OK this is the official project topic for "Project NU:Stage 1"
Background information:
"Tiam":
History of Tiam:
Tiam is a relative new world with only about one to two hundred thousand years to its name a thousand of which people have been in settlement on its surface. Life on Tiam began when Dr. Severus Manis discovered the planet and began to conduct several off-world robotic experiments and so moved his labs to the planet. During his twenty years on the planet Dr. Manis and his colleagues developed a device they called the bubble. with this device they used the natural gases that rose from "vents" on the planet to provide power. However Dr. Manis's original experiments failed to succeed and his finical support was lost forcing him to return to The World, some of his colleagues, convinced that they could succeed remained behind but sadly were not heard from again.
Tiam went untouched after this for another 100 years until while studying solar phenomenon Dr. Jalrus (pronounced : like walrus but with a J) McCarthy witnessed what is now called the "Second Sun Phase"* of Tiam's moon. Believing this to be the work of a man-made machine Dr. McCarthy immediately requested to send a team to Tiam to further study this phenomenon. Although his request was denied McCarthy secretly put together a tem and went to Tiam.
Upon Tiam they encountered no people at all. Seeing that the spectacle he witnessed was because of natural causes McCarthy and his team returned home. Because they had disobeyed their governments order McCarthy's team was executed upon arrival but McCarthy successfully evaded capture and went on to work with Johanns Bachman (pronounced yo-han's bach-man) who discovered dicealine, however both Bachmann and McCarthy were executed by the World Government, ironically enough by being fed to their own dicealine extractor.
On Tiam however the story went only slightly differently. After Manis and his team left the scientists that remained continued working on Manis's original robotic experiments, only to realize that it was the atmosphere of the area that was interfering. Lack of any working communication devices the scientists set up and began governing themselves however disputes arose between several of the members and they broke into three separate tribes, these tribes were: G.O.V who were the people who tried to remain loyal to the G.O.V** company and continue work and research, Guild of Astor were those who were headed by Jacob Astor who believed that they were better off on their own without G.O.V, and finally the Dehrmahn Sector who were the environmentalists of the group and wanted to do further research on the planet for inhabitation. Further disputes several generations later caused the three tribes to go to war in which a fourth group of people opposed to the war left the tribes and formed what they called the Neutrality Tribe.
About 30 years into the war the Neutrality Tribe saw a ship launch from The World heading towards Tiam as it had been named. Each tribe, fearful that one of the others had contacted The World and possibly the World Government or G.O.V began an extensive space program in which they evacuated the planet leaving behind their cities which they camouflaged. They hid inside a nearby gas moon and there continued their war in space until the ship departed from Tiam. Upon returning to Tiam the tribes signed an a peace agreement. Then several years later it was noted in the populace that several people who had been directly exposed to the gas of the moon had paranormal abilities ranging from simple mind reading to performing complex tasks with only their mind. Ifearing attack from these Paranormal people the tribes began isolating and attacking them. Then almost 10 years later the tribes recognize a fifth official tribe the Clan of Altered.
*the phases of Tiam's moon are the Eaten phase, the Emergence phase, the Second Sun phase, and the Death phase. the process of these phases are as follows: Tiam's moon intercepts course with another more gas-like moon and is enveloped after this moon completes its cycle Tiam's moon reappears and because of a chemical reaction between remaining gases and a mineral found on the moons surface it ignites when exposed to light causing Tiam' to have to light sources for a short time and finial devoid of the gas causing the combustion the fire dies out.
**G.O.V is a robotics research corporation with a heavy hand in the political doings of the World Government, in fact the Head of Government doesn't get to assume office if G.O.V does not approve them.
background on Tiam:
none at this time
"The World" :
History of The World:
The World has existed for several million years with its people maturing and advancing much like the people of present day Earth. Up until dycealine(pronounced: dice-a-lean), a powerful and clean energy source, was discovered in various people in society namely those who lived a majority of their life outside or on streets. Soon illegal extraction labs began popping up selling dycealine to both major corporations and black market officials, and the World Government, who were hard pressed to switch over to dycealine energy, ignored the large amounts of reported missing people to cheaply fill the dycealine quotas. Until a Goruan (pronounced Gore-Ran) prince was abducted and killed for dycealine extractions, outrage went up through all of the Goruan countries and a war was waged.
