RMXP Drekirökr - Dusk of the Dragon

[orochii]

AUTOR: Orochii Zouveleki (Muramasa)
GENRE: Light RPG
FLAVOUR: Post-apocalyptic Fantasy Sci-Fi
ENGINE: RPG Maker XP
STATUS: On development - Demo v2018
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DOWNLOADS:

Itch.io
Gamejolt
RPGMaker.net


DISCLAIMER:This game contains (or will contain) certain references to religion, politics, drugs, and other serious, obscure stuff. This is not made with the intent to disturb or offend anyone, and are treated respectfully, meant to contextualize, give an insight to characters and their problems, and a better characterization. There isn't and never will be any direct reference to any person, group or organization.The developer actually suggests to abstain of playing if you think this game could have a negative impact on you. But if you're curious, or think you can overcome that kind of negative prejudice, please play the game.
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In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity continues their diary living. A world full of monsters, a violent nature and other dangers, product of long ago scientific catastrophes.
It is here where our main heroine, Hikari Morishita, gets up and starts her travelling around the world, in the name of the Academy, as a member of their special forces. People set into the world, helping the needed, and risking their lives in favor of the weak.

Following up her story, you will be able to face a lot of adventures, misadventures and much more. Discover all of the mysteries that the world of Drekirökr has to offer!

• An epic adventure with a lot of places to explore and lots of content!
• SNES/GBA styled low-res graphics.
• Fight against hordes of enemies in tactical battles!
• A lively world! Simulation of time passing, that influences most of places!
• And best of all, forever free!

Hikari Morishita,
Date of birth: 493, 15 Ago.
Birthplace: Yamashiru
After her graduation, she will start a journey where she will find traces of uncommon events around the world, and will get interested on what happened in the past.

Minuet Vijuphrava,
Date of birth: 493, 8 Mar
Birthplace: Aleko
Hikari's friend since she entered on the Academy. Now her combat teammate. Sarcastic and a little serious, with a pretty passive character.

Sid Vipond,
Date of birth: 491, 3 Nov
Birthplace: Parnassus
Ensign and leader of the X Squad, he is a very talented strategist. Orphan at cause of war, has no memories of his family, he lives for honor and to protect his comrades.

Lance Vredevelt,
Date of birth: 491, 17 Sep
Birthplace: Parnassus
Adopted child of the renown Vredevelt family, and Sid's close friend since the orphanage. Most of his life is a mistery for others, due to his silent personality.

Screenshots

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/OrochiiZouveleki/videos

Music -
Alex Corvera (Aarl)
Claudio Noemí (Titan Némesis)
Orochii Zouveleki (muramasa)

Systematic (Scripting) -
CCOA - Custom Battle Script
Dirtie - Map Wrapping (not used anymore, but thanks anyway)
ForeverZero - MMW Optimizations
Fantasist & ForeverZer0 - Transition Pack
Glitchfinder - Keyb&Gamepad Input Modules
Midge - Double Sword/Shield Support
MOG - EX Version and Damage "System"
PARA - Cursor add-on for windows
RiseField - Shadowed texts
Wachunga - Multiple Message Windows
XMS - CP Stuff I think
Orochii Zouveleki - anything else

Everyting else -
Orochii Zouveleki

Special thanks -
ToniCaprini
DarkZero
Frikilangelo
Pabloxulo
Cetros
Klaus
Destructor
Zando
Zokark2
CelioHogane
Sig
Addit
Dangaioh
Dyhalto
Edchuy
Finrod
MrHawi
Sebax
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Webpage: http://drekirokr.weebly.com/

VISUAL CUSTOMIZATION
Visual style for WinXP Shell (v0.5) // Screen
Wallpaper 1 - Hikari 1600x1200 // 1280x1024 // 1360x768
Wallpaper 2 - Minuet 1600x1200 // 1280x1024 // 1366x768

USERBARS

 

[m4uesviecr]

Wow, this is BEAUTIFUL! Going to have to take time out to test your creation!

 

[Capitán]

HOW Does this only have 1 comment, this looks spectacular.

 

[orochii]

I don't know. Internet is a very unpredictable beast. And I'm bad at building hype too.

Please feel free of commenting any issue you have with the game. This Saturday I will release an update, which will include all bugfixes. So... yeah, any problem found should be fixed that day, unless life eats my hopes (?). I actually have a pretty long list of things to solve already.

 

[TalalAlgreby]

Wow ~ Where has this been all my time around in here?

The Graphics are wonderful, remind me of an old PS1 game, it was one of my favorites so far.

will give this a try ~ i'm very excited

 

[orochii]

Woof! Iesus! This has been such a long day! 

Hello internet! Right now I've finished preparing the update. I'm sorry for the lateness, but there was a deceased family member, so I had to take today and yesterday for that. I'm sorry! 

But I now have been hurrying to complete the task, and here it is! Drekirökr is now updated! The bug report page is updated too, there you can see the list of changes. Or I can just copy and paste it here, heh! 
 

Let's see... the updater is updated too! Hahah! And... yeah. There is an update package in the downloads section, you can grab it and paste its contents on your game folder, or just download the entire thing! There is no savefile corruption as far as I know, after all I didn't made any groundbreaking changes on scripts, just small tweaks to battle and stuff. 

