Chaos Project - Final Demo Version: 1.2.0.0

First of all: Blizzard is my alias, not my company name! The "company" name, if you will, is StormTronics.

Little comment to the Enhanced Demo of this game: You think that was awesome?! Try this one!

Intro

"Once long time ago, everything was Chaos
Then Chaos became order
And Chaos became life
After life is gone and order is destroyed
Chaos shall reign again and forever..."

This is how everything starts.

Background story

Inside the legendary Tower of Memories, lies the Fire of Life....The eternal force that holds every single parallel universe together...
An old legend states that if the flame, the Fire of Life burns is to change into a color other than blue (Solar Cry) a horrible fate lies in store for the galaxy.
Two million years ago, the fire turned red... Nobody knew of this till it was almost too late. The flame changing color would have caused the destruction of all existence, had there not been two mysterious and powerful warriors. Nobody knew where they originated, nor where they were going.
But this was long ago... These two brave warriors, returned the flame to its original color. It is even said, that they were the reason for the Solar Cry... Thus all memories and records of this event were entirely wiped from existence... This is the reason, why the tower is called Tower of Memories...

Once again in the present the Solar Cry is about to occur. The consequences are sure to be fatal. However, this Solar Cry is different... The flame became green...
But because the Solar Cry is so powerful, what could surpass it's power, enough to make it happen? And more importantly...What is yet to happen, now the fire burns green? And so we go to the little planet Terra, where peace reigns... still...

This is a snipplet from the intro. Of course it is not possible to destroy every existance just by causing a SOlar Cry. There is much more behind this. But the rest of the background story will be revealed during the gameplay.

The adventure begins

Jason is 21 years old and a normal young man, who just lives his life. He's going to college and bored, because it seems too easy to him.
After a little nap and a strange dream he decides to leave the library of his college and go home. He has no idea what is going to happen to him... Suddenly he finds himself in a room, that actually looks like a part of the college, but it is none! Confused about all of this he continues his way through a dark passage. Suddenly he enters a strange hi-tech laboratory. He turns around and can't find the exit anymore.
Exploring the strange laboratory he gets attacked by machines a few times until he hears a voice shouting for help. Fast he can find a person who is fighting against a strange monster. After a victorious fight he learns the name of the stranger: Endout. But the monster doesn't seem to be beaten! And so they start running for their lives. They run back into the room where Jason entered the old laboratory. Endout activates a machine and both of them jump into it. In the next moment they find themselves in on a little field surrounded with trees in the middle of the night.
They arrived near the peaceful village Reeva. After finding out about the problems in the village and finding the key to the door that leads them further to the west to another village called Lisk they encounter a man who tells them about his youth. He tells them that they should seek out the spiritual being in the forest further to the west. After finding this spirit and defeating him in a fight he asks them: "Are you ready to follow your fate and fulfill your destiny? If so, go first north, then west. Find Giada castle and find your destiny..."

Will Jason and Endout continue their journey...? Yes, they will. But... They have no idea what fate has in store for them. They have no idea that they are about to experience the adventure of their lives and find out more about themselves than they ever imagined to. They have no idea what threat lurks in the deep darkness...

The characters

You will get the characters to know during gameplay, too, but I will introduce 3 of them to you who are playable in this demo, so you know what awaits you.

Jason

Race: Human
Class: Sword Specialist
Age: 21
Gender: male
Speciality: sarcasm
Background: One afternoon, as he wants to go home from college, he finds himself in room never seen before... Shortly after that he enters a strange laboratory...
More background will be revealed later during gameplay.

Endout

Race: Human
Class: Grappler
Age: looks like 20~23 (his exact age will be revealed later.)
Gender: male
Speciality: martial arts
Background: Will be found by Jason while fighting against a monster. Together they beat that monster and then...
More background will be revealed later during gameplay.

Lilith

Race: Devil human
Class: Devil Girl (when you see her, you will know why...)
Age: looks like 20 (her exact age will be revealed later.)
Gender: female
Speciality: dark magic
Background: As she went out to find some food she will come across some strange ruins she's had never seen before around this area... Suddenly she gets attacked by a furious monster and shortly after that chased by two strangers: Jason and Endout.
More background will be revealed later during gameplay.


All the characters will change during gameplay. They won't see things as they did before beginning their adventure. They will become more experiences, they will find their true selves...

Features

Experience the story of the 4th part of the The Legend of Lexima series made with RPG Maker XP!

• automatic installation of required fonts (now glitchfree!)
• multiple Game Over screens
• multiple battle transition animations
• a lot of background story connecting this part of the "The Legend of Lexima" series with the others
• Advanced BPS v2.0 (Bribing People System) -> you can bribe specific people for valueable information, items, skills, and, and, and...
• Dynamic (!) Day and Night System (DDNS)
• encounter different NPCs during night and different ones during day
• monster behaviour variation during night and day (you will even encounter sleeping enemies!)
• NPC personality - NPCs won't say exact the same stuff all the time
• interactivity with the enviroment (play piano, put fireplaces off, look at pictures etc.)
• easy understandable turn-based fighting system
• Soul Rage and Meta Limit System
• get EXP for every killed enemy; that means you get EXP even if you escape and killed an enemy before
• dynamic EXP distribution; more active actors will get more EXP
• new menu: StormTronics CMS v4.2b - Nemesis Edition DX (with many extras such as window-skin change, font change and battle music change)
• 3D Pseudo Battle Camera
• many custom scripted additions to the battle system and the common system of the game
• many original and already well known skills like Death-Roulette, Absorb HP/MP, etc. (many are not available in Final Demo)
• nearly all special custom systems realized with highly optimized scripting instead of laggy Interpreter-in-Interpreter eventing
• 100% non-RTP monsters or heavily edited RTP monsters
• the only RTP used: tilesets, animations, sounds, some music, a few battle backgrounds and several NPCs
• over 20 hours of gameplay (over 5 hours in the Final Demo)
• fully in English and fully in German (later versions might come in Spanish etc.) (not available in Final Demo)
• Cross language support - You can load savegames with the other language setting(s) without problems as the language does not depend on the savegame, but on the game itself (already known from many commercial games like Zelda etc.) (not available in Final Demo)
• many new things, add-ons and partially overworked and changed systems since the Enhanced Demo for even more playfun!
• new puzzles, side quests and minigames
• new Experience Distributor NPC (only in Vendetta in the Final Demo)
• And again!, Warrior and Exerion modes can be unlocked by beating the game and the modes themselves (not available in Final Demo)
• completely new intro scene
• completely new game main theme
• completely new shop layout
• completely new save/load screen layout
• completely new Advanced Analyze System
• uses DREAM for Save Files!
• uses scripted savegame update
• optimized basic script-code for less lag
• the RM game with the most custom scripted additions EVER! (and believe me it will stay this way for a long time, maybe forever)
• alpha tested
• beta tested!

