Lance: My first game.

Hi guys, been working on an RPG lately, bear in mind it's my first attempt, only just thought of a name, and it's not a very good one.

Lance.

Any who, the game makes you play as a young prince called Lance, suddenly whilst just sitting down in his room, Sir Klant tells him the castle is under siege, he explains that klant was told by the king to escort Lance out of the building, ignoring this, he tries to save his father who is apparently in the castle dungeons, he finds him, only to be separated from him once more, there's also a huge backstory where more will be revealed about the past of Lance's kingdom as you progress, you learn quite a lot from the king, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

That's when the game really kicks off, becoming more like a normal RPG, not just a big cutscene.

Screenshots:
(Pay no heed to the fact that the Lancer is called Aluxes, slight mistake i made, fixed it now.)


Demo: http://files.filefront.com//;7780033;;/
Here ya go:

Characters:
Lance:
Age: 18
Class: Lancer
The prince of Altera, a boy with a strong sense of justice, and a very kind heart, as you will learn.

Klant:
Age: 27
Class: Lancer
The most respected and loyal warrior in the kingdom of Altera, he will do anything for his king.

Jakod:
Age: 15
Class: Theif
A very swift and agile fighter from Blitz, at first glance he may seem like a theif, but this boy is just a kind hearted warrior.

Btw, this is made on XP.

More details coming soon, and a much better Demo soon. (You may notice this isn't very polished and sometimes the storyline moves WAY too fast, this is because this is kinda a rough draft, I plan to make another version once i've completed this version which is extremely improved, with more side quests etc.)

Uh...It's been a day...Hello?

Anyways next person who looks at this, I got a little dilemma, in my RPG they finally got to Blitz, only to find the sister still wouldn't wake up, Lance examines her and tells them they need a healer for this job, but now the question is, how are they possibly gonna find a healer?

I need a solution that is not cliched at all.

i would play this dont worry ill go check it out =)

ill try it after i finish some of my sprites ok =)

Looks cool, are there gonna be features? Like crafting or fishing or something?

Anyway, it looks like you don't use the other type of grass on the second screenshot...(or you used it but I can't see it because of the fog) But make sure you use both the tall and short grasses. Well you don't have to, but using both will make it more realistic. (If you did use both grasses, ignore what I said and sorry)

Ok here is the thing after i have seen the king then escape then battle the guard blocking the way i got stuck in the stair i cant seem to move. but if this is your first game

All i could say is you will be a good mapper =)

I also have this problem: you can maybe teleport the player one square above it, because you can't move in a stair.  Also i suggest you use the automatic wall tile: It's a square with a black square in it in your tileset, in the upper left corner. With this you can automatically make walls, this looks nicer.

Okay, I rescued Jakod and then went forward to the cave. In the cave, there was a fork. Each one didn't teleport me anywhere. I even pressed the "accept" key. Where am I supposed to go?

For the maps, they all look good. But like Martynator said, use the wall autotile, its very useful. And also make the grasses in the maps in a weird shape, don't do a square. Well you could do a square, but it'll be more realistic because grasses are natural and random. Oh, and your caves look square. Unless its man-made (Which I highly doubt for a medieval type game), its random.

Sorry for criticizing you so much.

Okay, I rescued Jakod and then went forward to the cave. In the cave, there was a fork. Each one didn't teleport me anywhere. I even pressed the "accept" key. Where am I supposed to go?

For the maps, they all look good. But like Martynator said, use the wall autotile, its very useful. And also make the grasses in the maps in a weird shape, don't do a square. Well you could do a square, but it'll be more realistic because grasses are natural and random. Oh, and your caves look square. Unless its man-made (Which I highly doubt for a medieval type game), its random.

Sorry for criticizing you so much.

i think you should continue to criticize him =) he could be one of the very good mappers here in rmxp   

Yes! Comments! Anyways, about the tall grass and short grass, no I did not, I've learnt a bit more after that demo, and right now the game is quite far through, the town DOES look nice, but i made some amateur mistakes including now the Hero can now walk through some buildings, the parralel event thingy keps happening every time i exit a house, and most the citizens aren't moving at all like I told them to.

And about the two forks in the cave, that's where the demo finished, sorry. I'll update with a new demo once I fix this bloody town.

And about the stairway issue, if you skip the dialog in this game, it messes up with the Set Move Route commands, therefore you mucked around with the way you were facing by skipping past too fast. Sorry.

Any good mappers here who can make a good farm village?

Moving citizens? Simple. Just edit your current event and make it Paralel, but if they have speech, make a conditional branch saying 'Button Enter' is pressed and putting the actual event in.
Its how I make moving people

I can make the farm village if you want. But I will need to know some things. Which tileset is it? How many houses do you want?

Well, It's just making them walk around dosen't work, I use the set move route thing and do this:

Move right
wait 60 frames
Move left
wait 60 frames

And it's parralel, but it just dosen't work, they don't move.

And yes please make me a farm town, tileset is farm town outer.
And 5 houses, one is a Weapon/armor shop with an Inn attached to it.

I've already made all the inner's of the houses.

You can also set the move route to random, that's the eassiest way: They keep walking around, and if you set the speed to slower/faster etc., they will walk more or less.

I can make them walk around now, but now I can't make em talk! ITS PISSING ME OFF!

What do you mean by the inn attached to it. Its right next door? Or is it upstairs?
Please clarify. And do you want any special things in the maps? Like a lake or something. Also, give the size.
Sorry to ask too many questions.

60x45, i think, and make the Inn next door please.

How are you gonna send it to me after?

I'll just take the Maps file in the data folder and then PM you. To open it, you will need to make a new project and then replace the Maps file in that game with the one I sent you. 60 x 45? Thats awfully big for just 5 houses, I'll get to work.

Edit: I finished it. Here you go.

Cool, thanks dude, I'll check it out.

Edit: I Downloaded it, now what do I do? when I just click on it nothing happens.

I can make them walk around now, but now I can't make em talk! ITS PISSING ME OFF!

hmmm ok ok dont be pissed try this ok?
nothing is gonna happen if you get pissed off. on the event set the Type: you want say custom/random
then on the
option check move animation and on trigger click action button then set the freq:to high but do not set it lower coz it will move like >.< then  on the list of commands just put the text you want him to say ok?

hope that work for you =)

OK, I'll tell you what to do. Do you have Winrar? if you don't, download the file in this post. Okay, go to the file you just downloaded and then right-click it and then click the extract here option. Another file will appear called Map001.rxdata. This is the file for the map. You copy this file and then make a new project in RMXP. Go to its game folder and go to the data folder. Paste it there, overwriting the other Map001.rxdata. Then, open the new project in RMXP and you will see the map. To use this map in your own game, you copy it from the RMXP program, not from its data folder. Then open another RMXP and then open your game. Then, just paste it on the map folder thing (on the lower-left).

The file in this post is in Winzip format.

I did that, I make a new project and It's just a green map.

Did you copy the Map001.rxdata and paste it onto the data folder of the new project and replace the old one? If you did, then I don't know whats wrong. Can someone please download it and try if it works?

I tryed, and i can do it: I see the shole town. Maybe you can upload a demo with the map in in, then you can copy the map and paste it into your own project.

OK, I'll do that. Here's the demo. BTW I'm using PK.

Worked, thanks very much, awesome map.