[RMVX Ace] As the Towers fall

Genre:
Science Fantasy


Over 20 years ago in the year 1964, THE MAN took the control of The Tower of Eerth.
With a little help from their friends, Kidd and Popp took back The Tower and drove THE MAN to whence they came... but they did not stayed droven... driven? Yeah, I'll go with that. They did not stay driven out. They returned. They came back a couple times, but they never really did much and just got their butts handed to them.
Now, in the year 1989, a new threat has emerged from the depths of space that not only threatens Eerth, but the entire universe.
THE ORDER.
Even THE MAN seems to fear them, who are they? What do they want? Good thing Eerth has John, a minimum wage paper pusher to save them. Can he save them? Can THE ORDER be stopped?
Find out, in the next exciting episode of AS THE TOWERS FALL Z.

Character Bios: From left to right.
Renoe: Defender of the weak, destroyer of evil. She patrols the mean isles of Good-market picking up any liter that may be unfortunate enough to cross paths with her.
John: Renoe's younger brother. He files papers, sometimes he signs them.
Metil: Some say she's a thief, others say she's a bandit... thought I don't know the difference between the two, if there is one.
Rebecca: A witch in training, born into wealth. She only wishes to bend time and space to her will, nothing big.
Soriyu: A traveler from a far off land, very far off.
Water: Born in the wasteland and hardened in the fires of the post-apocalypse.
Azul: He's not sure where, or when she was born. She thinks she may be a vampire, but that's not even for certain. He goes by Azul, as his original name is lost to time.

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Credits:

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Tiny Character sprite on world map by TDS
Battle Pop-Ups By Jet10985 (Jet)
CSCA Game Over Options! by: Casper Gaming (http://www.caspergaming.com/)
Icon Item List by modern algebra (rmrk.net)
Global Text Codes [VXA] by modern algebra (rmrk.net)
Yami Engine Symphony - Battle Symphony by Yami
Basic Window Resizer v1.1 By V.M of D.T.
Basic Options Menu v1.2.1 by V.M of D.T
Yanfly Engine Ace - Victory Aftermath v1.03 by Yanfly
Map Screenshot by Tsukihime
Victor Engine - Basic Module by Victor Sant
Victor Engine - Fixed Parallax by Victor Sant
Draw Generic Gauge - KMS_GenericGauge by TOMY@Kamesoft (Translated by Mr. Bubble)
DataManager by D&P3
V's Simple Face Replace by V
V's  Reward Pop Up by V
Graphical Object Global Reference by Mithran
Message Window SEs v1.0 by FenixFyreX
Feature Manager by Hime
Battler Hue Change by Hime
Picture Below Characters Ace by Woratana
Menu, random edits and Graphics by Lord_Stark

Hayashibiara is now Renoe.

John is no longer a fish man.

Switching to a new battle system.

This one > www.script.orc

So far I can say the story isn't bad, there is a lot of potancial in it. The character design is very good as I can tell from the posts. A big plus for me are the self made graphiks, I like to see new stuff. All in all it looks good. I'm downloading the demo and test the rest.
So I played for a hour this game and can say, great work. The only two thing I can complain so far, is that Hayashibiara has a to powerfull weapon she can equip from the beginning on 'cause she kill every enemy with a single hit. Second, that there a to less enemytypes I counted 3 or 4. The costum graphiks are pretty cool. The music I really enjoyed to listen. The game is a really big fun, not as unbelievable hard as a MLP RPG I played. The Storyline and whriting is also good. Keep on working on this, this is going to be a really great game.

So far I can say the story isn't bad, there is a lot of potancial in it. The character design is very good as I can tell from the posts. A big plus for me are the self made graphiks, I like to see new stuff. All in all it looks good. I'm downloading the demo and test the rest.

Thank you.

So I played for a hour this game and can say, great work. The only two thing I can complain so far, is that Hayashibiara has a to powerfull weapon she can equip from the beginning on 'cause she kill every enemy with a single hit.

