Maia 2K8 [DEMO] [region 2 area maps on page3]

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ALPHA 1 DEMO (8 MB)

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ABOUT THE GAME

Maia 2K8 is a reincarnation of the Maia series. The names and people are the same. Their roles have changed into being a reincarnation on a different world put in danger by a tear between two worlds.

This game offers a free form unlike any other; a very adaptive personal story. From the birth of the player's character you enter the name, and specify where the character's father is during the birth. The older brother and sister are then asked for their reaction over the player character's birth. This affects they way they feel about the player's character from the start.

When the player’s character jumps ahead into school age, the character is aloud to visit instructors of the town of birth. These instructors will teach the player skills according to the class of the instructor. Once the player’s character has learned five skills, the character graduates and assigns their own class.

After graduation, the player’s character will then assign their own look based on the character’s gender. Each look has a stereotype and will be seen in a certain way to the general public. If the player’s character looks like a thief, the character will not be liked by those that fight. If the player’s character looks like a nun, the church will be more generous to the character. Stereotypes can be overcome such as a priest can become a mighty warrior respected by the guild of fighters with a little work.

Through performing good deeds or evil ones, the character’s prestige will raise or lower. Some will bow before a prestigious character, while others may not be impressed if not try to assassinate a character that seems like royalty. With prestige comes rank as well. There are many factions, each with ranks for completing quests, deeds and duties for the faction. The player’s character also gains respect when being educated by members of a faction in school. Not all factions are accepting of new members until the player’s character has earned the respect of the faction. Not all people will sell goods, skills and services to those with poor prestige. In fact, dark magic will only be taught to those that have negative prestige. Even knowing dark magic makes any character feared!

Faction members will fight along side of the player’s character and rival members will fight against the player’s faction if not simply disrespect the player’s character at every opportunity.

Along with prestige is the character’s bounty. Break the law by stealing, murdering or other offenses and society will not look with a smile to the player’s character. There are however people on the other side of the law that will praise those that break the laws of the human kingdom.

There are multiple races, both hostile and friendly; each having their own system of law. If the law is broken in the human kingdom, only the human guards and legions will uphold it. Break the law of another race though and the player’s entire party might find themselves at the end of sharp blades, teeth or swords!

With races, prestige, factions and bounties there are relationships; Love, Friendships, hatreds, rivalries, loyalties and family. Through dates, respect, journeys and quests together the player’s character can make bonds with several people along the way. The player starts out with three family relationships; a mother, a brother and a sister, but along the way there are many other relationships that have highs and lows; Love and bitter hatreds.


