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Relar

Alright, So I have been hanging around learning for about 5 months about RPG maker XP, and I wanted to make a game, just so that I can learn what I need to work on, and then I can go to make a game that is worth playing. I have tried hard in the last 3 months to make an game reasonable to show you guys, and I would like you guys to give some tips and some feed-back :thumb:. It isn't as good as some games, but hopefully it is better than some I have seen . So, here is my game, Relar:

The World:
Relar is made up up three kingdoms. Gill, Vac, and Cain make up most of the know world. Each having it's own king and land. Now the goverment of the world is unlike most, there are no heirs to the throne, only people who try to take the thone will get it. The down side to this, is that once the king is killed or stepped down from the throne, the new king ussually kills the kings family to show that he is now in power. This is an accepted fact, and all citizens are used to it. Relar also has mountains to the north called the mountains of Gaun. There are rumors of kingdoms being beyond that point, but no-one has any proof. There is always a threat of war, because each kingdoms hates the other, but should one kingdom fight another they would weaken each other for the third to kill them. This, and this fact only has kept the kingdoms away from war. Each king wants power, but it is just out of their grasp. With all this in mind, they must also fight off the hordes of barbarians each winter that come from The Gaun mountains. The hordes grow stronger every year, some years larger than others, but at a steady growing pace because it is getting to cold to live there, and soon it will be impossible for anyone to think about going into the mountains.

The Characters:
Naru:
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He is a 21 year old man who grew up in Bern, a ship-town in Cain. His old child-hood friend was David. When Naru was 5 his parents were hung for theft, and Davids mother took him in. David and Naru share a bond closer than most brothers share. They were poor and helped each other stay alive. When Naru was 11 David was taken away to be a soldier. That day Naru was hit so hard by emotion that he was not seen for days. Naru became a thief and was good at it to. But, he still was nieve and nieve thieves don't live long. Naru's policy is " The worlds not fair, why should I be?". He is fast and agile, but lacks in brute force. when Naru is 20 he met back up with David. He tells David he is going to be a mercenary, and that they will be rich someday. David decides to train him on one condision, that he never leaves Davids side.

David:
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He is a 28 year old war hardened soldier. He looks younge but his eyes tell his hard past. He grew up in Bern, and was best friends with a boy named Naru. Even though Naru was 7 years younger than him he took that boy every-where, and told him everything. It all went wrong when one day a soldier grabbed him up infront of Naru and told him he was being drafted to be a soldier, and he had to come with him. David could hear the shouts of Naru as he was drug out of Bern to be sent to traning. 11 years in duty gave him freedom, after killing the barbarian chief. It felt like he had been a slave for the last 11 years when he walked out of the castle. He stubbled upon Naru at a forest village near Bern on his way back. When Naru tells him he is going to be a mercenary David suddenly relizes that he has to protect Naru, and teach him how to fight if the boy has any chance at all for living. David now felt less brotherly love for the boy, and more protective love.

Ariel:
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She is a smart witty little girl who grew up to fast for her father. She is the Dukes daughter and niece of the King of Cain. She was always smart and knew more than most of her teachers. When she is only 8 years old her teachers found out she could harnesses magic. Healers and wizards are held in great honor and glory in Relar, and at 9 years old she could heal cuts and bruises. Ariel was cute and she knew she was. She would have fun sitting in the court-yard telling all the boys what to do, and she would watch them fight over what tasks she had given them. She was also one of the only people in the royal family who paid any attenion to the middle and lower class citizens. Infact she was loved so much that should anything happen to her there would be trouble. She was the single most loved girl In the knigdom, just because she cared for others.

Nehn:
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He was a mighty warrior, and yet a powerful magician. He came from the Southern sea most people say, and no-one knows how old he is. He is not good nor is he evil. He has so much power that he finds it "out of character" to be such things. No-one knows much about him, because he keeps to himself in a tower just to the south of the Gaun mountans.

Hobby:
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He is Nehn's minion, and personal foot-rest. He messes up most of Nehn's plans, and he is just plain dumb really. ( hopefully he will be funny if I can come up with some good lines. ) Hobby is about 3 and a quarter of a foot tall, and is rather fat and obesse. The only reason Hobby is around is because Nehn is amused by the runt, though mostly fustrated. Even though Hobby is in no way aware of his stupidity, and all he cares about is pleaseing Nehn... Nehn gets injoyment out of this.

