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Adamant Saga II

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In the past the essence of the elements roamed free, gentle, yet powerful.  A group of beings, the 9 warlords of life controlled the power of the elements.  The one day everything changed.  The forbidden element was released upon the land.  Darkness.  Thought to be just a myth, this power engulfed the world, causing the darkness within all creatures to rise up and take over.  The warlords were filled with grief as they figured out that one of them had betrayed them.  His name was Ozark.  Knowing that the darkness was to powerful, the realized that the only way to stop it, was to seal it away once more.  But this was only temporary.  Ozark, commanding the evil monsters fought against the warlords, only to be sealed away within his own corrupt powers.  The warlords created a planet and sealed him away inside.  Using the elements, the created the keys that open and close the seal...the gemstones of light.
The planet was named Foragin, and a special race, the spawn of the elements, rose up and took over.  Guarding the seal with their unique powers.  As the warlords were slowly dieing, the ones that were still alive handed their power over to 4 chosen warriors.  These warriors were called the warriors of the sun, for their powers, pride, strength, and courage shined like a thousand stars.  The warlords who have previously died gave their powers to the planethnd all who inhabited it, not thinking of the consequences...
Through the generations, the gemstones were lost, and one shattered.  The essence of this one was released and chaos ran throughout the lands, or at least until they adapted.  Then one day a child was born holding one in its hands.  One who was born oddly was consider curse and released into the wild, which just so happened to this child.  Found by a lonely merchant hermit, he was raised to protect the store.  He was named Adam, and grew up it be a strong young man with big goals and dreams that he would stop at nothing to achieve.
Several others were born like this child.  A general of the empire, a summoner of a lonely village, and a blind elven mage.  Each with their own unique gemstone, and story.  Then demons rose up out of the ground, commanded by the spirit of Ozark.  They went out to destroy the gemstones and release him from his dreaded prison.  Now the warriors must restore the gemstones, seal away Ozark, and save the world, knowing that they are the only ones who can.


Adam

Age: 21
Class:  Ex-soldier

Once a soldier  of the empire, he tried to enforce a
rebellion and failed.  With a bounty of 300,000 G on
his head, he has so far managed to escape.  But just
because he failed once doesn't mean he won't try again.

Kar

Age: 43
Class:  Ex-general

A general for the empire but then broke away and joined
the kingdom of Revarin to fight back.  One day, he came
into the kings quarters to report but he saw something kill
the king.  After being falsely accused for the king's death he
fought a demon and was left with a whole lot of questions but
no answers.

Amy

Age: 17
Class: Summoner

A gentle summoner who was born into a rich family.  
She is just learning the basics of summoning, but shows
great pride in her work.  Hired as a mercenary for the
empire. She found out the truth while she was working and
secretly follows and helps Adam and Kar along there journey to
empire's capital.

Sagih

Age: 102
Class:  Spell-caster
The last known elf in the world.  He specializes in
black magic but can also use white.  He uses his
magic to see life auras because he became blind
when defending his people from the Behemoth.

Malium
Age: 45
Class: Scholor
A man who has a great interest in the art of science
he find himself pursuaded as Adam and Kar tell him
about the gemstones.  But he already knows a lot about
them, because he has one as well.

Nazarik
Age: 28
Class: Ninja
Once possessed by the demon called Ozark, he dueled
Adam, Amy, Kar, Sagih, and Malium to a death match.  Outmatched,

the spirit uplifted from his body, to be sealed
into a brand new gemstone, the one that he shall carry.

Gustov
Age: 39
Class: Assassin
On the mission of Bloodspire, he supposedly died,
but 3 years later he came back, as a demon, swallowed
by the darkness that arose from the land.  Minion to the
source of his new found power, it will take all that the
team's got, to take him out!

Attached Images Below and at the blog.

RTAB V1.16, Dalissa's Battle Cry, Escape Bar Removal - DerVVulfman
Sephirothspawn's Slanted Bars - Clive
Dynamic Footprints - Wachunga
SDK 1.5
Advanced Title Screen, File log, Method Class & Library, Scene Base - SephirothSpawn
Anti Lag - Near Fantastica
Multi-slot equipment script - Guillaume777
AMS - DubeAlex
CMItems - Blazingamer
Bare Hands - Leon
Pause - Slipknot
New Levelup - fukuyama/syvkal
Unlimited Save, New Scene_Name - RPG Advocate
Element LV system - Moghunter
Party Switching - exseiken

I have found some event bugs such as when you first enter Telis, you miss a part of the game.
On top of Mt Toris, Kar is talking to Adam, but Adam isn't there.
You can't test out the extra mission system after the demo.
The guard when you kill him turns into a dog instead of looking like he falls over.

