The Secret of Ludia

[Ratty524]

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Info:
  This was the first project I've really made with RPG Maker XP, though it was remade up to 2 times already (first was due to a script mess up, and it was pretty shitty; second was because the data files became corrupt). However, the good thing about that is this game would be much better compared to the other projects. 
  In regards to how I came up with this, I wanted to make a game with both robots and a fantasy-ish setting. I also wanted the main hero to be a girl, since It's something I don't see in many games (and no, she's not a harlot, I try to make her close to a normal person as possible). Also, I've intended this game to be mainly comedic, since that fits along my interests and I wanted to make something that people might laugh at.
  That is all.

Spoiler: Story

Story:
  In another galaxy, there is an Earth-like planet which the inhabitants called "Ludia". Unlike present-day Earth, the people of Ludia are way behind in technological standards, and live in semi-medieval lifestyles. The inhabitants are consist of Humans, Irregulars (Elves, Fairies, etc.), and the paranormal animals referred to as "Monsters". This is what the residents know, though, for there is more to the planet than anyone really knows.

  In a small, mountainous village, a teenage Fighter-in-Training, named Mikami Maya, hears a mysterious cry for help. By approval of her father, Morochi Maya, she has set out to rescue the one who is in distress. Little does she know, that she is about to discover things that no one in the world has ever seen or learned.

Spoiler: Characters

Characters:
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Main Characters
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Name: Mikami Maya (Pronounced "Mee-Kah-Mee")
Age: 17
Class: Fighter Trainee
Personality: Sassy, Optimistic, A bit bad-tempered
Bio: Mikami is a Fighter class trainee who has an average, teenager stereotype personality. While she is quite good with the sword (thanks to her training), she tends to take things a bit less than seriously, which sometimes leads to trouble. Even though she can be outright rude and bad-mouthed, she has a kind, helpful heart, and wouldn't pass the chance to assist others in need.

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Name: Alpha the Fairy (Pronounced "Al-Fah")
Age: 100 (Fairies live a long time in this world)
Class: Mage/Magic User
Personality: Whiny, Childish, Overly dependent
Bio: Alpha is one of a large group of fairy siblings (all named after the Greek alphabet). She was sent by Mikami's father to provide aid to her quest, though Mikami herself didn't really think she would need a companion. She can complain about nearly anything that someone could make a complaint about, which earned her a lot of disinterest from Mikami, who bullies Alpha to relieve her stress.

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Name: B-01 "Beetal"
Age: Robots have no real age
Class: Robot
Personality: Rational and polite by default
Bio: Beetal is a hovering robot whom Mikami found on the shores of Koh Koh Isle. By his programming, he is bound to serve and protect anyone who has operated him, so he unconditionally joined Mikami and Alpha on their quest. Strangely, Beetal has no memory of who created him or what that creator really intended for him.

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Recurring Characters
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Name: Morochi Maya (Pronounced "Mor-Oh-Chee")
Age: 43
Class: Fighter
Personality: Serious, Cares deeply about his family
Bio: A respected Fighter and the father of the Maya family, Morochi has to both carry out his duties and manage his household. When Mikami proposed that she would go out on a quest, he refused to let her go, believing that she is not yet ready to carry out the duties of a Fighter and also fearing for her life. However, he thought this would be the best experiance for his daughter and decided to let her off, not knowing that that the adventure was going to be a lot more than he thought.

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Name: Serges Tomohon (Pronoucned "Ser-Gez")
Age: 20
Class: Theif/Traveler
Personality: A bit eccentric, Curious
Bio: Serges is a cloaked man who seems to enjoy traveling around the world. While he is decent with combat, he has the tendency to get others to do the dirty work for him, which was his first greeting with Mikami. Serges is the first Ludian to have discovered the secret portal room.

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Name: Gapper the Merchant
Age: 47
Class: Salesman
Personality: Crafty, Annoying
Bio: Gapper is a traveling salesman who constantly picks up whatever crap he can find and tries to sell it to people. Though he doesn't do it often, he can easily cheat people into buying items harmful to the health. He is obnoxious and flirtatious with Mikami.

