The Other Side

[LostPetal]

Before I get started. I -am- working on six games consecutively. I haven't abandoned any games I'm working with.. I just feel comfortable multitasking. When I get bored working on one game I work on the other games.

Disclaimer:
This is not a 'Ugh, not another boy from the village realizes he is the chosen one' game. This is a girl from the villa... (just kidding.) You have no abilities starting out. You don't get armor -anywhere- in the game.

Story

It's spring break, schools out finally for our heroine. She decides to spend the beginning of her vacation with her father that recently divorced with her mother. Upon getting to the town of Nightmay something is amiss. Tammy meets out with her friends and the story starts out with the 'death' of her father.

An apparition had possessed Tammy's father and caused a heart attack that sent him into a coma. As this happened Tammy had noticed that she was able to see weird holes in reality. Tammy decides to explore the holes in hope of reviving her father. Is this case the only case that the apparitions are involved with? Who knows.. (obviously I know and I'm the creator.. and no.. its not. There I ruined twenty minutes of game play. Thank me.)


Characters and their Roles

Spoiler

Name: Tammy Palms
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Bio: A loyal girl and constantly on the honor roll. Tammy is a kind A student that has aspirations to become a nurse.

Name: Kavi Johnson
Age: 16
Gender: Male

Bio: A quiet boy that just moved to Nightmay. Constantly picked on because of his skin color he keeps to himself. He is a mute that doesn't speak.

Neme: Daphne Nell
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Bio: A carefree girl that likes emo guys. Daphne comes from a religious family that looks down on a society without faith.

Name: Mike Latan
Age: 17
Gender: Male

Bio: An emo guy that has an addiction to cutting himself. Although he's homosexual he hides that from his peers from fear of not being accepted.

Introduction to GamePlay
There is no healing items in game. You can only be healed by bed rest. Every hit detracts from your stamina so even if you miss you'll still be fatigued. When you're out of Stamina you are helpless. Only your friends can help you fight on by 'cheering' you on. That depletes their some of their stamina but refills a little of yours.

There are no armors in game. You acquire passive skills that help you cope with the Shadow world by boosting things like 'HP' 'Stamina' 'Attack' 'Endurance' and so on.

There are no weapon shops in game. You have to find things that helps you build weapons. You -can- waste valuable items by making them into sucky weapons. So I would suggest buying magazines that help you build valuable weapons.

There are two realities in this game; Normal and Introvert. Normal Reality have little to no battles with apparitions (unless they're attacking humans). Introverted has ghosts floating around carelessly. You're unable to do anything until you defeat the 'Legion' of apparitions.

Screenshots

Spoiler: Train Station

Spoiler: Train Station Portal to the Shadow World

Spoiler: Shadow World Train Station

Spoiler: Nightmay Outer Train Station

Spoiler: Nightmay Town

Spoiler: Nightmay Daphne's Home

Spoiler: Nightmay Daphne's Kitchen

Download
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[bacon]

The story is pretty decent, but you better be careful with it, one wrong move and it will turn into a boring, darkworld story that I've heard jillions of times.The mapping is pretty decent. One gripe though is the darkworld itself. I think its lame just to invert the tileset. You should use a whole new tileset.

For example, the shadow world train station could instead be a ruined, destroyed train station or maybe the outside of a deserted, dark mansion.

^_^

 

[LostPetal]

The story is pretty decent, but you better be careful with it, one wrong move and it will turn into a boring, darkworld story that I've heard jillions of times.The mapping is pretty decent. One gripe though is the darkworld itself. I think its lame just to invert the tileset. You should use a whole new tileset.

For example, the shadow world train station could instead be a ruined, destroyed train station or maybe the outside of a deserted, dark mansion.

^_^

I'm actually in the process of designing a proper Shadow World tileset.. right now my highest priority is making character poses for the ABS. Finishing the maps for the town.. and of course prettying up the maps.

Yet, all the shadow world is.. is an alternate world where the inverted look would fit. Making the shadow world into a mansion would be... inconsistent.

 

[bacon]

AHHHHHHH ya beat me, I was going to edit

You should expand on your characters, they may be out of the norm, but the description is bland. Why is Tammy able to see these holes? Is Kavi really mute or does he just not like to talk? Why does Daphne like Emo guys? I can also tell what might happen. Daphne will probably have a crush on Mike and Mike will feel awkward or uncomferable around her. Also the point of having 4 characters is useless if you only control one throughout the whole game.

About the Tammy sprite. The sprite doesn't really fit with the character's description. I would be expecting her in a dress with a full shirt on or something. The description makes her sound conservative but the sprite says otherwise...

