Rose Memories: The Remake

I've decided to re-make my old game Rose Memories.

At the moment, I basicly only have story and music. At this time, I would like to get some comments on the story.

Story

"Humans are so cruel?
We haven't done anything....yet.
Why is people so scared? Because we are different?
Because we are blessed by Mother Athera?
I actually see that as an honor.
How should we be able to accept them, when they can't accept us?
It's just a matter of time, before everything turns into chaos"

For many generations, people gifted with magia
was pointed out as freaks.
They got the nickname "Magians", mostly because
of their gift.

One day, they had en ought. The Magians decided
to immigrate to a land, were they could
live in peace.

Their Goddess, Athera, decided to help them find
a home.
She found a piece of land, deep into the mountains.
There's she created their home.

Nocturne.

The Secret Garden of Nocturne..

The birthplace of magia. The birthplace of
those gifted with it. All of them, born from one seed.
A seed from the Rose tree.

The Rose Tree contains all magic in the world.
The fire, and warms the garden with the sun.

The water, which cools it down.
The Earth and the wind, that gives
the life and energy for the
garden.

All these types..All this magia..
Is gathered in the Rose Tree.

The centrum of Nocturne.

Until they came...

Rose is one of the bravest warriors in Nocturne. Born with the gift of magia, she  lives in Nocturne, like all other Magians. She lives there with her younger sister, Christy.
One night, the elder of Nocturne, Morghad, tells all the villagers the story of the creation of Nocturne. After this story, Rose began to think of her existence. Why do Magians exist? Why were they separated from the humans? Humans and Magians? It makes no sense.
One night. Rose and Christy wakes up after hearing an explotion outside their house. Rose heads out to see what's going on, only to find out that Nocturne is in flames. The humans has attacked Nocturne. They kill the Nocturne soldiers, and takes the towns people to the human world. Rose heads into the Nocturne mansion, to find Morghad surrounded by flames. In front of her, two men stands. The Prince of Braskan, and his loyal servant, Brask. When Rose tries to cut them down, some kind of magic paralyzes her, and she can't move. Suddenly, Christy, who has followed Rose, enters the room, and tries to save her sister. Christy suddenly gains Brask attention, and he stands in front of Christy. After some minutes, he says

"You are the one we seek."

And as fast as they came, the humans vanished, along with Christy.

The spell that paralyzed Rose suddenly disappeared. Morghad has cured Rose with his last powers. He tells Rose to stop Brask and his evil plans of using the Magians to dominate the human world, until it's to late. He tells her that there should be a teleport somewhere in the praying room, taking her to the human world. That was his last world before the flames killed him.

Rose must now find her sister, and stop Brask and the Braskan Empire, before it's to late.

Characters

Playable Characters:

Rose Theron
Age: 24
Race: Magian
Speciality: Healing Magia
Rose personality is a bit different. She like to speak up, and when no one agrees with her,
she needs to hear the agruments of why they don't agree with her.
Basicly, she's very persistent, but is still very intelligent.
This combination could lead to some problems sometimes.
But also, deep under this persistent personality, she's kind, and trustfull.
If someone is in need, she will be the first one there to help.

Chirsty Theron:
Age:19
Race: Magian
Soeciality: Destroying Magia
Christy is the oppisite to her sister. She's Irresolute, and very quiet type.
This often leads to small arguments with her sister, since she can't speak
up, and tell what she thinks, rather then think what other thinks.
But like her sister, Christ is very Intelligence, and loved by Morghad,
the Head Minister Of Nocturne.

Adam Corush
Age:26
Race: Human
Speciality: Sword Tech
Adam used to be a member in a cult of assasins. However, he left the clut, to seek
service from kingsand revenged lords. Lately, he has served the Braskan empire, but
is still not loyal to the Empire.He's only loyal to them who deserves his service.
Adam is also the quiet type. however, unlike Chirsty,Adam actully speak up when he dosen't agree with others.
Altough, he often lacks in intelligence.

Micka Dustfeather
Age:18
Race: Bruskan
Speciality: Burglar Tech
Micka lives near the Sacroz Mountains, which Legends says links to Nocturne.
Her people, the Bruskans, used to back up the Magians, but was forced too flee from the humans,
because of this.
Unlike other humans, her Race, The Bruskans, has dark skin, and is used to live in
dangerous nature, like deserts and swamps.
Mickas personality is goffy and happy. She rather joke around then being serius
in conversation, which basicly means that it's impossibal to have a serius
conversation with her.