The Gunthar... I really don't know what happened there. I had somebody else play it, and they also had the Gunthar, even though I have 3 different events that should remove it. Every play test I've done has the Gunthar taken away... ~_~
I think I'm just going to remove it from the game completely, as you never get to open the inventory to see it anyway, making it kinda pointless.

Second, that there a to less enemytypes I counted 3 or 4.

Yeah, that's my next goal. I'm planning each world (3 planned) to have at least 7-8 unique enemy types. I have more planned, but the 7-8 will appear only in their world, with other "filler" enemies fighting along side them.

The costum graphiks are pretty cool. The music I really enjoyed to listen. The game is a really big fun, not as unbelievable hard as a MLP RPG I played. The Storyline and whriting is also good. Keep on working on this, this is going to be a really great game.

Thank you for playing, and thank you for the critique.

In English, Graphics overhaul. Latinum Graphics INDIPISCOR. Latinalaiseen, Graphics peruskorjaus. Para América, la revisión Graphics. Pour latine, refonte graphique. Za latinskom, grafika remont. Untuk Latin, baik pulih Grafik. Latin, Grafik revizyon için. A latin, grafika nagyjavítása. Naar Latijns, Graphics verbeterd.

Awww, yay! You used my bios! That makes me feel honored, haha.

UPDATE THING: I'm going to switch over to parallax mapping. I find this will not only allow me more freedom in my map creation, but also help improve the look of the game.

Also.

Spoiler for Possible new title screen.:

Advertisement poster things.

Wow, there are some pretty cool screen shots, I really want to play the full version. (\s/)

Spoiler for Possible new title screen.:

LMAO did not see that one coming :p

New screen. I haven't done the NPCs so they're still the old black outline ones.

Looks really great, the graphiks are really worked over, I know the original one.
This game was really great so far I could play it. (\s/)

New demo coming sometime after BrBa returns.

The graphics remind me of stick RPG lol

Introducing, the sisters.

wat think

What do I think? I think it's awesome, and wish I was that good.

The hair isn't quite right, but eh. Practice makes perfect I guess.
I took some liberties with the details, mainly the pleats in the skirt. I can remove them if you want.

Edit: improved Renoe.

It's cool (and a little weird) seeing my character re-drawn by somebody who knows what they're doing. XD

<3 the Renoe is my favorite ;_;


Also, is Aco now on the team, too?! =o

I cool (and a little weird) seeing my character re-drawn by somebody who knows what they're doing. XD

It's funny because I'm terrible at scratch sprites. I can only make decent looking ones when I have something to go off of, even if I end up changing it quite a bit.

Also, first attempt at a walk animation. Be prepared for badness.

I realized that I haven't added Rebecca or Water's bios. ._.

I'm really happy with how much this is improving my spriting abilities.

Edit: Just messing around because boredom.


Face is a frankensprite of a frankensprite done by IAMFORTE.

Fire Emblem! B)

Also, gonna work on those bios now, Captain Stark! ;o I'll PM them to you. I hope I still remember our discussions about Rebecca and Waters. D:

Rebecca and Water now have proper bios thanks to Yuyubabe.

 

Newest addition to the team, Azul.

I D K which one. I have three slightly different designs here...

I like B, not too flashy, not too plain, just right.

... now her glasses are bugging me.    ._.



Honestly, not crazy about any of these, but I like the last one most. Maybe if I... something. hmmmm

I gotta say, just thinking about the amount of conditioner these girls must go through makes me cringe a little bit.

When ever you show any of your stuff, it makes me want to be good at pixel art too. ;_;

I'm trying out the tut you linked me. (I'm pretty sure it was you... >_> )



Ha ha, it turned out technicolor vomit, so I toned down the colors a lot.

Hi, I mean; Edit:

Moar tweeking.



Edit.2:
I really need to stop messing with my sprites and make the game. >_>
I can worry about polish when it's complete.

I think the graphics are a really important thing and your chars look really great. :3
But till you are not 100% satisfied, you should work on them, I am doing the same on my "Snowdrop's Journey" RPG at the moment.
But after all I hope to release the second demo before christmas.
I wish you best luck on your RPG and hold on your personal style of graphics, because this will make your characters special. <3 (\s/)

When ever you show any of your stuff, it makes me want to be good at pixel art too. ;_;

Aw, I don't want to make you feel bad or anything. 
I just want to help out and get some more spriting experience.

