Twilight of Everleryn { Recruiting as of August 09 }

[size=150]Two Gods whom governed space and time created a magical world called Celelynia. Celelynia featured two different lands; each land had its own nation and culture. The lands were separated by divine means so that the Gods could monitor each race’s progress on their own.

Behold, for there are two levels in Celelynia.

The Goddess of Dawn created the land above – the tranquil, sky-faring world of Everleryn. It is where nature and peace chooses to flourish.  Although the nation is not advanced in technology and means of combat, they are very content and no wars had ever occurred. Everleryn is very beautiful, sprawling across the nation are numerous waterfalls, rivers, ancient structures and mountains.

The God of Twilight created the land below – the magical and, once, breathtaking world of Agranoa.  The people here were given the gift of magic and most – if not all, know it the minute they are born. Practically everyone practices magic on a daily basis, and there are many mercenaries wielding heavily enchanted weapons. In fact, some wizards have reached a level of mastery close to that of a Demi-God.

Consequently, countless wars had occurred. It is ridiculous as some wars were merely a grudge between leaders, and others were held fun or just to see who is the more competent nation. Recently, there was huge catastrophe that conjured up many evil beings. No one knows whom or what caused it or where the beings came from, but all the nations had to settle their grievances and form a global alliance.

The once glorious land is now barren and dark, riddled with a race of grotesque evil beings named the Fearean by the Arganoans. Countless raids and sieges by the Fearean occur on a daily basis. Not only that, the Fearean has plans of taking the battle to Everleryn to expand their territory.

This is a story about the adventures of a boy who grew up in Everleryn. Not just an ordinary boy – for he is the sole hope of Celelynia.[/size]

Hi guys.
I was a Starcraft and WC3 Mapper just got RMXP a week ago. I am making my first ever RM project and I want it to be Epic with a capital E. I am recruiting to get things done quicker and it might be more fun with people on the team instead of just myself.

All feedback and questions regarding any aspect of the game is appreciated.

So without further ado...
 
The RPG will feature
• Semi-Sandbox RPG, lots of quests that give the player a sense of accomplishment and reveals more history / plot the more you complete them. Lots of treasures and dungeons to explore.
• Lively characters all having their own personalities.
• Romance and humorous dialogue.
• Custom pixel art and digital art.
• Custom music that fit the game perfectly, and custom BGS sounds which accentuates the atmosphere.
• The ffx battle system by charlie lee modified.
• Enemy detection battle system - i.e. you walk up to a monster, and it chases you -  not random encounters.

• Engaging multi-dimensional storyline with lots of twists, surprises and emotional sways. There will be a lot of mystery that slowly uncovers to the player. Including -

Spoiler for Spoilers:

— A brother that the protagonist does not know about but has power to contact him through a spiritual link power.
— Protagonist's father is a hidden identity not revealed until much later in the game.
 — A corrupted general in the enemy forces of Fearea who still has a bit of sanity left in him... who knows how he will turn out.
 — A messenger from another continent that is unknown to all of Everleryn. Her identity is concealed until much later.
 — A prodigy scholar/ magus with a twisted personality, he helps the protagonist but will his friendship last?
 — Time will stop flowing in Everleryn, how could this affect things?
 — And much more

Here's the storyline and some screenshots so far.
Please note that everything is not final and there may be drastic changes in future.

[size=200]Characters[/size][/b]

Spoiler for Characters:

— Rini —

An ordinary boy raised in Everleryn. Rini is a good-natured and ambitious hunter, who is under the apprenticeship of his father. Hunting is frowned upon in Everleryn and many people look down on his family's ways.
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— Senin —

Protagonist's father is a hidden identity not revealed until much later in the game.
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— Luciana —

A messenger from another continent that is unknown to all of Everleryn. Her identity is concealed until much later.
She has a tsundere personality. She appears to others as tough on the outside, but she is actually a very kind and sweet girl on the inside.
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— Arcus —

A prodigy scholar/ magus with a twisted personality, he helps the protagonist but will his friendship last?
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Just who is this guy and why does Rini sometimes see him in his dreams?
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More will come.

[size=200]Screenshots[/size][/b]

Spoiler for Screenshots:

An open ended forest I just made outside the town of EverGrace
My project will be a semi-sandbox sort of game where there's quests and treasures making you want to explore it.









Mapping:



Some new screens. I revamped the starting town and will change the story a bit to suit it. I am going to keep revamping until it reaches awesomeness And will try adding lighting effects somehow.

Map of starting town: http://i30.tinypic.com/2qk2usn.png
ingame



Battle System now near completion. You can swing a weap to get initiative and if you get caught from behind or the sides you go into a penalty battle.


Day


Night


Map

[size=200]Tech Demo Video[/size][/b]
Revised Introduction:


Tech Demo:


[size=200]Recruiting as of August '09[/size][/b]

Spoiler for Recruitment Info:

I've had RMXP for more than 2 weeks now and I honestly think its a childhood dream come true. I've always wanted to make single player RPGs. I have played heaps of them and I know what makes a good gameplay/story.
I have very high standards of myself (though not a perfectionist), so if I do something it has to be done well. Therefore I think you can be assured that it will turn out great.