Un-Playable Characters:

Morghad
Age: A bit over 50.
Race: Magian
Morghad is the Head Minister of Nocturne. He's also one of the few who knows the location
of the Rose Tree. Morghad teaches the Magains everything they need to know.

Evil Characters:

Brask(Temporary Name)
Age:30
Race:Unknown
Brask used to live in Nocturne, but was banished, becuase his evil intations.
There's not so much info about Brask. Most Magians says that he isn't Magain,
and isn't human. His race is unknown.
After Brask got banished, he was taken care of by the old Emperor of Braskan,
who was still unknown of Brasks powers. Brask was later caught in the act by
the emperors evil son, Aristomenus, The Prince Of Braskan. Together, they
decided to overthrown toe old Emperor, and give the power to Aristomenus.
Brask is pure evil, and extremly intelligence. His knowledge
of magic is often used in the wrong way, and leads to many ends if lives.

Aristomenus
Age:29
Race:Human.
The Prince Of Braskan. As a child, he was often ignored by his father,
becuase his father saw Aristomenus brother as the real succesor.
Raged in jealusy, Aristomenus killed his brother while hunting, and gave the body
to the wild animals.
Devistated by his sons death, the emperor never became himself again, and
gave much of the power to Aristomenus, who later overthrown his father.
Aristomenus is very jealus and evil, and never really felt the true love.
He has never been loved in his whole life, and it has effected both his
personality and ego.

This game was basicly going to be re-maked with VX when it was realesed, but the VX setup turned me off, so it will be in XP.

The music credit looks like this in the meantime

Credit: Music

• Ocean Dreams
• Rast
• Rockman

Scripts:

• Ccoas UMS
  Dubealex Ring CMS
  Falcons Status Screen
  Ccoas Tileset Swap
  Leons Shop Script
  Shuns Mouse_System
  Cogwheels RTBA
  Cogwheels RTBA Edit
  Charlie Lees Individual Battle Commands
  NANKONGX

Resources:
Enterbrain
Strawberry-quarter
Dertt
Emidy
The Shadow
http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/newiceax/framepage1.htm
Ccoa

Progress List

Story: 100%
Characters: 100%
Graphics: 10%
Scripts: 70%
Music: 100%
Maps: 1%
Overall: 1%

Also a big credit to Arkbennet, who takes time to make evented-based systems and mini-games for Rose Memories. Big Thx^^

Screenshots

What's a project topic with no screenshots?


This is basicly all I have right now, so I don't have anymore to show.
Comments?

The story sounds awesome, I like it.

Hm...if I had to make suggestions, why don't you use a side view battlers using charactersets as battlers?

they've got some really good ones, and if you want, I'll upload one I mixed together for you. It's a basic commands RTAB with side view interface.

That depends if the enemies needs to be animated. When I said I wanted face-battlers, is because that people often uses side-views, or font views with battlers of the characters. So face-battlers would be a little bit different compared to others.

But suggestions is always welcome, so upload the thing you made, so I can take a look on it.

Alrights then, here ya go:

MK's RTABSVBS

Credits goes to cogWheel, Rye, and someone I can't really remeber......I'll see if I can find him though.

It's pretty simple, I use it in another side project, which I really never got off the ground, was supposed to be for that new beggings contest but just had to much to do. I spend a bit of time on figuring out how to make it all work, like a week ~_~ yeah, I'm stupid >_>

but it's pretty simplistic and I like it alot.

Also, for enemy battlers, from the demo, you can see I've also implemented the use of...I forgot the name, but this huge line of battlers. Anyways, it all works out very simplistic and smooth.

If you need more battlers like the blonde swordsman, the makers of the series made like over a thousand of them. I don't have the page bookmarked anymore, but I do have them all on my computer, but you'll have to set them up yourself.

Just ask and I'll post what I have so far.

