[FULL GAME/RMXP/RPG-Shmup] U.S.G. ~ A New Beginning ~

[hima]

Genre : Shooting RPG
Players : 1 player
Spec : 2.01 GHz, 512 MB of RAM

STORY :
You are Kyte, one of the pilots in the 'U.S.G' Project. You have been trained by 'The Center' to be prepared for the 'true battle' that lies ahead of you. Though nobody knows what this 'true battle' really is, all they can do is follow the training program and protect their base from the 'invaders'.
  Together with his assigned navigator , Len, they have to go through various missions in order to survive. However, the suspicious risen when not only the pilot who fail the mission disappeared, but also their personal navigators as well. Will he succeed in all the missions and survive long enough to find out the truth? And just what is this "U.S.G" project he seems to be into?

[spoiler=CHARACTERS]

Kyte

The hero of the game. He's young and naive. However, he seems to have a great sense of survival. He love fighting and challenges, but killing is another story for him.

Len

Kyte's personal navigator. She's talkative - VERY talkative. And sometimes that annoys Kyle a bit. However, under the easy-going looks, she's actually a deep person and very clever as well. She'll help Kyte out in many situation, such as informing him about the incoming threats. 

Chuck A.K.A. Bulky Chin

One of the pilot in the U.S.G project. Nobody really understand what he's talking since he always talk in a manly powerful way with only just two words like 'Chuck! Happy!' which might mean 'I'm feeling terrific right now to eventually be in the real mission, Wahaha!!' It seems like Kiki is the only one who understand what's he saying. 

Kiki

Chuck's personal navigator. Although she's small and appear to be a little kid, she's actually as old as the other competitor. Still, her childish personality doesn't help proving that fact. She's really attach to Chuck, and since not so many people understand what Chuck say, it turns out she'll do the translator task more often that the navigator's one.

Lynk A.K.A. Pretty Boy

One of the pilot in the U.S.G project. He's obsessed with beauty. Thinking that he's in higher class and more beautiful than the rest of the competitors, it causes bad impression of his to many people. However, he's actually a nice guy, if you can stand all his self-praising.  Although he looks like he can't beat anyone in arm-wrestling, he's actually a very clever person and love to destroy his enemies with tricky attack.

Gold D Blumen

Lynk's personal navigator. People also call her Ice Queen, due to her cold attitude. Somehow, she has become a friend of Kiki and Len. She doesn't talk much, and it seems like people prefer it that way since everytime she opens her mouth it's either sarcasm or praising Lynk's and her beauty.

Dr. Ashjee

  A mysterious doctor who appear to be the one who's behind everything. But what is her true purpose?

Mrs. M

  A mysterious woman who seems to know about the competition. She's Mr. P's wife.

Mr. P

  A mysterious man who seems to know about the competition. He's Mrs. M's husband.

:: The Monsters ::

These are the five main targets for your five main missions. A.K.A. The bosses
::DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THE BOSSES BEFORE PLAYING THE GAME::
more to come....
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[spoiler=FEATURES]
- Unique "Strength & Weakness" battle system in shmup game.
- Leveling up your character and develop your character to fit your playstyle.
- Not good at shooting game? Don't worry! Set the difficulty to fit your skill anytime during the game!
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[spoiler=SCREENSHOTS]
Exploited the enemy's weakness!


Your good old normal non-elemental machine gun. It's safe to use, but won't give you any elemental advantages.


The attack of the giant triangle!


Flower Shot


Stay Alert!!


Go through 5 missions with uniques settings.


Difficulty Select, ranking is also different for each difficulty


Stage Result screen


Save & Load Screen.


Pilot Status Screen. Here you can set up your ship before entering any mission. You can alter the level of the weapons and status, if you're up for challenges. (However, you can't go further than your actual current status level and you can't go lower than 1)


Some cutscene during each mission.

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[spoiler=System]
Game's Title
*The volume is a little bit loud, so make sure to lower down the volume in youtube player before playing*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnvVfYX4MT0

"Strengths And Weaknesses" System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVAYE-J08I

"Knock Down" System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lnKLsjofs

"DRD" System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neckrwFfjOg

Something to expect in "Hard" difficulty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm4jKgVENM

!!MAY CONTAIN SPOILER - First Boss Test -!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjoHub99jWY

Strengths and Weaknesses
  There are five elements of attack in the game, which are : Non-elemental, Fire, Ice, Electric and Wind.  Each enemy has their strengths and weaknesses that will cause them to react differently to these five elements. For example, enemies who are strong against fire will take less damage from fire attack. But if they are weak against ice, they'll take at least double damage from ice attack.
  However, you can only pick two choices of weapons into the mission. So it's a nice idea to save before you enter any mission.

Knock Down
  The bonus of exploiting an enemy's weakness does not only do more damage, but also there's a chance that the attack will knock them down. When an enemy is down, the enemy will be vulnerable and do nothing for a short period of time, leaving you more time to retaliate, or help decreases number of bullets on the screen.

Rave and D.R.D [Defensive Rave Device]
  Everytime you attack or kill an enemy, you'll recieve some rave point which you can see the progress in the rave guage. Once the guage is full, you'll get one R-stock for spending to use DRD.
DRD is a defensive device that you can select one and only one before entering the mission. This range from a sheild, protecting you from bullets for a short period of time, to a shockwave that will wipe out all bullets in the screen.
  Knock down an enemy will also give you rave point bonus.