CURRENT FEATURES IMPLAMENTED
ALPHA 1 FEATURES
- Free From Game Play: You are free to chose your own destiny. Your education, class, gender and name are all your own choice through the new education system. You are free to chose which quests to complete or participate in. Every action has a reaction.
- Adaptive Story: For each choice you make it will adapt the story to your character. Your choices will change the story and how others react to you. Gain allies or make enemies through personalities, prestiege, factions and even classes. Some classes are not as respected as others. Some factions are hated by others.
- Education: When the player begins the game, part of the free form game play is learning skills from multiple instructors in order to create a more custom experience.
- Stereotypes: With everything there are stereotypes. When you select a look for your character you will receive a stereotype that comes with it. Such as if you look like a mage, other mages will be accepting of you, while fighters might not. Having a darker look will make people fear you. However all of these stereotypes may be over come with a little effort. It adds to the game play dynamic with the NPCs.
- Greetings: Now each NPC is assigned a name, faction, class and presteige. Each will greet you differently based on their faction, your faction, their class, your class, thier prestiege and your prestiege.
- Advanced Talking: You can now ask simple questions to NPCs and learn about their lives and their jobs. There is a standard talk, after the greeting, but there are questions to ask the NPCs as well.
- Factions: Yes they are back... with a vengeance. Guild of Fighters, Guild of Mages, Guild of Thieves, the Clergy and the Legion to name the major ones. Members of factions will aknowledge you as such and even according to your rank. You can also take fellow members with you on quests; assuming they like you enough. When going through the education process of the game you can get instructed by a trainer from the Guild if Fighters as a protoge or learn how to heal from a nun in the Clergy. This will help you get your foot in the door of a faction even before you join them.
- Duels: Oh yes the duels are back as well. This time you can challenge virtually any NPC to a duel! They must accept first of course. With duels comes risks and rewards. Kill a thief and get bolstered by the fighters and legion. Duel with the wrong member of a faction and they will hate you if not all try to kill you.
- Day / Night System: The game ticks time away throughout the day differently than Maia 2K7. More intelligently, but there are still seven time periods a day. Most shops close each night, but when the sun goes down a different sort of cast comes out!
- Lock Picking: For any locked door or treasure chest in the world there are lock picks that can open them with a little luck or skill.
- Stealing / Theft: Normally if a player were to take an item, no one would care, but to add some realism and stealth. There are now laws and people to see the player steal things.
- Bounty System: For each crime the player commits it will add a bounty to the player's head. Theft adds a small bounty, but murder adds a large bounty!
- Reaction System: NPCs react differently when a player has a bounty on his or her head. NPCs also react differently to the player's personality and prestiege that their character carries. Some NPCs will refuse to talk with the player, others run away and still others try to collect the bounty in combat!
- Multiple Races: There are different races that inhabit the world. Some are more hostile than others. You can gain their respect and trust over time. Each race has its own set of laws, such as only the humans uphold the bounty system. Other races do not, but instead they have their own laws and consiquences.
- Calculated Weather: The weather system works on five variables: rain / storm / snow / fog / sand storm. The game intelligently creates weather based on the region.
- Inn: Not just an Inn, but you get a room to stay in for the night to sleep, party or use however you want.
- Traveling Merchants: Traveling merchants are random, but when they appear they can save you in the wild.
- Movable Objects: If you are strong enough you can push barrels and boxes or destroy them!
- Destructable Objects: Douse fires with water bombs! Use plant slices to cut down bushes and pick flowers.
- Random Lootable Houses: As somewhat of a mini game for theives with lock picks. There are houses that can be looted. The interiors are random.

ALPHA 2 FEATURES
- After Life: In a game with an after world... there is after life. The entire point of the game is the player and Maia entering the realm of the dead. Thus meaning there is no true death in the game. Probably for the first time in any RPG ever; When you die in battle you do not go to a game over. You literally go to the realm of the dead and keep playing until you either find a way out or get pulled back into the world of the living by a priest that ressurects you. Once you are ressurected the normal game continues, but as punnishment the player loses half of their gold... you could always load a saved game if you have a problem with that.
- Detailed Ressurection: Churches have priests that will ressurect dead party members for a fee.
- Time Ticks By: With the day and night system comes the time system itself. Unlike the two previous games, this game time ticks by when in the over world. The previous two games had time tick away as you stood there doing nothing. That made the game itself slow. The new system for time will reduce lag and slow play.
- Dreams: Like in the two previous games there are dreams. However, now there is more to do and the dreams get deeper, but if you don't want to do anything with a dream, just stand there for 10 seconds and the dream will fade. You can also combat in dreams now! The in game dreams are foreshadows or memories based on past experiences. If you die in a dream you merely wake up.
- Gifts: Because there are relationships in the game, if you ever get someone so angry that they will not talk to you, but you need them for something... give them a gift! There are an assortment of gifts like pets, flowers, drinks and so on. Even offer to take them fishing! However based on who they are, they will react differently.
- Dancing: Yes indeed it is back! You and your date can indeed go dancing, where you need to mirror your date or fail trying. This time you know where to start from, and the dance continues with 5 rounds of action that your date will judge you on! Also this time you have a choice to keep dancing or end the date.
- Transports and adaptive prices: Yeah exactly what it says. There are now transports and based on what factions you are in they will either charge you more or less.

There will be more features all from Maia 2K7, but improved and streamlined.


GAME RATING

TEEN +
 - intense puzzles
 - provokative items and armor


BASIC STORY

Maia is the only person to have ever broken through the living plane into the realm of the dead and return again. After defeating the lord of the damned Malcius, she broke through a hole in the sky and plunged down to the world only to discover her mission was in vein. She had let her love slip through her fingers and returned to the world of the living alone.

Weak, weary, bruised and emotionally broken from her journey, she is found by a stranger that helps her; a stranger that had heard a prophecy of her return to the living plane. With the help of this stranger, Maia will return to the realm of the dead to save her love. This time Malcius will not be taken by surprise and he will have his legion of demons, undead and terrifying minions rallied to keep her soul.

