on. And every time the rune grows, he has another dream, always from the viewpoint of someone he never met.

It was after several months that he had a dream of himself, in dark cave he had never visited before in his life. He was unsure what the dream entailed, but as he explored, he came across a young woman sitting on a slab of stone.

She looks at him, and he sees that her whole body is covered in the runes that are growing up his arm. The woman explains that she was the one who scratched his hand, as the rune slowly made her lose control of herself and she became a monster. She explained that he had set her free, and she had indeed died after their battle.

She tells him that he has the power to use magic, as he is inexplicably linked with a sorcerer, which is who's viewpoint he had been seeing in his dreams. Each time he tapped into the sorcerer's mind, he would absorb some of the sorcerer's power. Despite the fact that he had the ability, the general's son cannot learn spells the traditional way, instead, he must learn them from the gods themselves. The mages of the world use the language of the gods, which allows them to perform their magic, but as the words have been passed down, the power is weaker when pronounced incorrectly.

As he journeys around the world, finding the gods tombs and learning their powers, he hears word that his father has also discovered the gods, and is trying to ressurrect the god Ostol, the god of justice. He wishes to revive the god to rebuild the universe so that everything is just and perfect.

In the tomb of Ostol, the general discovers a hand print indentation in the wall, with the sons rune embedded inside it. He realizes that his son is the key to ressurrecting the god, and he summons his son to return to the kingdom of Ostol.
When the son hears this, he wants to go, but the girl is reluctant. She knows that the general murdered her people and is afraid that it is a trap. But the son believes his father is a good man, and he returns, but she does not follow. The son opens the door to the tomb of the God Ostol.

As the door opens, the general unsheathes his sword and attacks his son. The general and his son battle around the alter of Ostol, and when the son strikes the deciding blow, the general falls. His eyes, which had looked green for months returned to their original brown, and he seemed confused as to why his own son struck him down. As he breathes his last, the son hears clapping.

He turns around to see a tall man with long blonde hair clapping and walking towards him. He speaks to the general's son, and explains that he is the last living sorcerer, and he had taken control of the general. He explained that only those of true royal blood can revive the god, as they were descendants of the god himself, children of his half-mortal son. The general's own blood line reached back into that, while the former emperor's in fact, did not. Now, with the general's blood staining the alter, the sorcerer could begin the ritual that would revive Ostol, and bring balance again, destroying all the non magical humans.

It is then that the young woman rushes in, and seeing the sorcerer, she cries out to him. She calls the sorcerer father, and when he turns, sees that his daughter is still alive. He looks at the general's son, confused, as he had believed that the general's son was like his father and had murdered the woman, because she was a mage. He still continues to try to summon the god.

In an effort to stop her father, the girl cuts the shape of the general's son's rune into her stomach, surrendering her power to the young man, and dying there.

The hero is now free from the restraints of the rune, and the full power of the gods magic is unleashed. The general's son attacks the sorcerer, exchanging blades in a final clash to the death.

With the final blow, the sorcerer is defeated, realizing that his actions caused him to lose his daughter, the one thing in the world he truly loved. The young man looks onward knowing that he lost everything. He is now the emperor of a fallen empire.[/spoiler]



Concept art by HTML
http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=25428.0;attach=28988;image
http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=25428.0;attach=28983;image
Facesets by Missingname
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/selina.png
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/selina_standard_face_v11.png


World map by HTML

[DedlellyDeth]

Someone's getting impatient with Fish's chapter.

[Shady Ultima]

You had this idea?

I believe that I started it a while ago? I had a few people, then everyone just went missing.

Aboutaso had programmed an awesome ABS, I had quite a few ideas.

Anyways, I can support this, but I want it to WORK this time!!!

[DedlellyDeth]

I'm in.

[Prpl_Mage]

You have to mention what you want to do. Y'know?

[X_marks_the_ed]

Can I lick the bowl?


I could also chip in by providing some place for everyone to keep their work, so we don't have members vanishing and no access to their work. Nope, can't do that no more.

I'll help Lucy with the facesets.

[coreystranick]

I can do charasets and help with chipsets

[Cerebus]

I'd like to do something, but due to my poor spriting skills, I can't do any Faceset, Charset or any _set.
So I could try helping with the Mini Games.
Just depends what kind of Mini Games you'll want, though.

Or maybe anything else that doesn't require spriting actually.

[DedlellyDeth]

I can map definitely.

I might also be able to do charsets and some story.

[Fisherson]

Someone's getting impatient with Fish's chapter.

Hey! Pateince is a virture and besides I still need a few more resources. Also if you sit e tight long enough you may end up some facesets. Also:


Chara set maker and Character dessign/palning Reporting for duty, sir!

[lonewolf]

i may be OK  to help with some Chara set making and Character designs if you say what we need
i get some help on some of the Character designs
from the kid's at my new art school 
i know but they Japanese so i need some time
all so i am working for my  dad around the farm and woodland park
and the good new's is i am back at school for
my spelling and my art for Character designs

[ThexXtremeXx]

I WANNA DO THE CUTSCENES N' CINEMATICS!

(story plot)

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

I can do facesets.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Charsets.  I might be able to do some musiks, but I may be too busy for that.

[Shady Ultima]

Well, I'm in. Charsets, Story, and I can do some minor and some major programming (I can make a CMS), I also can do mapping.

Also, I have the ABS that Aboutasoandthis created a while back. It's fantastic, but I can't understand it. If someone else could take it off my hands and understand it, I'm certain we could use that.

To anyone who decides to do mapping though, we have to have a master mapper who makes them look like they're all apart of the same game.


I'd also like everyone to recall what has happened in the past. This will be the 4th attempt (at LEAST) to make a charas game. I'm going to quote Saikar from the time I attempted to revive this, almost 2 years ago.

The first one was Alex's plan to be part of a contest between every major RPGMaker website. Charas's entry was massive in scope and in initial reaction. Carmen lead it, I believe. She assembled a crack team of story-writers, spriters, and coders out of available people and they all worked together decently as a group. However, at some point, Carmen announced that the participation from the rest of Charas was not satisfactory and that the Community Contest team was officially going private. They took their work and their ideas and left Charas as a team to work on their game without being associated with Charas directly. To the best of my knowledge, at some point after the split the entire thign collapsed.

More details about that here: http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6818&forumid=39&catid=9


The second one was a joint effort by Moose and Robotam to revive the spirit of the community game, as it was still a good idea. Much like before, a lot of people said they wanted to do it, and much like before, a lot of them dropped out quickly. It restarted like a year later with rougly the same disasterous results. They got a story done (that, quite frankly, didn't interest me at all to want to work on the game) and a few custom sprites, but little else before it collapsed again.

This is a good, but long, thread about that try: http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=8491&forumid=39&catid=9

Now, I was the head of the 3rd attempt, as I already stated. Similairly to what happened to before, things started falling apart right away. We tried to make a better plan, and use less custom stuff and more pre-existing stuff, but our Charset team, Midi team, and mappers went MIA quickly. We had decided we would write the story and script first, but even that didn't work. While we had good ideas, problems occurred, and aboutaso, who was the primary programmer dropped out, leaving us with no programming. I tried to continue by myself, but my own work was not enough on it's own. So if you start this, rather, if we ALL start this, NO ONE can drop out.

This is the thread for the third attempt, and you can read how quickly it fell apart.
http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?topic=20945.0