EDIT: Also I dont understand the whole Darkworld. What is the darkwold. Is it a parallel demension, a realm of demons and ghosts... It would be nice if you would clarify on that in your description. Saying its an alternative world is very bland and can be interpreted in many different ways.
^_^

 

[LostPetal]

AHHHHHHH ya beat me, I was going to edit

You should expand on your characters, they may be out of the norm, but the description is bland. Why is Tammy able to see these holes? Is Kavi really mute or does he just not like to talk? Why does Daphne like Emo guys? I can also tell what might happen. Daphne will probably have a crush on Mike and Mike will feel awkward or uncomferable around her. Also the point of having 4 characters is useless if you only control one throughout the whole game.

About the Tammy sprite. The sprite doesn't really fit with the character's description. I would be expecting her in a dress with a full shirt on or something. The description makes her sound conservative but the sprite says otherwise...

^_^

I am not going expand my characters.

That'd screw up the whole point of the game. You know.. to find out why everything is happening? All the game is revolving around that one point and if I blurt out the reasons I minus well take the project thread down.

Yes... I mean if I knew that you'd catch on that Daphne likes the only emo in the game by saying she likes 'emo guys'. I wouldn't have said that.[/sarcasm]

Lastly.. you get to change clothes in the game. Tammy being a girl, sometimes wears skirts. Also not to mention that her school uniform = a skirt that's not past the knees.

Response to your EDIT:

"There are two realities in this game; Normal and Introvert. Normal Reality have little to no battles with apparitions (unless they're attacking humans). Introverted has ghosts floating around carelessly. You're unable to do anything until you defeat the 'Legion' of apparitions."

Right in the Introduction section..

Oh yeah I forgot.

^_^

 

[bacon]

A. That'd screw up the whole point of the game. You know.. to find out why everything is happening? All the game is revolving around that one point and if I blurt out the reasons I minus well take the project thread down.

I didn't know that, Im sorry i guess.

Yes... I mean if I knew that you'd catch on that Daphne likes the only emo in the game by saying she likes 'emo guys'. I wouldn't have said that.

I guess you are right...I point out the obvious I guess.

B. Fuck your couch. :/

What?

Lastly.. you get to change clothes in the game. Tammy being a girl, sometimes wears skirts. Also not to mention that her school uniform = a skirt that's not pat the knees.

Well I didn't know that, its just your description makes her sound conservative, that all.

 

[LostPetal]

Fuck Your Couch = Dave Chappelle. I thought it was a funny thing to say.. then I realized you might not know what I meant by it so I took it out. I'm a bit buzzed(drunk) right now. So yeah.. I'm probably being a douchebag to avoid my head hurting from thinking too much.

Conservative.. how did you get 'conservative' from that description? That's like saying "Well he eats a hamburger.. that must mean he's a terrorist."

I'm just saying.. if anything Daphne would be the conservative. She comes from a religious family that looks down on society.

 

[bacon]

A loyal girl and constantly on the honor roll. Tammy is a kind A student that has aspirations to become a nurse.

How can I not get that sense. Maybe it is just life experiences and different people in my life affecting my view on Tammy.

Or maybe Im just weird. :P

 

[LostPetal]

A loyal girl and constantly on the honor roll. Tammy is a kind A student that has aspirations to become a nurse.

How can I not get that sense. Maybe it is just life experiences and different people in my life affecting my view on Tammy.

Or maybe Im just weird. :P

I can honestly say that I had no thoughts about political affiliation while posting the bio.

Tch.. You have just made my brain hurt.

Fine, tomorrow-ish I will post a lengthy biography of each of the people..
I didn't think it was important to be honest.. I don't even care if people play the game I'm just posting the thread out of habit. Yeah.. well I'm going to go fix meh some din din and eetz then I r goin to bad.

 

[bacon]

I can honestly say that I had no thoughts about political affiliation while posting the bio.

Maybe you misunderstood what I meant by conservative. I didn't mean the political party Conservative, I meant the conservative:

1) disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

2) traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness:

Thank you Dictionary.com

-sorry you misunderstood me
^_^

 

[LostPetal]

*Smacks head*

Damn youtube.. whenever someone says conservative I put on my hat.

I acknowledge your suggestions but to be honest this is a development thread I don't have the complete chapter (well I have the script) finished.

I still don't see why if someone gets all A's they have to be a glasses wearing Velma from scooby doo type.. (especially in high school).

I'll have the trailer complete by the beginning of next month.. I really hate to keep people in the dark about the chars but please understand that this isn't a normal rpg game. The center of gravity revolves around the mystery of what triggers the apparitions.