The legion of undead are no longer confined to their realm. With Maia’s return to the living plane, the hole was left open; a hole that will turn into a tear between the two planes that will allow the dead to flow into the living. Aided by a reaper named Sekio, Malcius will have his revenge on Maia by conquering the world of the living. Meanwhile with the help of a new ally, Maia will find a way back into the realm of the dead to save her love.



CHARACTERS

Five of the major characters are customizable and adaptable to the game play experience. Those five characters (Player, Brother, Sister, Mother, Father) will not be listed because of this.

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MAIA:

                    alliance: unkown
                    age: she is the constant
                    gender: female
                    race: human
                    class: assassin
                    preferred weapons: daggers
                    skills: dagger tech
                    sign: lady
                    purpose: protagonist
                    character importance: A+
                    image: Open minded, determined, sleek, tunnel visioned
                    self image: Loathe
                    beliefs: Afterlife is possible
                    past: Maia was once normal. She had a family until she was taken and programmed by a shadowy faction bent on overthrowing the human kingdom. As part of the mysterious faction her love was killed and Maia was left with no choice than find a way into the realm of the dead and return her love to the realm of the living.
                    present: Maia has just defeated the afterlord Malcius to save her love. However, Maia returned alone. She failed in her mission, but undaunted she will return to the realm of the dead to complete it with the help of a stranger that will accompany her on her quest to save her love and repair the damage that was done when she escaped the realm.



PAPA HASP:

                    alliance: good
                    age: much older than Maia
                    gender: male
                    race: human
                    class: forseer
                    preferred weapons: none
                    skills: prophecy
                    sign: mage
                    purpose: catalyst to start the plot
                    character importance: C
                    image: Mad man predicting doom
                    self image: Savior
                    beliefs: The future can be changed
                    past: In the past he was known as something different. A man with a family, but little prosperity until he made money off of his gift of being able to see the future. A week after that his eyes were taken by pirates. While that was the physical cause that lost his eyes, he always felt that spiritually his eyes were taken for profiting off of his gift.
                    present: Papa Hasp has been condemned to live in the west point light house alone with his own personal demons. The blind light house keeper had been seen as a menace to a peaceful society with his raving mad predictions that the world would end by an Afterlord.



FREDERICK ALLANSON III:

                    alliance: good
                    age: older than Maia
                    gender: male
                    race: human
                    class: governor
                    preferred weapons: short staffs / rods
                    skills: diplomacy
                    sign: lady
                    purpose: governor
                    character importance: C+
                    image: Beloved leader
                    self image: Does not belong as governor
                    beliefs: Value his people
                    past: He came into power after the citizens saw him as they would any man; a loving father, a great husband and a man of the people that regrets his elected power.
                    present: The good hearted governor that sees no one respects him. If he is respected he is insulted, he wants to be as common as the next man, so it is best to insult him or be treated as poorly as possible.



COMMANDER BILLINGTON:

                    alliance: legion
                    age: older than Governor Allanson
                    gender: male
                    race: human
                    class: paladin
                    preferred weapons: swords
                    skills: sword techniques
                    sign: tower
                    purpose: commander of legion forces in the region
                    character importance: C+
                    image: Beloved commander
                    self image: Best man in the legion
                    beliefs: Stronger rule results in a stronger society
                    past: The commander grew up in the region exploring caves until he was old enough to join the Imperial Legion. He soon became the commander after the mysterious deaths of members in the legion that lead to his field commission.
                    present: Billington is the man in charge of the forces in the region. He disagrees with the governor’s lax way of communicating with his citizens and feels that the people must have a strong leader not a common one.



SAM HAWKINS:

                    alliance: guild of fighters
                    age: older than Commander Billington
                    gender: male
                    race: human
                    class: warrior
                    preferred weapons: swords
                    skills: sword techniques
                    sign: demon
                    purpose: commander of fighters guild
                    character importance: B+
                    image: Beloved commander
                    self image: Glorified
                    beliefs: Personal glory out weighs army glory
                    past: The former best friend of Commander Billington after their paths in life split. Hawkins went on to command the Guild of Fighters and has been looked down upon by Billington since he turned down the Imperial Legion.
                    present: Hawkins is a strong and wise commander that does not thirst for commendation. He only seeks the thrill of the fight and the gratification of personal glory.



