Adamk 1 Report post Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) ...Life can be so cruel. My soul wages a war for your lips. May your soul never cry.... Download: Coming soon! Version: Coming Soon Blog!! - Keep up to date: War of the Souls, Soul Cry There is no Evil Well that might be an understatement but the game does not contain an evil big bad boss at the end of the game which most players grind there way towards. This game does not contain a world ending story where the players, usually 4, work towards saving the world from an all encompassing darkness that threatens to engulf the world. Love Story The game centers around war, the effects, political challenges and choices that can affect the game play at any given moment. How ever the story also focuses on a love story between two boys who are currently fleeing in some direction from a town set a blase by the flames of a pack of bombs. The love story provides an interesting angel to the story as you watch two characters grow and develop their love for each other. How ever the current war and the soon to be uprising of the guilds through out the continent will put this love story to the test, the ultimate test. Side Quests There are numerous side quests in the game that lead you from the main story into other stories that are just as deep, that have their own lands to explore, characters and pretty much whole other issues aside from some kind of war. These side quests are not "go kill a rat in some far away land" they are more involved and can help you learn more about your characters. These side quests introduce new titles, new cut scenes and new content all around. Chapters The game will be released into chapters. How ever not like you would see around here on RRR. In fact it is suggested that you keep your save file as the script that is used displays the chapter number, the title and more instead of separate down loadable games. Arena This is a idea that will be implemented later on in the game. It will not be implemented in the first demo. The arena is a place where you are a whole other character that can recruit characters into a guild, hunt monsters on the game maps, buy various types of vendors and unlock new arena specific weapons and armor. You can also face various guilds in guild battles. DLC Why? Why include DLC after the game is released? Because I may want to add a new feature or a new story line or a new quest or something. Keep your save file. Battle System The background is of the map you are traveling on. It saves me from having to do all battle back grounds and allows me to use the base map as the battle background. How ever, some people will think that the characters are floating, well in fact it takes the characters and raises them to a plain above the map where they fight said creature and are then teleported back to the map they were on. This game is not a SRPG or TRPG it is a RPG with a side view battle system - that does not make it any less tactical. the weapons, skills, and other things you unlock from the license board for your characters will influence how the battle plays out. Battles are interesting....The maps play a role... Elements, states and what not are at advantage and some times your disadvantage. Every map has a set of elements to it - for example a forest may contain a lot of plant like creatures and earth based creatures that are suseptable to things like fire, water, earth based attacks and in some cases ice attacks. Every creature will use its strengths and weaknesses to save its self, fight and try to survive. The creatures are all dynamically set to level with your characters, choosing the highest level character to resemble in terms of HP, attack, and what not. Dynamic, Worth while NPC dialogue All NPC's are not stupid, they do not say "hello" or "go way" instead they have something more then a one line to say. Some say one lined sentences, how ever most npc's have something to say about the world around them, the current war and what ever else is going on in that point in the game. Dynamic Scenes Scenes are developed differently, they are longer and give more detail into the game and the world around you. The scenes around you influence events in the games, you get to choose which scenes you want to watch and based on the ones you choose The game will unfold differently. This add re-playability to the game. License Board This allows the character to develop and go and be customized in your own way. You can choose the weapons, armor, skills and bonus stats you want that specific character to use by unlocking License Board Components. Keep this in mind: You can buy weapons, armor, accessories and you can even draw skills from enemies (see Draw Skills) how ever unless you unlock that weapon or skill or what ever you cannot use the newly bought, found item, drawn skill. Draw Skills This is how you learn skills in the game. Your learn them by drawing them from enemies. You select Skills - > Draw in battle, this skill costs no MP and you'll have it automatically unlocked. Keep in mind that unless you have the skill unlocked in your license board you cannot use the drawn skill. When you draw a skill, you get up to ten charges of the skill and then after that you use your MP to use that skill because essentially you learned the skill. Class Changing! Class changing is called Title changing. Which means that your character will switch titles based on what part of the game they are in. For example if you join the Guild Galith in