Seven

[A Forgotten Legend]

Seven

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Story
After a tramatic event, the Jeri wakes in a mysterious world.  In this world, creatures known as fearmongers terrorize towns and villages, feeding off the fears of others.  Why have you been brought to this world?  The first village you find speaks of a fearmonger in a cave just north of town that feeds off the fear of pain.  Do you go in?  The fierce Amaya is the first person to join your party.  Wise beyond her years, she knows that she can't make it through the cave by herself.  As Jeri fights the fearmongers and learns more about the world - will he learn more about himself and who he is?

So, I posted a couple other screens in the screenshot thread, but I got a little more than halfway through this first dungeon and I thought I'd share.  As far as the rest of the game goes, I'll leave this little bit of information for now and update periodically.  This has been a lot of fun so far, so hopefully I get pretty far in this.

*Custom Menu System

*Key assigned items to help solve puzzle elements

*Four main party members to control

*Seven major bosses to defeat

[Fisherson]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang this looks mighty impressive, AFL! O.O Kinda got a classic style to the menus and plenty of interesting looking screens. I'm not crazy about the tittle name, but I love the graphics! The story isn't too bad either.

[lonewolf]

kick *** 2
i like it all so

[Moosetroop11]

Sweeet. I take it you'll be doing the music too? That'll be the highlight for me.

[A Forgotten Legend]

So, I managed to complete the overworld sprite for the first boss, as well as the battle music.  So the first dungeon is pretty much complete!  Just going to tweak a few things here and there but I should be ready to move on soon.  I'm trying to get as much as I can done before classes start and I have absolutely no time to work on it. haha  I also managed to write the music for the title screen.  The switch from VST instruments to midi instruments is proving a little bit of a challenge when trying to get the orchestration to sound good, but I'm slowly re-figuring it out.

Thanks for the comments.  Hopefully its not going to suck too bad haha

[spoiler]
Uses a soundfont, but its close to the midi performance.
https://soundcloud.com/joseph-boboige/seven-title-menu
https://soundcloud.com/joseph-boboige/seven-cave-of-pain[/spoiler]

[Meiscool]

I like the look of it. Very oldschool. Bound to have fantastic sounding music too.

Props for ripping your own graphics. I know how annoying that can get sometimes.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Update:

Boss Battle #2 - The Tree Spirit

Spending some quality time on village #2 and going to start the next dungeon.  There's the boss battle music to keep you occupied.

[Felix-0]

Hella.

[A Forgotten Legend]

..Thanks? haha

Ya know, dem imps can be rather annoying.


Spiderss


So, after a timed run through of what I have, its about 19 minutes minimum to get through everything.  Considering the amount of time I've been able to work on it and all the graphic and music stuff I've done I'm quite happy with this.  Also, **** move events.

[A Forgotten Legend]

So, I'm up to just over a half hour of gameplay... which is pretty exciting for me.  Once I finish the dungeon I'm currently on I might upload a demo-ish sort of thing.  No guarantees on when that will be, but its progress.  Still have plenty of graphical things to fix and some music that still needs written, though.

In the meantime, here's a video of the first dungeon graciously provided by my 5th going on 6th cup of coffee since 11pm.
Seven - Early Demo Video

Also, spent about 2 hours debugging the imp scene in my earlier post.  Probably the ugliest eventing I've ever done and I just had to figure out what the **** I did.  Probably why I leave a **** ton of comments when I do common events...

[Prpl_Mage]

Looking good, but the video is very lag

[A Forgotten Legend]

I didn't test the screen recorder before I recorded and wasn't about to go through all that again.  Its not great or impressive, but its at least something.

[Meiscool]

Yeah, the video lags way too much. I watch a little bit, but I think I'll be able to evaluate the quality a bit more when the video isn't so choppy.

What recorder?

[A Forgotten Legend]

Camstudio, but I didn't download the codec I normally use with it on this computer yet.  I know the quality is a lot better with the other codec.  I'll put up a better quality video tomorrow evening if I can.  Thanks for the watch attempts haha

[A Forgotten Legend]

So a few you probably saw the menu system I was working, I was almost completely finished with the item menu (all that was left was patching the .exe for 50+ pictures that I forgot to do first) and I accidentally didn't back up the .lbd file . So I literally lost everything in the database since the alst backup I made was from right before I started working on the new system.

So back to the drawing board and 7 hours of work down the drain.  The positive is that I can reorganize my variables so they don't look like a crazy mess and I can make themselves lendable to change now.

Basically the deal with this project is I made it about two dungeons in and realized that I was setting myself up to create a boring product so I'm going back to the drawing board to recreate characters and the world history and more fun stuff so the game can have more substance to it.  The main plot is still there, but I'm going to try and flesh it out and I have some new ideas that I'm interested to see reactions to.  My first priority is to recreate my menu system and get that finished and go from there.

Hope to get some more updates on the game over the summer.  I am really trying my best to get a lot done while I have little to do the next couple months.