RAVANA MICHAELS (RAVENOUS):

                    alliance: guild of mages
                    age: older than Maia
                    gender: female
                    race: human
                    class: witch
                    preferred weapons: wands
                    skills: black magic and alchemy
                    sign: demon
                    purpose: quest
                    character importance: C+
                    image: Desirable witch
                    self image: Underrated
                    beliefs: Wicca
                    past: The sexy little witch that studied magic because it was popular at the time. She grew up privileged as a noble woman but chose a darker life style that would give her more entertainment.
                    present: She is always pulling pranks on her friends and fellow guild members.




MYSTO:

                    alliance: guild of mages
                    age: much than Ravana
                    gender: unknown
                    race: human
                    class: foreseer
                    preferred weapons: wands
                    skills: telepathy
                    sign: apprentice
                    purpose: information
                    character importance: C+
                    image: Laughed at
                    self image: Better than those that laugh at him
                    beliefs: In the future
                    past: Mysto's parents were killed and he was sold off as a slave to a band of thieves, when he was old enough he struggled for independence where Mysto joined the guild of mages.
                    present: Able to foresee the future of individuals Mysto has become a token of the guild of mages. Mysto is less than respected by peers and does not care one bit.



SEKIO:

                    alliance: evil
                    age: ageless
                    gender: male
                    race: spirit
                    class: reaper
                    preferred weapons: scythe
                    skills: dark magic
                    sign: mage
                    purpose: take souls to the afterlife
                    character importance: B
                    image: The devil himself
                    self image: Just doing a job
                    beliefs: He is immortal
                    past: Sekios have always been the reapers to carry the dead to the afterlife. While the living may beg and plead to stay on the plane of the living, there are Sekios to make sure that the string of their life is cut and ended.
                    present: In the public eye Sekios have turned from mere servants of the Afterlord into being considered a singular devil feared by humans.



AFTERLORD MALCIUS:

                    alliance: evil
                    age: ageless
                    gender: male
                    race: demon
                    class: demon
                    preferred weapons: claws
                    skills: dark magic
                    sign: tower
                    purpose: rule the realm of the dead
                    character importance: B
                    image: The Afterlord
                    self image: The Afterlord
                    beliefs: He will rule the world of the living
                    past: He was created by a single God to test the cunning, intelligence and wit of the angels. Tricked by the angels that rule the heavens above, Malcius has ended up ruling a dead realm.
                    present: Since discovering that the realm of the dead is full of soulless zombies that walk the plane, Malcius has sought a way to conquer the world of the living. Now Maia has created a tear between the worlds that Malcius can use to start an invasion.

SCRIPTS USED

Zeriab's Anti-Lag Script
Blizard's Bestiary


CREDIT / THANKS

MAIA = Everything
RTP = All Graphics
Zeriab = Anti-Lag Script
Blizard = Bestiary


SCREEN SHOTS

ALPHA 1 SCREEN SHOTS

TOWN OF VALYON

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That is your family house. Home to your sister, brother, mother, father and yourself


Both pigs and fountains right next to the entrance of town


A walk through the residential area of town


The beauty of the western side of Valyon


All barrels and boxes are pushable and movable... assuming that you are strong enough


A stroll through market street


The end of market street contains the two known guilds. There is a third guild, but they do not publicize


The sub level of the guild of mages. There is Mysto the instructor


The shop of magic inside of the guild of mages. One shop sells light magic, the other sells dark magic


Outside of the pub / inn to the west is the market place and to the north is the fishing pond


This is the smith in the guild of fighters. There is also shop that sells weapons and armor in town


Outside the church north of town. The path leads to the back a flower feild and a grave yard


A flower field northwest of town. Yes you can clear all of the flowers as well

TELEGRA VILLAGE

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Telegra, a village of the Anadans a cold blooded reptilian race forced to live amongst humans


Two competing items. One is a loom that sells tapestry the other is a straight up item shop

THE LIGHTHOUSE

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The central chamber contains the staircase to walk up five flights of stairs to the mad man at the top!


