Stone of Fate - Cancelled

[Dalton]

  Cancelled, because of lost data... Oh, well. It wasn't to good anyways. Hope to see people, again with my next title...                                       




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This is a story about a world that changes for the worse.
This is a story about friendship.
This is a story about betrayal.
This is a story about a man, who doesn't know his place anymore.
But above all, this is a story about power.

Spoiler: Story

The teachings of the one god Aveso have always influenced people. The world belongs to those pure of blood. That is what people believe.
To fulfill these teachings the soldiers of Irissia are executing every halfbreed they can capture.
One of those soldiers is the young knight Nosh Tarid.

When one day Nosh takes care of another halfbreed his life takes a turn to the worse. Instead of the execution place he ends up locked into a small room as a captitive of rebells, those who tried to stop the soldiers for years.
But just when he thinks he is going to be freed, something unexpected happens and Nosh finds himself on the run with one of the rebels.

What happened that his former friends want to see him dead all of a sudden?
And why is everyone after a stone the rebells stole? Could it really be the legendary Stone of Fate?

Spoiler: Characters

Playable:

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Nosh Tarid
Age: 22          Race: Human
A young knight of Irissia, who was born in the slums. His tendency to think that he is right often causes him troubles. also he is very lazy.


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Loryn Woves
Age: 16          Race: Human/Dwarf
Being the youngest one at the rebellion's Headquarters she often seems to stand back behind the others. Maybe that is part of the reason why she is rather timid.


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Ildia Eralye
Age: 20          Race: Human/Elf
This girl sure is confident. Overconfident sometimes, but still... She was brought up by her half sister and together they joined the rebellion. Sadly enough she is not too bright, but always speaks her mind.


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Quein von Turnys
Age: 26          Race: Human
The youngest son of Duke von Turnys became an ambassador some month ago. Because of his good education he is highly intellectual. However he also is somewhat arrogant as well.


Other Characters:

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Kalden Etmos
Nosh's best friend since childhood. They became knights together and are now a team working against the halfbreeds.

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General Worth Chawar
The leader of Irissia's soldiers. He knows every one of his subordinates and their backstorys.

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Draust Beleche
Though he does not proclaim it himself, the other rebels call him one of their four leaders. The mixture of human and giant blood makes him a outstanding warrior.

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Avore Eralye
Ildia's sister is the only pureblooded leader of the rebellion. It seems Ildia has adopted her personality from her.

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Quasera Osest
Since she and Yotwold joined the rebellion together both have been real mysteries. She has the ability to read peoples minds.

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Yotwold
He appeared one day and joined the rebellion. Nobody knows where he came from. He is an exceptional mage, who can even control time.

And many more...

Spoiler: Screenshots

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Battle Layout WIP

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Forest at night

Spoiler: Features

-A plot with many unexpected twists
-Uses Ccoas's UMS
-Sideview Battles

Demo:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ktgkxho3lbm

Needed Fonts:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bdyx1pxebcj
http://www.mediafire.com/?1gd4vttmdbi
http://www.mediafire.com/?5bz0ns5onvr


A word from me:

Thank you for reading my thread. I hope this project will at least get some attention.
It is not my first project, but the first I show to anyone besides my sister, who has been sort of a beta tester for my former projects.
So do not expect anything overly spectecular.

If you are interested in this and want to help, keep your eyes on the recruitment section. I will start recruitment soon.

Please tell me what you think of my project.

~Dalton~


Credits:

Graphics:
Mea
Kraft
Cos
LosAngeles
Green Raven
Gozaru
Inquisitor
Hanzo Kimura
Strawberry Quartz

Music:
Fallofthetyrant
D-Pad

Scripts:
Minkoff
Der VVulfman
Sephiroth Spawn
(she who is not to be named)
The Sleeping Leonhart
Kairose
MGCalatogel

 

[ljackstar]

Ummm... I may seem like an idiot but how do you download yor game? I'd love to play it the storyline seems good but i can't download it to try it out! If you maybey could make a link to a file sharing site (like box.net) I, and others, would be able to play your game.

 

[kaze950]

I don't think its complete yet >_>

 

[Dalton]

Ummm... I may seem like an idiot but how do you download yor game? I'd love to play it the storyline seems good but i can't download it to try it out! If you maybey could make a link to a file sharing site (like box.net) I, and others, would be able to play your game.

Sadly, this is not completed yet. But I am working on it. Just stopped by to see if there's anything new at the forums. 

I am glad you like the storyline. It was something I had in mind for quite a while now. But since I was still fooling around with RMXP to get better I didn't start it. But I think it's been 3 month ago, that I finally thought my abilities are good enough to start a serious project. ( I had one with Aluxes as the main hero before  )

Since only half an hour of the game is done yet, you wouldn't have to much to enjoy though. But if you want to play it, you should really keep your eyes on this. It is still some time till I will release a demo (must finetune quite a lot), but I hope you won't forget me since then.

~Dalton~

 

[Dalton]

Hey everyone! Sorry for the early Doublepost, but I wanted all of you to know, that there are now new files on the soundtrack. Those are composed by D-Pad. Those include a battle theme, a dungeon theme, and a sad theme.

Thank you D-Pad for allowing me to use those.  I will edit the first post to give you credit.

~Dalton~

P.S.: Your opinions are still welcome 

P.P.S.: The recruitment thread is now open. Have a look. I will edit the first post with the link.

 

[Dalton]

I know it is quite late, but to celebrate the movement from early projects to Project Discussion, I present you three new screenshots.
They are all from the second Dungeon, which I am working on right now.

If you have anything to say about them (or the project in general) please feel free to do so.

~Dalton~

 

[Hevendor]

Not much to say about the story, am afraid it is pretty much generic.

