The Hourglass of Ages: The Awakening

Started by Nortos, January 08, 2008, 01:51:40 am

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Should my cbs use the map as the battleback?

Have the Map as battleback
Use normal Battlebacks

Nortos

January 08, 2008, 01:51:40 am Last Edit: March 01, 2008, 02:39:27 am by Nortos
Here's my first project I've made using RMXP it's a solo project and I'm looking at around a 10hr game nothing big cos I also want to keep moding games and various other things

DEMO

http://www.filefactory.com/file/d935fc/

TRAILER VIDEO

No audio and it's a bit laggy but here you go it's a video of one of the first cut scenes in game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umI3C9sPKPI



Background Story: ShowHide
Background Story:

   In an aged passed, an age of great turmoil and grief, civil wars across the nations and the death of countless thousands caused an evil of great power to break her seal. This evil was named Breesha by her followers by all others she was despised as Ashling the Dark Mistress of Dreams.

   She and her followers claimed lands quickly, pitting their human emotions against them; one by one she tortured, bribed or compelled them to fulfill her wishes.

In four Months from her escape she had control of the greatest nation in the world, and was moving onto Thorn's rival Nations. The only deifiers left with their sanity and lives were the Clans and a small group of Heroes.

   These heroes were Bearach the Captain General, Cara of the Eagle Clan, Luan the mysterious mage of Sheere, and the Chosen Prophesied one Nyla.

   This small group waited until Ashling had sent her forces against her opposing Nations, and then they ventured into the dark twisted realms of Ashling which was once their beloved Kingdom, there they were fighting for their very sanity.
   
   Once they reached Ashling they fought a battle that shook the very founding's of the land itself. Ashling overpowered them and all hope looked lost, until Nyla fulfilled her prophecy and sacrificed herself to seal Ashling's Prison.

   The age passed and entered a new age of peace and prosperity, and little of this conflict is remembered except by the clans.

   If ever again the lands are in such turmoil Ashling will feed on that power and break her seal, the only one then able to stop her would be the Prophesied one.      
                                                               Prophecy of the Dark Mistress
                                                               098 The 7th Age Maolcholm Stra.


   The clans have questioned whether or not they can rely on humans and so they have drawn out the very grains themselves from the Hourglass of Ages to make a weapon that can questionably not just seal Ashling but destroy her. This weapon is guarded by the fierce Wolf Clan

   On the Continent of South Adeall Thorn and Lean questionably the two most powerful nations in the world have had border conflicts and countless wars started and ended and once again the attacks have started, but not just on this Continent.
   Reports have been flowing that the Continent of Radona is getting ready for war, and everywhere the clans are despised, called half breeds and in human scum for centuries now humans have been doing inhuman racial acts against the clans.

   The clans are growing few in numbers and some have gone all but extinct. The only animal clans left are clans that either have the gift of wings or shadows.





Storyline: ShowHide
Storyline:


Maeva is the Princess of Thorn, a descendent to the throne, when she was young she was married to Alabhaois to help strengthen their two houses. Alabhaois wasn't going to wait until the king dropped dead and he knew the King would choose Breandán over Maeva for the throne because of Maeva's husband. He waited and planted seeds of doubt and then on a day he was sure the kingdom would back him up, he brutally murdered Breandán, the King and any followers. The Kingdom is his. Maeava travels to a place she is sure will protect her...

There she meets up with Andell the son of one of the Generals of Thorn and a friend of her fathers, he takes her back to their village and it's just before the joyous occasion of Ole Tine the celebration of Spring and life, which was being run by Andell's Aunt.

On this celebration something occured on which neither Andell nor Maeva would ever of wished for, this shaped their destiny...this shaped the world...



Charecters: ShowHide
Charecters:


ANDELL:
Race: Cat Clan Member
Class: Undetermined
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Andell is a young warrior of the cat clan; he is polite and a good judge of charecter. Andell's father is a General for the royal guard of the Empire, and so he taught Andell self defense and weapon training at a young age. But on his 16th birthday Andell's Father decided it was time for Andell to learn some of his Clans ways so he sent him back to the Cat Clan in the northern Mountains. Andell meets Maeva early on in the plot and takes her back to the village (Note Clan people don't look like their animals but they can "transform"-I'll change the term later- into their Clan animal)
Andell fights with dual daggers and has an evolutionary system of chain attacks that require the first attack to be used to than be able to use the 2nd and the 2nd needs to strike to used the 3rd.