Everything else

The Final Demo does NOT support savegame update from the Enhanced Demo. Too many changings in the very system of the game made it nearly impossible to perform a bug and glitch free update so this feature has been left out in the Final Demo. Also DREAM makes savegame updates from versions without DREAM impossible. Therefore Final Demo and newer versions do not and will not support savegame updates from Enhanced Demo v1.4b or older, but savegame update from Final Demo will be available.

That's all. N-Joy! =D

Download

HIGHSPEED INTERNET:

(about 55MB)
Chaos Project - Final Demo 1.2.0.0
(about 52MB)
Chaos Project - Final Demo v1.0c
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(every part is about 4,8MB)
(NOTE THAT THIS IS VERSION 1.0c!)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11

Screenshots

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Additional info

If you have any problems with puzzles or the game itself, post it here. This game is already known around and has been played by various people, so somebody should be able to help you if not me.
If you have problems with the font installer, extract the "Backups" file from the fonts folder and manually install the fonts into your %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts folder. %SYSTEMROOT% is usually C:\WINNT or C:\WINDOWS.

EDIT: There occured a slight problem. A file is missing. Just download the file from the attachment, extract it and put it into the game's folder. Create a new folder "Graphics" and go inside, create another and name it "Characters". Put the file into "Characters". Done.
(You are free to use this file in your own game. If you do so, give me credit.)

Thanks for hosting, Leviyah! =D

EDIT:

Download the second attachment and extract it into the folder where the game itself is. The update 1.0.4.2 includes:

- 20% higher ability damage
- new Unity Force System (Party Attack); an NPC in Reeva can tell you more
- changed a few maps (Unknown Laboratory and Reeva caves) and updated a few others
- slight updates everywhere in the scripts
- potential glitches fixed
- Analyze ability removed from Jason's skills, talk to the rabbit in Reeva (this is the ACTUAL way how to get this ability)

EDIT:

Download the third attachment and extract it into the folder where the game itself is. Be sure to first extract 1.0.4.2 before updating to 1.0.5.0. The update 1.0.5.0 includes:

- removed all comments from the RTP scripts and decreased file size by 40kB (OMG 40kB!)
- enabled the version display again when loading a save game
- improved the intro scene
- changed the way target arrows are displayed during the fight when choosing enemies/heroes
- fixed the camera (works now again when enemies are being selected)
- fixed a possible glitch with the UF where UFs could appear mulitple times in the menu
- the merchant in Lisk was fixed (there was a problem with bribing him)
- updated a few maps
- changed battle transition processing

EDIT:

Download the third attachment and extract it into the folder where the game itself is. Be sure to first extract 1.0.5.0 before updating to 1.0.5.1. The update 1.0.5.1 includes:

- improved title screen appearance and added a horizontal scrolling menu
- fixed a bug in the update of 1.0.3.0
- fixed a bug in the update of 1.0.5.0

EDIT:

This update (1.2.0.0) will the last one for the Final Demo for now (except for maybe a bug/glitch fix). Download the new Chaos.rgssad and delete the Data and Graphics folders from the older updates.

Chaos.rgssad 1.2.0.0

- changed the way text is faded in/out in an invisible message box
- changed the way "thoughts" are displayed in the message window (updated 170 maps for that)
- improved many maps
- added special "breaking map" transition when engaging into combat against bosses
- added status effect animation stack
- added a 4th Game Over Screen
- changed battle layout and menus
- changed "Defend" to "Defend/Cover" (you can defend yourself or cover an ally)
- added "Despair" as additional basic SR ability (doesn't consume SR)
- changed the way Meta is displayed
- added "Unity Force Overload" - use UFs at variating SR cost (ask the NPC in Reeva for more info, you can set it up in the Options Menu)
- CMS improved to StormTronics CMS 5.0c Hybrid Edition DX (this is a hybrid of Nemesis, Metal-Plate, etc., with an additional bar style and with an even more delagged Options Menu)
- the new CMS supports various display modes and now you can even use YOUR OWN wallpaper for the menu background (further below is written how)
- completely changed the way targeting arrows are displayed during the fight when choosing enemies/heroes
- fixed several glitches in eventing
- last, but not least: finally fixed Rivy's sprite and battler in the intro scene (Jason's dream at the beginning of the game) (~_~) (and also the trailer battle scene...)

How to put your own picture in the menu's background

Resize your picture to 640x480 and save it as .jpg or .png. Name it Custom_back1 and put it into the folder where the game is installed. From now on you can choose "Custom 1" in the "Menu Mode" Option within the Options Menu. For another background just do the same, but name it Custom_back2. Now you will have another option called "Custom 2" in the Options menu. There is no limit for custom backgrounds, you only have to make sure the numbers are going in order. i.e. The game won't recognize a Custom_back7 if there is no Custom_back6.
Also if you have a very bright background, the font will not be very readable, so if you have such a background, don't name it i.e. Custom_back3, but Custom_black3 and the game will use a black font.
For your own sake, don't use backgrounds with very high contrasted colors. Neither black nor white font will improve readablity of the menu in this case.
Example on correct named files:

Custom_back1.png   Custom_black2.jpg   Custom_back3.jpg

Only .pngs and .jpgs are supported, don't ask if other formats are supported.
This system has even a self protection against file deletion and supports new files automatically. i.e. You are in the Options Menu and add a file, it will be recognized as soon as you try to change the menu mode or re-enter the menu. If you delete a file, it will automatically reset to "Classic" to prevent a glitch or even crash.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ANYBODY WHO ALREADY PLAYED THROUGH THE DEMO

When you finish off the demo you get an extra option for a trailer fight. You can play it without fearing it will affect your normal gameplay. In other words, it won't be saved, so don't be afraid to use up your items. Here is a screenshot of the battle and it also shows the new battle layout a little bit...