the Forest of Galith you will become Galith Guild Memeber. Which gains you certian advantages, privledges and so on through out the game. Other titles such as Soldier of Sal, Captian of Sal and so on gain you other specific advantages suh as quests, monster hunts, story progression and so on. Speific people may not talk to you unless you are of a specific title. Recruiting Characters You can, through pubs and camps - especially when in the army of Sal - recruit other characters into your party, how ever keep in mind that you can only have up to 8 characters in a party because you can only have up to 8 characters in battle. This is where party switching comes in handy because you can put characters into reserve and then recruit more characters. This also allows you sell characters that you recruited, the stronger the character the more money they gain. In game you can do things like monster hunts which is an idea from FF12 you hunt monsters, gain gold and valuable experience thus allowing you to sell the characters you made and make good money off them. Random chance items War of the Souls, Soul Cry is implementing a new feature. It's called "Random Chance Items. This means that when you use an item a common event will be called and based on a random variable and if the variable matches the number set forth in the conditional statement then some effect will take place. In the case of healing items this will affect all party members hence why they cost more then regular healing items. It is already known that if you fail to match that number the randomly generated one then you will have lost that item. A message will be displayed either way if you fail or succeede. odd looking armor The armor will look not like regular armor. One of the new ideas for War of the Souls, Soul cry was that we wanted to get off the typical armor and move into interesting armor that has new looks and isn't store-typical to the types we commonly see such as leather armor, studded leather and so on. The armor mostly has some kind of stat increase, color for text and some kind of state resist. While the armor looks weird we are excited to bring to you this new type of armor that will help configure your character to your own liking. Music I have listed some of the custom music I have made bellow. Let me know what you think of it: Exploration Castel Town Jurney Adventure Cave Music - Titled: Exploring the world Cave Cliff Music Forest Traveling Battle Music Fishing: Fishing is purely evented and works as such: Character A will walk to the waters edge, of course there will be specific fishing places along the way where docs extend out into the water. the character will walk to the edge of one of these and press the enter button (what ever enter is on the pad) to trigger the event. based on a random number the character will either get: nothing or a random amount of gold or an item (the item will be the same for that area, so don't expect rare items and armor with out the random chance of failing being higher.) This opens the title Fisher: 500 points which will unlock a aside story where you can explore underwater caves and take part in a side quest. (see OP for information on Side Quests). This also will unlock Deep Sea Diver: 5000 points. which you will gain points by following the story line. To fish you will require a fishing rod and fishing bait. Deep sea story line! The ocean is a mysterious place with various foes and enemies. Levitik - the great and powerful arcane mage managed to create a device that allows you to breathe indefently under water. How ever such a device is rare and expensive. Can you fish the depths of the sea to get it? I need your help. Some where below the deths of the water in the bowls of the earth lies a dragon names Kalimothious. This beast is awakening and with him comes a horde of creatures called "Lexins." Kalimorthious has been sleeping for years, undisturbed in his bed of ruins in temples lost to man since the ages of Malica. Help me slay this beast and you shall be rewarded with riches beyond your imagination. Completing this story also unlocks "Sea Gods" Title for 10,000 which has a story line as well but for now I am busy remapping and contemplating what that story line will look like. Traveling (Exploration) The world is full of many forests, deserts and mountains. While following the main story line you will explore countless places, far and wide â€" I have to state that, that is not enough to experience the world of this game. The world is vaster and more full then that. There are countless places far and wide to go and exploring those will not only unlock new titles, more stories and more unlock-able things such as weapons, armor, items and quests. This title requires that you explore more outside the main story line in order to fully unlock it. It requires 5000 points and unlocking it gains you access to the cave of tunnels. A cave that lets you travel anywhere in the game. These are the characters so far, there are going to be more These will be updated in time as I see fit and definitely before the release of the first demo in November You may need to right click -> copy image location and pate it into a new tab, browser to see the image Lighting has been applied to this Kread-EX: Contributor A very special thanks goes out to him/her/them as two scripts got merged for me one was the map story script I am using and the other was a title redux and by him/her/them merging the scripts I was able to give you guys the extra