MAEVA:
Race: Human
Class: (Yet do be determined, some type of support magic user)
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Maeva is a kind hearted princess; although she has a great mind for politicts and she wishes people to see their actions rewarded though if these were misguided action her rewards are deadly. She has a determination for revenge on her ex lover Alabhaois who quickly in the game becomes the new King of Thorn. She loves her brother Breandán and as a young girl was always found following in his shadow.




Name to be determined
Race: Human (Unless I change in the future
Class: Hunter
Gender: Male
Age: To be determined
Traits are to be determined
As a hunter he has some condition skills poisoning ect the enemy but his main power are his skills which require the enemy to have conditions on these can hit for quite a punch but miss completly unless they have the required state on them


Battler yet to be made

More info and more Charecters to come soon

NPCs: ShowHide
NPC's:
ALABHAIOS:
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Alabhaios is Maeva's husband, and so a Prince of Thorn, he comes from an old royal house full of greedy conniving Nobles. He was married to Maeva at 21 by his Mother seeing the connections it would make to the royal line. Since then he has been planning how to gain the throne, he knew the king would never lawfully give it to him.


Ruark
Race: Cat Clan member
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Andell's Father is one of the Generals of Thorn, when he was young he seeked adventure and left the Clan, he was find on the road by a kindhearted young leiutanant at the time getting harrased by some bandits who were showing racist acts towards him. The leiutanant quickly chased them off and took the young boy in (he was only 17 than) The leiutanant (who is now the Chief War General of Thorn) taught him the ways of the sword, the deadly arts of the body, war tactics and politicts. Rian quickly gained ranks despite being despised by his fellow peers as "inhuman scum" and at the young age of 21 he was first Leiutanant of the Blue Brigade, he took a years absence and visited his Clan, there he met Andell's mother and stayed with her for 3 years, he than went back to the capital, Andell was sent up to meet his father at the age of 6 and didn't travel back home till after 10 years.


Rian:
Race: Cat Clan
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Rian is Andell's Uncle, and Fiona's brother he has taken care of Andell during his time in the village, Rian lives with Andell, Andell's mother Fiona, and his wife Shannah. He is the local blacksmith and is a brave man, Andell has a great amount of respect for him.


Fiona:
Race: Cat Clan
Gender: Female
Age: 41
Fiona is Andell's Mother, she loves her son very much and treasures him, she is a compulsive control freak and only wishes the best for her, her family and the village, in doing so she has often undermined the Vilage Wise One, Senan's authority on numerous occasions. She works as the Chief Cook at the local inn, though it doesn't get any buisness anymore.


Shannah:
Race: Cat Clan
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Shannah is Andell's Aunt, and sister in law to Fiona, she is a lively women and is often known to be running fun events for the local children, she is like a second mum to Andell.


Senan:
Race: Cat Clan
Gender: Male
Age: 72
Senan is the local Wise One, and is the chief of the Cat Clan, the village has such a peaceful lifestyle though in the northern mountains that it's on rare occasions he has to stamp down his authority everyone gets on well with him except sometimes when Fiona is calling him an "old fool".


Breandán:
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Breandán al Sahvin, Defender of the Straha Harbour, High Lord of House Sahvin, heir to the throne. Breandán is Maeva's sister and is a pickle for rightousness, Thorn would prospell well under his rule. As a young boy Breandán was always suceeding extremly well in all of his classes academicaly and physical, Maeva was always in his shadow following him around, they have a great love for each other.