I really need to stop messing with my sprites and make the game. >_>
I can worry about polish when it's complete.

That's true, though I find it helps to practice a little bit every day. If you really want to improve your spriting abilities, try out some different practice sprites or textures. Even if they're not game related, they'll help you improve your abilities.

[nobbc]

When ever you show any of your stuff, it makes me want to be good at pixel art too. ;_;

Aw, I don't want to make you feel bad or anything. 
I just want to help out and get some more spriting experience.

What, no. :0
I don't feel bad, I feel inspired.

I really need to stop messing with my sprites and make the game. >_>
I can worry about polish when it's complete.

That's true, though I find it helps to practice a little bit every day. If you really want to improve your spriting abilities, try out some different practice sprites or textures. Even if they're not game related, they'll help you improve your abilities.

Sounds good. :3
Though I'm not good at this, I still get sucked into messing with my sprites. I'll go to make a small edit that popped into my head, get side tracked, and be done 2 hours later.

Hello.
Just posting to say that this isn't dead, and that I'm still looking for help on this.

I guess that's all for now. I'll be posting some real updates in a bit.

I'll be posting some real updates in a bit.

YES!!

Hello RMRK. I'm wondering if any of you know the simplest way to add animated cut-scenes into an RPG maker game.

Also, this I guess. Trying out some different planet drawing techniques.


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Also, Acolyte. I did what you said and drew something that isn't related to my game (I drew this like a month ago and just remembered it.)

Spoiler for Robot:

Double post, because.


This sure is... an art style I go going there.

What sort of art style are you actually wanting to go for?

I'm actually happy with out the females turned out... but the dudes... '>_>

What sort of art style are you actually wanting to go for?

I like where this one is going, it's still in development obviously. Kinda, um... I like the over sized head thing, but I don't know how to draw anything necks. It makes it look like they don't have necks, which I don't like.

(Side note, Rebecca's head looks smaller because of all her hair. SO MUCH HAIR.)

If you ever feel like playing around with my sprites again. I'd really love to see what you could do with Rebecca.

http://imgur.com/zzerhSc


Also, bit update! These are now the only characters in the game. All other characters will now be forgotten about.

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Suddenly.

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If you ever feel like playing around with my sprites again. I'd really love to see what you could do with Rebecca.

http://imgur.com/zzerhSc

Also, y u no like male characters.

They have the short hair. I haven't figured out how to draw chins or cheeks. The females all have their cheeks mostly covered, and a lot of their necks too.

Also, trying glasses on John, and tried giving him a chin:





Edit 2: First time I've had a minor complaint about one of your sprites;

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Rebecca isn't white. She's Latina.

That's so gorgeous, Aco!!

Posting so I can follow...

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Crap...

I realized I hadn't updated this in forever (apparently at least 60 days).

I restarted the project because I wasn't at all happy with where it was going. I kept all the graphics and stuff (And the dash city map), but started a new project. New world map, new cities and what not.

Part of the world map (The image is large (The full world map is 3169x3168))

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Space Capital City (Also a Large image)

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"Drunk Cat" o.o

first name that popped into my head for some reason while trying to think of a name for a bay

:love:

I share said :love:. I love your art style so much, man.

Oh man, I looked at my original post and realized that all of my screen shots are super outdated. The bios for some of the characters is wrong, and the plot summary is incorrect. I really need to update. ;-;

I share said :love:. I love your art style so much, man.

Thank you. :D

At first Scooby Doo came to mind when you mentioned meddling kids. Then there was a demon. So much for Scoobs...

The premise is very interesting. I will wait for a demo. Or is there one? I may have missed that browsing through the topic.

There is a demo, but it's horribly out of date.

hello

Still there... just busy. Sorry, I suppose this isn't the fastest going rpg site. Been ages for a response in my thread too... Enfin, c'est la vie, isn't it.