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Name: Melanie Buhtsecks
Age: 19
Class: Traveler
Personality: A bit of a geek
Bio: Melanie enjoys to travel to many different places, a quality similar to Serges. She is a bit socially awkward as she'll walk up to any random person and say hi to them or ask stupid questions. She also has a crush on Serges.

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(Note: The occurrence of this character will depend on your actions in the game)
Name: Manay Zealean
Age: 17
Class: Civilian
Personality: Dorky, Kind of shy
Bio: Manay Zealaen is a young, deviant hair designer who runs her own shop in Petal Village. Aside from that, she is a lesbian who seems to instantly have a crush on Mikami upon first sight. Unfortunately, Manay is very nervous about revealing her true feelings towards Mikami as she thinks she may be turned down due to her sexuality.

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Other Characters
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Name: Stuper Chicken
Age: Unknown
Class: Chicken
Personality: Chivalrous
Bio: Stuper Chicken, by what he calls himself, is a large, talking rooster who lurks around the Nightmare Woods in search of those in trouble. Despite being a chicken, he is a very brave, noble person who will selflessly go out of his way to "protect the weak" and "Enforce justice". How he can speak and have such a personality is an unknown factor.
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Villains
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Name: Dr. Roberto Lue (Pronounced "Roh-Bert-Oh" "Loo-ee")
Age: looks about 75
Class: Scientist
Personality: Bad-tempered, Cold-hearted
Bio: Dr. Lue is a mad scientist who has created an army of combat robots to carry out his tasks, and later enforce a tyrannical rule. He doesn't seem to be much, though he knows much about Ludia's past.

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Name: Beebee Bot(s)
Age:(none)
Class: Robot(s)
Personality: Considerably retarded
Bio: The Beebee Bots are a series of low-level, rectangular combat robots who often are the ones that run errands for their creator, Dr. Lue. Since more effort was put into abilities than intelligence, the Beebee Bots exhibit childish behaviors and are generally stupid, such that it makes Dr. Lue look less serious than he really is. Despite their fragility and mental dumb-down, they are produced rapidly and come in great numbers.

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Name:Lord Modus (a.k.a. Zaniac) (Pronounced "Moh-Dus")
Age: unknown
Class: unknown
Personality: Cold-hearted, A bit of a misanthrope
Bio: Lord Modus is a pawn of Dr. Lue. While he seems to be a human, it is questionable whether he really is one. He also tends to speak poorly about human and/or human-like races.
There are much more...

Spoiler: Screen Shots

Screenshots:

Spoiler: A strange call...

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Spoiler: She'll never be able to tell, trust me.

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Spoiler: Encounter with the troll.

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Spoiler: A battle against oddballs...

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Spoiler: Mikami's first words said to the Beebee Bots.

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Spoiler: Some beings are there to help you, and not be your enemy.

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Spoiler: A sailor speaks to you...

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Spoiler: A greeting by the orb-headed robot, Beetal.

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Spoiler: Another fight...

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Spoiler: Alpha travels through a dark, damp sewer.

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Spoiler: Duprea, the Imp Witch, refuses to give into Mikami's demand.

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Spoiler: Downloads

-------Demo (UPDATED)-------
Current Version: 2.3
Click Here to Download (Filefront)
Click Here to Download (Megaupload)

-------Full Game-------
Spot Reserved. Will come when It comes...

-------Run Time Package download site-------
Click Here to Download RTP
You need to download this before you can play any RMXP game that uses the Run Time Package (RTP).

Spoiler: Warnings

Warnings:
> This game WILL contain a lot of random/surreal/sexual humor. I do not intend this game to be absolutely serious, so this may not be your type of game if you are into deep RPGs that have a serious background.

> Aside from humor, there is a good load of cussing and some sexual references. Therefore I recommend this game for audiences over 13 years of age.

> The deadline of this game does not exist. If I ever dared set one, It woud fail easily. This means that the progress of this game is inconsistent, and will be worked on whenever I have spare time, so don't be begging to me about the release of demos, etc. Got that?

