Source
Introduction
Source is my game which mainly focuses on scripts, being as that is my area of expertise. Source is set in a fairly typical rpg pre-industrial age world.
Story
Lif was a researcher for an organisation called "The Core Institute" and primary carer of his youngest brother Garm, however one day Lif made Garm gather only what he needed and they left. They spent the next few months moving from town to town not staying more than a couple days, Lif refused to explain why they were doing this everytime Garm asked. Eventually just before the game starts they stayed in a town called "Teskia" for several weeks, where Lif seemed to be waiting for something, eventually Lif revealed he'd been waiting for a letter, and they now have a safe place to go to and explained that they left the institute because he was asked to do research which he found completely un-ethical. However they'd waited too long for that letter and several enemies are pursuing them...
Characters
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_021b.png[/img]
Garm
"Your weakness is my talent, I learn."
Battle Skills: Attack, Techniques, Research, Item
The youngest of three brothers and was cared for by his oldest brother since he can remember. He was often asked to research things by Lif (his oldest brother) and learned to estimate HP and SP of enemies aswell as skills of theirs that he could learn.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_020b.png[/img]
Lif
"I may not be a natural but I work hard."
Battle Skills: Double Attack, Physical Arts, Psychic Arts, Item
The oldest of the three brothers and also the least likely to resort to violence. During his research he found a way to make himself develop telekinetic abilities and is mocked by some people being as normally you have to be born with psychic powers and his are viewed as weak at best.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_019b.png[/img]
Karen
"Your name is strange."
Battle Skills: Attack, Copy, Mimic, Item
A young woman who is a prisoner at a collosium, and enjoys boasting that no strategy can beat her or anyone weaker. She particularly likes judging people by their name and appearence, for example she gives Lif the nickname "Psycho".
The next characters only join on certain story paths.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_047b.png[/img]
Dara
"You are as far from understanding art as I am from being a normal person."
Battle Skills: Sketch, Gallery, Paint , Item
An artist whose only ambition is to surpass his teacher (who is blind). Unlike his teacher Dara chooses to express his art in paintings, his teacher prefers long term art and makes impressive sculptures despite his handicap, they often clash about the definition of art.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_017b.png[/img]
Guy
"Your training could be improved...Seriously."
Battle Skills: Double Attack, Special Attack, Drop Training, Item
Guy is the definition of training, he even builds his own training equipment. If he feels that he can't win he can casually throw of his training items and use his full-power in battle.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_013b.png[/img]
Osso
"Un-armed? Me? You must not know me very well."
Battle Skills: Attack, Bone Growth, Skeleton Puppet, Item
Osso (how are your languages? It means Bone) is a very demanding companion, dis-honouring any deceased person is enough to gain his hatred. He hides many secrets and is linked to "The Core Institute" and admits his unusual talents are because of that link he has.
Game Features and Gameplay
Individual Character Abilities
For example:
Researching Enemy Skills
Developing Skills by skill use
Developing Skills by character's condition
Multiple Story Paths (with differant supporting characters)
Screenshots
Progress
Note this refers to the first demo's progress.
Maps: 60%
Database: 70%
General Scripts: 100%
Character Scripts:
Garm: 100%
Lif: 100%
Dara: 100%
Guy: 50%
Osso: 60%
Downloads and Links
Tech Demo
http://www.fiendfiles.com/Source_Tech_Demo.zip
Note: I have chosen to not show any of Guy's abilities in the tech demo mainly because they still need balancing and tidying up, Osso also has had one of his battle functions made unusuable in the demo being as it needs completing and gives errors sometimes. The party is limited to 3 characters in the actual game but nothing stops you from adding another one in the demo.
Comments would be nice.
Updates
03/12/2006
Restored topic and posted a tech demo.
Credit
Tori
Vorpal
Closing
Thanks for reading this, comments would be nice.
If you want to help me, I will naturally accept any custom music or graphics (that I can use).
Introduction
Source is my game which mainly focuses on scripts, being as that is my area of expertise. Source is set in a fairly typical rpg pre-industrial age world.
Story
Lif was a researcher for an organisation called "The Core Institute" and primary carer of his youngest brother Garm, however one day Lif made Garm gather only what he needed and they left. They spent the next few months moving from town to town not staying more than a couple days, Lif refused to explain why they were doing this everytime Garm asked. Eventually just before the game starts they stayed in a town called "Teskia" for several weeks, where Lif seemed to be waiting for something, eventually Lif revealed he'd been waiting for a letter, and they now have a safe place to go to and explained that they left the institute because he was asked to do research which he found completely un-ethical. However they'd waited too long for that letter and several enemies are pursuing them...
Characters
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_021b.png[/img]
Garm
"Your weakness is my talent, I learn."
Battle Skills: Attack, Techniques, Research, Item
The youngest of three brothers and was cared for by his oldest brother since he can remember. He was often asked to research things by Lif (his oldest brother) and learned to estimate HP and SP of enemies aswell as skills of theirs that he could learn.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_020b.png[/img]
Lif
"I may not be a natural but I work hard."