Kudos on not making the protagonist a 15 year old master swordsman. So is Nosh a halfbreed or a human? You have only "Human" in your character description, but "halfbreed" in the synopsis. You might also want to change Aluxes' name, chances are a lot of people won't like it. Also, the mysterious mage/swordsman/insert job that comes from nowhere and has ridiculous powers is pretty much overdone as well; why can't he just snap his fingers and freeze time for every halfbreed in the world? Wouldn't that make it much easier to kill them?

As for the screenshots: I really hate text on black intros. But that's probably more of a personal choice than anything. In the third screenshot, you used too many sprites of the same dead person. Flip em' around in a graphics program, recolor them a bit or just use a different sprite altogether. Just to make it look less copy+paste. The overall mapping is pretty bland as well, you should practice a bit more.

Good luck!

 

[Dalton]

Thanks for the advise.

As for Nosh being human or halfbreed... Well maybe I was being a bit unclear grammar wise, but I thought from the context you could guess he was human being a soldier and all... my bad.

As for Aluxes name... Yeah I might change it. I needed a character, and he I thought it was quite funny using him, not as the hero.

As for Yotwold: Yeah I know he seems very strong. But why would he freeze the halfbreeds, being a rebel himself. He is working for the halfbreeds. And before you ask why he isn't freezing the soldiers then: Controling time is very advanced magic. Even his abilities in it are limited. He can freeze time. But the only one able to move would be him then, so no allies anymore. Also it only works for a short... while, if you can speak of it when time is frozen. So doing it to often in a row would exhaust him to the point where he would be helpless. So no good fighting strategy. It is good for escapes, nothing more.

The dead person sprites bothered me aswell. See them as a placeholder for now, until I get around to change it.

Mapping: I know that I am not the best mapper, but you have to agree with me, that we have seen worse. So I think it is not to much of a problem, though of course I will work on it.

Thanks again for the constructive comment. I hope you will be willing to help out in the future as well.

~Dalton~

 

[Hevendor]

every halfbreed they can capture. One of them is the young knight Nosh Tarid.

Right, I totally flipped your story around. I claim lack of caffeine =x

Might have seen worse mapping, but that's no excuse - always aim for the best you can get.

My problem with mysterious powerful people is that they always seem to appear out of nowhere. If you had the power to control amongst others, I'm pretty sure you'd have done something, at least once, using said powers, that would give yourself away. But I suppose you got that covered in your story?

 

[Dalton]

My problem with mysterious powerful people is that they always seem to appear out of nowhere. If you had the power to control amongst others, I'm pretty sure you'd have done something, at least once, using said powers, that would give yourself away. But I suppose you got that covered in your story?

Well actually, I have. He never uses his abilities, unless he sees no other way.
He is giving himself away using his powers. One of the antagonists knows him and his backstory. There is one scene where Yotwold is using his time control magic to save somebody. After that, said antagonist knows that he is around.
The consequences of this I shall not tell, or I would be giving away to much.

P.S.: I'll think about one way to make the Nosh-being-human thing more clear. You are right. It might look loke he is halfbreed.

edit: Changed this part a bit. I hope it makes more sense now.  ;D

 

[Xathia Vastar]

As for the screenshots: I really hate text on black intros. But that's probably more of a personal choice than anything.

I agree, this has been used far too much in other games already. It's good to be original

 

[Dalton]

Well, could be true, but trying to be original at all costs is not what makes a game for me. If something is best presented in an unoriginal way, I'd say it is better to use the unoriginal way.

Note though, that the intro is not only black screen with text. It also features some characters. The screenshot is only the first part of the intro.

 

[Dalton]

So it has been over two month. Time for some updates.
First: Thanks to Hanzo Kimura for the new and improved logo for this game. I think it looks far better now.
Second: All playable characters now have their own sprites. Same goes for Aluxes, who shall be known as Kalden from now on.
Third: Screenshots are down, for editing. Two new ones are up. One is demonstrating the new main tileset by Inquisitor.

Thank's to everyone, who has supported this project so far and to everyone who will in future.

~Dalton~

 

[Freyhart]

Thanks for the compliment! I think your game looks cool too!^-^

This is a story about a world that changes for the worse.
This is a story about friendship.
This is a story about betrayal.
This is a story about a man, who doesn't know his place anymore.
But above all, this is a story about power.

I like it! >.<

 

[Dalton]

Thanks. I guess we will both watch each others projects then? Lets both give it our best then.

 

[Hanzo Kimura]

BFF!! lol you two makes a good jamming eh?
anyway
goodluck with this ^^ i'll probably take a peak every now and then
to see any improvements...

so far its nice ^^ "betrayal"... just like rebellion gear xD << (i keep saying my game in posts) im such an ass xD

 

[Dalton]

Hey, Hanzo. Thanks for the logo again.

I am glad you like it. I am curious on what extend and in which way betrayal will be integrated in your game. I like what I got to know about it so far. What is that song playing on your website? It is really cool.

 

[Dalton]

Finally the Demo is here! See first post for download.

I hope that everyone can enjoy this and feel free to critique anything you want. I am looking forward to your comments.

~Dalton~

Note that you need the RTP to play this Demo.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

Uh, you may need to include the font with the demo, as I can't see the letters.  :tongue:
'Cus your game looks great. And I wanna play it.
So...yeah.  :grin:

 

[Dalton]

huh? it does not show? Strange let me check this...

http://www.mediafire.com/?bdyx1pxebcj
http://www.mediafire.com/?1gd4vttmdbi
http://www.mediafire.com/?5bz0ns5onvr

Try installing those three fonts...

Hope you can enjoy this now ^^