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Creativity => Game Design & Demos => Topic started by: drenrin2120 on July 30, 2009, 04:22:24 am
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Demo v1.2
DOWNLOAD HERE (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EWBD5HN3)
Demo Info
Some controls I never pointed out. When on the world map, pressing the '+' or '-' on the number pad will move the map to each corner of the screen and enlarge it at the center.
Also, there's a short readme in there that may be of some help to skim through real quick before beginning. I'm not too certain on the game time, if I had guess, I'd say average gameplay could be anywhere from 6 to 10 hours. Oh, and the demo does end rather abruptly, so try not and be too turned off by this.
Story
The small planet of Gaia is wrapped in a world of mystery. Two countries seemingly as ancient as the world itself, Demi and Loki, have been at peace for countless years. Their history is grim yet relatively uncertain. Many people say the everlasting peace is due to events of a time long ago, when grief, disease and plague ravaged the people of Gaia, forcing them to come together as one peaceful entity in order to survive. No one is certain why these events occurred, but nevertheless, these values were passed down through the generations, even after the Dark Years had ended.
For as long as there has been peace there has been a strong spiritual attraction to Loki. Perched on a cliff high against the sea in Loki, a statue calmly rests. This statue has seen many a generation of people on Gaia. This relic has one trait which makes it so beloved by all of the world. The torch which is held in its hand is everlasting and has never gone out. Thus, its known as the Maiden of Fire. The fire fed by nothing, seeming to come from the statue. Persevering through rain and wind.
The king of Loki is very naive and young. The king of Demi is very ambitious and greedy. When a man named Seren rises through the ranks of the Demin Army and becomes chancellor to the king and Commander of the Demin Army, he reaches the king in ways no others had before. He is able to convince the king to betray the Lokins. "There is power in having the Maiden of Fire." He tells the king. "All the world will come to you for guidance."
But behind Seren's calm exterior lies a man haunted by a monster whispering in his ear. Promising him everything if he only help him in return.
Thus, the stage is set. The Demin king begins to rule his country with absolute authority. Forcing men and women into his army to toil for his own desires and severely punishing those who disobey him. But a disruption in the balance of magic and nature, and the appearance of strange beings foreshadow terrifying events that could lead to the destruction of all.
Characters
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Name: Samson Drenrin
Age: 26
Weapon: Fist Fighter
History: His father died when he was very young. And at the age of 11, his mother very suddenly disappeared. All that heard the story thought she'd run away, but there was never any evidence of what happened to her. Around the same time, a priest called Sir Gambit was elected as High Priest when former High Priest Alfred died of a sudden heart attack. Gambit saw Samson's plight and seeing as he was a mere child, took him as his step-son and raised him through to adulthood. Samson joined the Lokin Army and when his service was over he took to traveling the world.
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Name: Parry Renshaw
Age: 45
Weapon: Swordsman
History: Was born and raised in Juniper, a city in Loki. Both mother and father were revered members of the Lokin Army, both of whom died of natural causes some years ago. Parry joined the Lokin Army when he was 16 and began his rise to the top. He became Commander of the Lokin Army when he was 30. Just like his king, he is a little naive.
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Name: Hector Windew
Age: 30
Weapon: Ax Fighter
History: His father died when he was only twenty and was forced to take over the throne and become King of Loki at a very young age. Though the years have given experience his is still a bit naive, one thing his father was not. Hector personally recognized Samson's outstanding strength and when Samson became a top fighter, they became friends.
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Misc/Characters/Face_Martha.webp)
Name: Martha Lindt
Age: 23
Weapon: Staff
History: Was born in Loki. After her mother died at child birth, her grandfather Kasper, took her in. 15 years ago, when Martha was only 8, Kasper resigned as chancellor to the High Priest and moved into the rural area of North Loki. There he showed Martha the details of becoming a priestess and the magic class known as Mystic.
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Name: Jake Tinne
Age: 19
Weapon: Nun-chucks
History: Born in the Northern Continent. He had lived with his grandfather ever since he could remember. He has no recollection of what happened to his parents and his grandfather never elaborates on the subject. When Jake was 13 he found a lone wolf pup in the cold forest. He took it in and raised it to be his pet and friend. He hated the cold Northern Continent, however. It was lonely, unforgiving, and held no hope of a bright future. So when he was 18 he left for Demi. He picked up his unusual fighting style from a strange man that traveled through his home town when he was 15 that showed him the power of nun-chucks, if used properly.
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Name: Timber
Age: 7
Weapon: Claws
History: Loyal to Jake and all who befriend Jake. Was found by Jake alone in the savage wilderness of the north. Ever since, Timber has never been anywhere but at Jake's side.
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Name: Elli Seel
Age: 35
Weapon: Spearswoman
History: This woman keeps a lot to herself. She was a chancellor to High Priest Alfred 15 years ago. But after his death, she disappeared from society.
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Name: Seren
Age: 32
Weapon: Swordsman
History: Born in Demi. Rose quickly through the ranks of the Demin Army to become chancellor to King Lessard V and Commander of the Demin Army.