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3879/cpxtremessnb0.png

Credits

The credits are at the end of the demo and only pre-final.


MISSING FILE



Put it into a the folder Graphics/Characters (if there is none, make it) and name it lorence_knight.

this looks...GREAT! will download as soon as I finish a mapping tut for BOE

Its busy now, ill dl this tommorrow, but this looks great.

WHO AM I KIDDING THIS WILL BE GREAT!

Lol, thanks, guys! =D Don't forget that extra file from the attachment.

Woot! I'm definitly giving this thing a download! I'll give my feedback once I've played some =D

How do I run the .rar files

You need to download Winrar.
www.winrar.de

Wow. This has to be one of, if not the best RMXP game I've played. it's so addicting and fun. I love the use of the battle cameras and all of that.

Amazing. By far the best presented RMXP game I've ever seen. Only thing I saw improvement for was the mapping.

Damn. It stopped. It said something about it missing a portal thingy...I can't remember now. It was when I activated the computer and was going to go back into the other room.

I'm guessing I should download those extra files.


EDIT: Yup. i was dumb enough not to read the bottom of Blizzards first post -.-'

I was just playing it and it said the same thing.

EDIT: There occured a slight problem. A file is missing. Just download the file from the attachment, extract it and put it into the game's folder. Create a new folder "Graphics" and go inside, create another and name it "Characters". Put the file into "Characters". Done.
(You are free to use this file in your own game. If you do so, give me credit.)

Alright thanks. I like it so far good job music is awsome!

I am dl'ing.
Ill comment later lol

Beaten it. it was too easy cause i trained much. Anyways good job on the credits.

wait....you beat it? whats the play time?

3 hours, 45 minutes, and 26 seconds.

Thanks, guys! I'm doing my best, lol!

Beaten it. it was too easy

Lol, you're one of the rare people who said it's too easy.

3 hours, 45 minutes, and 26 seconds.

O_o I need at least 5 hours if I do all the side-quests and minigames. O_o

Well I played it (for as far as I could) and I did enjoy it.

I'd like to point some things out though:

I think the hero moves too fast. Whenever I move it just feels kinda unnatural, maybe you should decrease movement speed one time and maybe make a sprint option if you really want him to go faster.
Secondly, the hero is well aware he's in a video game, and I never like that. It's more a personal taste though.
And third, the hero could just walk on the plants in the room south of the classroom...

Finally, the sprites don't entirely go along with the enemies. The green thing boss had a fatass sprite but in combat it was more of a thin creature.

Anyway, Jason and Endout ran away from him, I accessed the computer, but when I tried to go to the next screen I got a missing file error... Clicked it away too fast to see what it was, though.

I think the hero moves too fast. Whenever I move it just feels kinda unnatural, maybe you should decrease movement speed one time and maybe make a sprint option if you really want him to go faster.

That was the thing that was annoying me insanely in Dark Eternal. Adding a sprint option will mess up all of my cut scene that have movement involved.

Secondly, the hero is well aware he's in a video game, and I never like that. It's more a personal taste though.

Yes, it's more of a personal taste. They are NOT REALLY aware of the fact they are in a video game, it's just a joke along the way. There will be a few others, but not many.

And third, the hero could just walk on the plants in the room south of the classroom...

I can't believe I didn't fix that for the 371552723rd time. >.<

Finally, the sprites don't entirely go along with the enemies. The green thing boss had a fatass sprite but in combat it was more of a thin creature.

"Toon-sprites"; Jason and Endout have huge heads on the map, yet they don't in battle. Maybe I can find a more fitting sprite later. It's a demo after all.

Anyway, Jason and Endout ran away from him, I accessed the computer, but when I tried to go to the next screen I got a missing file error... Clicked it away too fast to see what it was, though.

*points to the end of the first post, quoted once and to the two posts of the people who already got the same error*

Well, I played some more, so I got some new comments for ya :-P

- The floating lights in the interiors look pretty weird
- When you go to a side room in the same map, the wall next to the passage is passable (you can walk below it)
- Maybe you wanna make some smaller sprites for the world map, it looks pretty weird with such big characters and such small icons
- The west cave is unnatural... The inside looks just like a straight passage, but the outside looks like the cave makes a bend...
- Try to find a way to make the battles intenser. At first, when you don't have any skills yet, it's just button bashing until the enemy dies, and when you do get some skills it takes a little longer to select a skill to finish the enemy off faster.
Give bosses some better skills too, and give them strengths and weaknesses. In addition, skills and SR skills seem to do only slightly more damage then normal attacks. For all bosses I used the same pattern: Uppercut, Kick, Uppercut, Kick, heal, heal, and over again till the boss died.

Well that's pretty much it, try to refrain from using RTP, and give away some more plot info... It's not always fun to hear "go there for answers", then when you finally get there you are sent to another place.

Positive things: Awesome graphics, nice job on those really. Especially the title screen, I enjoyed seeing it. Also nice dungeons. Although the graphics are RTP, the puzzles are funny to do. Also loved the music.

Well that's that, I didn't play everything since I couldn't solve the puzzle with "You'll find your answer between the L and the S" or something...

Anyway, good luck, keep it up, I'd like to see more of this.

Look up the book shelves. They are indexed by letters. You need to find the shelves with the letters L and S. At one there is a switch, at the other, there is a Phoenix Feather.

Floating lights? ?_? You mean inside the houses?

