Kingdom of Illusion

[Siege]

KINGDOM OF ILLUSION



STORY

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It's a damp, dark and windy night on the east coast of Ireland. Three young children sit whilst their parents try to persaude them to go to bed. After a short while, Ellen breaks down into tears and young Paddy tells their mother how they are frightened to sleep because of the recent happenings in the nearby villages. Over the last two months several children have dissapeared whilst sleeping, never to return again. Jake merely laughs at the other two and boasts of how brave he is, "if anyone tried to take him they would most certainly regret it" he claimed.

Later that night Jake is awoken by a large crash. He jumps out of his bed and switches the light on. There before him is a creature, snarling with large amounts of drool running from its mouth. Jake begins to approach the monster and says, he says "Aha, so your the one responsible for all of these kidnappings." As he continued his approach, the creature seemed to get frightened, it yelps and runs out of the house. The other two children awake as this is happening and Jake persuades them both to follow the monster to find the local children and become heroes.

The monster leads them to a forest on the outskirts of town. They reluctantly enter the forest and are lead to the centre of a large abandoned tower. They persist to follow the monster and are eventually led to the top floor. They see a large light source before them and the monster runs straight into it. It seems to be a portal, after hesitation and some more persuasion from Jake, they decide to jump in after the monster.

On the other side of the portal they find themselves in another tower this time though when they look out the window they see a land covered in snow and ice. They descend and make it to the outside of the tower and again their is forest, the monster is making his way through this forest.

They are led to what seems to be the monsters house, the monster enters the house closely followed by the other three children. When they enter the house, the monsters house is very far behind in technology. As the monster sees the children within his home, he begin's to be very afraid. He states that any monster letting children into the kingdom, unpurified, will be thrown into the abyss for eternity. The children then barter with the monster, in order for them to not be found, he shall help them become monsters so they can set off across the kingdom unnoticed. The monster reluctantly agrees and the children set off to uncover the truth.

CHARACTERS

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HERO'S

Spoiler: Paddy

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Paddy is a twelve year old boy from the inner suberbs of Northern Ireland. He is a shy boy around strangers but outgoing around people he knows. He doesnt deal with fear or pain very well but will always look out for his younger sister Ellen.

Spoiler: Ellen

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Ellen is eleven, however with a mind of a young adult. She is intellectual in her studies and is very close to her older brother Paddy. She secretly has a crush on her brothers friend Jake, and constantly drops hints, however he isnt the brightest person and takes the comments as jokes.

Spoiler: Jake

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Jake is a twelve year old boy, but has the intelligence of a goat! He is strong willed and likes his opinions to be heard. He acts "Mr.Tough" but when faced with a problem, he crumbles. His best friend is Paddy and has been all his life, they constantly look out for each other.

FANTASY WORLD RACES

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Dwarf: The Dwarf's were one of the many unknown creatures that lived within the prehistoric times. The became extinct, but a fossil of one of the original drawf's was put into the Ettin's special fossil machine. This machine enables fossils to become a living creature once more. The Ettin's intention was to use this creature as a slave for their own good, but things didn't turn out this way.

SCREENSHOTS

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The main hero's village, on the night they step into the world of illusion:
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Another screen of the hero's village:
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Hero's home:
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Hero's bedroom where the opening scene takes place:
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FEATURES

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- Side view battle system (not sure which yet)
- CMS - Raziel's Chrono Trigger CMS
- Varying Puzzles and Tests
- Dubealex AMS

and many more..!

CREDITS

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Calibre for Face Graphics: Three Main Charaters and assitance with story concept
Green Raven for custom sprites: Dwarf, Ettin, Paddy, Ellen and Jake and Dwarf Face Graphic
Showkaizer and Tana for the Halfkaizers templates
Raziel for Chrono Trigger Custom Menu System
Dubealex for Advanced Message Script
Hydrolic for Custom Window Skin

More to come as i get them

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[Kojo]

Besides the "disturbing" faces in the characters tab (Their expressions all are the same) this game seems interesting. However, in the story tab, I can't think of many twelve year olds that would say "Most certainly" They would just take that out, and say the monster would regret it. A little description of the monster would not hurt, as he saw it in the full light. Good luck otherwise.

 

[Siege]

Besides the "disturbing" faces in the characters tab (Their expressions all are the same) this game seems interesting. However, in the story tab, I can't think of many twelve year olds that would say "Most certainly" They would just take that out, and say the monster would regret it. A little description of the monster would not hurt, as he saw it in the full light. Good luck otherwise.

Firstly i would like to say that im not fully certain on what i want the monster to look like and secondly you will be able to see him soon enough when it is sprited, visually rather than using your imagination. The face graphics i suggest you take up with Calibre as they are his custom works, but i would like to say that a template was used and they may have different facial features if angry for example when talking but im not to sure yet. So again take that up with Calibre.
Thanks for your comments.

 

[Calibre]

Besides the "disturbing" faces in the characters tab (Their expressions all are the same) this game seems interesting. However, in the story tab, I can't think of many twelve year olds that would say "Most certainly" They would just take that out, and say the monster would regret it. A little description of the monster would not hurt, as he saw it in the full light. Good luck otherwise.

Lol, it was only a quick job at making cutesy fantasy characters, inspired by things like narnia, harry potter etc. The expressions can easily be changed, as its all made electronically as opposed to hand drawn. I just basically amde those three as - is this what they should look like - type images.

 

[Siege]

UPDATE: All three main characters now sprited.

 

[Siege]

UPDATE: Some screenshots up.

 

[Calibre]

A few screen issues.

The first screneshot is too saturated in darkness. Either darken the tileset or add more of a blue tint and take away a portion of the darkness' depth.

In the second screenshot, the rug/shape is illogical. It wouldn't be that shape. If its a rug make it symmetrical, if its a carpet, place it how it would be fitted. The stairs are mapped incorrectly, you have to a;ternate the pieces up the staircase. It is also unlike;y people would keep a crate of rawfish under the stairs, it would stink and they would go off very quickly.

 

[Siege]

UPDATE: Okay, i edited them up a little bit. There is an update, check out the screens.

 

[Siege]

BUMP!

 

[Yuvox]

By any chance you got the storyline from "final fantasy tactics advance"? the basic storyline of a few kids teleporting to a fantasy world was done in "final fantasy tactics advance"

 

[Siege]

No i made it up all within my head.

 

[lebatt]

Problem with making game ideas as a gamer yourself is ideas you came up with may have originated or already been thought of somewhere lol.

 

[Calibre]

Problem with making game ideas as a gamer yourself is ideas you came up with may have originated or already been thought of somewhere lol.

Unless your game is insane then it's almost definately going to at least remind someone of some story, somewhere.

For example in my game that I have been making the story over a year ago, I played a newer Ps2 rpg a few days ago and thought... shit, this is just like mine. The important bit is about the delivery, character and fresh twists in the story.