Hey, I liked the script. to bad that some of my monster battlers dosen't have character sets, but I could make them, as I just finished one when Im writting this XD

Im going to have this as an reserve battle system, if I don't find an artist, that's willing to do the face-battlers. It's only 5 face battlers I need, so it's not that much work(Still, maybe an artist see that as much:))

BTW, how do I change the speed of the characters in the battle? They move way to fast Xd

go to the cbs script, you can also set the id for bows and guns and stuff there.

also, you don't have to use character sets for the enemy battlers, Like so:



the series for these style of battlers is HUGE, so the chance of not finding everything you'll ever need is really very slim, do you want me to upload all of these as well? They won't be formatted like the 3 above, but I have templates that you can use to make formatting easier.

Yes, I would love if you uploaded them, or Pmed them to me. I kind of understand how to build the fighters up, so if you send me the templates, I have something to do tonight XD.

lol, I've only set up like 15 of them, but yeah, with so many of them, it's a long job @_@

I'll pm em' to you then, and if you set them up, can you share em? lol, I was discouraged by the thing becuase it was so tedious and so never really got around to it >_<

If it's only face-battlers, I can make them for you, or facesets. (Not full battlers)
Just hope that you're not in hurry, coz I still got assignment to do.

Yeah, it's only Face-Battlers. If you want to do tehm, I will send you the character sets, so you know how the characters looks like.

Some Minor Updates.

Im gonna tell more about the battle encounter in general.


When Brask took the Magians to the human world, the worlds aura couldn't control the over-powered magical spirits from the Magians. These out-of-control spirits spreaded around the world, in form of spirits. These spirites contains evil creatures, called monsters.

Typical spirit encounter:


When you get contact of these kind of spirits, you will be throwed into combat.

There are 6 kinds of spirits:

White

Purple

Yellow

Green

Red

Black


All these spirits has different combat levels:

Purple Spirit = Easy Combat.
Yellow Spirit = Medium
Green Spirit = Hard
Red Spirit = Challenge
Black Spirit = Deadly

And the white one is special. If you encounter one, it's a possibility that he will give you something special. The white ones is friendly, but shy. It's a bit hard to find these spirits.

What do you think?

Reminds me of Valkyre Profile 2 >__>;;; But More Original with the Colors.


(lol, I liky liky the sprites, can I use these or are they exclusive to Rose Memory only =X )

(The Idea I like it, and will they follow you? the spirits?)

I haven't played VP2, so I can't compare them <_<

The Spirits has Follow Hero choice, so yes, they will follow after you if you try to eascape from them.

They are simple re-colours^^. You can find the original one on Strawberry quarters.

http://stquartz.web.fc2.com/rpg_xp/character.html

So basicly, yah, you can use them. They aren't that exlcusive.

Love the spirit thing, sounds so interesting and something thats gonna be competitve over time.

I haven't played VP2, so I can't compare them <_<

The Spirits has Follow Hero choice, so yes, they will follow after you if you try to eascape from them.

They are simple re-colours^^. You can find the original one on Strawberry quarters.

http://stquartz.web.fc2.com/rpg_xp/character.html

So basicly, yah, you can use them. They aren't that exlcusive.

:3 lol, I like your edits better, so I wondered where were the edits from since I hadn't seen them anywhere.

& thax, i'd be sure to credit ya ^^;; and strawberry quarters.

ah, reminds me of Savrior Cat's encounter, cool japanese rmxp game. Except it was just these little glowing floating things that threw you in battle, can't read japanese though x.x

I like the idea, and those really are very nice recolors, looks cute XD

Have I missed something, or why is 5 posts gone from this topic?

http://wiki.rmrk.net/index.php/Feb_2008_Crash

A remake eh? Good luck with it. The spirit thing seems like a nice touch, and I love the side battlers.

I haven't decided if I should go with side-view yet. Im waiting for face battlers made by Emidy. Expect some more information about the battle system sometime next week.

New screenshots from the game:

The Title:


Random Screenshot:


More updates will come. Stay Tuned!

Update:

Some of the battlers are done. I would like to credit Emidy for doing an awesome job on them.

Here they are. [color="#FF0000"] Don't use them! They are custom made for Rose Memories![/color]


Rose:


Chirsty:


Adam:


Micka:

those look great XD makes for a good avi

I had to go check your profile when I saw it, lol, was thinking *Omg, I messed up another gender* x.x

XD

Im a guy, but I just like Rose picture, so I decided to have her as my avatar.

Sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing a demo when you've got one.

So you have the story and everything down pat and you're just working on grafix and scripts?