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"Rest assured that He will rise again from the ashes of history, for good or for ill. The essence of the Divine, no matter how maimed or twisted, possesses immortality; thus, 'tis only a matter of time before He makes his presence felt in our realm once more. He will come, like a phoenix erupting from a fiery malaise, mercilessly striking down His foes, and generously rewarding the worthy. If I were you, child, His coming would worry me not. However, as we humans have to come to realize regarding the nature of the Divine, for every action, for every shift in the cosmos, there occurs something both equal and opposite. Yes, His arrival may be terrifying for many, but I fear more what comes after; I fear the Divine opposite."
-Ramanaster the Third, Chapter II of the Phoenix Prophecies
What begins as the potential destruction of an empire may very well become the potential destruction of an entire planet.
Abandoned after a failed assassination attempt on the Emperor of Nafein, Nickel Arand finds himself running from the law while being light years away from his native planet of Miidrio, light years away from any communication between his home and a technologically primitive world. While keeping himself out of prison, though, he must contend with the task of blending in with unfamiliar cultures, dangerous monsters, and his own strange catatonic episodes, with only a fleeting hope of someday returing to Miidrio.
This strange new world, though, will not be without its own struggles. Natural disasters tear up the landscape, nations are at war, and people struggle with famine and drought. The planet is breaking down like nothing ever seen before in history, or at least, nothing ever remembered from history. Oddly enough, these catastrophes only began when Nickel arrived...
Highly trained yet highly inexperienced, Nickel Arand, the stranger from another land, will inadvertently become this planet's only hope.
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Your Cast of Characters
Nickel Arand, Employee of the Black Hand, Career Assassin
Age: 20
Special Training: Stealth and Time Magic
Bio: Nickel Arand sets the new standard in hired killing. Perfect in every dimension of the art, Arand graduated at the top of his class at the Black Hand's elite school. None previously have set the amazingly high marks that he has, and so he has single handedly created new standards for excellence at the academy. An individualistic lone wolf, Arand contends with perplexing catatonic episodes. Luckily for him, his performance in the classroom allowed him to set his own schedule with instructors. For all of his training and performance, though, Nickel Arand is still extremely inexperienced. After a few minor jobs, he is finally introduced to the target of a life time, an emperor. He comes to this new planet with the intent of collecting both respect and a lucrative bounty.
Tyria Hess, Heiress to the Nafein Empire
Age: 18
Special Training: Disruption and White Magic
Bio: A calm demeanor hides the wild nature of Tyria Monisa, the young heiress to the largest empire in the realm. She seems to be in perpetual self doubt, as the Emperor of Nafein has made it publically known that he is desperate for a son to ascend to the throne. Tyria immediately become more reclusive since hearing these words and thus has turned to studying the magical arts. Without an instructor, she has made fantastic progress in her development. Tyria, even in finding some solace in the power of magic, still sometimes contemplates how easy it would be just to poison her father's drink or to smother him with a pillow. She should know, she's practiced on a few guards.
Corean Popol, Lost Wanderer
Age: 289
Special Training: Black Magic
Bio: Veteran of more wars than he cares to count, Corean Popol has been groomed to be a black mage since his birth, a function of his Lysoz culture. He is always pursuing a life that has meaning outside of his ability to cause pain to others, even abandoning the arts at one point. Corean currently wanders the realm, trying to meet people and learn their crafts. Not particularly good at any of them, he still tries to find a niche in a peaceful society. Perhaps it is fate, or perhaps just terrible luck, but he has never been able to find a healer to apprentice under, which he claims would be his dream job. His latest exploits have lead him to the Kingdom of Votier.