Battle Skills: Double Attack, Physical Arts, Psychic Arts, Item
The oldest of the three brothers and also the least likely to resort to violence. During his research he found a way to make himself develop telekinetic abilities and is mocked by some people being as normally you have to be born with psychic powers and his are viewed as weak at best.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_019b.png[/img]
Karen
"Your name is strange."
Battle Skills: Attack, Copy, Mimic, Item
A young woman who is a prisoner at a collosium, and enjoys boasting that no strategy can beat her or anyone weaker. She particularly likes judging people by their name and appearence, for example she gives Lif the nickname "Psycho".
The next characters only join on certain story paths.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_047b.png[/img]
Dara
"You are as far from understanding art as I am from being a normal person."
Battle Skills: Sketch, Gallery, Paint , Item
An artist whose only ambition is to surpass his teacher (who is blind). Unlike his teacher Dara chooses to express his art in paintings, his teacher prefers long term art and makes impressive sculptures despite his handicap, they often clash about the definition of art.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_017b.png[/img]
Guy
"Your training could be improved...Seriously."
Battle Skills: Double Attack, Special Attack, Drop Training, Item
Guy is the definition of training, he even builds his own training equipment. If he feels that he can't win he can casually throw of his training items and use his full-power in battle.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... 2_013b.png[/img]
Osso
"Un-armed? Me? You must not know me very well."
Battle Skills: Attack, Bone Growth, Skeleton Puppet, Item
Osso (how are your languages? It means Bone) is a very demanding companion, dis-honouring any deceased person is enough to gain his hatred. He hides many secrets and is linked to "The Core Institute" and admits his unusual talents are because of that link he has.
Game Features and Gameplay
Individual Character Abilities
For example:
Researching Enemy Skills
Developing Skills by skill use
Developing Skills by character's condition
Multiple Story Paths (with differant supporting characters)
Screenshots
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/1.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/2.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/3.jpg
My barrier script originates from this game Lif can create a psychic barrier to protect him from physical attacks.
Oh and ignore the name of the game in the screenshots, I decided I wanted an english name.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/2.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/3.jpg
My barrier script originates from this game Lif can create a psychic barrier to protect him from physical attacks.
Oh and ignore the name of the game in the screenshots, I decided I wanted an english name.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/4.jpg
Ignore the box I just need to make an in battle statement to change it's y value.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/5.jpg
Doesn't look like you have a choice.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/6.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/7.jpg
In the last one you can see the hp and sp of the enemy.
Also he can look out for the enemies special attacks and if he sees them while looking for them he can learn them.
Ignore the box I just need to make an in battle statement to change it's y value.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/5.jpg
Doesn't look like you have a choice.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/6.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/7.jpg
In the last one you can see the hp and sp of the enemy.
Also he can look out for the enemies special attacks and if he sees them while looking for them he can learn them.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/8.jpg
That image was a suspence building one, it also hints at something.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/9.jpg
Dara's battle commands, sketch isn't shown anywhere in these screenshots, it basically makes a copy on the enemy and has it attack them (or in scripting terms target.attack_effect(target)).
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/10.jpg
Dara doesn't have much of a gallery
maybe we should make a painting of the enemy?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/11.jpg
What a nice title for a painting.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/12.jpg
Yay a painting if you use it a copy of that enemy will perform one of it's skills for you. The copy will only have 60-80% of the original's power though due to the quality of the painting, a perfect painting is naturally much better.
That image was a suspence building one, it also hints at something.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/9.jpg
Dara's battle commands, sketch isn't shown anywhere in these screenshots, it basically makes a copy on the enemy and has it attack them (or in scripting terms target.attack_effect(target)).
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/10.jpg
Dara doesn't have much of a gallery
maybe we should make a painting of the enemy?http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/11.jpg
What a nice title for a painting.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/Fomar0153/Random Screenshots/12.jpg
Yay a painting if you use it a copy of that enemy will perform one of it's skills for you. The copy will only have 60-80% of the original's power though due to the quality of the painting, a perfect painting is naturally much better.
Well you basically win a fight and based on difficulty and what you did determines whether your stats increase.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... ots/13.png[/IMG]
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/F ... ots/13.png[/IMG]
Note this refers to the first demo's progress.
Maps: 60%
Database: 70%
General Scripts: 100%
Character Scripts:
Garm: 100%
Lif: 100%
Dara: 100%
Guy: 50%
Osso: 60%
Downloads and Links
Tech Demo
http://www.fiendfiles.com/Source_Tech_Demo.zip
Note: I have chosen to not show any of Guy's abilities in the tech demo mainly because they still need balancing and tidying up, Osso also has had one of his battle functions made unusuable in the demo being as it needs completing and gives errors sometimes. The party is limited to 3 characters in the actual game but nothing stops you from adding another one in the demo.
Comments would be nice.
Updates
03/12/2006
Restored topic and posted a tech demo.
Credit
Tori
Vorpal
Closing
Thanks for reading this, comments would be nice.
If you want to help me, I will naturally accept any custom music or graphics (that I can use).