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Dead Content EPIC: Vagrant Blood [Intro Vid on Youtube]

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EPIC: Vagrant Blood
(note: this thread will be made prettier when I'm less of a zombie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpCGkhUsx1o
Intro video

Made in 5 days for GamingW.net's contest, Vagrant Blood is set in the EPIC: Contention universe, starring our favorite womanizing Virad, Weapon.  The main story is roughly 20-30 minutes long.

A traitor to your brotherhood, the Virad, has stolen your starblood, a lucrative substance of great value on the black market.  Now it's your job to get it back and try to get laid in the process. 

Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/110918082/V ... d.exe.html

Main Characters
Weapon: An Orkan Virad with a love for destruction and general disorder.  He does whatever he feels like and he has the brute force to get away with it, most of the time.  Besides his thick skull, his greatest weakness is women, which consistently prove a distraction from his main objectives.

Genevieve Denemoor: A Human Virad operative that is often sent along with Weapon to keep his eyes on the mission and away from girls' asses.  Though she enjoys the thrill of a good hunt, she's pragmatic and tries to avoid deviations from a job's main objective.  She's clever, or at least is by Weapon's laughable standards.

Other Characters
Sandarga: The Orkan woman to whom Weapon and Genivieve report.  She's cunning and charismatic, wielding great charm and influence.  She is one of the highest-ranking members of the Virad brotherhood and even leads her own unofficial branch of the organization, a syndicate known as the Grim Company.

Lier: An ex-Virad that has stolen a sample of starblood, a lucrative item on the black market.  Sandarga entrusts the mission of recovering it to Weapon and Genivieve.

Screenshots
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Bugs and Notes
Since I got done with 30 minutes to spare before the deadline, there are a few issues in the current build.

*You can walk through the walls in the second map of the factory.  Just pretend you can't.
*I left a debug NPC in Medlin, the thug next to the cave.  Don't talk to him, as it gives you bugged items.
*The dating minigame is a lot harder than intended because of some minor bugs.  Though not impossible, it is fairly difficult to get anywhere.
*Since I saved making credits, game over, and title screens for last, only meager/makeshift ones are in place due to the lack of time.  I'll have credits put up in this thread in a day or so.
 
Won't this get DQ'd because it is almost RTP-only? Anyway, love the mapping work. Really nice. The light effects are awesome, too.
Almost RTP-only?  All the main characters are custom works, there are custom animations, and custom battlers, as well as no RTP music.  But thanks. :)
 
Third333strike does have a point with the walls in that shot. There was probably a better piece for them. Otherwise, good job. Good luck with the contest on GamingW.
 
It started out awsum but then..


- Passability errors (walking over walls.. bridges.. fences ..etc etc)
- Monsters give 0 exp and 0 gold.
-After jaku or whatever the game freezes..

and finally the minions in the factory actually has to be killed with skills instead of attacking.. and it sucks up all the mana which would be fine if I could heal both of em before the third fight but Gen breaks away... so she gets killed.. which makes the battle that much harder because you only have two shots in Weapon's skill gun.
 
- Passability errors (walking over walls.. bridges.. fences ..etc etc)
Yeah, those are known issues.

- Monsters give 0 exp and 0 gold.
Do you mean the enemies in the factory?  That's intentional.  There are no levels in the game.

-After jaku or whatever the game freezes..
Really? O_o I've not heard of that happening before.  The scene after Jaku by the river is the ending, if that's what you mean.

Regarding your problem in the factory, they can be killed with regular attacks.  It takes strategic use of your skills.  That's also why you can save and heal before the third battle.
 
Looks good to me.  A Few things:

1. I don't like the music... but that's personal taste.
2. Ever think about using an AMS?  Are you using one?
3. One of the pet peeves of mine are NPCs that don't have names.  "Thug 1", "Thug 2", "Thug 3" and "Thug 4" all should have proper names.
 

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