High Risk High Gain
  Once you killed an enemy, all the bullets it shoot that are still on the screen will become your bonus exp. Thus, one strategy to level up quickly and go for highscore is to have most bullets possible on the screen before killing off any enemy.
  Also, if your ship overlap with enemies or bullets, but doesn't hit your hitbox, you'll get extra score and exp also. The longer you can stay in that position, the more score and exp.
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DOWNLOAD LINK

U.S.G. ~ A New Beginning ~ Main Download [76.9 MB]
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U.S.G. ~ A New Beginning ~ Original Soundtrack

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Staffs
Scenario & Game Design - Hima
Artworks                     - Piti

Thanks To
- CyberSam for Input Script
- DerVVulfMan for Encrypt/Decrypt Text Script
- Trebor777 for Read TXT file Script
- Mr.Mo for Mouse Script
- Arevulopapo for Particle Engine

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USERBAR

[Falcon]

Looks good, I'd hate to create a space shooter in RMXP

[tSwitch]

that's pretty sweet, I like how you're using the older anime style, it looks great^-^

I'll check out the demo sometime soon

[hima]

@Falcon
It's not that bad actually. The only downside is that RGSS is pretty slow So the number of bullets on the screen is kinda limited

@NAMKCOR
Hey glad to hear that you can tell that it's the older anime style!  It's a full game, by the way

[tSwitch]

ahh cool, I'll check it out later today then

[Karo Rushe]

Kyte Reminds me of the Main Character of Cyborg 009


=> The Game is promising & fun,  thou bad the RPG Engine is bad for Space shutters =3 will look at it later on today.

[Tsunokiette]

Oooh. This looks like fun!

Can't wait to download. (no RMXP on this comp :x )

[hima]

@Tsunokiette
You don't need RTP or RMXP to run this game 

@Caro Ru Lushe
Yeah. That's our intention. The art are pretty much the parody of oldies anime style

[Leventhan]

Downloading this right away.
From your screenshots, the game seems very interesting indeed.

And nice cover page, by the way, nice use of lighting effects.

[Tsunokiette]

<3

You just became one of my best friends

[tSwitch]

WOW

that's all I can really say, this game is awesome :3
it's a classic game with classic art, I really like it, great work

:thumbsup:

[strike]

looks cool i'll probably dl it tomorrow

he really does look like 009

[hima]

@NAMKCOR
Thanks! I really hope you can finish the game. I really want to know what you think about the story.  ^ ^

[Leventhan]

I finished it, finally.
Also the extra mission Boss Rush thing.

The story was pretty well developed, and personally I think the moral was clear and useful.
The twist was pretty awesome too, but I can't say what the twist is here.

[hima]

@Levent
That was pretty fast! I hope you didn't have a lag issue. RGSS is kinda slow so that's the only thing I'm worried about. What level are you at? Many people said the last boss is pretty easy...easier than the third stage haha.

I'm glad to hear that you like the story. It's the first thing that hit me when I thought of the contest theme, "A New Beginning". As for the twist, I agree that it's best to leave it to the player to find out in the game 

[ahref]

i experience lag on the second level when the bubbles were close to the edge of the screen but other than that its great

[modern algebra]

Looks pretty nice. I'll move it to the main Projects board since it's finished, and I am now downloading it.

[hima]

  I have been reported that there's bug when you choose "new game" during title screen. If this problem occur , please tell me what the error message is so I would know where to start the fixing. Thanks!

  Also, I realize that the writing suck. My bad   The new version should be released soon as well as some bugs fixed and original ost. I'm also thinking about adding an extra boss. We'll see what happen

[tSwitch]

it's really a great game, I'm grinding to get the advanced weaponry right now just for kicks :3....that and I haven't been able to best the 5th boss yet

I'm really quite enjoying the game.  Although I'm curious as to why it was made in RPG maker and not in Game Maker

edit: WOW what a twist
Great stuff there Awesome Game
Although the pronunciation of some of the words by the navigator is kinda annoying >.<
No big deal though

[hima]

@NAMKCOR
  Oh, this was made in two months for the competition around December - March at hbgames.org.  The rule said you must use RMXP, but did not restrict you to any game's genre. Just the theme of "A New Beginning"

  I'm glad I did this in RMXP ,though. Taught me a lot of stuffs that otherwise Game Maker would automatically do it for me. I also made a shooting game with Game Maker and posted it here. It's called Hello Panda and if you like bullet hell shmup, make sure you don't miss it

  I would like to ask one more question, do you have any problem with the stages' backgrounds? I have been reported that in some stages, the backgrounds are just black.

  Hehe, you didn't see that twist coming did you? Probably because it's so ridiculous 

[tSwitch]

right as the twist was about to come I saw it, but that was just right as it was starting to be revealed and I was like "oh wait, no way!"

I haven't had an issue with the backgrounds, the music is just really choppy when it loops

[Leventhan]

right as the twist was about to come I saw it, but that was just right as it was starting to be revealed and I was like "oh wait, no way!"

Yeah, I got the same reaction.

[Rune]

Downloading as I type. I'm looking forward to playing this, nice work

[maia]

This is a fantastic game and it will be game of the year!

[hima]

Thank you Maia and Rune I hope you enjoy the game.

Unfortunately for people who haven't tried this game, I'll have to remove the game link for now. The new version that is much better is coming up.