Jyxon Gemmel, Woodsman and Guide
Age: 25
Special Training: Axes and Cooking
Bio: Jyxon Gemmel is the result of orphaning a stubborn six year old child in a forest. The first five years or so of his abandoned existence were admittedly rough, dealing with monsters ten times his size while coping with the elements, not to mention catching his own food, boiling his own water, and making his own shelter. At age fifteen, Gemmel finally tried to leave the woods, but found life in the cities too complex. That said, he did find one redeeming characteristic: the food was fantastic. Caught in this dilemma, Jyxon decided to provide guided tours of the woods, as well as providing shortcuts and maps for travelers wanting to make it out of forest quickly and unharmed. Though it did not start particularly well, Jyxon eventually started to do good enough business to buy choice ingredients from the market. Through his experiences as a guide, Jyxon Gemmel also developed a gift of gab that would defy his lack of education.
Romerhis Graaves, Scholar and Opportunist
Age: 23
Special Training: Magic of All Kinds and Academia
Bio: After inheriting a fortune from his father's death, Romerhis has spent the vast majority of his adult life studying in the library. A wealthy individual, he never needs to, nor does he, leave the castle in which he was born. Such seclusion has developed in Romerhis a terrible antisocial personality. It is not that he wishes to do harm to people though, he just cannot stand them. That said, he did away with all of his servants at the age of eighteen and has since been all alone to his studies, taking care of himself. Romerhis, in the meantime, has developed unsurpassed magical abilities despite a frail frame. He recognizes that he must leave the castle eventually, but is only willing to come out after he has found his true purpose, his true calling.
Eilana Enkili, Sorceress and Seeker of Power
Age: 38
Special Training: Swordplay, Illusion, and Enchanting Magic
Bio: Ruler of vast southern territory, Eilana Enkili is a cruel matriarch with a penchant for being cold and meticulous. Not particularly well read for her social status, she mainly relies on hired scholars for her information, which, due to a lack of real resources, is sometimes outdated and inaccurate. That aside, Eilana is rarely kept away from her goals, whether they be power, wealth, or slaves for her Queendom. Furthermore, she is a master manipulator with magical abilities to bolster that characteristic, making her as dangerous at the negotiating table as she is on the battle field. Rumor has it that she now seeks the original copies of the Phoenix Prophecies, documents pertaining to a coming power, how to stop that power, and more relevant, how to harnass that power. Nothing has yet been found.
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Features
-Custom Battle System that includes:
*animated HUDS
*Action Battle System mechanics
*Squad Based battles
*Summoning
*Quick Item menu
*All the spells and abilities that you've come to love about Final Fantasy
-Custom Menu System with all of the essentials
-Action Icons to alert you as to when things may be examined, pushed, talked to, etc...
-Minimap
-Make your weapons your own with weapon modifications, thousands of possibilities
-Side quests and minigames, of course
-Stealth system
-More to be unveiled later!
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Screenshots
Shot of the World Map. When the player can interact with something, an icon pops up. If the player had already been to this location, the name would also show.
Small look at the battle system in action. This time, the player is casting "Hastega." Some skills, like this one, will pause the ABS as they process.
The main menu of my menu system. This features autoscrolling, time track, and complete statistics. A neat feature of my submenus that is taken for granted is the fact that they will autosort themselves, removing items that the player does not possess and filling in the gaps. While easy to do in RMXP, such a feature is a monster in rm2k/3.
A shot of the opening cutscene.
A screen of the first playable area, The Perseus
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How You Can Help
Can you map? Can you sprite? Can you create music? Can you event? With a project of this size, of this magnitude, I will accept help no matter what form it comes in, just let me know what you'd like to do! PM would probably be the way to go.
Current Teammates:
rpg_messiah: Battle System Coordinator
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Final Notes
This is my last game, so I want to have some fun with it! More than that though, I want this project to be able to help anyone making a game, so I'm making all of the coding with a ton of comments to demonstrate exactly what I'm doing and for what purpose. From the ABS to the CMS, you should be able to pick up all of my little tips and tricks from this game. Think of it as a huge tutorial.
Thanks for reading!