( NOTE: this is a short game so this may be all the characters unless I want to make it longer. )

The Plot:
Nehn was a man who wanted power. He did not want to rule over the world with an iron fist like most 'Villains', but he wanted people to fear him. He wanted to kill all magicians, makeing him the only magic user in the world. Even though magic user were rare he was determined to kill them, and for the past 10 years he had been killing them. Then he heared that the King of Cains niece could use magic. That would not do.
So, Nehn decides to send the king of Cain a message from the King of Vac saying he would be assasinated soon and that if his family was to live they must be sent to Vac. The king knowing rightly that it was his time to die, but also not trusting Vac's king decides his families only hope is to be sent to Vac. The caravan was entercepted by Nehn's army and soon most are dead, but the Dukes daughter was no-where to be found. She managed to escape and find a forest village called Chorel two days later that she stayed in. She knew that it wouldnt be safe anywhere in the three kingdoms. She knows her only hope is to hire some mercenaries with the money she has on her, and try to make it through the Gaun mountains. But no sain mercenary would go through there, knowingly at least.
Naru and David were best friends from childhood, and they had been in Chorel for about 5 months training when David thought Naru was ready for his first mercenary job, a young girl was paying a huge amount of money to be taken to a ship in Bern, their hometown. When David was sent off to be in the army Naru was left heartless and cold, but when he found David at Chorel the brightness of seeing him, and the blackness inside had a hard time coinsideing. In three days he was going to be on his first hired job as a mercenary, "It will be easy David!"... so he thought...

Screen-Shots:
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The Features:
Some of the following features I have put in, and some I am going to put in.

- Gubids Battle Systemb ( Thanks Gubid! )
- Cocoa's UMS
- Weather
- Time
- I may put in a pet system
- Arena Sytem ( Evented, but not were I want it just yet, It need work. )
- Shadows by Rataime
- Fishing
- Minning
- Brewing Potions
- I may put in music but im not sure about that one.

Credits:
- Gubid - Battle Sytem
- Cocoa's UMS
- Shadow's by Rataime
- And everyone who gave me tips! :thumb:
- Enterbrain, I think they made RPG maker didn't they?

Well thats everything thanks for reading it, and hopefully you can give me some help on some things I don't do so well. :smile:

Edit: Febuary 11, 2009
 
The game looks O.K. so far. I like some of the mapping but the house one are sorta weird looking for some reason...but thats my opinion, there probably nothing you can do about it ^_^. One thing I would do different in the inside tilemaps are the wall corners which have the brown posts. In my opinion, a wall should be continuous and I personally would make the corners regular wall pieces.

The Story: Well it could go one of two ways, good or not so good. So far it sounds pretty decent but the part about some guy wanting a random war to start is sort of strange.

^_^
SO FAR THE GAME LOOKS GOOD ^_^
 
Ya I agree about the war thing, but all the good ones are overly used lol, I have tried hard to think why a war would start and darn if I cant figure out a way!!

Edit: Okay, I have changed the story, and im proud to say I think it's much better than before :grin:

Anyway about the walls, like

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Or

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?

Do you mean no wooden beams, or just only were doors should be?
 
I know I should add music, but doesnt that add alot of size to your game? nevertheless your right, Ill look for some music, anybody know where theres good RPG music?
 
Well of course.Wait, I'll upload them and let you know.

EDIT:Done, it's still warm too. Here the files are.
They're just town music though, if you need battle, dungeon or overworld musics I'll be able to upload them tomorrow (It's bedtime for me so I can't stay on much longer)
 
This game has a lot of potential. You said it wasn't long, but I think you should make it longer. This can be a great project enjoyed by many. Please make it longer!
 
Thanks! :) and as for the longer part If i get enough people who want it to be longer I may make a part 2 and 3 and so on, but just for now im just going to try to learn with the suggestion you guys give me :thumb:

Next I'm going to try to realse the demo! from when Naru and David have to take Ariel to from the forest Village to Bern, that will probably be the first demo avalible, I'm trying to get it up and running, so many maps to make though ( Bern is a big city! )

By the way if any writer, or someone who is good a writing reads this, I am in desprite need of a writer... my talking and emotional parts in the game arn't looking so hot :crazy: ...

Edit: Okay, I'm hopeing to have the demo up in the next week or so, I'm almost done with the dialauge for the demo, but I am hav eing some trouble with the main menu...
 
Okay, well I have Updated, most of the typeing and spelling errors are gone.. ( sorry ) and I have added a few new screen shots. I have also tampered with the worlds layout a little and the story line :), but the demo is going much slower than I thought...

Anyway hope you guys can help me out with some pointers, and thanks for the replies so far :)
 

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