Chaos Project

The working title I had when first designing this around two years ago was Blue Horizon. I never thought of a better title and so it stuck. After a month or three I left the Rpg Maker community and focused my attention on other things. Recently I dug this up on my hard drive while cleaning and started to work on it daily. This is the effort of another month of work. I was originally making up the story as I went along, but then I started including elements from my fictional world I had been doodling. Since then I came up with a vague idea of what I want the story to be.

Any similarities to other storylines, commercial or otherwise, is purely coincidental. The ONE reference to any other game is the Spell naming system of Final Fantasy (Cure, Cura, Curaga, Curaja, etc) and that is all.

In effect:

-The game starts up with a scene of a mine and a strange crystal that had been dug up.
-The main character(s) learn of this and head to a town to talk with a miner that worked there.
-The main character(s) and the miner decide to head to a town far to the southwest with the crystal.

Planned:

-While traveling to Archwind (The forementioned town) the heroes are separated.
-Each of the three party members have a separate playthrough for a while.
-While playing on one member's mini-story he/she comes across a passive dragon who joins the party
-Upon reaching Archwind the magicsmith mentioned earlier had been abducted
-... ... ...More to be thought of ... ... ...


Current Features:

-ParaDog's Sideview ATB
-mattfriend's Questlog
-Blizzard's Status Effects, Skills, Map Names
-Save Point system
-Momomo's Bestiary
-ParaDog's Kill Counter
-Face pictures for each of the main characters during dialogue
-Ability to skip various quest cinematics

Planned:

-Using the dragon member to fast travel to various towns
-mini-quest and non-quest dungeons (one in effect currently)
-New Game++ Mode (Yeah right. But I can hope can't I?)
-"Oversoul" Monsters

Right now the opening cinematic and the cinematic of the party discussing what to do with the stone can be skipped. I have ironed out many of the bugs I had found during the three cinematics currently in-game that I know of.

Edit:  Fixed a few more bugs
Currently fixed:

-Skipping the opening cinematic would not work
-Skipping the opening cin would cause the player to be stuck after the cinematic
-Attempting to leave the first area after completing the opening quest would bring up the dialogue "We have to turn back"
-Sophia no longer remains in game after the second cinematic is finished
-After Nicolas joins the party the player would be stuck in forced Set Move Route
-The Mimic in the Abandoned Home in Alathka would get stuck in the stairs, blocking the player from entering.
-In the simple box puzzle in the Abandoned Home's basement, it is possible to block the only exit with the boulders preventing the player from ever leaving
-Soldiers stationed on the walls of Alathka would be hidden from sight when not moving.
-Many many MANY pathing issues
-Some typos
-Balancing issues
-After Nicolas joins the party, it would start an infinite loop showing the "-has joined the party" message forever.
-Opening the Questlog would display the Save Menu instead.
-Using an Herb would damage the player instead of healing (Don't ask.)
-Four doors in Alathka would link to a house in the town of Ley
-Skills lacking an animation have been remedied
-Giant Lizards and Snakes should no longer evade every attack
-Giant Lizards should no longer one-shot Sophia
-Resistances have been adjusted properly
-The cinematic specific maps would display the map name upon entering (bad.)
-Mason's face graphic common event would behave erratically during the cinematic in Redbrick Cave
-The fog image in Redbrick would persist when taking certain exits when it was supposed to be removed
-After the cinematic in Redbrick, the battle encounter would never start, causing the player to be permanently stuck in place.
-The guard in Alathka's custom path should no longer bring him into contact with the player
-Sophia's sprite should now properly erase after killing Guilio
-Several chests have had their Self Switches fixed so you could not loot them twice
-The pathing on the bridge to Ukwyre can now be properly passed after meeting Nicolas
-Fixed the issue where calling the save screen would set your party's health to 0. (Just... Just don't ask. Don't.)
-Other stuff as well


Edited 8/28 4:19PM - new bugs
Yet to fix:

-I broke the opening cinematic AGAIN. It is possible to open the menu during the cinematic
-Skipping the opening cinematic will display the next map for a brief second then fade to black before resuming gameplay. Annoying, but nothing game-breaking
-The link events at the Alathka east gate don't activate on Player Touch. You have to use the Action Button [Only in the attached demo]
-The section of the quest where you must find Nicolas isn't very obvious as to what you have to look for**


*It may not be obvious to some, but when you have to get Ghed's letter, his home is in the SW portion of Ley. Across the room there is a book and paper on the dresser. Activate it and the quest will complete.

**There is a woman near the northern part of the town. Talk to her and she will mention to tell her if you find her child. In the northwestern corner there is a little kid. Talk to him once then go back to the woman. A dialogue between Mason and the woman should come up. Go to the pub in the SW corner and talk to the man in the top right corner.


To skip the two cinematics, press 'A' on the keyboard.

Main Characters:

Mason
  -Human
  -Male
  -Age (Haven't thought of it)

Sophia
  -Elf
  -Female
  -Same as above

Nicolas
  -Asyrian (Different type of Human)
  -Male
  -Around 20 - 32

Rezca(?)
  -Aukuri Dragon
  -Male
  -Between 40 - 90

Only 38 maps are visitable currently. Several are cinematic specific, and a few others haven't been linked yet.


This is my first game ever in any of the RPG Makers and I hope I am doing a decent job at this. I especially want some feedback on the design of the maps and any balancing issues with enemies and actors. The current windowskin is the VX style, but I am planning on changing it soon.

I'll upload the screenshots in a moment.

Edit:

Screenshots













*updated the download link*
Nothing exciting added, but several maps are now properly linked, the cinematics can be skipped without bugs (I hope), and the ugly VX windowskin is no more!
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?6b7ckeyfabfn0si (http://www.mediafire.com/?6b7ckeyfabfn0si)

fix the window skin xD

Please use spoilers for screenshots in future.

QuotePlease use spoilers for screenshots in future.

Sorry, I'll remember that next time :)


More bugs found/fixed:

-Removed the button key method of skipping cinematics and replaced it witrh a dialogue upon the cin's start
-The Mimic in the abandoned house shouldn't be easily killed by level 2's anymore.
-Fixed several events that would not erase after completion
-Fixed two move routes
-Added in an extra transition map between the outskirts and Alathka (Waaay too short before.)