*Final Fantasy is a trademark of SquareEnix
Demo Link
http://www.angel-spire.com/FFPP.zip
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2NNLM2MW
"Rest assured that He will rise again from the ashes of history, for good or for ill. The essence of the Divine, no matter how maimed or twisted, possesses immortality; thus, 'tis only a matter of time before He makes his presence felt in our realm once more. He will come, like a phoenix erupting from a fiery malaise, mercilessly striking down His foes, and generously rewarding the worthy. If I were you, child, His coming would worry me not. However, as we humans have to come to realize regarding the nature of the Divine, for every action, for every shift in the cosmos, there occurs something both equal and opposite. Yes, His arrival may be terrifying for many, but I fear more what comes after; I fear the Divine opposite."
-Ramanaster the Third, Chapter II of the Phoenix Prophecies
What begins as the potential destruction of an empire may very well become the potential destruction of an entire planet.
Abandoned after a failed assassination attempt on the Emperor of Nafein, Nickel Arand finds himself running from the law while being light years away from his native planet of Miidrio, light years away from any communication between his home and a technologically primitive world. While keeping himself out of prison, though, he must contend with the task of blending in with unfamiliar cultures, dangerous monsters, and his own strange catatonic episodes, with only a fleeting hope of someday returing to Miidrio.
This strange new world, though, will not be without its own struggles. Natural disasters tear up the landscape, nations are at war, and people struggle with famine and drought. The planet is breaking down like nothing ever seen before in history, or at least, nothing ever remembered from history. Oddly enough, these catastrophes only began when Nickel arrived...
Highly trained yet highly inexperienced, Nickel Arand, the stranger from another land, will inadvertently become this planet's only hope.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Your Cast of Characters
Nickel Arand, Employee of the Black Hand, Career Assassin
Age: 20
Special Training: Stealth and Time Magic
Bio: Nickel Arand sets the new standard in hired killing. Perfect in every dimension of the art, Arand graduated at the top of his class at the Black Hand's elite school. None previously have set the amazingly high marks that he has, and so he has single handedly created new standards for excellence at the academy. An individualistic lone wolf, Arand contends with perplexing catatonic episodes. Luckily for him, his performance in the classroom allowed him to set his own schedule with instructors. For all of his training and performance, though, Nickel Arand is still extremely inexperienced. After a few minor jobs, he is finally introduced to the target of a life time, an emperor. He comes to this new planet with the intent of collecting both respect and a lucrative bounty.
Tyria Hess, Heiress to the Nafein Empire
Age: 18
Special Training: Disruption and White Magic
Bio: A calm demeanor hides the wild nature of Tyria Monisa, the young heiress to the largest empire in the realm. She seems to be in perpetual self doubt, as the Emperor of Nafein has made it publically known that he is desperate for a son to ascend to the throne. Tyria immediately become more reclusive since hearing these words and thus has turned to studying the magical arts. Without an instructor, she has made fantastic progress in her development. Tyria, even in finding some solace in the power of magic, still sometimes contemplates how easy it would be just to poison her father's drink or to smother him with a pillow. She should know, she's practiced on a few guards.
Corean Popol, Lost Wanderer
Age: 289
Special Training: Black Magic
Bio: Veteran of more wars than he cares to count, Corean Popol has been groomed to be a black mage since his birth, a function of his Lysoz culture. He is always pursuing a life that has meaning outside of his ability to cause pain to others, even abandoning the arts at one point. Corean currently wanders the realm, trying to meet people and learn their crafts. Not particularly good at any of them, he still tries to find a niche in a peaceful society. Perhaps it is fate, or perhaps just terrible luck, but he has never been able to find a healer to apprentice under, which he claims would be his dream job. His latest exploits have lead him to the Kingdom of Votier.
Jyxon Gemmel, Woodsman and Guide
Age: 25
Special Training: Axes and Cooking
Bio: Jyxon Gemmel is the result of orphaning a stubborn six year old child in a forest. The first five years or so of his abandoned existence were admittedly rough, dealing with monsters ten times his size while coping with the elements, not to mention catching his own food, boiling his own water, and making his own shelter. At age fifteen, Gemmel finally tried to leave the woods, but found life in the cities too complex. That said, he did find one redeeming characteristic: the food was fantastic. Caught in this dilemma, Jyxon decided to provide guided tours of the woods, as well as providing shortcuts and maps for travelers wanting to make it out of forest quickly and unharmed. Though it did not start particularly well, Jyxon eventually started to do good enough business to buy choice ingredients from the market. Through his experiences as a guide, Jyxon Gemmel also developed a gift of gab that would defy his lack of education.