The bar in the light house features music played by an unearthly pianist


The western chamber contains the living quarters


The eastern chamber contains the lock up for ghastly souls


The path on the approach to the fog covered haunted lighthouse


Over the entrance of the lighthouse is a balcony to see over the fog

ALPHA 2 SCREEN SHOTS

CASTLE VELOIT

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The front of the castle looks a little boxy. I might go back and change it. The guards attack if you have a bounty.


The court of the castle. One building is the armory. The other is the kitchen and library.


Pushing a few boxes, vases or other objects will get you further into the towers.


One of the castle walls. The castle is a multi leveled indoor / outdoor maze!


The path to the dungeon is a long one. The path out of the dungeon is even longer!

CASTLE VELOIT DUNGEON

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As stated before... every box is pushable, some lead to secrets.


A cave in created a massive sink hole leading to an abyss. Prisoners were lost.


Most of the dungeon seems well constructed.

GRAND TREE WOODS

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Many animals can be found here, along with the poachers that hunt them.


The cluster of great trees and the animal hidden within one of them.


You can get lost very easily in these woods. However, you can stick to the path!

EARTH CAVE

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The entrance of the large cave beneath the Earth.


The main chamber of the cave. The stairs overlook an underground lake.


Follow the paths and you may not get lost or even bring a lantern to guide your way.


So many directions to take.


A multi layered winding cave with choices to make.


An underground beach with a subterranian lake.

OVERWORLD MAP

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Telegra is at the center of it all. A good place for the Anadans to be.


On the way to Veloit Castle. That is a port that you see in the north.


The bridge north of Telegra that leads to the other half of the sub continent.

Good Luck with teh game!

The features are awesome!! I will definitely play this game.
Good luck in making it!

Yeah, it looks very nice. Good luck and I hope to see the finished product.

The demo is maybe 30 minutes long and that is me playing it and knowing what to do. I will post a demo soon. Probably within 18 hours of this post right now.

It has 1 town, 1 village, 2 bridges, 1 lighthouse. You can go through all of the customization, education, graduation, and there are 3 quests so far. All the hard stuff is already programmed / scripted. Now I just need to make the story / dialog / quests.

Cool.

*waits in anticipation

http://cixe.planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/rpg/Maia2K8_alpha.exe

I just uploaded the alpha demo. It is still free form. 1 town, 1 village, 1 grand forest, 1 earth cave, 1 lighthouse with exterior, 2 bridges.

In the demo you go through the education process. You raise the player and you can play the first main quest. The only catch is you cannot beat the first quest due to the fact there really is no armor or weapons. Everything is sold for 0.

You can steal things, fish, lock pick, duel (not many people), push boxes and barrels, cut flowers with a skill, watch time go by and commit crimes.

WHAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW:

Are the instructions for the player's education clear enough?

How do you like the greeting system. Each NPC greets the player, before the choice of what to do next with each NPC.

How do you like the fact that you can chose between talking, information, rumors and duel for each and every person you speak with?

After you complete the education and "graduate" there is a town navagator that instantly warps you to a place in town. Is that an annoying feature?

After you graduate and start the main quest and have your brother and sister join the part... what classes are they? They have about 12 different classes each that they can be based on your reputation with the guilds.

I don't play these games, but you're hot so thumbs up.

WHAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW:

Are the instructions for the player's education clear enough? So far yes.

How do you like the greeting system. Each NPC greets the player, before the choice of what to do next with each NPC. It's fun.

How do you like the fact that you can chose between talking, information, rumors and duel for each and every person you speak with? Love it.

After you complete the education and "graduate" there is a town navagator that instantly warps you to a place in town. Is that an annoying feature? Haven't gotten that far, Sounds good though.

Also, when i talk to mom and this one lady the game restarts on me. But this is just with them so far.

Overall though, still fun going back to play some more.

After you complete the education and "graduate" there is a town navagator that instantly warps you to a place in town. Is that an annoying feature? Haven't gotten that far, Sounds good though.

I wanted to elaborate more on the "warp."

Towns move slower... So when you enter a town, it asks you where you want to go. Business district, residential district, pub / inn and your house (if you don't live in town it will be the church).

Also, when i talk to mom and this one lady the game restarts on me. But this is just with them so far.

Which lady? How does it restart the game? Does it kick you to the menu?

