Title screen by Kevin.ds
(you've been replaced shiny :P)
 
Story

2000 Years ago a huge city covered nearly all of the world. It was a thriving city where everyone was happy. Scientists discovered something that could make life so much easier. Not that it wasn't easy already. The energy gave the people the ability to summon water, or fire out of thin air, control earth, and wind, as well as heal the injured instantly. This power was in limited supply, however. People began to get greedy, and keep this energy to themselves. It was stored in glass containers, and released for a brief moment when used. The greed was slowly weakening the energy, and the people eventually ran out. They blamed each other for this.
Then one day, the sky turned black. The city began to sink into the ground, taking most of the people with it. Some people made it out alive. The people began to restart their society. For hundreds of years, everything was fine. There wasn't even any trace of the city.
One day an unlimited supply of that energy was found. The energy, which the people began to call magic, had been passed down; from generation to generation, through the peoples' souls, but lay dormant until then. Children now had the ability to use magic whenever they wanted. As the children aged, they learned to control their magic, and built schools to teach their children. Schools where the student were able to learn about the kind of magic they wanted to study.
 
The 3 types of magic are: Attack Magic, Healing Magic, and
Status Magic.
 
One particular 16 year old boy named *Bob starts his first day at a school in his hometown of Silverwood Village. His best friend, *Joe happens to be in his first class. Over the course of their first year at the school, they meet a girl named *Cathy, who becomes their friend eventually. Finally, at the end of the year, they take the Final Exam together, and pass. Not long after being informed of their achievement, the wooden training dummies, brought to life by magic, get out of control, and attempt to burn the school down. They all make it out alright, and the teachers use water spells to douse the flames. When they reach the village, they find that their entire home town is on fire! They find a way to escape the flames by jumping over a broken part of a fence. While escaping the flames, they get separated, and Bob falls unconscious. Bob wakes up in a house south of Silverwood Village, and meets an old man, who only says to call him Brian, and that he found Bob unconscious, but not the others. He directs Bob toward the village, and hands him a sword and shield as he sets off to find his friends.
 
after finding his friends, Bob, with the help of his friends, must save the world from an ancient, corrupted power formerly sleeping under the earth's crust.
 
*Player can name this character


 
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Places
 
 

 
Features
 
 
 

 
Characters
 
 
 


 
Screenshots
 
here's an album of them http://imgur.com/a/6TGnQ








 

First 19 minutes of the demo
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSO1x_sagtQ[/media]

 

Credits
 
 
 
 

 
Here's a banner made by Kevin.ds

 
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UPDATE: Added difficulty levels and made it so the player is forced to chose one of each class.
this prevents the player from getting stuck on certain parts and forced to restart the game.
Expert mode is how the game was before i added the difficulty levels.
Hopefully the game is easier now :D
 
DOWNLOAD 
(About 120mb)

If the above link doesn't work, I'm probably fixing something.
 
 
Known Bugs
(That I can't fix, or not without making parts of the game too easy.)
 
 
 
Tips for stuck people:
 
 
 
If something seems weird and isn't explained in game,
(e.g. Caeli Temple being really high in the air when you're inside, but on a mountain when outside, or the Mana Temple seeming less old, and some rooms being different from the rest of the temple)
it can usually be explained by saying "It's magic"
 
sorry if the game is broken. Alternatively, you can watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmZjr8BajltKjHOZWMbmTdl7mpNDzMDyI&feature=mh_lolz
 
The Hidden City of Arcatis is more of a prequel then an actual beginning...if that makes sense. I've written out what happens in the game as another alternative to playing it. http://pastebin.com/07Ns42cG

I'm looking for help figuring out how to change Ryex's custom menu script to use custom background images for each of the menus. I think this is built into the script, but I am not the greatest at figuring out what to change to get scripts to do what I want them to do.
 
If you know this script and can help me out I'd appreciate it.

On wednesday, we had 4-6 inches of snow O.o
and on thursday, I got into chat, and the power went out, thanks to the snow turning to ice, so my internet was cut off. the power is still out at my house, but the power is coming back on slowly around the state. the ice storm is ending, but a bunch of trees and power lines went down. i'm at my friend's grandpa's house, who didnt lose power, luckily. but his computer is dying.
anywho, its warming up, and i should have power this weekend. also, my game, the hidden city of arcatis will have a sequel eventually. I know sort of what it will be about, but i havent thought of a title. but thats ok, because my current game is no where near done yet. i cant download anything, or the computer will freak out
I imagine Kiriashi is also having problems with electricity, since he lives like 5 miles away from me lol
 
anywho, just telling you whats going on.
 
also, i seem to only be getting email notifications (via my phone) from posts marked has made, no one else
 
the snow and ice is melting, and its really warming up fast. i'll be in chat within 30min of the power coming back on, unless im asleep lol. cya guys then

So here's what i need. a compass that appears in the lower left, or upper right hand corner of the screen, and points toward the place the player is supposed to go next, regardless of what map the player is on.