Bartes:
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Bartes al Sahvin, Welder of the Iron Fist, High Lord of House Sahvin, King of Thorn. King Bartes is Maeava's father and he is a peaceful man, always believing words do better than the sword. He has a friendship with many of the Clans and has made peace with them despite the protests of many nobles. He was distraught for two years in solitude when his wife died giving birth to Maeava but since than he has dedicated his time to the well being of his nation, sparing little time for his children


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Features/Scripts: ShowHide
Features:
Stealth event system
Realistic Lighting System
Lockpicking Minigame
Dynamic Night and day with event changes depending on night or day
Soul Rage Battle Addon
UMS
Mog's menu and titles
Crafting System
Frontview Animated Battle System
Cross Command Battle Menu

Scripts:
Blizzard' s Tons of Addons 4.98
Blizzard' s CRSL
Moghunter Menu and titles
Near Fantastica's Particle Engine
Prexus's Prexcratf
Eilei's Lockpicking Script
Ccoa's UMS
Some of Sand Golem's Addons
Sand Golem's Autobattle edited into a cross command system by Nortos
Cross battle Command (Still in development won't be in demo)
Minoffs Animated Battlers - Enhanced by DerVWulfman (heavily edited by me)
Moghunter's Menu's
Script Editor: Nortos


Credits: ShowHide

Graphics:
Enterbrain (Just mainly charsets and tilesets)
LandofShadows
The Inquisitor (World Map)
Blizzard
Nortos
Various Other's
Audio:
Arena Net's Guild Wars Soundtrack
Bioshock Soundtrack

All other credit's, e.g Mapping, Storyline go to me.


Updates: ShowHide

Updates: 30th December 07 Thread Update
1st January 08 Thread Update
2nd January 08 Frontview Animated battle system complete
10th January Thread Update and Storyline Update


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Fantasist

For the sake of the new forum Nortos, that's the battle system of my dreams ;)
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Nortos

:P I sent it to you, oh and it's almost finished just have to finish the skill crosscommand after you select skill it goes to another cross command with options being chaos rage, soul rage, techniques, offensive magic and defensive magic, oh btw pple this thread will be updated soon as I've just started redoing the village the screenshots seen will be changed as using Inquisitors medieval outdoor tileset.

Vell

hey look at that... Golden Sun Sprites... awesome.

the sprites were so awesome in that game, and hte battle system was incredible...

this game looks like it'll be a lot of fun... also, I can't wait to play, cuz the style of battlers will be the same as in Golden Sun, and thats awesome.

Nortos

lol yeah, also I wanted a hunter which uses a bow but Calintz said he was thinking of making an edit for me if so I'll love him and give him energy :P (and have his babys j/k lol)
Oh and I loved the bs in GS I finished 1 and 2

Vell

I did too, they were awesome.

that battle system just pwns anything that came before or after it, first of its kind(that i kno of) and the only of its kind(that i kno of)

GS: Lost Age, best, game, yet.

Nortos

Pfff my game will beat it :P lol, my other fav bs would be star ocean (PS2 version) and hmm can't think others atm

Vell

Tales of Phantasia had a pretty cool Battle System.

Sally

it did.

Best BS:
-Fire emblem
-Tails of phantasia
-tails of shafomia
-golden sun
-halo
-FF12
-me

Nortos


Calintz


Nortos

ty :) I'm doing an overhaul with maps though before next demo is out using Inquisitors medieval outdoor tileset :P

Calintz

Thats up to you buddy, whatever makes this game greater!!

Vell

YUP!

and uhh... you said Shufomia... do u mean Symphonia? or another game...?

Calintz

Some screenshot links are broke I think... ???

Nortos

January 10, 2008, 10:44:27 pm #15 Last Edit: January 10, 2008, 11:44:27 pm by Nortos
Yeah I want worry about redoing them yet as I'm changing maps but some r from like late November so yeah sorry, I'll upload new ones soon also I think she meant Symphonia
EDIT: Which ones aren't working for u? they r working for me
2nd EDIT: Got round to adding spoilers and updated the storyline

Vell

yeah altho Phantasia and Symphonia had virtually the same battle system...

Nortos

only played Symphonia I'll have to get Phantasia, Star ocean if I remember correctly PS3 version was just sort of same cept 3d fighting and more customisability and went for like 100hrs+ :P was made by same pple as FF square enix

Vell

Phantasia's on the DS, not half as awesome, but the final battles are A LOT harder.