The lady with the red hair, by the fountain and guard.
Added: It's when you go and over that stone bridge on your way to the fighter guild.

Screen freezes for 2 seconds, then goes black then Title Screen.

Also, mostly because the map is so big we will move slower do i find that the teleport can be useful.

The lady with the red hair, by the fountain and guard.
Added: It's when you go and over that stone bridge on your way to the fighter guild.

Screen freezes for 2 seconds, then goes black then Title Screen.

Also, mostly because the map is so big we will move slower do i find that the teleport can be useful.

The map is only 70x60, but there is a lot going on.

I've never seen the screen freeze or go to the title screen ever. I will check it out soon :-) I know the lady you speak of. She's in front of the pub / inn.

I haven't gotten far in it yet, but a few of the NPCs told me the guilds were North West, when they are really North East

I am in LOVE with this game. It is so good I just had to tell you. I really love the talk system. The whole thing is great.

Hey maia you should put the demo on the original post so everyone can see it, lol I spent some time looking for it...

Anyway gonna have another demo?

The lady with the red hair, by the fountain and guard.

Screen freezes for 2 seconds, then goes black then Title Screen.

I just checked and it does not freeze for me. There is nothing there are no commands that would make it go back to the Title Screen either. Are you an adult when it happens or still a kid? Have you seen it again?

I am in LOVE with this game. It is so good I just had to tell you. I really love the talk system. The whole thing is great.

Thank you so much!

Hey maia you should put the demo on the original post so everyone can see it, lol I spent some time looking for it...

Anyway gonna have another demo?

It is in the original topic! It is right at the start of the post. I will have another demo whenver. I intend to put more quests in then maybe have another demo.

I'm still a kid. Lets leave it at my computer suddenly decided to be fruity and stupid on a good game. I've seen it happen a couple of times but my computer is just being stupid. Sorry bout that.

Yeah there is a glitch with the Alpha Demo.

Spoiler for:

When you're a baby and you speak to that first person to choose their name... You can't. If I remember right the person you speak to has blond hair.

The error message about script reference comes up.

Yeah there is a glitch with the Alpha Demo.

Spoiler for:

When you're a baby and you speak to that first person to choose their name... You can't. If I remember right the person you speak to has blond hair.

The error message about script reference comes up.

Script Refrence? That should not be an error, because first you give the player a name. Then using the exact same default came with RPG XP you name the sister. The only different reference is player is #1. Sister is #2. Brother is #3. What are you trying to name the sister? I know that if you leave the little girl as the default name, it loops through until you name her something other than the default name.

That is a little strange, but at least it is not getting the weird errors like it did with Willa & Rott.

Now that I think about it... maybe it's the anti-lag script. That is the only script I used.

It didn't glitch for me. I named her Jane.

why is this still in New Projects <_<

* Nouman moves.

Wow, some of those screens really impressed me, but some of the forest screenshots had some errors.

Nice one here^^b

Nice new screenshots. G'Luck with the game

It didn't glitch for me. I named her Jane.

I always name mine Kirstyn... in fact that might be her default name.

why is this still in New Projects <_<

* Nouman moves.

I do not understand why there is a projects and a new projects. Are both really needed?

Wow, some of those screens really impressed me, but some of the forest screenshots had some errors.

Nice one here^^b

Why thank you. Actually the screens are usually outdated by the time they get uploaded. I take a look at them and if they look empty, boxy or undetailed I go back and detail them. One thing is for sure... there are barely any NPCs when I do the photos. Just cause I haven't added them. I've greatly changed the overworld map, just to make it less boxy.

Nice new screenshots. G'Luck with the game

Thank you! I am glad someone noticed! There are more (of the Misery Myer and Wailing Woods), but I already have an excessive amount! Especially for me with a 56 Kbps modem.

Sorry for a double post like this...

AFTER LIFE

I have come up with an after life system. For the first time probably in any RPG... when you die in battle or die in general, you will go to an afterworld. The realm of the dead, where you will exist for a brief while until you find the portal to make it back to the realm of the living or until a priest pulls you out by ressurecting you :-) For getting ressurected the priest will take half of your gold ala Dragon Warrior.

I am extremely proud of this system and it keeps the game flowing instead of... restart from a saved game.