Celestias Ferrum ~Chapter One Released!~

Whats the point of debating something as pointless as the meaning of life?

Whats wrong with simply accepting life as it comes and goes?

Would it really be that hard?

I can't remember...

Maybe... I've just died to many times to really care anymore...

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Character List
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Character art by Gladyfaith

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Story
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Following tale of a young couple as they travel into a reminiscent home town, a string of strange events and a push towards awakenings unravel the tale of faith, duty, and reality. Follow Avion as he finds himself thrown into a conflict that was never his own, but one he was destined to fight in.

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Features
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5 to 6 hours of captivating gameplay with a original short story with mysteries untold.

A tactical battle system with a mercenary system of 4 customizable classes, played through 4 missions and 4 story related battles.

A completely custom made evented shopping system with smooth interface and a intuitive system design.

Fully evented pseudo animated intro.

Completely custom Menu system

High quality graphics interface using customized text windows and all custom character sprites on a custom template.

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ScreenShots
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Videos
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Animated intro raw

*The Intro is being remade, the current video does not in anyway reflect the actual story.

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Credits
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* The Team

             Monkeydlu (Lead Sprite Artist, Director, System Eventer, Writer)
             Sithlord (Lead Mapper)
           
    * Credits List

             Story, Directing, & Eventing: Monkeydlu
             Mapping: Sithlord999
             Lead Exclusive Sprite Artist: Monkeydlu
             Other Exclusive Sprite Artists: Mit-Mat, Raguman, CoyoteCraft, Caro Ru Lushe, SithJester, Nessiah
             Tilesets/Addons Artists: $T3vO, Sithjester, ZanyZora
             Sponsor: Phantom of PhanxGames
             Battle System: Zenith's ZTBS
             Anime CG & Portraits: XUSE/UNBSD Illustrations (RIPPED ART)
             Battler Sprites: XUSE (RIPPED SPRITES)
             Chibi Portraits: Gladyfaith.Deviantart.com
             Menu System & graphics: NanKongX, Gladyfaith, Monkeydlu, StrawberryQuartz
             Universal Message System: Ccoa
             3D Battle Animations: Mascarphone
             Emotion Animations: Etori
             Logo Design: Hanzo Kimura
             Music: Various and way too many to list.
             Opening Theme: "Silly Go Round" by FictionJunction Yuuka

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Downloads
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Celestias Ferrum Preview

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Support
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Fan Related
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Monkeydlu:




CatcherRye:


Enexodia (Nessiah/YnLraey):


Saphirez:


GladyFaith:


Zue:


Ellenor:


Caro ru Lushe:

Looks interesting.

I fucking fell in love with this after watching the screenies and reading some of that.

Mapping is a little... stiff, but I will sure as hell play this game. Those cutscenes are awesome.

Heh.

Finally.

A RPG Maker game that actually looks professional. I've been waiting for something like this. You inspire me.

Looks like its back to work.

The pictures look pretty great. I also like the story.

I take it that the world is based loosely off of the Fire Emblem world of Tellius? Just from the names Laguz and Beorc that is. Anyway, the project sounds pretty good and I wish you luck.

wow...this has got to be the fastest I've ever gotten respond on this...lol...this feels suprisingly good. Hoepfully, this'll make me less lazy ~_~

As for the Fire Emblem thing, lol

well, when I was starting this project, me with my horrible imagination, was just looking trough my game cases for inspiration. It's based really loosely, the history was completely written out by myself, later on in development though, I guess with some influences from Fire Emblem. I just didn't really have it in me to make original race names >_>

Wow, i really have no words for how great this is. 

lol, thanks.

updated the main post with a short credits list and a link to the main credits list. That one actually needs updating, I'll do so soon though.

It's beautiful, and so inspiring.... such talent you have there.
The storyline is nice, I'm sure it will be a great game.
Good luck with your work.

I agree, this looks pretty amazing.

thanks for the supportive comments. I'm hopping to use my christmas holidays to really finish up chapter one, and get it tested, touched up, all that stuff, and then release it formally.

This will be second release, after my first terribly rushed one, which I have withdraw thankfully. Though it didn't get bad reveiws, which is probably why I havn't jumped ship yet, but I'm thankful becuase I found my mapper becuase of the release.

anyways, I'm looking at probably some where within janurary, after break is over and I get time to get everything tested.

I'm also going to mention here quickly, if anyone would be intrested in being a tester. The max I'll need is 2 people, but they have to be dedicated, and will be willing to use up at least 30 hours within the month of testing to play the game repeatedly, not only that, you seriously, MUST, be good at english...lol

thats my major problem, I've had at least  6 editors so far, math was pretty good, and a very good bit of bugs were detected, but a gaint list of spelling problems and grammer stuff dosn't really help me.....>_>

so I'm going to need a editor who's familiar with RMXP, preferably very experienced, who will be willing t use a uncrypted version and actually correct most of the stuff himself. If this is jsut a dream of mine that'll never be obtainable, then w/e, a long list of spelling and grammer mistakes is still apprechiated.

anyways, if you have some crit, feel free to post, and suggestions are welcome.