Nortos

coooooool I always love good RPG on my DS :)

Vell

>.< oops, I meant GBA, why did i say DS? cuz I have pretty much forgotten bout gBA by now!

ITS A GBA GAME, and its pretty cool in itself, but Symphonia is better.

Nortos


Calintz

Have you tried that new Final Fantasy 12 for DS?

Vell

I'm in the process of beating it, usually playing only on the weekends.

Nortos

wtf a FF12 on D.S man I'm out of it...

Vell


Nortos


Vell

*imitates Nortos in the not being offtopicness*

Nortos

January 15, 2008, 09:57:53 pm #28 Last Edit: January 22, 2008, 08:12:20 pm by Nortos
Demo should be out in a week or week and a half for pple who are interested it'll also have all the features of the cbs completed except for the seperate skill commands and chaos rage it'll only have one section to select skills from.
Demo will be up to 40-75mins

EDIT:

Thread update and Trailer video added enjoy :) Demo 2.0 should be out soon!

2nd EDIT: Added a poll, should I have the map as battlebacks or not for my cbs? I think it could look quite good especially with Inquisitors medieval tilesets and because normal battlebacks would make battlers look tiny but Lufia did that and it was quite good. I'll post a screeny up in a sec here it's *note that the battlers opacity is low for some reason not sure why but don't take that into account*



Calintz

Nice Vid man...
BTW, how do you guys make 'em??

Nortos

I use BSR than upload it onto youtube BSR has a free trial version for unlimited days

Calintz


Nortos

Also remember to vote on this poll guys

Fantasist

Kind of hard to decide. I mean, look at Maeva, what if the map had water there? It would look stupid. But otherwise, I'd have voted for that. I didn't vote btw. I say you take screenshots of each map and use them as battlebacks, without using the script. It's lame, but it prevents stupid situations.
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Nortos

I did that but was too lazy to get her out of water :P anyway I'm also not sure what the opacity problem is with the enemy battle O.o any ideas?

Calintz

Looks kinds like the tileset from Shades...Ccoa's current project...

Nortos

It's inquisitors medieval outdoor tileset, also what do you guys think about this...I'm thinking of changing interiors to VX tilesets they look good with XP charsets and r nice looking and easy to map

Calintz

Hey, it's your project...But make sure you don't do anything that actually jeopardizes it's quality...I say with normal Backgrounds...

Fantasist

January 25, 2008, 07:30:54 am #38 Last Edit: January 25, 2008, 07:37:09 am by Fantasist
QuoteI'm also not sure what the opacity problem is with the enemy battle O.o any ideas?

Does it stay like that always or it turns transluscent in between? If it's the latter, you can track down in which phase it's happening (the default battle scene has 5 phases) and pinpoint the mechanism. You can use
p @phase
to get the phase. I think I have a small code snippet somewhere, hang on...

EDIT: I call it 'Battle Phase Prompter' in the script editor. Paste it below all 'Scene_Battle's and try it out.
Scriptlet: ShowHide
class Scene_Battle
 
  alias phase_check_init initialize
  def initialize
    @current_phase = 0
    phase_check_init
  end
 
  alias phase_check_upd update
  def update
    if $DEBUG && true
      if @current_phase != @phase
        p "Phase #{@phase}"
        @current_phase = @phase
      end
    end
    phase_check_upd
  end
 
end
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Nortos

ty for that but I think I may stick with battlebacks for now, also I almost lost about 5-10hrs work today I backed up on third hard drive just recently but today comp sort of um...exploded when my dad was using it, it was a problem with a switch that still sent the power when it was plugged off it exploded comps power supply it's fine now though we swapped it but need new fans

Fantasist

The power unit's damaged, eh? That happened to me once too, sorry man :(
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Nortos

got a new one now was why bit inactive and school starts not tommorow but next day after :( in yr 11 now but I'll be doing steady work on game when not got much assignments

Fantasist

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Nortos

Update: Next demo should have some kickass Music I've looked through my room and find lots of great gaming soundtracks and it's legal to use them I've checked, expect Music from great games like Valkerie Project, Enchanted Arms, Guild Wars, Wild Arms, Lufia and several FF games.