Romerhis Graaves, Scholar and Opportunist
Age: 23
Special Training: Magic of All Kinds and Academia
Bio: After inheriting a fortune from his father's death, Romerhis has spent the vast majority of his adult life studying in the library. A wealthy individual, he never needs to, nor does he, leave the castle in which he was born. Such seclusion has developed in Romerhis a terrible antisocial personality. It is not that he wishes to do harm to people though, he just cannot stand them. That said, he did away with all of his servants at the age of eighteen and has since been all alone to his studies, taking care of himself. Romerhis, in the meantime, has developed unsurpassed magical abilities despite a frail frame. He recognizes that he must leave the castle eventually, but is only willing to come out after he has found his true purpose, his true calling.
Eilana Enkili, Sorceress and Seeker of Power
Age: 38
Special Training: Swordplay, Illusion, and Enchanting Magic
Bio: Ruler of vast southern territory, Eilana Enkili is a cruel matriarch with a penchant for being cold and meticulous. Not particularly well read for her social status, she mainly relies on hired scholars for her information, which, due to a lack of real resources, is sometimes outdated and inaccurate. That aside, Eilana is rarely kept away from her goals, whether they be power, wealth, or slaves for her Queendom. Furthermore, she is a master manipulator with magical abilities to bolster that characteristic, making her as dangerous at the negotiating table as she is on the battle field. Rumor has it that she now seeks the original copies of the Phoenix Prophecies, documents pertaining to a coming power, how to stop that power, and more relevant, how to harnass that power. Nothing has yet been found.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Features
-Custom Battle System that includes:
*animated HUDS
*Action Battle System mechanics
*Squad Based battles
*Summoning
*Quick Item menu
*All the spells and abilities that you've come to love about Final Fantasy
-Custom Menu System with all of the essentials
-Action Icons to alert you as to when things may be examined, pushed, talked to, etc...
-Minimap
-Make your weapons your own with weapon modifications, thousands of possibilities
-Side quests and minigames, of course
-Stealth system
-More to be unveiled later!
-----------------------------------------------------------
Screenshots
Shot of the World Map. When the player can interact with something, an icon pops up. If the player had already been to this location, the name would also show.
http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/uploads/IMG2-1185733775.png[/img]
Small look at the battle system in action. This time, the player is casting "Hastega." Some skills, like this one, will pause the ABS as they process.
http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/uploads/IMG2-1185733965.png[/img]
The main menu of my menu system. This features autoscrolling, time track, and complete statistics. A neat feature of my submenus that is taken for granted is the fact that they will autosort themselves, removing items that the player does not possess and filling in the gaps. While easy to do in RMXP, such a feature is a monster in rm2k/3.
http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/uploads/IMG2-1185734119.png[/img]
A shot of the opening cutscene.
http://rpgmaker.net/content/games/490/screenshots/Screenshot-TheBurden.png[/img]
A screen of the first playable area, The Perseus
http://rpgmaker.net/content/games/490/screenshots/Screenshot-ThePerseus.png[/img]
How You Can Help
Can you map? Can you sprite? Can you create music? Can you event? With a project of this size, of this magnitude, I will accept help no matter what form it comes in, just let me know what you'd like to do! PM would probably be the way to go.
Current Teammates:
rpg_messiah: Battle System Coordinator
-----------------------------------------------------------
Final Notes
This is my last game, so I want to have some fun with it! More than that though, I want this project to be able to help anyone making a game, so I'm making all of the coding with a ton of comments to demonstrate exactly what I'm doing and for what purpose. From the ABS to the CMS, you should be able to pick up all of my little tips and tricks from this game. Think of it as a huge tutorial.
Thanks for reading!
*Final Fantasy is a trademark of SquareEnix
Demo Link
http://www.angel-spire.com/FFPP.zip
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2NNLM2MW