Things I can do
• I have a diploma in graphic design. Art and design has been my life, so I know how to make things look good, even if they are not design related.
• I can draw/colour anime style art if needed.
• I write fantasy as a hobby, I was an aspiring author.
• Modify tilesets / sprites. E.g. I can make a ruined town out of a Wood Town Tileset. I'm only good at modifying though.
• I was a mapper since SC - that's like... 7 years now? I am a general all rounder when it comes to making games. I just don't know RGSS scripting much and can only modify simple code.


Kind of people I am looking for
• Pixel Artists who can create custom tileset appearances.
• Terrain Artists who can make beautiful looking maps.
• Scripters/event editors who can write some complex puzzles, make cool cinematic scenes. Or just to help me merge existing scripts so that it will not conflict.
• SFX/Midi composers
• All-round people who can do general RM making to speed the development up.
• Fantasy writers who can also event quests are needed
• Others that can do something else willing to help please reply also and I will consider.
• Willing to work free of charge. It's my first RPG so I have no money to offer. You will be credited largely both on the game's cinematic intro and the end credit roll.
• Who knows, maybe if we assemble an excellent team and project we can continue on and make commercial games in the future

If you're interested you must show me examples of work you have done and I'm only looking for quality and dedication from members. Let me know through PM or reply here, then we can talk via chat software.

I can't accept everyone that wishes to join into the team so I have some questions you must answer with a PM:
1) From a scale of 1 to 10, what is your motivation / dedication / seriousness of developing this project with me?
2) Do you have a decent amount of spare time to work on this project? I.e. Are you busy with other things to do in life?
I can't have people who signs up to the team then does nothing or cannot be contacted most of the time.
3) You will be a trial member when you join for a period of one week, and you need to meet my low expectations of contributing to the project. Agree?
Signed: type your username here

[size=200]Current Team[/size][/b]
ArcherRin - Project Leader


[size=200]Credits and Special Thanks[/size][/b]
Credits
Charlie Lee - CBS System.
ccoa - UMS Script
More to be added soon.

Special Thanks
Regi - Coding support

Thank you for reading.

fyi, greatest font size you can have is 100, here. (or maybe it was 99 last i checked), eitherway, 200 doesn't work.

Also now, you're mapping isn't that bad for having the program for just a week. A bit squarish and sometimes empty, but good.
I like your logo. Cool, you're a graphic designer too.
Good luck on recruiting here. That doesn't happen too much around here, unless you're looking for under-skilled bored 13 year olds who also just started using the program.
AND, glad to see some one knows how to format a project topic every now and again

thank you for the feedback. I am trying to post on the most popular forums so I can get people quicker. I don't think there are many active ones except this one, hbgames.org and rpgrevolution right? Yeah seems like I can only recruit young people . . .

Btw the mapping sucks atm because I did it when I just started RM. Now i have more of an idea after I browsed around. the team and I will redo most of it in future, and add lighting effects.

If you can get any RMRK+ members here working with you, you'd be a lucky guy.

One topic is enough. Please don't spam every board with the same thing.

You mean boards in this forum? Or other forums on the neT? beside this one i posted in recruitment. this is like a project show off and recruitment is something else.

Ok looks like you deleted my thread in recruitment. They should be one forum merged if they arent two separate topics. .

If you want a recruitment topic for this game as well, then cut out the part in this topic about recruitment and paste it in a new topic like you had. Then from the recruitment topic, you can link to this project topic.

Yeah that's what I did except I put the recruitment part first then put the rest of the story etc on bottom in a spoiler. I thought if this topic will move the link will be broken etc so its better to put it in the topic itself.

Some new screens. I revamped the starting town and will change the story a bit to suit it. I am going to keep revamping until it reaches awesomeness And will try adding lighting effects somehow.

Spoiler for New Screens:

ingame

Battle System now near completion. You can swing a weap to get initiative and if you get caught from behind or the sides you go into a penalty battle.

Spoiler for battle system SS:

Battle system demo/mapping : http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?umzyqz3mh2m
Press A to attack in the map. and Z to dash (keyboard).

You could just edit your posts instead of triple posting.

And lol, TE. Twilight's Eve (unless you've played Warcraft III bnet recently, you won't know what I mean).

well yes I have played that map. Twilight is another word for darkness though. and Darkness or Shadows of Everleryn doesnt sound as good as twilight
And even thought i triple posted its in long intervals like 1 day per post so ...

If you edit your posts the topic will appear like it was unread so you don't need to make new posts.

updated with new info / ss

First off, welcome to RMRK.

It looks like you're off to a great start. The story is pretty interesting to read, so I hope that is able to transfer over to the actual game. The screenshots are very nice, as well; you've made excellent use of your choice of tilesets.

Good luck with this project. It is very ambitious.

By the way, some of your screenshots make the game seem like a floating island RPG. Is this the case or am I jumping to conclusions?

Tyvm Ryo, you flatter the project. The floating is because its the land above the clouds, as described in the prologue. I didn;t make it clear enough so I updated it.

I updated with some videos and the prologue's grammar.

Showcasing what I have done during this week on the project.
- Added a lot of new scripts including systems like the CMS from Star Ocean 3. Please note that the summons/ tactics/ quests are not coded correctly as of now.
- New Areas / Mapping
- A musician called Akamizu is helping me out, and has composed the Evergrace's town music!

I learnt a lot recently about scripting and such, but I would really like to have an advanced scripter join the team.