Spoiler: Credits

Credits:
For Graphics Resources:
> Gammaflash Productions graphics resources
> KNight Team
> Lite of RPG website
> Creation Asylum
> Ccoa
> Tana
> Mack
> Kraft

For Music:
> VG music.com
> Sega (used some Sonic Screen Saver music)
> Kanomi (use of copyrighted game music)
> Freedom House

For Scripts:
> Near Fantastica: Anti-Event Lag
> (Author Unknown): Credits Script (Was edited by MiDas Mike)
> Ccoa: Universal Message System

Spoiler: Userbars

Userbars
I will be making userbars for this game when I get the time. Put them in your signatures and enjoy.

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[Ratty524]

I'm guessing no one is interested? Aw...

 

[Kingwalrus]

Gotta say I love those retarded bots. They are so weird that they are funny :D
I also like the evil scientist behind them, I hope he is somekind of weirdo too.

I'll try the demo soon.

 

[Mr_Smith]

Just started it, and the first I see is a tip worth. All of the people who walk around, they walk a bit laggy. You can get this away if you set the freq to 6.
Edit: The houses are a bit square, and inside the houses are not really seperate rooms... They got a bit too much open space.
Edit2: There are also some mapping bugs, if you go to serges boat, landing stage have no piles to stand on.
Edit3: (yes I like edits today) Nice demo, I completed it. I like the end very much:D

 

[zealex]

Hehe this game is pretty fun, even tho the mapping ain't very good and there aren't any custom scripts. ^^
This kinda reminds me of my first RPG on RM2K :p

Anyways, looking forward to the full version.

 

[Ratty524]

I almost thought this project was going to get completely turned off. XD

@T0tal King: I have posted this project before in other forums, and got similar feedback on the maps. I've edited those maps since then, especially the houses. And about the Serges boat, yeah, I think I need to redo the map entirely since I can't find a landing pile in the tileset for the front part of the platform.

@ zealex: Since this demo I've actually added two scripts: an Anti-Lag script and a credits script. Other than that I don't really intend to add any special scripts for this game (In future projects I'll most likely do so, however).

Anyway, I may put up a second demo for this game. Originally I've planned on making it longer, but I feel it would be a bit long for a demo, meaning that I might post it up soon.

 

[Mr_Smith]

I almost thought this project was going to get completely turned off. XD

@T0tal King: I have posted this project before in other forums, and got similar feedback on the maps. I've edited those maps since then, especially the houses. And about the Serges boat, yeah, I think I need to redo the map entirely since I can't find a landing pile in the tileset for the front part of the platform.

@ zealex: Since this demo I've actually added two scripts: an Anti-Lag script and a credits script. Other than that I don't really intend to add any special scripts for this game (In future projects I'll most likely do so, however).

Anyway, I may put up a second demo for this game. Originally I've planned on making it longer, but I feel it would be a bit long for a demo, meaning that I might post it up soon.

I will help you with working away mapping errors...

 

[Kingwalrus]

Ok, I played the demo a bit until I got stuck in the first spar arena. I challenged that Arshes and Mikami got stuck in the counter (you probably forgot to put "move right" there).

About the story: one problem with it is the speed. The story proceeds a way too fast, first you're in the hometown, and after a few seconds you're leaving it for a quest. You could add some events to develop the characters somewhat, or the game could start right away from the point where Mikami begins her journey.

Those are suggestions, though.

Secondly, the enemies were too easy. Bee bee bots were fine, but Jole was child's play, even a training battle should have some challenge. Troll was easy too.
It is okay if the enemies get harder in future though.

 

[Reives]

Lol @ Screenshots. DLing.

 

[Ratty524]

Ok, I played the demo a bit until I got stuck in the first spar arena. I challenged that Arshes and Mikami got stuck in the counter (you probably forgot to put "move right" there).

About the story: one problem with it is the speed. The story proceeds a way too fast, first you're in the hometown, and after a few seconds you're leaving it for a quest. You could add some events to develop the characters somewhat, or the game could start right away from the point where Mikami begins her journey.

Those are suggestions, though.

Secondly, the enemies were too easy. Bee bee bots were fine, but Jole was child's play, even a training battle should have some challenge. Troll was easy too.
It is okay if the enemies get harder in future though.