Walls: Yes, you are supposed to be able to walk "behind" a wall. If you're walking against a wall on the lower side, you should be able to go on tile behind it. That's usual for semi-bird-perpective.

World map: Usual in RPGs, play FF9 (Zidane is much bigger than he should be) or any other RPG with a world map. It's a style.

West cave: I might change it just for the same reason.

As for the variation in battles: I know, they are quite monotune so far, but it's just the beginning of an 20 hours long game. I don't want to scare off player who just started. Getting different SR and skills will be later even more important.
You should get Rageful Blow for Endout soon. Also you haven't found out about Meta-Limit yet... Actually you should have, because there is a boy in Lisk who tells you about it. ?_?

It's just like just: The main characters have no idea where to go or what to do. They actually would just roam around, so I had t make a few "directions" for the start of the game. Believe me, this will stop after Giada Castle. They will start to make their own decisions.

BTW, I didn't make the graphics, I got most of them from a site. I only made/edited a few. The second half of the game will have less RTP as it will be another planet. In comparison the Final Demo is only about 25% of the full game, lol!

seriously that is only 25% of the game...wow..Im scared to see how great this turns out 

Beaten it. it was too easy

Lol, you're one of the rare people who said it's too easy.

I've played RPG games for awhile and can beat them easily.

3 hours, 45 minutes, and 26 seconds.

O_o I need at least 5 hours if I do all the side-quests and minigames. O_o

it takes me that long to beat 25% of the game.

Oh lol.

This is awsome..
I play fast, took not 3 hours 45 mins, but 4 lol.

After saving and all, i dont play continously.
MIND STRESS LOL!!!!!!
OMG LOL!!


Anyawys, good job on the game Blizzard, i liked it pretty much.
Keep making games like this, and you'll make ppl gay , if you get what i mean @_@

Lol, yes, I know what you mean. @_@

I never finished it yet....
Still, it's a great game. I love the use of scripts and everything. I also like the menu.

BUT...the maps could use some work. I know that I'm not the best map maker either...but still. Everything else is working out good, though =D.

I'm going to overdo many maps for the finished game. First I will finish it, let it get beta-tested, then fix the maps, probably another testing and then comes the release. But first I need to finish it... That might take some time as I never find the time to work on it... -_-

Lol, yes, I know what you mean. @_@

GOOD SOMEONE GETS THE MEANING := := *..* ;= ;= ;=

argh, bloody hell! My laptop's battery is out and my stupid charger won't charge, in short I can't play... all well... theres always a chance for me to catch up

~Winged

!_!

Blizard, you already know that if I were gay I would be confessing my love for you.

But I'm not. Though that topic was funny when everyone thought I was a girl... lolz. That was great teamwork.

However!

I must inquire, where may I find The legend of Lexima 1,2, & 3?

So far there is only one place where you can get the fourth part:
Go to the first post and download the demo.

Part 1, 2 and 3 can be found here:

LINK

So far there is only one place where you can get the fourth part:
Go to the first post and download the demo.

Part 1, 2 and 3 can be found here:

LINK

Nice. I'll wait as long as needed.
BTW: I recognize where the "dot" graphics are from. *cough*Chrono Trigger*cough*.

Yeah, lol, I know. Originally "Bit", wasn't it?

Yeah, they were in the boss fights with Lavos.

And this thread needs to be *BUMP*'ed!

Maybe I should abuse my mod powers and sticky it. ;~

Oops, I stickied it. 

OH NOEZ!

I can't beat that boss with 15k HP >.<

Lilith's spells have no effect.

The other 2 are very weak.

Maybe you should train the characters. The first boss with over 15k HP should be actually the marsh monster. I can't remember exactly, but I think Rayah has less than 15k. If you have level 13 you should have no problems with Rayah.

When is the full game going to be out fo Chaos Project

Till autumn for sure. I will work a lot during sumer. If I'm lucky I can finish it till the start of summer as 50% of the game is actually already done.

You can do it Blizzard. You have the power to make it.

yes yes yes... awesome... *yawns* But I am tired and can't continue playing till tomorrow moornin! aww.. -_-

When I try and run it with RPG Maker XP it says "unexpected file format". Any help? If so please PM me. Thanks.

It says in the notepad file that comes with it how to sort that out. I have a problem:

When Jason and Endout use the computer and run from the monster, it says:

"Cannot find warppoint"

or something like that.

EDIT: There occured a slight problem. A file is missing. Just download the file from the attachment, extract it and put it into the game's folder. Create a new folder "Graphics" and go inside, create another and name it "Characters". Put the file into "Characters". Done.
(You are free to use this file in your own game. If you do so, give me credit.)

Thanks for hosting, Leviyah! =D

Download

Updated to version 1.0.4.2. You can see what's new and download the additional files from the first post.

Estimated time left (om high speed internet) 3 hours.

Just out of interest, how much further does this go compared to the beta? (No spoilers thanks  )

~Winged

Uhm can you reupload it ??
It goes at less than 3 kb/s :S

Have you tried the alternative link? I'll try it later.

@winged: It doesn't go over the beta. You play until the end of Vendetta. In 1.0.4.2 there is a new "party attack" system called Unity Force and the map in the Unknown Laboratory and the Reeva caves were changed. (The lab was changes quite a good part and the entire lab starts shaking before you run away from the monster.)

And the file missing in 1.0 is also included.

EDIT:

The speed problem was fixed (kinda). It should go smoothly again from tomorrow.

I'm just playing it for the first time. I haven't had time. It's a great game. But right when this happened...

Spoiler for:

I defeted the first boss and we were running and we went to the computer then he started catching up and we went to teleport to the next room and it said something like "portal not found" with a bunch of numbers and stuff.

EDIT: Where do you get those rippin' metel songs you use for battle? I need something like that.

EDIT: There occured a slight problem. A file is missing. Just download the file from the attachment, extract it and put it into the game's folder. Create a new folder "Graphics" and go inside, create another and name it "Characters". Put the file into "Characters". Done.
(You are free to use this file in your own game. If you do so, give me credit.)