Now.. I could tell you that yeah.. you control one person but because I use an ABS instead of the DBS its not useless. >.> I'll post a reply when I finish

B. My favorite part of the woman is the Boobies, Kipp

I understand this may turn people off, but, I don't look for people to play my games any way.

I mean my last demo last month I released only had 100 or so people that played.
(Just counting the downloads)

 

[bacon]

Well I would play, it looks interesting to say the least

I still don't see why if someone gets all A's they have to be a glasses wearing Velma from scooby doo type.. (especially in high school).

Ya, I know that, its just I get the sense of someone who is an honest indivisual who wants to be a nurse to be quiet, shy, and conservative. Again, thats how I would see it, maybe ithers disagree. No worries though. :D

 

[ebhz.Ash.4rm]

Okay, I don't like the drawings, they look scratched into a wall or something, far too sketchy. You have put little to no information of actual value up there so I'm not at all interested in your game.

Who knows.. (obviously I know and I'm the creator.. and no.. its not. There I ruined twenty minutes of game play. Thank me.)

No. Just no. 3 Pictures and 3 paragraphs aren't enough to make me care about your story, even less if it's just been spoiled for me, the same goes for anyone else reading, you can post spoilers up because chances are firstly that no ones gonna care, secondly it'll let us learn more about your project and that it's no just a bunch of pictured scratched into a wall, weak characters and and even weaker story. You say this is different and yet I see no evidence towards that, the story sounds crap, random ghosts pop up and someone stands up to be a hero, what RPG doesn't have that? The characters may seem different but they're still cliché just modern ones, honestly if you want different characters don't label them emo, care-free, quiet and loyal and leave it at that, you'll need to break down their personality with reasoning and then maybe we can see that these aren't just clones from several different casts of Final Fantasy made modern.

The screens are boring, there's nothing particularly bad about them but nothing good either, they don't seem to make you want to explore but don't make you fall asleep either. The indoor ones are okay but it's the same thing, I don't want to explore. Actually scrap that the screens look like I'll fall asleep or question if the games looping because I'm walking past identical front gardens in the default fog. Good thing there isn't a demo or I might've had to take a short nap.

Back to the art, it doesn't look polished at all and it doesn't help your project to have what looks like paint art tagged onto it, it doesn't give you the excuse to not describe your characters. And the concept of the inverted world seems crap, it just has 'apparitions' what's so exciting about that, if I have to go over the same map twice just for the sake of story there's clearly something wrong.

 

[LostPetal]

Spoiler: TL;DR Response to that guy. Not for the faint of heart

Okay, I don't like the drawings, they look scratched into a wall or something, far too sketchy. You have put little to no information of actual value up there so I'm not at all interested in your game.

Oh no!?! You're not interested in my Game? FUCK! NO!
Oh god, I cant live any more. Brb cutting my wrists.

No. Just no. 3 Pictures and 3 paragraphs aren't enough to make me care about your story, even less if it's just been spoiled for me, the same goes for anyone else reading, you can post spoilers up because chances are firstly that no ones gonna care, secondly it'll let us learn more about your project and that it's no just a bunch of pictured scratched into a wall, weak characters and and even weaker story.

Uh huh. I'm going to cry myself to sleep.
No seriously, I am.

I mean to be brutally honest if you looked at the drawings you'd see they're sketchy like I rushed them.. because.. I rushed them. They were all sketched in under ten minutes as I was writing the topic thread. Why? I felt like doing so.

As I said before.. if you're not going to play it, don't play it. Open and Close case.
Bitching at me even before I complete the demo or release anything is just going to make you out to be a class A retard.. and even if I had a demo released and whatever. I doubt you guys actually play demos here.

You say this is different and yet I see no evidence towards that, the story sounds crap, random ghosts pop up and someone stands up to be a hero, what RPG doesn't have that? The characters may seem different but they're still cliché just modern ones, honestly if you want different characters don't label them emo, care-free, quiet and loyal and leave it at that, you'll need to break down their personality with reasoning and then maybe we can see that these aren't just clones from several different casts of Final Fantasy made modern.

No.
My game, my bio.. don't have to explain.

How about you make a game project thread and you don't name them emo, carefree.. and whatever. If you're too dumb to understand a few words that defines someone personality than go play Aveyond or something.

Tch.. I don't go around telling people. Hey! I'm a nice guy that likes long walks in the park, my first kiss was not that important, my first crush was on a beautiful girl named..

Too much info, dude. Besides that. Let's be honest, you skipped to the screenshots first didn't you? Then you wanted to look for something that was off so you can bitch about it and make you seem cooler.