The World Government armies were led by general Tyson McLean against him was the Goruan general Massa JiRe (pronounced Mass-a G-Ray). Throughout the duration of the war both sides were almost evenly matched destroying countless cities. at the end of their 56 year war the two sides had been so severely injured that when the head of the Longly Clan, Stephen Longly declared war on the two states they were almost forced into surrender on the first day.
From that day the leader of the government was one of the heads of the Longly Clan, though now rather that several hundred small extractories( places where dycealine is extracted) they merged all of the extractories into the Dyce Extraction Firm and furthered the resistance against illegal dycealine testing on humans. however despite this testing continued and it was found that under extremely controlled circumstances dycealine could be used to alter a persons genitic makeup. However research never got far on this topic because the World Government and the Goruan Independents allied and swept out the Longly Clan after their six year reign. The Dyce Extraction Firm was closed, until eight years when a nuclear accident rendered most other conventional form of energy near useless and the plant was reopened under the leadership of Former Longly Clan member Dr. Ryi.
Background story of Project NU's The World:
none at this time
"The Dream":
History of The Dream:
The Dream as it called by those that enter from The World, or Maerd as it called by its inhabitants. It is a mysterious place with a history even more twisted than some of the most corrupt politicians one could think of. the written history of Maerd begins with the first king of Maerd, Gorjen a man who peacefully attained the throne through sheer wits and intelligence.
Gorjen ruled for some number of years but the end of his rule there appeared a man in one of the realms claiming to be a greater man that the king himself, by presenting money and gifts to people from out of just the air itself, this man calling himself Merlin attained the throne through popular decision after Gorjen's death and thus began Maerd's age of magics. Thought not every one liked Merlin and soon riots and skirmishes erupted around the capitol city.
Finally Hamand took control and banned the use of magic throughout all of the realms, but still opposing him was the escaped Merlin who transfered to a separate realm of Maerd to set up his kingdom for a second time. Hamand and merlin went to war but neither Hamand's gadgets nor Merlin's magic cold prevail. finally both side exhausted from the war called a truce. But this would not last long as Hamand was assassinated the very morning after he signed the truce by someone using magic. Hamand's supporters grew angry and soon after Merlin was also assassinated, this time by a gadget user.
With both sides leaderless a man named Jakc (pronounced Jack) and he brought into Maerd a substance he called Dycealine he also renamed Maerd to The Dream. during Jakc's reign he used dycealine to transform people that he choose as "prophets" and to combine magic and gadgets he also introduced guns into Maerd. a few years into his reign another person came into Maerd calling it The Dream. Shortly after this Jakc stepped down as king and disappeared. Also around the time of Jakc's dissappearence a mysterious man named Death appeared and began killing people almost indiscriminately.
Background for Project NU's The Dream:
none at this time.
The Characters of Project NU:
Chapter 1 Characters:
__________: the Main Character. As of now he has no name.
History of _____:
for all of his life he has been held captive by Dr. Ryi being told that because he was different form everyone else that he would always be hated and that the experiment being done on him were to make him normal. he pretends to believe Dr. Ryi but really doesn't believe that Ryi is in any way trying to help him. whenever an experiment failed he was tortured for 3 days because of it, this and Dr. Ryi's statements has driven him to a suicidal insanity in which he now begins each day praying to die. He has never attempted an act of suicide by himself though he spends every waking moment trying to will himself dead.
He has only been outside of his cell where he is kept 3 times, all three trips were to an examination chamber three room down form his. he has only senn the outside world in the textbooks and novels that he was tought out of.
bio for Tyson Carthege;
Name:(not set)
Age:10
Gender:Male
more character infor will come with future updates
Dr. Ryi:
history for Dr. Ryi:
Dr. Ryi is one of the remaining Longly Clan heads thought he never ruled during their time he was closely involved with DEF before it was shut down and remained actively involved with dycealine after it was closed. other than this not much is know about Dr. Ryi other than his superority complex and his arrogance. Although soon after Dr. Ryi was selected as head for the reopened DEF (Dyce Extraction Firm) a smaller sub company was set up by him for "funding" purposes. It is belived that this is the time when he reopened the Dycealine genetic modification files from eight years earlier, and began his experiments on a dog he named Zend. It is however unknown what became of Zend, but shortly after several workers involved in his experiments with him disappeared. it is believed that there were more experiments in the following three years after Zend and that he visited Tiam at least twice.
