[DEMO 0.1]Echoes of Time

[LordS3B]

Echoes of Time​

An RMXP game with a kind of cliché story​

"Tenebris, pavorem faciam infirma...​

Tenebris, lux fortis, lumen e sapiens...​

Tenebris, vos animas succumbant...​

Tenebris, lumen quod excaecat consumet infirma..."​

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- Fragment of the Song of the Dark Mages​

Background Story

You're settled in a magical and ethereal world, to be most exactly, you're in the country of Bellugia, where the wisest mages and the strongest warriors are raised for the good of the world. This colorful country is the stage of many miraculous events, being one of them the origin of magic, wihich happened lots of eons ago. Also, the most horrorful battles also took Bellugia as stage, causing many deaths, destructions and reforms. 3 millions of years ago, Ahrion, the god of darkness, corrupted by the evil naure of the element he wields, betrayed the gods. His thirst of power led him to take the throne of the Potestes by killing Redeum, the leader of the gods, thus causing a big disorder in the universe, being reshaped to it's distorted image and likeness. The men and the gods, in an unbreakable alliance, managed to defeat Ahrion's kingdom of shadows, which lead to the signing of The Underworld Treaty.
Ahrion was condemned to the Underworld for the rest of the eternity, and men finally lived in peace. The throne of the Potestes was taken by Lucena, daughter of Redeum.
Everything was peace in the world, until... (the rest of the pages are broken)

The Present

Today is the Light Fest, the most important celebration in Bellugia's cult, when all the people in the country go to the capital to worship their deitys and witness the king's offering to the holy statue, which grants a propspeous future to the kingdom.
Arshes and Alice have to go walking from the Shalok Village to Vahnra, because Arshes woke up late and there are no dragons left to the capital of Bellugia. After a really long and tough walk they arrived, and in a wink the Light fest begins, but what they don't know is that this year's one, will fatally end, taking them to a mission to save the world of the clutches of the dark. Does that mean that the will of an evil being is taking the world to succumb in the shadows once more?

18 years before...

"The War of Shadows has ended with the sacrifice of my good friend Rodrik to seal Ahrion in a crystal prison with an ancient spell, The Seal of Thanatos. I'm stuck here in Tasmir after my mission ended, maybe for the rest of my life. It's a pity that Rodrik left his wife, my sister, pregnant of twins, a boy and a girl, my nephews. 8 years after that event, I saw what they are capable of, maybe they will save the world. I can see it... "
 

- Fragment of Devon's diary​

Playable Characters:

Arshes
Class: Fighter
Likes: Showing his strenght, dating women (and being slapped for that)
Hates: Being teased by his sister, ghouls,
Description: You guessed right, the red-haired guy form the RMP RTP. He is a really strong warrior and quite good at magic (not like his sister). It's kind of lazy and selfish sometimes, but he is the best in dangerous situations. He uses swords as his principal weapon.

Alice
Class: Sorceress
Likes: reading books of magic, teasing his brother.
Hates: Roses, frogs, romantic novels.
Description: It's a very talented sorceress, but is sometimes clumsy with new spells. She is Arshes' sister, and enjoys picking on his brother. She is very passionate about magic, often exchanging her more precious objects (or his brother's objects) for a rare artifact. She uses staves as her principal weapon

Kath
Class: Thief
Likes: Dogs, fish, robbing, smelling flowers (and rare things)
Hates: Water, cages, giving up
Description: She is a nekogirl, raised in the country of the nekomen. Her village was attacked by monsters and she fleed, being teleported to Bellugia mysterously. She is kleptomaniac, very joyful and playful, and likes to help his friends. She uses daggers as her principal weapon.
Pain
Class: Demon Warmage
Likes: Meditating, occultic paraphernalia, angels
Hates: Light, black magic, jokes.
Description: He is a vampire and a skilled warrior and mage. It's serious most of the time and he doesn't stand jokes too much. He was sealed in a crystal prison by a black mage one day. He uses mainly dark magic. Uses claws as his principal weapon.

Screenshots:

Spoiler

Features

• Original Soundtrack: Music composed by me. Right now, only the village theme (which may sound annoying at some point)
• Blizz-ABS: The powerful ABS by Blizzard and winkio
• Alchemy: Craft diferent poisons and potios to use at your benefit
• Events interact differently depending on your leader

Demo
I have a demo for you, version 0.1, just until the first boss so you can have a taste of this game and give your impressions on it. As always with me, it has dumb things, dumb storyline, dumb etc etc etc so tell me if something is dumb to make it less dumb

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0rilfokiudn3s6/Echoes%20of%20Time.exe?dl=0

 

[Andar]

This is not a completed project, and therefore doesn't belong in the forum for completed projects.


I've moved this thread to Early Project Feedback. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Tortured Healer]

The screenshots look great, I might check this out. I like the main character's name "Arshes". It stands out.

 

[LordS3B]

You should try the game, maybe you'll like it. Don't forget to report me bugs or weird things you may find while playing

 

[LordS3B]

Demo 0.2 is coming soon!! Be sure to report me every bug or dumb thing you may find so I can fix it in the next demo

 

[Schlangan]

Hello,


A fellow user of RMXP, we don't have many comments on our projects, unfortunately


I didn't try the demo yet, but for now, looking at the screens, I would like to say that the interior maps are a bit too empty; you could easily size them down. Also, the fire of the fireplace seems outside of it, it's a bit strange.

 

[Seriel]

I'm sorry, but I can't work out how to start the game.

I reached the title screen, but the Up/Down arrows dont move the Cursor, so I pressed a ton of random keys to see what would happen and... this happened:

Am I just being really dumb, or have I missed something?

Edit:

Pressing F12 comes up with this:

 

[LordS3B]

Jackus: The title screen works fine for me, try to download again the demo

EDIT: Blizz-ABS overwrites the default RMXP controls, so you use WASD to move

 

[LordS3B]

I'm sorry, but I can't work out how to start the game.

I reached the title screen, but the Up/Down arrows dont move the Cursor, so I pressed a ton of random keys to see what would happen and... this happened:

Am I just being really dumb, or have I missed something?

Edit:

Pressing F12 comes up with this:

You're missing something: Blizz-ABS overwrites the default RMXP controls, so you use WASD to move instead of the arrows

 

[Demiqas]

Tried it out and I have to say the message interface is incredibly inconvenient, messages are too slow with no obvious way how to speed them up other than spamming the H button and it's very bad to see a sentence get cut off every single dialogue screen.

 

[LordS3B]

Thanks for letting me know