I really need to update. ;-;

If you had just done it, past me, I wouldn't have to.
also first post updated

10/10 would buy if commercial B)

actually, I did test play it and it had a lot more character and creativity than most games I've played. I mean it ;]

teh projict isnt dead

I'm going to upload a new demo soon.
Even if just 2 peoples tried it out that would help a lot. I've always had trouble with enemy difficulty balancing so testers would be much very appreciated.

Even if just 2 peoples tried it out that would help a lot. I've always had trouble with enemy difficulty balancing so testers would be much very appreciated.

Well, then you need to update the Dropbox link, because the old one is dead.
I would love to play test it again. (\s/)

Put the new demo up.
After the fight with the tarbeast (the snake monster) the game will freeze on a black screen... didn't mean for that to happen but there's nothing past that so, um... that's the end of the demo.

Characters have had their designs changed.
From left to right
Rebecca, Renoe, John, Soriyu, Azul, Metil, Water, Luril, Prin, Calsyn and Jentol.

I wish I had seen this sooner, instead of bugging you about who's who with all the new changes ;~;

Boe, you asked about putting in an animated scene: do you have a recording you want to play or do you want like an in game cutscene made from automated gameplay? I've done the latter with a music video I once started to make, and the other can be done through events.

Animated cutscenes.

I would love to help create music for this project boe.
I have the full version of FL Studio and have been making music for almost 6 years.
When I have more time, I will download the game and play it to get a feel for the atmosphere.
Unless you can describe the type of music you're looking for in words, which you are a master of... :p
Or maybe a video showing the style you're looking for?
Please respond, I'd love to help.

homestuck
(Chiptune. Light and quick. Some slow songs.)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7y7ZkkOJs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7y7ZkkOJs</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOSnen64a7M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOSnen64a7M</a>

big dum playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQyRS_czmgc&list=RDWQyRS_czmgc#t=9

Sent you a friend request via steam. If I'm online on steam, I'm available to work on this. Otherwise I'm at work/sleeping/stuffing my face/watching anime/etc.

Boe, you asked about putting in an animated scene: do you have a recording you want to play or do you want like an in game cutscene made from automated gameplay? I've done the latter with a music video I once started to make, and the other can be done through events.

I was thinking about it a little. I guess like the second but not characters.
The introduction is a meteor hitting the Eerth. I was planning a few more little scenes like this, but wasn't sure the best way to animate these. I went with pictures, a lot of pictures.
It would be nice to find some kind of free animation software but I'm sure you either get free or good. You ain't getting both.

Well I'm off for tonight. I'll answer any questions you may have tomorrow.

As far as animation software, this may be what you're looking for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuW7vWianJM

Oh wow, this program looks cool.

Using that and a play video autorun event should do what you need.

(Mapping)
I'll post updates here once in a while so you know what's up.
I was doing parallax mapping. I came to realize that making a proper tileset would be far easier and allow for faster map creation in the future. It would also allow others to help with mapping. :X
I'm about 30% done with the city tileset. When I am finished I'll hand them over to you so you can do some mapping.
Right now I'm converting my parallax mapped maps over to tileset maps as well. As I do this I'm seeing what things from the old maps I should port over to the tileset.

(Events)
I'm been thinking of a taxi service event. Because of this game taking place in a mostly modern setting, it would make sense for the fast travel to be something like a taxi.
I was thinking of a common event that can be called from certain locations, and maybe even anywhere with the use of a cell phone.
It would only allow you to travel to places you've been, and that's the annoying part really. ;-;
I was wondering if you knew of a way to do it without a conditional branch charlie foxtrot.

I think tilesets definitely speed up the process. ;__; Even if you have to custom make them, it's so much easier to re-use everything.

For the taxi event, there may be a "fast travel" script you can use. ;o I know I've seen something like that before. :-)

you know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words
so here's 30,000 words per second

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lARWqA2iHM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lARWqA2iHM</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leM8Bje0yT8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leM8Bje0yT8</a>

second vid is private

It's dum and only 10 seconds long anyway. :x
srry
Should be fixed now though.

master chaaaaaaaambers?? o___o

I'm about 30% done with the city tileset. When I am finished I'll hand them over to you so you can do some mapping.

Okay!