bio for Dr. Ryi
Name:Dr. Ryi
Age:47
Gender:Male
more character infor will come with future updates
Doc:
history for Doc:
Doc, as she is commonly called both at work and home, is a biology major and one of the original researchers of Dycealine genetic modification. she is generally quiet and soft spoken and also has a soft spot for children. but she has been seen taking several self-defense classes and also has a history with the Goruan Independent Army.
bio for Dr. Ryi
Name:Dr. Ellen Michell
Age:32
Gender:Female
more character infor will come with future updates
Death:
history for Death:
Death aka "D" as he prefers to call himself when he is not busy killing the inhabitants of Maerd. is a quiet individual and the few people who have gotten to know him for who he truly is see that he would rather spend all of his time fishing by the river which is where he can more often than not be found.
bio for Death:
Name:Death aka "D"
Age:20
Gender:Male
more character infor will come with future updates
The Plot:
After having been experimented on and tortured for all of his life _________ finally escapes and now tries to find the true meaning of freedom amidst a turbulent world and an alternate dimension.
Game features:
*the player will develop their own weapon skills rather than have them set for them in a specific class like setting.
*battles acquire a strategy element with attacks that target different areas of an opponents body.
* Unique and innovative battle system that allows you to transform,teleport,call for allies, and even craft weapons in the middle of battle.
*innovative interaction system that allows you to creatively explore your environment.
*"call" allies to help you at anytime. but beware help isn't always free.
Production information:
Screenshots: none at the moment
Demo:
demo1: working on it.
The Team:
*Ultaflame
*Diokatsu
*santa2452
*game_guy
*legacyblade
*buddy
*C.C. rOyAl
*me
Thanks and Credit:
Ryexander: for the interaction system and advice and help.
Aqua: for the
Context Sensitive Numpad script(no longer in use ) and scripting advice and help
God: for the idea
NAMKCOR: for the weapon training script
Blizzard:for RO job/skill script, bestiary script, Tons of Addons, and help with script edits
TheMrMystery: for weapon set script
DerVVulfman: for the mouse system and edits to pathfinding script
Near Fantastica:for the pathfinding script
Ccoa:for the UMS
Aleworks: for his input Modules
Game_Guy: for his quest script and work on the project as a scripter.
Murasame assassin: for the title script
Zeriab: for antilag script
Fantisist: for multiple starting points script.
buddy: for work on the project as the mapper
C.C. rOyAl: for work on the project as the graphic atrist
like this project want to become a part of the team join here: http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php?topic=3756.msg74609#new
Related to Chrono Trigger's "Nu," by any chance?
no...i used NU as new because i though it looked better.
A note about the demo its sole purpose is to show off some of the major system /controls and configurations inside this game.
unable to find graphics windowskins talk1
sorry..ill add the file and reupload it
EDit: updated demo 1 it now has all of the required graphics files.
Missing a sound file Flash3
k...i gotta find that one then i put it here.
EDIT:
ok demo 1 has been reuploaded with all required files and the updated basicbattle system.
sorry about all the bad uploads my travling PC is not very intellegent and neither am I. again sorry the actual final demo is posted please enjoy
missing sound1 also you need to set pasability for two of your tilesets and you had them starting on the wrong map
I dont have any of my sound files on my travle PC...
...ok there have been updates to the game (im still traveling though which is why i haven't released anythng yet) I've added almost all of the systems inside the game am currently revamping ch1 to have alttle moe storyline. AI has been added. as for the missing sound files you can change the file inside the editor to your liking to run the game. the correct files will be added and uploaded when i return.
another update. i have compleatly rewritten the intro and ch1 and gave it a new look and feel.
ok. so with collage and work stuff and life. im going to have to stop working on this for a while. that does NOT mean that this is cancelled just paused for an extended period of time.