RockSauron
01-25-2009, 10:26 PM
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Vharley is an RPG I am working on in RPG Maker XP. It is my dream game, the game I have been thinking up since seventh grade... so... I guess 3 or 4 years now.
Anyway, this thread is dedicated to letting people know I'm making this, and giving updates, and what not. I will also be accepting help from people.
So, anyway... The gameplay won't be to different then a normal RPG Maker RPG, i.e. you fight enemies a'la Earthbound or the original Dragon Warrior- You view portaits of your characters against pictures of enemies, and it's turn based.
The Story is thus, and is why I've been dreaming this up for years:
Jack Vharley is a farm boy who lives with his grandfather on a farm. One day, while he is at town, he returns to find his farm burned and his grandfather dead.
... Sound cliche, eh? However, it gets MUCH less cliched and, in my opinion, awesome. However, to tell you too much is a HUGE spoiler, which I doubt you guys want.
Jack returns to town to become a blacksmith apprentice. Soon, however, the blacksmith convinces Jack that the Kingdom has plotted against his grandfather due to his grandfather being the son of a rebellious noble. Jack trusts the Blacksmith, and so, in his fury, does what the Blacksmith says... and kills the mayor. After realizing what he's done, Jack is enveloped by guilt, and kills the Blacksmith out of his own fury at what he has now become. He is chased out of town as a murderer, and is left to join a shadowy organization known only as the "Agency", and becomes enveloped in a struggle aginst two sides, as the Agenecy searches for it's "Utopia".
... Some people may remember this idea from a post I wrote months ago... If so, don't spoil it, because if you do... I'LL KILL YOU!
And don't bother searching for it now, because I deletd it to prevent any one from spoiling this :p.
Anyway... at the moment, I shall show you a screenshot, of the current menu screen:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5109/vharleymenudw6.th.png (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vharleymenudw6.png)
This Menu screen was made by Code (except for the menu box, of course). Please, feel free to tell us what you feel about it.
And then, there lies the matter of "help"... I would appreciate if anyone skilled in the following areas could help:
1. RPG Maker in general
2. Story development
3. Spriting/ Drawing
4. Midi Music Creation
There are three songs I want to be made for this particulary, but I can always find another way around it, so that's no biggie.
As for Spriting/Drawing, I would like Battlebacks (still pictures to view the area round what's happening, aka the picture Code put together) and battlers (still pictures of people and monsters battling) to be made. If anyone does this, I'll be sure to credit them and maybe buy them a sticker or bundle too. Be forewarned, though- by doing so, I trust you to be careful with my spoilers I'll give you, in case you care about that.
Anyway, to get to what this thread is really about: boosting interest. I just want to know if anyone out there cares about this at all, and so... I shall close this by asking who here is interested in this?
Oh, and two final notes:
1. I only started making this yesterday, so isn't too far along.
2. If, as I hope, and this is ever completed- it will only be able to run on Windows, so you'd only be able to play it on a PC or a computer with Windows installed if you would want to play it. It will, of course, be free, if it ever comes out, which I hope it does :).
Vharley is an RPG I am working on in RPG Maker XP. It is my dream game, the game I have been thinking up since seventh grade... so... I guess 3 or 4 years now.
Anyway, this thread is dedicated to letting people know I'm making this, and giving updates, and what not. I will also be accepting help from people.
So, anyway... The gameplay won't be to different then a normal RPG Maker RPG, i.e. you fight enemies a'la Earthbound or the original Dragon Warrior- You view portaits of your characters against pictures of enemies, and it's turn based.
The Story is thus, and is why I've been dreaming this up for years:
Jack Vharley is a farm boy who lives with his grandfather on a farm. One day, while he is at town, he returns to find his farm burned and his grandfather dead.
... Sound cliche, eh? However, it gets MUCH less cliched and, in my opinion, awesome. However, to tell you too much is a HUGE spoiler, which I doubt you guys want.
Jack returns to town to become a blacksmith apprentice. Soon, however, the blacksmith convinces Jack that the Kingdom has plotted against his grandfather due to his grandfather being the son of a rebellious noble. Jack trusts the Blacksmith, and so, in his fury, does what the Blacksmith says... and kills the mayor. After realizing what he's done, Jack is enveloped by guilt, and kills the Blacksmith out of his own fury at what he has now become. He is chased out of town as a murderer, and is left to join a shadowy organization known only as the "Agency", and becomes enveloped in a struggle aginst two sides, as the Agenecy searches for it's "Utopia".
... Some people may remember this idea from a post I wrote months ago... If so, don't spoil it, because if you do... I'LL KILL YOU!
And don't bother searching for it now, because I deletd it to prevent any one from spoiling this :p.
Anyway... at the moment, I shall show you a screenshot, of the current menu screen:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5109/vharleymenudw6.th.png (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vharleymenudw6.png)
This Menu screen was made by Code (except for the menu box, of course). Please, feel free to tell us what you feel about it.
And then, there lies the matter of "help"... I would appreciate if anyone skilled in the following areas could help:
1. RPG Maker in general
2. Story development
3. Spriting/ Drawing
4. Midi Music Creation
There are three songs I want to be made for this particulary, but I can always find another way around it, so that's no biggie.
As for Spriting/Drawing, I would like Battlebacks (still pictures to view the area round what's happening, aka the picture Code put together) and battlers (still pictures of people and monsters battling) to be made. If anyone does this, I'll be sure to credit them and maybe buy them a sticker or bundle too. Be forewarned, though- by doing so, I trust you to be careful with my spoilers I'll give you, in case you care about that.
Anyway, to get to what this thread is really about: boosting interest. I just want to know if anyone out there cares about this at all, and so... I shall close this by asking who here is interested in this?
Oh, and two final notes:
1. I only started making this yesterday, so isn't too far along.
2. If, as I hope, and this is ever completed- it will only be able to run on Windows, so you'd only be able to play it on a PC or a computer with Windows installed if you would want to play it. It will, of course, be free, if it ever comes out, which I hope it does :).