Shoot, I could have sworn I tested that sparring area and found no problems, I'll look into that.

In regards to the enemies, I've intended Jole to be pretty easy to beat, serving the purpose of letting an RMXP newbie player getting the feel of a battle. The more you progress in the game the more tougher enemies there will be to face, that will be guaranteed.

 

[Reives]

Played through it; although the game froze when I talked to the troll after I beat him.

I found some of the random dialogues and moments to be funny. The mapping itself however, needs work. Check out some mapping tutorials on this forum for it. Everything else is pretty much standard, and not much to comment on since it uses all default systems.

Over all, it's a good start but needs work. Keep at it, you'll improve. Good luck!

 

[Ratty524]

Update:
Demo #2 is almost on it's way. I've sent a similar copy of the demo to T0tal King, who I have asked to test the project and find anything wrong. I'm still waiting for a reply, at one point he mentioned that he couldn't play the demo for some odd reason. Well... let's just hope it ends well. Bye'cha!

 

[Ratty524]

(Waits for the feedback)

 

[Ratty524]

Ok, I've finally released the second demo. Just to let you all know, the changes made to this game would have NEVER happened if any of you members did not post criticism, thank you. I hope that the new demo will be much more pleasing to all of you.

Features of the new demo:
> Addition of Chapter 3 and part-way of 4, adding more time to this game.
> Improved maps (a.k.a. added more details and edited some things).
> Actually uses two scripts (Nothing that really changes the system dramatically, its just an Anti-Lag and a Credits script, note that you won't see the credits script in action in this demo)
> Added a Windowskin changer item (So your eyes won't have to bleed to ONE windowskin!)
> Edited Events and solved some mentioned bugs which was due to my less-than-par eventing.
> Gave hints to hidden items in the game (This was done with the creation of a new character called Sparekin, which give you hints to such items).

So, yeah! I also updated the first page to include the demo and use spoiler tags (as to ease the irritation of scrolling down long posts). This is also my final demo. Unless someone mentions to me any bugs or such, the last part of the game that will be posted will be the completed version. So... HAVE FUN!

Bye'cha!

 

[Ratty524]

To those who are still interested in this project, I've updated the first post to include a Megaupload link the demo if you need it.

 

[Ratty524]

Since I've got a few mapping errors pointed out to me (not by majority of you). I'm going to change a few things. This means I'll repost the second demo when that time comes. Plus, once I get some more, I'll post some screenshots of the updated maps. Bye'cha!

 

[Blitz_Star_7]

I see u r not getting much feedback on this project. Do not give up though, i played through the demo and it was pretty good. Lots of room for improvement, but it is a good overall and funny game.

To make the game have a better feel and gameplay, try out some scripts, different music, and various other things besides just system graphics and such. I am looking forward to your next demo.

 

[Minkoff]

I clicked on the picture but my head didn't asplode.

 

[Volrath]

I wish I could offer some non-spam feedback, but with my job, an arc on MotW to finish up, GA entries, and a boatload of other games nominated for the RMXP Academy Awards, it's a safe bet I won't get to this for a while.

Starting a new project is rough, and usually attention is slow to come. Even the most successful project threads were pretty dull for a while at some point. A word of advice from someone who has seen a lot of projects, though: Posts like "Waits for the feedback" hurt much more than they help. If nobody's weighed in yet, keep working and producing demos with significant updates (not just a few new maps or a different windowscreen or anything like that). If your project is strong enough, you'll get more feedback eventually. Playing other demos and leaving feedback is usually a good idea as well, people will likely want to return the favor.

 

[Ratty524]

@Volrath: Thanks for the advice, I feel a little bit more helped, now.

@Blitz_Star_7: I'm trying my best to make this game at least somewhat impressive, the main reason why I didn't use many scripts is mainly... well... scriptophobia? When I was working on this project as my first RPG Maker project, my incompetence of inserting scripts pretty much killed the first project (Though that project is better off dead...). Many people have suggested such to me, and I may reconsider my goal in making this game not have any important scripts. Thank you for your input.

@minkoff: ... lol, that's all I have to say xD