Thanks for hosting, Leviyah! =D

Download

EDIT: There occured a slight problem. A file is missing. Just download the file from the attachment, extract it and put it into the game's folder. Create a new folder "Graphics" and go inside, create another and name it "Characters". Put the file into "Characters". Done.
(You are free to use this file in your own game. If you do so, give me credit.)

Thanks for hosting, Leviyah! =D

Download

Thanks.

This could is the best gtame on this forum. It's great so far. ***** out of *****

http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=1656608

Downloading it now! =D From what I've seen of Blizzard's script I have faith. 

EDIT:

Wow! That's so cool, the music is awesome (especially that battle at the start) how on Earth do you make cutscenes like that, let only make battles you can watch? How did you make the fade in off different tiles when leaving the classroom. Awesome so far... you are excellent at mapping.

Thanks. I am trying hard.
I got many songs from my ex-roommate, he is listening to Metal and similar. I've heard a few good songs and just thought "Damn, that would spice up the boss battles!". fter that I only used a wave editing program (Steinberg Wavelab) to cut the music, so it sounds good when looping.

BTW, I updated the version to 1.0.5.0. I am actually surprised that nobody so far has downloaded version 1.0.4.2. ?_?

Looks and sounds like a great game. But I'm unable to download rar. files.

If you are not on Dial-Up I recommend the normal download. It's .zip. If you are, just download WinRar from the attachment at this post and you'll be fine.

When the trial runs out(40 days), don't get rid of it. It never makes you pay like RPG Maker.

Funny that, I've had it for ALOT longer than 40 days and it still says I have 40 days left. 

^^lol

Whenever I open it, it says I need to pay, or remove it. But I just click the "close", and close the message, and carry on. lol

Same over here. No worries about the 40 days trial. I've had mine now for nearly a year.

That's very suspicious... and obviously not intended. 

I guess somebody didn't crack it right, lol!

Somebody didn't know how to MAKE people pay, lol!

By the way, how much money do you need to bribe:

The woman in Reeva
The hooded man in Reeva.

I have the official version 1.02 but not official ^^

lol

The woman in Reeva
The hooded man in Reeva.

You desperate cheat! :p I myself only got up to the cave, quit. Wasn't in the puzzle-like mood, I'll continue when I am - although I have a visitor today...

I've tried everything! They just don't respond! Did you do it?

To be honest I quit at the puzzle. I'm just NOT in the mood... I'll probably come back later - but at the moment I've been experimenting on this program called RPG Maker or something. Also FL.

...

Maybe they don't want money, no doubt you just need to pass something and they'll be gullible to react. Either that or it's a cool thing where you need MAX Gil to have reactions. 

Lol, just continue playing. When you reach Esteria and talk to that sailor in the upper left corner on the map, you will know what the woman is for. It's a little side quest.
About the hooded man... Well... After the Great marsh you will "meet" him again. When you finally can leave the area around Lorence castle, you will notice that he's gone from Reeva. He's there more like a gag for the storyline. When you play the game through and play it the next time, you will be like "Hey! It's him!"

*writes down notes*

These types of things are good, increase the quality of the RPG.

Lol, just continue playing. When you reach Esteria and talk to that sailor in the upper left corner on the map, you will know what the woman is for. It's a little side quest.
About the hooded man... Well... After the Great marsh you will "meet" him again. When you finally can leave the area around Lorence castle, you will notice that he's gone from Reeva. He's there more like a gag for the storyline. When you play the game through and play it the next time, you will be like "Hey! It's him!"

lol, ok then.

Update to 1.0.5.1

52 MB? Are you nuts? I've been downloading oon and off for at least two days and it's still only at 56%.

But I can already see it's magnificent. I'll review later, when I fully download it.

Believe me, you won't regret downloading this game.

Yeah you wont, cuz this games...well how can i describe it


IT ROX!!!

...Finally! It's done. And yes, I see what you mean. It's amazingly incredible, every part of it. I like especially the scene in the intro where they're panning through the laboratory Jason finds later on, but everything is very well made.

I was at the ending of Giada Castle, but I decided to restart the game because Jason kept fainting before he escaped from the castle. He only had 25 HP left, you see, and he's not very fast or evasive by nature, anyways.

Yeah, he's more the powerful guy. I should make him recover before escaping. I'll include that in 1.1.0.0 I'm going to release later. This one will have a modified battle scene and several other add-ons.

I'd just like to pop my head in and ask, was the ending in the Beta version and actual ending? If you have pointed it out, please remove my post.

~Winged

Yeah, he's more the powerful guy. I should make him recover before escaping. I'll include that in 1.1.0.0 I'm going to release later. This one will have a modified battle scene and several other add-ons.

You just keep getting better and better with each version, don't you? But yes, I do think you should recover players a bit more, like in other professional games.

I'd just like to pop my head in and ask, was the ending in the Beta version and actual ending? If you have pointed it out, please remove my post.

~Winged

No. It's just the middle. That's where the part starts that connect this game with the other games from "The Legend of Lexima" series.

You just keep getting better and better with each version, don't you?

I have to. Wouldn't be fun if it gets worse, would it?

True. Just to help you get better, I'll say that the passage in the tunnel from Reeva to Lisk looks very tacky, especially when you go in the door on one side and reappear on the other side instantaneously. Why not make the smaller tunnel in the main tunnel passable, but always on top? It'll look like the player is going through the smaller tunnel.

I'm stuck at the matrix of switches in Lorence (?) Castle. I just can't figure out how to press all of them down. I'm a desperate cheater, but could someone help me?

EDIT:

Download the second attachment and extract it into the folder where the game itself is. The update 1.0.4.2 includes:

- 20% higher ability damage
- new Unity Force System (Party Attack); an NPC in Reeva can tell you more
- changed a few maps (Unknown Laboratory and Reeva caves) and updated a few others
- slight updates everywhere in the scripts
- potential glitches fixed
- Analyze ability removed from Jason's skills, talk to the rabbit in Reeva (this is the ACTUAL way how to get this ability)

You didn't download the updates.