Nortos

thanks :) btw I can't read your personaly text

Ghareeb

*Sorry for the off-topicness*
Its arabic text, its small or your computer doesn't support arabic language system, or something like that.

Nortos

it's cool for offtopicness I asked and it's my thread :P anyway it's small but I cant read arabic anyway :P

Fantasist

I wonder what it means though...

@Nortos: When will the next demo be out?
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Nortos

hmm cos of school started up and I'm gonna try and get L's about 2weeks hopefully I still got couple maps to do but there easy and a bit of events

Fantasist

I'll be waiting :)

I'm anticipating 4 games right now:
- The Hourglass of Ages
- Well in the Woods
- Chaotic Fury
- Chaos Project

And not to mention QC ;)
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Spoofus

what you not been anticipating my game WANDERER Fantasist?

but anyway i been playing the demo that is out right now and i can say this game is gonna be good


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Fantasist

lol! I forgot! *adds to above list* I'm not joking, I really did forget about it.
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Nortos

:P and ty for comments you two it makes me want to release it faster :) I've been overloaded with physics and maths atm but I've gotten into a steady progress more so than in holidays where I did a bunch of stuf fone day than not much another, also one of favourite things for this game I think will be the music I've got soo many good soundtracks I own now

Fantasist

Yes, music is an important factor. All the best :D
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Calintz

Definitley important to any game...I mean where would the growth of RPG genre-based games be today, if Sephiroth was killing people to Mozart?? I ask you where!!

Nortos

not very far???  I do have some kickass guitar solos in these songs though :P

Calintz


Fantasist

QuoteI mean where would the growth of RPG genre-based games be today, if Sephiroth was killing people to Mozart?? I ask you where!!


Top of my comedy list, rofl!
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Spoofus

that would be pretty funny seeing that but instead of a huge sword he uses a conductor baton lol  :D


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Nortos

lol make an ABS with sephiroth killing to Mozart...

Spoofus

lol dont give me any ideas..i may do it  :D


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Nortos

:P I would but got this game and than another short 1hr kick ass abs to make

Spoofus

lol if you need my help on anything just let me know  :)


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Nortos

k cool and btw all that's really left for your CBS is to make the windows more attractive and add the enemy health parameters, bars and window

Spoofus

nice you worked faster than i thought *powers you up*


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SlashBlade

Don't worry im going to join... (Not on my compoopoo...) BUT ANYWAY... The name... Aluxes... Its I heard of it before... from... MYSELF!!! ...My old game's maincharacter name was Aluxes... I edited Arshes... You too? Sweet! Great minds think alike!!!... But now his name is Flare...  :(

Chaze007

i <3. it nice LC layout too. u gotta tell me how you get them to fit in.
Always I Wanna Be With You! Make Believe With You!

Nortos

February 24, 2008, 03:10:36 am #69 Last Edit: March 07, 2008, 10:51:28 pm by Nortos
LC stands for...lol what do you mean sorry

EDIT: Added some code images for you guys to advertise my game (Stole your idea DAS :P)
check bottom of first post

2nd EDIT: Been working on it a lot more lately about 50 mins of gameplay demo now should have demo 2.0 out soon with around 1hr of play or more

Calintz

I'm still anticipating this one...How's it coming??

Nortos

alright, I been re-working some of the early maps should have another (longer) demo end of this month or early next month than hopefully move it to main projects :). Also it'll have a fair more technical updates through my scripting in next demo

Fantasist

March 19, 2008, 01:42:07 pm #72 Last Edit: March 19, 2008, 01:43:36 pm by Fantasist
And I have a present for you if you promise to make it quick. It's something I promised you, and I swear you're gonna like it. Check your PM in about 5 mins.
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Nortos

i checked it and replied TWICE! lol it's awesome

Fantasist

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Nortos

NEXT DEMO INFO

Demo Completion - 80%

I'll probably be requesting beta testers soon to test out any mistakes e.g language script errors and tell me what they think i could change

Fantasist

Cool. How much farther does the story go?
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Nortos

it goes a lot further even though only half hour more play that half hr is only filled with like one boss battle though which imo has an awesome mood to the intro of it

Fantasist

Awaiting next demo then, all the best :D
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