(Events)
I'm been thinking of a taxi service event. Because of this game taking place in a mostly modern setting, it would make sense for the fast travel to be something like a taxi.
I was thinking of a common event that can be called from certain locations, and maybe even anywhere with the use of a cell phone.
It would only allow you to travel to places you've been, and that's the annoying part really. ;-;
I was wondering if you knew of a way to do it without a conditional branch charlie foxtrot.

Let me play around with the idea for a bit in VXA and I'll get back to you on this. I'm thinking it's probably going to need switches for each city...

Edit: Played around a bit, and came to the conclusion that the conditional branch might be the most simple, however it can be done with an event page to coincide with which areas you have unlocked using switches to activate those specific pages within the taxi event. If the game is on rails so-to-speak and you unlock each city in a predetermined way then there's fewer pages, otherwise you'll need switches and pages for every combination of unlocked city. That's a lot to cram in one event, but still possible.
With a conditional branch you can probably just do switch checks through a script to return whether or not a switch is on or off. Then it'd be one page, no hassle.

yeah, I'll see what I can come up with in a bit.
I was hoping to stay away from using any more scripts, but it may be the better choice.

Should just be a simple call to return a 1 or a 0 from each towns designated switch.

Edit: I made a simple event to call a taxi, which promptly drives up, and upon given a choice drives away, with or without you.

I realized I was pushing you less in a cave story direction, and more of in a general sprite art direction. That's really more my inexperience than anything.



After a lot of tweaking, I came up with this. Thoughts?

I like it.

That's a lot of progress for 3 days. 

heh
I guess i am going somewhere
this is where i started a year ago





EDIT:
I think john has gone through the most changes.
Started out with the white shirt with the design on it.
I changed the design like 4 times.
Design got dropped and he just had a white shirt.
He got a red overshirt.
Overshirt changed into loose red hoodie. (Current)

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OTP
^///^ xD xO x3 ^_____^

Messed around with it a bit more.





EDITLYou should darw rebecca

Doppel-Post! I tried doing a thing with stuff. Here are the results.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nivfzHc4nj8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nivfzHc4nj8</a>

With Quick-Reply you can write a post when viewing a topic without loading a new page. You can still use bulletin board code and smileys as you would in a normal post.

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQA325ollo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQA325ollo</a>

this is a ghost

this is a ghost

I actually like where this is going. Ghosts ftw

The game looks pretty fun, played the demo and it's fun so far.
Seeing all these posts of progress makes me want to play more. >u<

Keep it up. c':

thank you.

pink ghostaru?! so kawaii desu ne !!!

sorry mam i dont know what your saying i don't speak korean

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:kawaii:

For you, boe ;o

skooks :::::DDDD

only 90s kids will get this

Boe, how like map? Its good, yeah? If not I could take care of it for you. The russian way, yeah?

It's great.
I have to fix it up real quick. (It's been a few days since I worked on it.  .-. )

Fix it up? Yeah... not sure what happened when I imported it. ;-;

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did you use the modified tilesets you gave me?

ooooooh
wel
im
dum
sorry

edit: to clarify it wasn't the tileset it was the paralx. i didn't copy that over with the map

edit2: the city is Slash City

Am proud

cool mool cane mane

Those are kewl *___*

Game started in 2011.
Topic made in 2013.
Game finished in never because I am garbage why do I suck so much holy shit.

Hey man touhou fantasy thread started in like 2008 and he's still not done.
If you want to finish it, then finish it.

No shame in taking yo time - gives you more time to learn and grow mang B)

I love this so far! I like the jazzy background music. The battles are interesting. I'm dying to know what Battle Script you are using.
I'm having a problem. Ifound Lady Rebecca, but John KO'd. I went to the makeshift hospital to see if I can revive him...
but havent's figured out how to do that yet. To be continued playing when I have another chance.

I'm using this.
I really need to get down and get this done.

The one that I uploaded is an older build, but what I've done on the game since then isn't much.
I'm sure I've added a few new bugs and errors to the newest build.

Battle Engine Symphony is an interesting system I'd like to use in future projects.
Thanks, boe. Looking forward to your future updates.