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well, dispite my past weekend, which was ever so uncontrustive, I did manage to organize my story a bit. And with it I decided to make a mock up map. I've had this sketched out a few times, but idk, this just the mock up. Theres several spoilers, but since their unamed, it dosn't matter.

K stands for Katins M stands for Magicians, B stands for Beorc, and the boxes are the Laguz. The place with Fukai's pic is Razril obviously, and the place with Avion is where Avion's house is located.

This is not, I repeast, NOT the "WORL" of lilium, this is simply the mainland continent, which I had already named but due to me losing my sketch on loseleaf, it will remain unnamed for now I geuss.....*sighs*

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Good Luck there.

Thank yous 

The screenshots look very good, and the story line is good, but you could do some more work on your maps.

That's all I have to say now.

yup, my maps arn't the best, but Sithlord (godsend) helps me alot. He's making alot of really really good maps, and replacing my old maps. Only the one with the afternoon city is his, but I'l post more thats from his later

wow! This looks AMAZING!  Who did the scripting?



i wants to play

Hm...well, alot of people. You can look at the credits list for the whos. The CBS was Minkoff's combined with trickster's and cogwheel's. the Menus were Moghunter's, and the message system was Dublex and a bunch of there's.

thanks for the support. Anyways, updated the character art, my commisions came in, more will be done eventually if I feel like it.

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oh, and you'll be able to play it sometime during january, that is my projected date for finishing.

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also, I'm putting more thought into the world map. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me make one? Something like those oldie styled maps, like a pirate map of sorts, idk, any kind of map would do, I just don't really know how to make a map, and that little paint scribble won't really do, lol.

Yay! I've gotten more maps, some spriting, especially Sean's RTP, done, as well as most of my music is set! I'm just testing alot of stuff, and I'm finidng more and more tiny little bugs and errors. If I'm lucky, I'll get most of my stuff done by the end of my break.

Now then, main problem, I've still yet to finish the side veiw battler for the main character, Avion. Yeah......well, I'll take care of that later.

Things on my to do list for the break

~implement new maps, set all the passage for the maps as well, and bug m mapper for even more great maps XD

~Re route the major events so everything will work for new maps, replan the converses to fit with prequel novel

~Manage and set all graphical icons into one sigel style, most likely either tales, Ro, or custom made.

~Scrap together a custom number system for all stats. HP, MP, ATK, EXP, etc, so that everything can be counted and more easily organized.

~Finish world map by making a final copy, or bugging someone else to help me make one.

~Reorganize the sound track, and smooth out all the transitions as they all suck.

~Finish the major spriting jobs, Sean's RTP, Avion's battler, and....well, I'm not telling.

~make a presentable demo

Yay! Implemented new maps and the new 8 direction movement script!

Also, almost finished with the completely new stats system!

Let me what ya'll think k? :3

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Forest of Sleep

I think there freakkin awesome, and the monster though as little cute as it appears sorta scares me when it's casting magic.

lol, greenraven's battlers arn't that intimidating, I plan on editing them to make them scarier, but thats far back on the list atm

new updates
 
Spent a couple of hours eventing the new title screen from scratch.

Title Screen

new quality time of day visuals, featuring morning, da, dusk, afternoon, and night.

Morning Light
City Dusk

Sweet new maps, remade by the talented Sithlord999, all maps were made by him. Other than the cut scene one.

House Interior

New dynamic cinimatic cut scenes with scrolling maps for amazing experience.

Opening Cutscene

Almost close to being good. Just gotta do alot of trimming, and them progress with the story as well.

Wow loads of stuff to read @_@ if you send me a message ill promise to read it soon! Im personally a writter myself, and that, in turn is what I tend to look at in a game. I promise ill look at it more soon!

Nice new updates, and the title screen is just awesome 

@Dominick

idk what you mean, lol, do you want to help me write? becuase I'm looking for an co-writer right now, preferably an girl becuase since I wanted to put major focus on the relationship system, and the conditional branches with the difference scenes...ugh...I just have some trouble trying to fit all the character responses in my head, so yeah, and co-writer who specializes in romance is really needed. I'm only looking for one on the side right now, becuase I've just got so much other sstuff I've gotta finish before I can have fun with stuff like that.

@Ruzu

meh, the title screen is tempo. I made it pretty quick, and I just did it becuase I found the script by chance, and my old title just sucked like hell. Thanks though

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I was just wondering, there really isn't that much to read other than the little geography lesson I have on my world. I've never really wanted to publically reveil any of the story yet...lol

I might see if I can type something thats pleasable one day.