And that puzzle is just optional. If you can solve it, you get a Strength Ring.
Alright... how did it go again...?

Spoiler for Solution for the puzzle in Lorence Castle:

Here is a "picture" of the puzzle, press all the switches marked with X.

Code: [Select]

X X X O X O X

X O X X O X O

X O O X O O X

X O X X O X O

X X X O X O X

Since it's symetric you can also just:

Code: [Select]

X O X O X X X

O X O X X O X

X O O X O O X

O X O X X O X

X O X O X X X

No, actually, I downloaded all the updates, one by one. I wonder what the problem is?

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Ah, yes, I've found that the stone tigers turn when you press action button, but what do I do now? I only need a hint this time.

Hm, maybe I did something wrong. ?_? The version 1.1.0.0 will be available as .rgssad file. So you will onyl need to replace the old one.

Spoiler for Hint:

Easy. In the room with the bed you can find a writing where it says "Don't let the tigers see you..."

Spoiler for Solution:

Make the tigers look away from the carpet.

Is that it? I must be truly idiotic to miss that. Don't let the tigers see you... Nice.

Yeah, an .rgssad file would be foolproof.

Ok yeah it's amazing. Blizzard you are a legend. Your game rocks, your scripts do and your tutorial does. I like your mixed use of music in the game... im a music man so I tend to pick out what is a really good piece =P. Best game ive played on here.

I'd just like to pop my head in and ask, was the ending in the Beta version and actual ending? If you have pointed it out, please remove my post.

~Winged

No. It's just the middle. That's where the part starts that connect this game with the other games from "The Legend of Lexima" series.

Middle?! Oh my gosh that means heaps longer play time! Score ! I thought it was actually the end but I knew you wouldn't have something as poorly detailed as that as the ending.

~Winged

Of course not. No self-respecting plotmaker, least of all Blizzard, would make something as anticlimactic as that. For that matter, you could add a bit more detail even to that, Blizzard. It just dsoesn't seem to amount up to the rest of the demo.

wow that is an awesome game....those pictures made it really intriguing..i will definetely download it..

Crazy game. Loved it. Nice Cemetery or whatever in South Lisk. Very creepy and the music goes well with it. I'm in the forest of illusions trying to figure out what to do XD.

Of course not. No self-respecting plotmaker, least of all Blizzard, would make something as anticlimactic as that. For that matter, you could add a bit more detail even to that, Blizzard. It just dsoesn't seem to amount up to the rest of the demo.

I consider the game split up in 2 main parts. The first part is actually roaming around trying to find a way home. As Winged once suggested I have made a cutscene when the part enters the Tower of Memories. Jason feels relief it's going to end soon, because this pointless roaming around was really annoying him. But at the top of the tower... heh, you'll have to wait for the full game to find out more. A grand conspiracy is going on. Leximus and Setzer, together with Siegfried and Duke were only able to stop Nemesis's men for a certain period of time. The second part takes the player deeper into the actual game and the actual "Legend of Lexima".
The player will find out about Chaos, Lexima (main background), the Chosen One and the War against the First Creation (TLoL 3), the inferior Lexima Warrior Vex/Vortex and his brother Blizzard (TLoL 2), some pieces about the Final War, the Lexima Warriors, Warriors of Death and Guardians of Chaos (plot in common). I reposted the topic about the main background for you if you're eager to read it, lol!

http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,12821.0

In other words: The first half of the game is just the warmup for a showdown of the superlative!

Update to 1.2.0.0.

I have added many new features and most probably this will be it as for the Final Demo. Check out the first post.

I just downloaded 1.2 last night
it's absolutely awesome.
the characters are good, the story is solid, and I love the ring menu for battle.
the only thing I can say that I don't like, is how many different styles all clash together.
RTP with Quasi-3d with Anime, it just looks really jumbled.
other than that, I was hoping for some original, un-liscenced music.

great though, I enjoyed playing it, and am going to continue later today.

also, if you haven't already, release the script for the battle cam please?! it's too damn good.

I'm too lazy to post it here on rmrk, here's the link:

http://chaosproject.co.nr/index.php?showtopic=55

Yeah, I know about the graphic styles. =/ It annoys me as well. It's the only thing that actually prevents my game to be even more awesome. =/ The problem is that it would take too much time if I do it myself, since I don't have any graphical designers working for me.
I'll guess I'll just have to convince with many custom scripts, playability, story, (coming soon) awesome cutscenes and epic battles. =/ (lol, I'm flattering myself xD )

glad you actually released it
it's something any great game should have (it's awesome)

anyways, the music kinda bugs me too.
none of it is original and some of the styles clash.

Well, many poeple liked the style clash of music, me as well. I usually iuse what sounds good. And there will be some original music in the full game. Maybe even a Battle BGM that can be set up in the menu.

yeah, you did choose tracks that work really really well, I just don't like Trance mixed with Metal mixed with Midi

I'm going to be making my own music for my game =b

I guess it's matter of taste. xD Good Luck with your game!

I'm gonna put up a sample of my work later so people can tell me what they think.

I tried it, found a few issues....couldn't play through cuz it couldn't load tho:

Thanks for reporting. Try deleting the Settings.bcx in the Saves folder and the game should install the needed fonts when running the first time.

 

Noooo... T_T I know why this happens... Here is the graphics, just name it correctly:



Put it into a the folder Graphics/Characters (if there is none, make it)

@Blizzard: i was wondering how you got the screen to be black at the start....i've made a cutscene intro to my game and it flashes the map before it goes black. BTW i'm using Fog that is black.

Using a parallel process will tint the screen "before" you get into the map, while Auto-Start will tint it black after the fading screen. So, just use a parallel process.

  OMG that you so much! (i can't believe it was that easy >_<)

I'm working on the second cutscene for my game...but i found a flaw, the player can move during it and mess it up. Is there a way to temporarily stop the player from moving when you press the arrow keys?

