The Darkside (name may change)

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August 02, 2010, 12:47:45 am Last Edit: August 03, 2010, 11:56:10 pm by Dr_Shenanigans
The Darkside (Tenative Name)

About
A gothic fantasy RPG - oldschool style with newschool elements.

Plot

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Dear Father,

Apologies for the formal use of dad, It's the only way I could introduce this "letter"- I use quotes because this is vastly longer than what a menial letter would be. It would be more akin to a diary than a letter, hence why you're reading this in a book and not a paper.

You wouldn't believe the adventures I've had this past month, real adventures. as in go around see the world adventures- well not quite the WHOLE world but you know what I mean.

anyways, It started around when Wielik was around halfway done in the school year, when we decided to go to the Tower of Edris for the weekend, then something weird happened...


It just happened when I got off work to meet wielik at the train station to head to the tower...

I had literally bumped into a lady- a fire magus to be precise, I didn't really mean it- not that it was a bad thing, in fact it ended up being the best decision I made the entire trip, I didn't know it at the time, but we we're destined to meet again, albeit in a much less... casual, situation.

The Tower of Edris has a purpose, nobody could really tell exactly what it was due to the seemingly alien writing on the walls- in particular, the chamber that leads to the roof... it was that day I found out about a secret of the tower...

The Tower of Edris was teleportable somehow, and I don't mean single spot teleporting, I mean like somebody picked up and dropped the bloody tower- literally! The tower of Edris was dropped on something, we went out to the roof, & we found out what it was dropped on & who dropped us...

Lord Teznid Phalapron... king of Droat, and about three other countries he had conquered, in the midst of a siege of some city that I didn't know about at the time. I wasn't completely sure then, but I had a distinct feeling he was involved with the spontaneous teleportation of the Tower of Edris into that warzone...


~Excerpt from a Diary/letter catalogued by Elzrith Samael.

(right now the story contains several significant events, which I cannot reveal due to the sake of major spoilers)


Characters
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Elzrith Samael
Age: 20
Race: Human/Angel
Gender: Male
School: Chaos & Support
Weapon of Choice: Maul

   An angel who carries around a large maul instead of the archetypical sword,
   His personally is seemingly cold and snide, but he is actually quite shy,
   friendly & somewhat fearful. His school of magic is centered around support
   & debilitation, rather than healing or offense- he feels that he could put
   more use into beating things up when they can't concentrate.

Vielik Samael
Age: 12
Race: Human/Angel
Gender: Male
School: None
Weapon of Choice: Knife

   The young, Curious brother tends to get himself into lots of trouble,
   usually it isn't his fault, it doesn't help he has poor luck. He isn't
   as strong as his brother, but he specializes in a vast array of powerful magic.
   His spells are powerful, but he cannot work around casting simple spells
   because he was never trained in magical arts, rather he learned most of his tricks himself.

Kaiedra Jillik
Age: 20
Race: Human/Dragon
Gender: Female
School: Fire
Weapon of Choice: Magic Ring

   A hot blooded (literally and figuratively) Fire magus, she was trained throughout
   her life to use magic, but she preferred fire and thus trains with it the most.
   charismatic, boistrous & compassionate, she decided to follow Elzrith & Waelik
   to Zencia after the incident at the tower of edris.

Vawerf Kansin
Age: 48
Race: Human/Minor Vampire
Gender: Male
School: Ass Kicking
Weapon of Choice: His own damn hands

   A berserker with no magical prowess whatsoever but cost-free special skills
   that allow him to literally pound the crap out of his enemies. Despite his over-the-topness
   that rivals even kaeidra, he proves to be surprisingly gentle and smart despite
   his recklessness- he is the baron of Azar, and his wife constantly worries that he'll die one
   day at the worst time possible.

Joyce Wilson
Age: 24
Race: Human
Gender: Female
School: baking
Weapon of Choice: knives

   A baker with a heart of gold and knuckles with dental experience, joyce's surprising combat
   prowess is second only to her surprisingly useful array of foodstuffs. What is her role
   in the Darkside? only time will tell.

Zillian Van Windrider
Age: 180
Race: Vampire
Gender: Male
School: Seduction, Assassination, & Asskicking
Weapon of Choice: Guns

   A gentleman and a shameless swinger, Zillian looks to live life to it's fullest, but he's far
   from heartless, he's also an assassin with one hell of an eagle eye, his role in the darkside seems unimportant
   but it's always the unimportant one that ends up being the lifesaver.   

Litagano Mosscloud
Age: 35
Race: Human
Gender: Female
School: Alchemy
Weapon of Choice: Swords

   An alchemist & the assistant to mad scientist Dr. Ramford O'Creedy, Litagano is the result of
   an experiment gone wrong- a failed alchemy potion turned her skin pale & her hair green.