Well, you're cool! *Anime face* *Bouncy boobs*

The screens are boring, there's nothing particularly bad about them but nothing good either, they don't seem to make you want to explore but don't make you fall asleep either. The indoor ones are okay but it's the same thing, I don't want to explore. Actually scrap that the screens look like I'll fall asleep or question if the games looping because I'm walking past identical front gardens in the default fog. Good thing there isn't a demo or I might've had to take a short nap.

Now you're just making shit up. Look closely at the Nightmay screen and tell me if you see a 'default' fog. Though I've had you pegged as a nitpicker since your first sentence.

I also find it funny when you talk about falling asleep after playing a demo.. yet, you wrote a response that rivals on a book report. Too much dude, too much.

Back to the art, it doesn't look polished at all and it doesn't help your project to have what looks like paint art tagged onto it, it doesn't give you the excuse to not describe your characters. And the concept of the inverted world seems crap, it just has 'apparitions' what's so exciting about that, if I have to go over the same map twice just for the sake of story there's clearly something wrong.

Yeah.. because going the same map twice is abnormal. In western or eastern rpgs.

*cough*Quests*cough*
*cough*minigames*cough*
*cough*Training for bosses*cough*

Look, I hear ya guys.. just not listening. The only reason this isn't in Concept Devolopment is some mod would move it and bitch at me saying "Since it has screens it belongs in Project Discussion"

I mean.. I hope I made it clear that I just don't care if you want to play it or not. I tried to hint at it with the first guy but.. whatever.

The whole coming in my thread arrogantly and thinking that I have to smile and nod at you is bound to get your feelings hurt. Srsly. I can listen to some people that sincerely are curious about the project. I can't, however, listen to someone thinking that they're shit doesn't smell. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to play the game.. I got it.

That gives you the option of.. not playing the game.

I'm not here to suck your cock

..and once again I put together a quick sketch that took virtually no time out of my day.

I don't know about you 'pros' but I spend time working on sprites for my game(s) as far as ABS's and stuff are involved. Some sprites are placeholders (that will be gone in the finish product) and I will give credit where credit is due.

TKXP, Strawberry Quartz, Sithjester

However, unlike you 'pros'. I actually work on my boring crap. You just cant capture the effects of the map in screenshot. I can't just screenshot the segues between map transitions and the intricacies of the event systems.

Spoiler: Shit, I can try.

Nope, cant see the blowing grass.. or the scrolling fog. You cant hear the soothing saxophone background and the blowing wind. Damn, that's one boring screenshot.
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While you guys are just sitting around jerking each other off and whatever. I'm working on sprite poses, editing tilesets, having music composed for my games. Are you guys going to play the game? I'm not holding my breath. Trust me.. I'm not.

I respect you for that. Whatever, just don't come bitching in my thread -especially- if you didn't play the game. Criticism = after you play the game.

"Hey look, Lost. I played the demo and here is what I don't like.

X is too bland.
Y needs work.
Z's transition was shoddy."

Don't come here and think I need to listen to you to make you want to play my game. I'm not desperate for players, trust me. If you want to know about the game and didn't want to be embarrassed the only way would have been to ask.

"Hey Lost, I'm interested in your game. Can you tell me about X character?"
"Yeah, sure."

That way I don't have to beat my chest and chew your balls off because you're being a douchebag voluntarily or involuntarily.

 

[LiquidMetal91]

Sheesh, watch the language! There are minors on this forum!
He's just giving his opinion, and for as far I know that is no reason to freak-out like that!

With this said, I've reported this to a mod, so.....

Gr. LM91

 

[LostPetal]

Hey.. I'm giving my opinion too.

 

[LiquidMetal91]

Dude, if you continue this you will be permabanned 4 sure!

Change your aditude! This saying for your own good!

Gr. LM91

 

[LostPetal]

Dude, if you continue this you will be permabanned 4 sure!

Change your aditude! This saying for your own good!

Gr. LM91

Huh..? What am I doing? I'm innocent, honest. :angel:

Besides.. I have a really good reason for picking on ebhz.
I think its funny.

 

[LiquidMetal91]

You have to think about the other people reading this, and what to think of your game...
Cause all the things you just posted, makes everyone think: "If he is like that, his game must be the same". This wont do you good...

Gr. LM91

 

[LostPetal]

You have to think about the other people reading this, and what to think of your game...
Cause all the things you just posted, makes everyone think: "If he is like that, his game must be the same". This wont do you good...

Gr. LM91

I see the light now. You're right.

^^ I owe it all to you *Hugs LM91*. futota kuso Imi imishe Kuso!
I will not be a meany anymore! Promise. Desu ne!