[Edit]NVM i figured it out...used a blank, invisible textbox

Either that or just use an additional auto-start for the actual cutscene. Make only the tint and maybe some other stuff in the parallel process.

Great agame Blizzard.  Just wanted to make sure that the last part I should have been able to play is when Jason goes out alone, and is on that ship.  Was also wondering if there will be more characters through the seconde half, although I liked the ones you gave, it always makes me feel better playing through an rpg, when you get to chose who is the winners on your team who just didn't make the cut ya know?

Great agame Blizzard.  Just wanted to make sure that the last part I should have been able to play is when Jason goes out alone, and is on that ship.  Was also wondering if there will be more characters through the seconde half, although I liked the ones you gave, it always makes me feel better playing through an rpg, when you get to chose who is the winners on your team who just didn't make the cut ya know?

Aww man, I never finished it  Next time put spoiler.... :'(

Great agame Blizzard.  Just wanted to make sure that the last part I should have been able to play is when Jason goes out alone, and is on that ship.  Was also wondering if there will be more characters through the seconde half, although I liked the ones you gave, it always makes me feel better playing through an rpg, when you get to chose who is the winners on your team who just didn't make the cut ya know?

Second half? LOL! You've only played about 25% of the game so far. xD And of course there will be more characters. If you had read the posts earlier in this topic you would have found out that I am planning big stuff for the actual second half.

I'm working on the second cutscene for my game...but i found a flaw, the player can move during it and mess it up. Is there a way to temporarily stop the player from moving when you press the arrow keys?

[Edit]NVM i figured it out...used a blank, invisible textbox

mm... wait for move's completion... after each move... if other people are moving... >.>

I've got sick of the variating game over screens so I made only one which I will use in the full game. *points to attachment*

your site seems to have gotten alot better since i last checked it out! ill download it and i wanted to know did you make these scripts all yourself?

nice game over image bliz!

i wanted to know did you make these scripts all yourself?

Of course. Where's the fun if somebody else does it for me?

This game is complete rubbish! How do you get by with this game? My god!

Lol I just do. BTW, you should see the awesome cutscene I have created recently. It's somewhere in the last 80% of the game. I created 1.5 extra "animation" spritesets for that. =)

I should play this demo, I've been meaning to do it.

Error in the room with the first boss.

Spoiler for:

And I've noticed some nice map changes.

EDIT: Whoops, double posted.

LOL... i forgot about that error... i saw it once as well

Lol, same bug as in the one big room. xD I'll fix it, no worries.

And blizz, is the demo over after I...

Spoiler for:

..return the boy to the guy and get the map? Because I can't find anywhere to go.

No, it's not.

Spoiler for:

When you return the boy and get the map, you need to enter the forest in the west part of the valley.

I..

Spoiler for:

Went into the forest and saw a bunny girl and a tree that I couldn't go to because a force held me back.

Is that where...

Spoiler for:

you get attaacked by the water/ice/earth (i dont remember <_<) boss mob?

Yes, but

Spoiler for:

first he needs to get into the Forest of Illusions. It's the darker one. xD

Yay I...

Spoiler for:

Found the right forest.

Lol!

Spoiler for:

Ok. I'll give you the code for the "And again!" mode later then. ^__^

Wait a min...

Spoiler for:

what is this u speak of?!

Features

...

• And again!, Warrior and Exerion modes can be unlocked by beating the game and the modes themselves (not available in Final Demo)

Spoiler for:

Altough there's a code to activate "And again!".

I was just beaten by a mean ice lady. I'll save the rest of the demo for later *stretch*

Spoiler for:

Get them on level 10, then you shouldn't have big problems with her. Try to get her meta to "Critical" or "Bad" and hope that Jason reaches his Meta Limit, so he can use Ultimatex and crush her into pieces.

Wow, what a close battle.

Spoiler for:

This game is the best game ever made on RPG Maker XP!

:O Endout reached his Meta Limit! :O How you like the 3D icon battle menu?

:O Endout reached his Meta Limit! :O How you like the 3D icon battle menu?

I love it! It makes battles very fun. Along with the sole rage system. (which I might have to use)
]

Why on earth

Spoiler for:

is everyone talking like this? o.O

Why on earth

Spoiler for:

is everyone talking like this? o.O

So we don't spoil anything.

Spoiler for:

I don't know. ?_?

Is there...

Spoiler for:

A pattern to the 9 switches of doom inside of echo cave?

This stuff is harder than Zelda >.<

Never mind. I get it now.

Lol, ok.

Spoiler for:

Later you will find an optional puzzle with way more switches. The solution is in this topic a few pages earlier. ^__^

O_O......................... :'(

I forgot to save and I was having tons of fun.

Pressing F12 => Stack Error

I didn't press F12.
I went to the bottom thing in the options menu.

 

Woah... The first script error in a released CP version after quite some time. I'll be sure to fix it. It must have to do with the menu (obviously).

@Z: Yes, I know. I think I found a way to fix that, BTW. ^__^ In my ABS it doesn't happen ANYMORE. I think, somehow I fixed it, lol!

So I don't get a free CMS no one has, due to my horrible loss? lol
I guess I'll redo all of that stuff.. >.>

Was it the skin option or the the Information option?

It was the information option.

I wanted to post this, but you post too damn fast 

It was for Blizzard, not you... Not the same error.
Sorry for the confusion

Edit: Also I just started playing this version today >_>

So, what do you say about it so far?

EDIT:
If somebody gives me a link to a good screen-recorder I'll put up an awesome cutscene that's not available in the Final Demo as a grand spoiler.

So, what do you say about it so far?

EDIT:
If somebody gives me a good link to a screen-recorder I'll put up an awesome cutscene that not available in the Final Demo as a grand spoiler.

http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/downloads.asp

I'll put it up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Prepare for something more awesome than anything seen in an RMXP game before. It's even more awesome than any cutscene in CP Final Demo.

O_O OH
O_O MY
O_O GOD
-_< I can't wait!