Screen Shots
I'm not gonna post every single screen shot I have on this page. Here a link to my photobucket albums dedicated to AoA screen shots: Screen Shot Albums (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/")
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/T1.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/T3.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/T4.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/1.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/6.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/5.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/13.webp)
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Systems
- View Key Items Menu
- View Character Class Statistics Menu
- Class system (elaborated more further down)
- Change party Menu
- Adrenaline System (Limit Break-esque)
Chapters
There are seven planned chapters to this whole game. I'll release their names as I finished them. So far I have the first two completely done.
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20I/Title.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20II/Title.webp)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/drenrin2120/AoA%20Screens/Chapter%20III/Title.webp)
Chapter III is currently 80% done. I'll release a new, updated demo for that when it's done.
The Eleven Classes
Class Hierarchy
Electric > Water > Fire > Ice > Wind > Earth > Electric
Mystic > Cosmic > Kinetics > Nature > Wild > Mystic
Class Training and Level
Each class has levels 0 through 5. Each number represents a character’s skillfulness in that class. 0 means the character has no experience with this class and knows no skills from this class. 5 is the Master Level. To gain levels, one must acquire AP from monsters in battle. AP is similar to EXP, once enough AP is gained, the character gains a level in the class they were training and learns a new skill. The amount of AP required to gain levels in Classes is the same for each class.
0>1 requires 200 AP
1>2 requires 600 AP
2>3 requires 1500 AP
3>4 requires 3000 AP
4>5 requires 6000 AP
Level 5 is the highest level for any class. Players can take on any Class they want at any time without forgetting learned skills.
Elemental and Specific Classes
Classes are divided into two groups, Elemental Classes and Specific Classes.
Elemental Classes:
-Electric
-Water
-Fire
-Ice
-Wind
-Earth
Specific Classes:
-Kinetics
-Cosmic
-Mystic
-Nature
-Wild
Classes Analysis
Elemental Classes: All elemental classes are offensive.
-Electric
-Water
-Fire
-Ice
-Wind
-Earth
Specific Classes:
-Kinetics: Defensive.
-Cosmic: Offensive.
-Mystic: Curative.
-Nature: Status effecting.
-Wild: Offensive and/or status effecting.
Master Skills
Master Skills are special abilities obtained only from finding Items called compounds. To learn the master skill for the Electric Class, one must find the Electric Compound and use it on a character who has mastered the Electric Class. Only one Compound exists for each class in the game and can only be used on one Character.
Adrenaline System Elaborated
When a character attacks a foe, depending on their strength/defense and the foe's strength/defense, they gain an amount 0 through 20. This is a fraction out of a 100. Adrenaline is reached when so-called, "Adrenaline points", have reached 100 percent. In Adrenaline State, a character can use Techs. Techs cost no MP, but can only be used in Adrenaline State.
If a character uses magic, they can still gain Adrenaline Points, but their intelligence is pitted against their target's intelligence to determine how many adrenaline points out of 20 will be gained.
Some Credits
Battle sprites inspired by InsaneJP
Jake's sprite and others by InsaneJP
Majority of MIDIs by me, drenrin2120
Timber Faceset done by a friend named Emilejon
Other facesets made using Facemaker
Everything else is random stuff I found resource questing
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i like the cave screenshots a lot, and after reading some of this thread i fell in love <33333
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download link is broken
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For the download link, just click on the link and then go to the address bar and erase the " at the end.
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Played for 5 minutes. The intro is long, but at least there are graphics.
I liked your mapping for the first bit.
The dialogue between the two angels seemed like it was trying to hard. And, i'm sorry, my mind is in the gutter, but hearing some guy saying "SISTER I'M SO CLOSE" is just a little strange, yknow?
Then you lost me with the planets and backstory thing. I know this is traditional and it might be what you were going for, but it didn't hold my attention.
And then I got an error, I guess because I don't have the RTP installed :( Some battle animation couldn't play.
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I get where you're coming from. I've felt that the first bit of my game can be tedious, I just don't know what else to do. There's a lot to the story, and I wanna make sure everyone gets it. I guess that planet part is a little useless, but not entirely.
What was the error you got?
BTW, I'll fix that broken link deal.
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Haven't tried the game yet, but I like the whole class/skill system of yours (also because I use a similar thing in my game). Reminds me a lot of Romancing Saga Minstrel Song really.
The only thing I am not too fond of would be the faceset. Maybe you can consider not using faceset for the game? Some games doesn't use them but make the sprites 'lively' (have a lot of animations like laugh etc) and I think it is a pretty good alternative.
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That's a good idea, I do have the sprites do some reactions, though I admittedly could make more "lively". I don't use facesets in messege boxes though, I was never fond of that. I only use facesets in battle and menus.
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I get where you're coming from. I've felt that the first bit of my game can be tedious, I just don't know what else to do. There's a lot to the story, and I wanna make sure everyone gets it. I guess that planet part is a little useless, but not entirely.
What was the error you got?
BTW, I'll fix that broken link deal.
this probably isn't your fault cause i dont have any RTP preinstalled on my machine... But it couldn't load Vehicle the first time (i renamed a charset to bypass this) then it couldn't load healing1 or something (i don't remember but it was a battle animation)
There's a utility somewhere to check for RTP dependency... maybe its in the downloads topic or something.
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=\ That's no good. Maybe try copying your save file and redownloading. Because none of the vehicles are RTP. Though I did use some RTP in the battle animations.
EDIT: I know the RTP from rpgrevolution works fine with my game.