command of arena which is a whole other part of the game. I am very grateful for his/her/thier help and have made this person(s) a contributor of this project. Thank you again for your help. Rgangsta: Contributor A very special thank you goes out to this man who made my logo - he made the words I placed the images and the "coming soon." With out him this game would not have a logo. I am very grateful for him taking the time out of his day to make this logo. Please read this FAQ very carefully before commenting.... How do I give feed back? By stating your opinion and understanding that it may or may not be taken into consideration. For example if you want me to change a whole map because you dont like the color - may or may not happen. I will take the feed back and decide what to do with it. I found Bug X Please state where, what, when and screen shot - as much detail as you can give so i can pin point and fix it ASAP. Where are your credits? In the game at the end of each demo they are displayed. There is 40 scripts if not more and I thought it would be better to display them there. update: Credits are also at the bottom of the topic What is and how do I get - Special Thanks, Contributor Status? You either need to fix a serious crash bug, make me something epic I can use in my game or contribute to the game in some grand scale way. the people under special thanks did not just give me feed back they either merged scripts, made me icons or a logo.... When will there be a demo/release? Soon although the game is still in its infantcy the game will be released soon for a demo release and for feed back. Music - why are you using FFT, FFTA, FFTA2 music? I started using this music in my other game war of the souls and only found it naturally fitting. the songs have been specially selected and picked for this game with great attention to detail and the scene they would be played in. Floating islands? No the mapping style is that of final Fantasy Tactics and Oger tactics just minus the blocky iso metric look. I wanted players to be able to explore the maps and explore the world around them. Where is the exit on this map?!!!! Press Y:S on the keyboard. You say there is no epic boss of doom how do we beat the game? I haven't planned that far ahead but I know there will be no final boss fight. there may be a final war or a final confrontation but your actions will determine what happens. There is no evil lord of doom or satan or crystals of light... You state there is no 16,17 year old but these characters are young... I stated they are not so young and on a journey to save the world. They are young yes, in love and exploring the world around them while its in war and turmoil. I wanted to show that even though you are young you can still be mature and make mature decisions. Your maps severly clash......I dont like it. nothing looks real, everything looks like floating islands, the grass looks fake....(you get the idea) Thank you for your feed back I will take this into consideration I have had hundreds of these comments and will get hundreds more. How ever I will not change my mapping style or the tile sets I use. I will improve to make the maps look more realistic but I will not change them as I cannot please every one. You have three games going on: War of the Souls, War of the Souls, Destinies Reach and War of the souls Soul Cry...Don't you think you should slow down? focus on one? War of the Souls is the beginning of the whole series - see Other Games - War of the Souls, Destinies reach was canceled and renamed Soul Cry in order to get off the track of some evil force. War of the souls saw the rise of the first evil. what else can you do after that? The first evil pretty much covers the topic of evil creatures no? I see three games how many are there? 2, War of the Souls and War of the Souls, Soul Cry. I have other questions, comments, feedback Post in the thread please. Support Me? [url=http://www.omega-dev.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1229][img=http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/191/2/c/support_bar_by_createdthoughts-d3lnecf.png][/url] If some one wants the job of making a better support bar I am all for it. Until such a time, this is the latest support bar. Credits: Woratana, Omegas7, Vixotic - With Special Thanks to Kread-EX (See Special thanks), Agckuu Coceg, BulletXt, OriginalWij, Hevendor, Ramiro (Holy_wyvern, ramiazul), Yanfly, IceDragon, modern algebra, LeonGon, Yem, Shangai Edited August 20, 2011 by Adamk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Marked 197 Report post Posted September 29, 2011 Ah I thought the logo may have been made by RGangsta, looks like his work. The screenshots look nice *most useless feedback ever*. Don't think I've seen a game where the two main characters are gay with each other. Thats a bit different. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyToyGuns 29 Report post Posted September 29, 2011 Nice! Are those RMXP tiles in RMVX? Looks very cool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adamk 1 Report post Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) It is his work. I have specially thanked him and given him appropriate credit. The tiles are of VX, I use VX just to do the out line of the land and then I do the test in Photoshop. I do not update this thread as much because This forum is dead and not as busy as RRR or Omega Dev or even Rmrk Edited September 30, 2011 by Adamk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
