A Home Far Away (complete game!)

[Desimodontidae]

I played the game a little bit, so far the maps are beautiful, but the gameplay is lacking. There's nothing that stands out or pushes the limits of RPG maker programming. Then again I only played about an hour into it. And even though I can't stand the DBS, it seems very well rounded, which I know can be just as hard as other programming aspects. So far so good.

But one thing that I noticed was in the beginning when it asked "Start the Game", "About the author", etc the brightness went down rapidly and noticeably. I assume you didn't want the player to see this transition. What you could do to prevent this is in the common events set the hero's sprite to a blank sprite, then start the game on a blank map (completely black), then use "Hide Screen" to cover up anything that goes on. Then you can teleport to the "Game Start" option map and set the brightness first, THEN "Unhide/Show Map" and finally bring up the options dialog box. Sorry for not being technical...

[Fisherson]

The game is also hosted at these places if you're getting download problems:

http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/rpg/a-home-far-away/2993/
http://www.overcloud9.com/2010/07/30/a-home-far-away-walkthrough/
http://small-games.info/?go=game&c=3&i=4141

Thanks...But this is more due to my dial up than a site problem. ^ ^; Don't worry I'll get to the library soon and then I'll have a nice high speed conection and it'll be much easier.

[Strangeluvv]

Anyone speak Portuguese?



Courtesy some Brazilian magazine.

[Linkforce]

Woah, how did you get your game reviewed on a Brazilian magazine?

[ellie-is]

Woah, how did you get your game reviewed on a Brazilian magazine?

Its an online magazine. Never heard of it til I opened the site, so, yeah.

[Shady Ultima]

Hey Lucas, could you translate?

[ellie-is]

The game has a very exciting plot, because it its about an unusual story, without magical beings or the like. Besides the script, the systems are very helpful, the maps are nearly perfect, the sprites are great, and also the NPCs's interactivity, that are really important for the plot and progress in the game. Everyone should try it, because its a great project.

Yep, thats it.

[Nandez]

Loved the trailer downloag the game now looks interesting.
It must be good to be in a online magazine the only other rpgmaker game I have ever seen on a "online magazine" type site was The Way.

[Muraiko]

Just because other people or a magazine says a project is amazing, doesn't necessarily mean it is. In most cases, it's not IMO.

I'm sure the game is very interesting, but the FFT Battle Sprites are an absolut turn off for me. I just can't stand playing a game that uses ripped characters (especially from a well known series such as final fantasy) as the main heros.

[ellie-is]

Loved the trailer downloag the game now looks interesting.
It must be good to be in a online magazine the only other rpgmaker game I have ever seen on a "online magazine" type site was The Way.

Its a small brazilian online magazine that said the game had awesome graphics even though they were ripped. Plus, as far as I know it could review only rpg maker games?

I mean, I'm not saying the game is bad, it looks pretty cool, I'm just saying that it is not really certain that it will be good.