I am working to fix these bugs and any more that I might not have found yet and add more gameplay before posting a new demo.



Producer
Blazingamer (n_hydock@comcast.net)

Co-Producer
Wanted

Artist
Wanted BADLY!

Musician
It would be nice

Scripter
Not really needed but you could help if you want

Mapper
Looking for as much support as possible

Spriter
Map and Battle Wanted

Bug Tester/Spell Checker
Wanted

Support/Encouragement
Support is always nice

Post if you want to join the staff, currently all positions are open!  Please pm me some of your work if you want to help and if it's decent I'll consider it.  Right now since I have no help I'll accept pretty much anyone's help unless you are a newbie because I want someone who is at least been around for awhile and knows what they are doing.


DEMO v1.0


For some more things about the project, visit the Adamant Saga II blog at

http://adamantsaga2.blogspot.com/
 
I don't really like games where darkness is such a taboo, but okay. I don't know what to say, honestly. It sounds pretty cliche, and the characters seem very final fantasy-esque, if you know what I mean.

Gemstones, elements, blablabla.
No matter which way you spin it.
It's definitely been done.

Maybe you could work with the cliches though, and make an interesting game. Let's see?
 
Staff is irrelevant if it's only him, and the script spoiler should be somewhere at the bottom of his list. Storyline and characters first, in my opinion. Putting scripts way up there definitely says something about the game creator's confidence in the other elements of his game.

I didn't say his layout was bad either, why are you always arguing with me? God.
 
lol it's fun and refreshing, also he's not a one man team anymore, seeing to as he's Wired Productions newest team member ^_^
But seriously that pic looks like the default panaroma with a sign slapped on with some paint, it needs some work...
 
The storyline may sound cliche, but trust me, that's just the back story, it I wanted to put a whole thing one what the story is with all the plot twist and such, we would have a second tale of two cities here!

Edit-Oops! that's right, I just copied my project from CA, it hasn't been updated in a while!, I'll work some things out soon to get it current.

Edit2-Okay,I updated some things
 
Cliche, cliche, cliche, that's all people bitch about these days. Christ, I haven't seen a totally unique game ever in RPG Maker, so don't worry about that. Just go ahead with this since it looks ok for a start to me. I think the menu is a bit plain, but so were a lot of commercial games back in the day. Good luck.
 
What I'm trying to do is get a classic game feel to it, I would have added more screen shots if I had more room in the first post.

Also about Adam sounding like Cloud, characters, I just really have the back story for them, their personality and traits will unfold as the game progresses.

I'm also still recuiting people like mappers, artists, and the basics. The only thing I don't need are scripters because what I have is all I really want.
 
People nowadays, judging characters and games by their backstories. When you picked up FFX, did you go read online about the characters and backstory before playing? I didn't. I just played the game, and as I learned about the characters and their backstory, I learned more about them.

I don't think you can really judge a game or its characters by the little teaser on the project page.
 
Exactly! And the parts that help build the feeling of the characters and story is what makes the game interesting and compelling. Game play and dialog is what makes a RPG fun.
 
I can say this with full earnesty. So far, the best part of your game is the fact that pressing X brings up the status screen, not B. It's very awesome for gamepad users like myself who can't stand pressing B/cancel to bring up the status menu. :)

By the way, it seems like there is nothing else to the demo besides the first forest map?? Am I missing something?
 
Yes, a lot actually. You should get around an hour if not more out of the demo. You need to go all the way south in the forest and go through the ruins.
 
There are exactly 47 different map, a puzzle, maze, and after demo side-quests, so there is a bit to go through you might be accupied for awhile.
 
I'm happy for you. You could always make cliche's work. People seem to misunderstand the meaning of that word. It's not something that has simply been done before by something that is severely OVERDONE and trite. Also almost every idea comes from an idea and if you don't duplicate that idea it can be improved upon! I look forward to playing this game.
 
@itachi-hime: I hope you enjoy the game

@Sapphire_pt: Thank you, I did put in effort to make all the scripts work the way I wanted them to and I'm glad you appreciate that.
 
I was thinking of making a non-encrypted version so then, instead of download the whole game again when I come out with a new demo, I will put files that will just patch it up with things from the new release and also fix some bugs.

Think I should go through with it?
 

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