Hello, everybody.
My name is Robin van der Star, and I represent "Serious Intelligent Media Productions", or SIM for short.
Allow me to tell you a little about SIM Productions before I get to the project.
We are a small, quality-oriented business that provides non-profit media, like movies, games, music and various website-designs and templates, consistent of eight talented individuals who are working hard on our new project.
These four are 3 writers, one designer, one character-artist, one spriter, one scripter and a mapper.
We are currently working on a large-scaled (though non-profit) Role Playing Game(similiar to Final Fantasy, Zelda, etc.) that mainly focusses on it's story and contains a very serious tone made with the RPGMaker XP engine.
We want to bring something new, different and fresh to the table, by bringing the quality of a RPG together with new concepts to the players.
We are scouting all over the internet for composers, graphical designers, scripters, game programmers and mappers to join our team for this project.
This game, "Nature: The First Chapter", can be compared to a popular Japanese gaming-genre, called "Visual Novel".
Without further redo, here is the information about our project:
Nature: The First Chapter
The storyThe world has always known a deity. A God that reigns, casts miracles uppon the Earth to help the human race. A long, long time ago, the peaceful Mother Nature was the primary Godess of the earth. With her infinite power and wonders she reigned over the Earth. But a secret brotherhood knew that the world would be better off with "Lord Res", a mightier God than Mother Nature, they believed.
They locked the Godess Mother Nature up in a yet not born girl, which would be born when all the members of the secret Brotherhood would be dead or deceased. They knew that when Mother Nature would be released from her "cage", she would crush the brotherhood. Several thousands of years later, after all the "Elder Ones" were dead or deceased, a girl was born. Essence.
Seventeen-year-old Essence lives in a village that's far from the rest of the soceity. Her mother is seriously ill. Even with a large daily dose of medication she can barely survive. Essence is plagued with vague visions. In these visions she sees Councils about Gods and a young girl. After she hears voices in her head in broad daylight, she knows that something is wrong.
She finds out that her body contains two souls. The second soul contains Mother Nature, who will do anything to break out. Mother Nature wants to take revenge on humanity which once failed her. Essence has to destroy this God, whatever it takes. While she travels across the world she meets an assassin on behalf of "The Brotherhood", a cult that chases Essence all over the world to free Mother Nature inside Essence, and friends who help her to achieve her goal.
But Essence knows that her life might not be spared if she accomplishes her task.
Description: Essence is the main protagonist.
At the age of seventeen she finds out that a second soul lures in her body, eager to get out.
This soul contains Mother Nature, a Godess that wants to take revenge on the Human Race which once failed her.
Personality: A quiet girl that won't attract attention, but rather stays out of the spotlights.
Other details: Her father joined the army en left Essence and her sick mother to struggle for survival.
Description: Hope is sixteen years old and Essence's best friend. They know each other since they were five years old and grew up together.
Hope is a rich citygirl, but her parents moved to Harley Town for a peacefull living.
Personality: A girl with a quick temper but a big dose of humour.
Description: Blaine is eighteen years old and knows Essence and Hope since the age of fifteen. He is the mature one, not only because of his age.
His parents died after an earthquake and Blaine now lives with his Uncle.
Description: "The Brotherhood" is a group who continues the work of "The Elder Ones". Their goal is to keep Lord Res as God and destroy Essence to destroy Mother Nature too. They have big political influence and some members have great might over the country.
Leader: Clochus XI
Description: "The Cult" is an ancient sect but nobody knows much about it.
This group is the arch-nemesis of The Brotherhood and is a loyal believer of "Mother Nature".
Leader: Unknown
- Blizz-ABS System (on-map battles)
A challenging script that makes it possible to fight on the map.
- Achievements System
A system that adds that final "sparkle" to the game. Your final goal is to collect every Achievement/Trophy through completing the game and free-roaming.
- Mining & Crafting/forging
Through mining you can get special resources, which you can spend on forging weapons at a blacksmith.
Samuel Ekholm aka SuperNovaX from Finland: Storyline
Danny Smith aka RavenwoodX from Ireland: Designing
Carolina aka Kira from Mexico: Character art
Ray Jarry aka Rayqui from France: Spriting
Fabian Ramos aka Sadipo from Holland: Storyline
Raf aka Rafaol from Belgium: Database and probably scripting
Robin van der Star aka Minxs from Holland: Storyline, mapping, eventing, projectleader
Latest Update:QuoteA Tribute to Pokémon
Some of y'all may know it, but I'm almost obsessed with "Lavender Town" from the Pokémon Red and Blue series.
A town with an eerie feeling, and music that just sounds like death creeping arround on toes.
So I decided (sort of) to make a tribute to Lavender Town in Nature, with realistic things.
I don't want to spoil too much, but I can already tell you some things about the new town in development.
Wisteria Town
Lavender Town is based off a purple-like color. At first I thought "let's call the town in Nature Lavender Town", but Samuel - the story writer - thought off another purple-like color: Wisteria.
So Wisteria, it is.
As for the music, our composer Surprenant, is working on an eerie song, based off the Lavender Town music.
For now, the RPGMakerXP Main RTP's "040-Dungeon06" fits quite well.
Here is a screenshot.
I even made the Screen Tone a little bit darker after I made this screenshot, to take the "eerie feeling" to a higher level.
The Story
As all of our Towns in Nature, it has a specific story.
As for Wisteria, we kind of want to keep it secret, because I think this is the best city of them all.
We can only say that the paranormal lurks around in this town!
The rest
Everything, aside from Wisteria... We're working on it.
I won't say that we're close, because we're not.
I can only say that we made some progression with the story, with the sprites and with the character-development.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions for the Wisteria or the rest of Nature!
You, our fans, keep us alive!