Lord Teznid Phalapron
Age: 78
Race: human(?)
Gender: Male
School: Tyranny
Weapon of Choice: Greatsword

   The biggest bad in all of the darkside, Teznid Phalapron is on a conquest to take over all of the darkside, what
   he cannot negotiate through union, he'll take over by force, his motivation for this is not known except to his advisors-
   not even his son knows, much less cares about his empire

Prometheus Vielik Phalapron
Age: 29
Race: Human(?)
School: Pity
Weapon of Choice: Lance

   The Prince of the Phalapron Empire, a misunderstood and bizarre man- if you call him that, as he has the personality
   of a child less than half his age. He ignores his father's conquests, instead he goes around chasing women, making crude
   paintings as well as hunting down people who mock him & enjoy the schadenfreude from his antics- especially if one outdoes his "talents."

Merrium Ansan
Age: 36
Race: Werecat
Gender: Female
School: The Great Phoenix School of Law
Weapon of Choice: Books

   A lady of law who prefers to sit at the sidelines and screw with her enemies rather than confronting them directly,
   Merrium is a lady who knows her way around the books, especially doorstoppers. and if that fails she's has agility
   and mean claws to boot.

Dr. Ramford O'Creedy
Age: 30something.
Race: Human/Cyborg
School: Engineering
Weapon of Choice: cybernetics

a strange man with stranger habits, a builder of technology not known to the darkside, because he's NOT from the darkside-
he is actually from an alternate dimension of the darkside- which was previously inhabited by sugary candy rhino like beings
which turned out to be eldritch abominations, currently he studies magic & its workings with machines in hopes of
creating something awesome & possibly destructive.


Gameplay
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 Standard battle system (ABSes like Blizz's look cool, but I don't wanna go for that), so far I've got the threat levels scripts,
I want to make enemies "smart" in terms of combat. I don't really intend this game to be too puzzle oriented, dungeon-wise,
but have most of the focus on battles. kinda like Final Fantasy IV/V

My position (what I can do and have trouble with)
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I can do this fine:
+pretty much anything art wise, have some enemy designs not counting color swaps (I know, it's lazy but art is is not easy.)
+Music, doing my own & using one (well technically two, but they run the same account) other artist, KimKen from Newgrounds-
 they seem pretty cool about others using thier music, and it fits most of what I want anyway. Anything else I can make myself.

Might need some help....
=Non-battle-involved sprites & shenanigans- for this project I want to use completely original tilesets but I'm not sure if I can/need to/am willing to make or use them.  
=Sound Effects, I don't really care

HALP!!!!1!!eleven!!!!!
-Animation, I amd currently *ahem* disputed with RPGmaker's Animation system and cannot figure out what the hell is up with the batch cells tab.
-Map Design, I'm still learning RPGmaker XP and thus (to put it bluntly) am a rookie at map design, I mean I got basics down, just not hugely detailed maps. especially with making custom tilesets
--Programming, zero experience with scripting, getting the hang of event systems but I still need scripts for the things I need to do. (I love the script database, it's just that it doesn't quite have everything I need)

Art Direction
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as of this point I don't have any pictures to show mostly due to work schedule, but I will give you the art direction of The Darkside:

Gothic and Anime-ish, the reason I say -ish is because I want to avoid characters looking too cartoonish- Facepalms instead of facevaults (the only exception to this rule is Dr. O'Creedy, but but that's mostly because he has a popeye & doesn't wash his hair-
he's not exactly a soda-powered-robot mind you.)

as for the gothic part, spirals are a symbol of good luck in the darkside so there's plenty of them around, architecture is medival-based, masonry varies from brick to slab to wood. colors; Black is a good color,
but everything won't be black or brown, dark is not brown or grey/


Music Direction
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whatever fits the map or the mood- a vampire's mansion has a kitschy and creepy halloween-esque theme. a claustrophobic red-mist filled cave underneath an abandoned shack has a more omnimous & monotonous industrial track.



cyclope

When i read the name of your game i thought it was a starwars game :P
Things I Hate

1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn Right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film, "did ya see that?" No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor!

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"... Didn't give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

Dr_Shenanigans

August 03, 2010, 11:29:09 pm #2 Last Edit: August 03, 2010, 11:38:09 pm by Dr_Shenanigans
huh, never thought of that. :P

anyways... Here are some Monsters and a battle background I whipped up on paper (& photoshop.)

Creeper & variants (Including a Kappa & a Stalker)
I got comments from a few buddies of mine that it looks like a realistic koopa- never intended it but, eh.
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BW/Unfinished Drawing of a shade
The cutoff of the lines is not a cropping, I actually drew it too close to the edge
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Old & needed to be re-shaded sludge
This was easier to do with the old pixel art version than this one. mostly because of the black lines.
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Mud & rock Golems
These were fun to do, and to be honest I feel really proud of the mud golem's liquid look.
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Imp + variants
This was the drawing I felt I had very little trouble with (sans the feet).
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High Res Imp
the Imp, before the resize :3
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Overworld battleBG Drawing (HIGH RESOLUTION)
Color is getting worked on... slowly
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EDIT: Spoilers added to save space

I also have drawings of Kaiedra, elzrith, & a zombie but the former is not scanned yet, the second looks like crap & the latter is is a bloody mess- literally. It's probably too graphic for photobucket and it's unfinished anyway.

right now I'm working on a bonus boss- and not on 8x10.5 printer paper but on a huge-ass drawing pad. (all I hope is that I got a camera in my household that has a resolution higher than my scanner)