My PC can't hold it at a decent frame rate. I COULD make the movie anyway, but it just won't record any sound and without sound it's not even half of the fun. =( Sorry guys, you'll have to wait for the full game except I find a way to record it anyway.

:twitch:

Why not set the starting position at the cut scene and give us the project?

It takes some time. I need to "extract" that scene from the project. I'll do it when I find the time.

Couldn't you just make a temporary event that won't let you continue any further?

It's not that. The problem is the size. Nobody will download 60MB just for a cutscene, lol!

Want me to do it?
I won't steal anything. lol
You can trust good ol' Irockman.

It's not that. The problem is the size. Nobody will download 60MB just for a cutscene, lol!

...Why? Isn't 60MB like...nothing?

Lol, it's way too much just for a playable cutscene. xD No worries, I'll do it, since the demands are obviously big. xD I might even do it later this night and post it tomorrow. ^__^

We have higher demands than that. That's the day I go to school.

Just lol. I have now 10 minutes of free time, I'm working on it. (-_-')

Go Blizzard!
You always were my favorite member. lol

Alright, just gimme a few more minutes. I didn't remove the animation sets and the sound effects, so it will be between 15 and 20MB.

'o'
Okay.

6 minutes left until it's uploaded.

I am so excited I am unable to breath in a proper manner.

Alrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright...

This here is a special cutscene and a MAJOR SPOILER. Note that the two additional characters in the party are just dummies.

Spoiler for:

Only that first character's name (Aiden) will appear in CP. That other guy's name might appear, but his spriteset and battler are from a boss in the game. In other words, the cutscene isn't 100% finished yet, maybe only 90%.

Return of a Lexima Warrior

BTW, I used a different title theme and a different title screen just for fun. It also has the new game over screen.

WOAH! That was awesome!
Great animations! The music fits it great! And Jason...wow...
10/10

What can I say, I didn't promise too much. Believe me, I bet I have watched it far over a hundred times so far, including its earlier stages of course.

EDIT:
I found the cause of the bug, Irock. I forgot to initialize a variable used to determine at where the starting x and y of the bitmap are to crop the pic out for the window that is used in the information submenu. Just turn off any Custom Menu mode and you will be able to access it.

you have such amazing talent i wish i had it lol


cant wait til the final game comes out




~~RAVEN~~

when is the final game coming out?

I have no idea. I work on it when I'm in the mood an when I find time. Currently it's about 55% finished. Fact is that I will work a lot on it during summer. I did 25% of the game in the last summer. ^__^

Sweet, that cutscene looks awesome! I'll download it when I get a better internet connection, which is just about tomorrow.

Hey blizz can i use some of the music from that game prety please. lol

Sure thing, just don't forget to credit the makers like I did.

I downloaded the cutscene, and my face could be summarized by O.O . Really. That was stunning, the whole bit. 110/10!

I have no idea. I work on it when I'm in the mood an when I find time. Currently it's about 55% finished. Fact is that I will work a lot on it during summer. I did 25% of the game in the last summer. ^__^

YAY ITS ALMOST SUMMER AGAIN :B

Oh, I was supposed to finish the demo xD
I'll put it on my desktop so I remember tomorrow...or today rather.

I had to make several extra animations, animation graphic sets, sprite positions and music cutting/creating (I made the heartbeat files), but it looks like it was worth the effort. ^__^

I remember you talking about a cool scene where Jason floated up with his hair whipping around. I guess this is it, eh? That scene alone gave me an adrenaline rush.

  That's ... One of the best things i've played... I was upset when the demo ended
 How did you get the battlers all spaced out?? That's just what I want in my game...

...I played the demo... Didn't shock me the slightest. I'm a human, I guess before they happen. The cutscene in the game demo (Final Demo) showed two people. Both walking. Some guy comes in and soon goes to a fight. One is using a blade infused with his arm and another claws. As soon as I get Endout I completely know. Then I play this new cutscene demo. Finished my guess. I guessed right...

it wont let me completely extract part 1 (i havent tried the other parts).
it says:
you need the following volume to continue extraction
and then it says:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Chaosproject-part1.rar

what do i do?

PROJECT OF THE MONTH winner. YAY  congratz

it wont let me completely extract part 1 (i havent tried the other parts).
it says:
you need the following volume to continue extraction
and then it says:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Chaosproject-part1.rar

what do i do?

download ALL the parts and put them ALL in the same place, then extract.

oh, ok thanks

[edit] now it says i dont have part10 even though i do. what do i do now?

You need all parts to be able to extract the game.

BTW:
OMG, MY GAME IS PROJECT OF THE MONTH!!!

One question... how did you get just the instrumentals of those Children Of Bodom Songs?... I can't find any...

Those are no instrumentals... I cut the original songs and made them fit for looping.

Ahh right...

Not much I could say that others haven't said; but this game was among the first (several months ago) that gave me some of the most crucial ideas and inspirations.

Those are no instrumentals... I cut the original songs and made them fit for looping.

How did you do that?

Audio editors I believe. Google it

Good luck Blizzard. Hope it gets done soon.

i dont know if bliz is still roaming the forums anymore, or if anyone remembers about this, but..

Spoiler for:

the cave west of reeva, there are 5 buttons and a hint saying "43125", i tried pushing the buttons left to right the exact number of times (if i got the clue right), but nothing happened, the passages are still blocked on the right part of the cave and theres no way to go to the other side of the water with the wall, help?!

Spoiler for:

It's not how often, it refers to the order. Press button 4 first, then 3, then 1, then 2, then 5

congrads to Blizzard on POTM! hey um at the beginning when the rabbit asks you which column, row, message box # or whatever, in order to learn a spell, what is that all about? does anyone know the answer or how to find it?

Comes in later when you get to Giada Castle... you can go see the rabbit in the first town you go to (forgot the name >.<') later

Blizzard can you tell me how you got that guy to follow jason and maybe join my team in the recruitment section

Blizzard has left RMRK. This topic should probably be locked since he isn't going to update it.

Any further questions about his project should go to http://z3.invisionfree.com/ChaosProject/index.php?showtopic=53