Memento Mori

[Decadenttia 2]

Memento Mori

 

Memento Mori is one of these projects in which you work hard for ages and it’s never ended. First you loose the whole work, and after you redone it your pc decides not to run.. You know.

But this don’t prevent you from finish the game...

 

 

Storyline

A year ago, Erin and his best friend Adrian were involved in a traffic accident. The two of them recovered at their own way. Erin suffers post traumatic syndrome that makes her to be distant and cold in her dealings. Adrian hasn’t get better at all and still remains in hospital, talking about strange things.

Midnight marks the first anniversary of the accident, but already starts something more…

 

 

 

Most important Characters (excluding some you’ll meet forward)

Erin – Is the main character. A student that was used to live without worries, enjoying music and making mischief. After accident she changes to a distant girl who has lost some humanity but values other things at the same time.

 

Adrian – Best friend with the same hobbies. Actually is just a poor shadow of whom he was. Almost physically healed but depressed due to schizophrenic behaviour.

 

Erin’s family – Erin and his father didn’t had a good relationship in the past and so goes on after accident. Father is disappointed (first about her bad behaviour and now about her distant dealing). Erin’s stepmother is really concerned about her. She loves Erin as her own daughter. Erin and her stepsister had a difficult relationship but after the accident they respect and care about each other in their own ways.

 

 

GameMode

Memento Mori is not a survival. Is an horror rpg. You’ll find more stuff and less action, but also middle and final bosses, revelations and some of my own fears.

As a typical rpg you’ll level up and gain new skills and powers. Some objects can be useful as arms (baseball bat , pipes) or potions (aspirin, tranquilizers, food, drinks..)

 

Atmosphere

I am taking care over not to approaching at topics because I don’t mean a Silent Hill or Project Zero reminiscent, but is difficult to make something new when the best fears are the usual ones (darkness, blood, pain, the unknown..).

I prevent you blood is one of my fascinating obsessions.

Storyline is the most important for me, but it’s hard to make a chara saying something transcendental when he has cute appearance. Anyway I like original rtp template graphics.

 

Most of my rtp are edited and based on the originals, compiling elements from different tilesets of maker 2003, XP and VX, changing colours, shapes..etc.

There are also some elements made by me, like objects, charas, furniture, walls.

I’m still not sure about adding original pictures (at the moment two images I draw just for the game) so faces were made using Face Maker, and some pictures belong to other videogames but maybe someday I’ll change all of them and put only my work.

 

Music counts. At that point is almost inevitable including some silent hill tracks, but I’m trying to widen the repertoire to games like Obscure (it has a really great OST) or films like Coraline.

Besides this I want to reflect main character preferences (mine in fact) so you’ll may hear Judas Priest, Stratovarius, Lacrimosa, Sonata Arctica..

I’m worried about the size of all the tracks, so the songs list isn’t guaranteed yet. I’m working with a free version of WavePad Sound Editor, so let’s see what can I do.

 

 

The Painkiller. Erin's fav place before accident.

 

Erin visits Adrian at hospital.

 

Erin's room. She doesn't like morning at all.

 

Family Home. A place you know well..

Edited December 27, 2010 by Decadenttia

[Arkbennett 16]

Looks great Decadenttia! I hope that an English version will be released sometime in the future. I'd love to play just by the screen shots.

[violentpurge09 0]

Looks awesome, i also would like to see an english version... but if thats not in its future it stills seems like its gonna be amazing, keep up the good work. :)

[Dark Den 4]

Wow :shok:

Thats awesome. If it were in english i would play it for sure :yes:

The effects really make everything look so real and the first picture of the accident is...is *enter word of great praise*

 

Good luck with it and hope you stick with it till the end :alright:

[FranklinX 37]

Your game looks great! The first map caught my eye. That's a great display of the full potential of the RPG Maker. This game has a professional look, and will get plenty of attention.

[Free To Play 3]

Eh, It looks better than most of the crap that people try to pass off as Demo's around here. I'd definitely play the beta.

 

 

EDIT: Ha-ha. To bad you choobs don't know spanish

EDIT2: Good game-name btw. 10 points to the first person who knows what that is without googling it.

Edited December 27, 2010 by Free To Play

[Arkbennett 16]

Memento Mori, "Remember you will die" or something like that.

Some Italian Latin phrase to remind humankind of their mortality.

It's a common phrase, especially for those who have played Persona 3.

[Free To Play 3]

A.) It's latin

2.) "Memento of Mortality"

[Broken Messiah 20]

Thats what I assumed this game was going to be about :biggrin_002:

[Decadenttia 2]

Wow, lot of replies! Thanks.

 

Don't give me too much credit. The first picture is not exactly what it seems. I posted it time ago on the screenshoot threat.

It's not an in-game scene. Just a picture for the intro that appears in game but it's not a playable scene.

But I'm very proud of it. Took me few hours of photoshop working, using my resources, drawing some sprites, thinking about light and shadows...

 

The first real problem I'm facing now is the need of one particular scene. I'm thinking of drawing it by myself but I'm not soo good transfering it from paper to colored digital art. I thought about searching in the net for something similar..