Found issues on Demo Version, June 2015

GRAPHICS 
MISSING ANIMATIONS: Punch*, Kick*, Leather Glove*, Typhoon* --DONE 
MISSING ICONS: Serpent skin*, Spiny skin*, Cleave*, Double Attack*, Leather Whip*, Leather Gloves*, Life Rain*, all Minuet passives* --DONE 
MISSING GRAPHICS: Minuet overworld --DONE 
Floating battlers: Crocodile, Lime --DONE 
Stuck flames --DONE 
Vance's character has a problem. --DONE 
Chest Key's map graphic (glitter) changes direction, something it shouldn't do! --DONE 
Use item background image on inventory screen has outdated parts --DONE 

SCRIPTING STUFF 
Change default configuration to Wait Mode --DONE 
Hidden battlers can't be affected by animation opacity reset (I know what I mean) --DONE 
Map animations aren't following the source event. --DONE 
Battle results screen should include information about each character's gains --DONE 
Check Lightningrod: It could be misbehaving. 
Spiny skin tends to counter things it shouldn't! --DONE? 
Language selector should save the last selected language. --DONE 
Why the hay Minuet's description isn't being shown when the game is in English? --DONE 

MAPPING AND SCENARIO DESIGN 
Training Cave redesign: main puzzle less effective than optional boss' one --DONE 
A little wait after exiting the cave, because there is a "perspective change". --DONE 
Also the exit event should be moved down one tile... --DONE 
Great Architect's imaginery needs to block passage! --DONE 
Why the heck the church treasure is a plain useless sword? --Actually it's Life Rain, need the ID to fix it on the langs o.o --DONE 

REBALANCE 
Downgrade some parts of Minuet's equipment --DONE 
I think I should up a little monster drops... --DONE 
Red and Blue Flames should give AP, and NO Experience! --DONE 
WHY THE HECK DOES ROOST DEAL DAMAGE?? --DONE 
Hikari's Remedy will be available from lvl1 --DONE

Links are in the main post, these have been updated. You can also look for the update package there, in case you downloaded the previous version. That update package is the same thing the DrekiPatcher applies, but the DrekiPatcher does the "work" for you.

Thanks for reading!

 

[orochii]

Hello! I've been looking for some exposure. So I made a deal with a reviewer, also because I wanted to get some feedback. I've contacted with several others too but right now I'm on the way.

This is the link to the review, I want to express my gratitude to TheIndieShark. I am actually happy because he didn't destroyed my game on his critique!

http://theindieshark.blogspot.com/2015/07/drekirokr-dusk-of-dragon-indie-game.html

And that's it for now. There is another interview on the go too, but it's in Spanish. I will post a link when it is ready. It's part of an online publication being made by a friend.

The plan is to have a final release the next year. I hope I can get more feedback before that. But well, everything is on rails now! This ship will not stop! (--wait, ships don't use rails...).

 

[orochii]

Hi people! Here I share some let's plays that people at Youtube gladly accepted to make. I thank every of them a lot.

Let's Play by ZeffiZeffiZephy

Let's Try by Slipo (Spanish)

Let's Try by CapTon

Let's Try by Red88Miner

All of these have been a great help and an important source of feedback, so I greatly appreciate every of them and give special thanks to ZeffiZeffiZephy, Slipo and the UCBV Project guys, CapTon and lsat but not least Red88Miner (a.k.a. Mike I).

Salut!

 

[Ramiro]

I remmeber this from so long ago

Loved how after all this years your project is as vibrant as ever

Downloading it to just check how different is from that time~

 

[orochii]

It is preeeeeeeeeetty different from that time. Even if I'm getting you wrong (because this game has seen so much times "orz), I am pretty sure of it. xD

Tell me any issue you have with it. Thanks! :^D

 

[SomaelCK]

This project reminds me of RM2k3 games!
Well done! Superb job!

 

[orochii]

Well, I started this game a long long time ago, in a pretty obscure era. I was an avid RPG Maker 2003 user. Then RMXP came out, and time later VX and Ace came too. This incarnation came into fruitition in some time in between these releases. I chose RPG Maker XP because I love RPG Maker XP.
 
Now here is a little something. Silhouettes for 5 out of 8 playable characters. You probably recognize at least two of these.

Salut!

 

[Akuma]

This game looks great. I'll definitely download it later today

 

[ProMeTheus112]

Hey I tried the version you put in download but it is not working well for me. I can launch the game and start it but then my character moves to the top left and I can't do anything. The first time it actually moved into a square during the intro and that blocked the dialogue from proceeding (didn't get to the old man), second time I was just stuck on the platform top left can't move and go to bridge.. Don't know why, navigating the menus works fine!

 

[ProMeTheus112]

Anyway it looks nice! Music, graphics, rather engaging for a start! Watch out for little mistakes in the text though!

 

[orochii]

Hello and thanks for trying out the demo. Sorry for that bug, I really never encountered that issue before, and I did tested it several times from start to finish. I would love to have a way to replicate it. But for now I'll just hope that the next version doesn't have that problem. I've fixed lots of things since I released that version, so let's pray one of them was the thing you comment.


Now here goes something regarding progress. Like, update, ok?

This is the maglev (name can vary). It's a magnetic levitation transport thing that lets you go from Aleko to Fierro and viceversa. It's meant to alleviate backtracking.

And this is part of the town of New Parnassus, kind of the biggest town in the world of Midgard. It's one of the new places I'm working on.


That's all for now, expect a surprise in some months. Salut!

 

[Inmento Riku]

Glad to see this is still being worked on. I've been a follower/player of this game since my friend showed it to me december of last year.

I came here to check for an update status and what do you know.....it's being updated.

A recommendation I have, it might not work for you, is to edit your main post, have something like "Edit 1:" or something like that and place the post above my comment in there. That will accomplish two things. 1: People will see that it was updated sometime this year, as well as what was updated. 2: It shows your followers/slaves/players/community members here on the forum that you didn't forget about them.

While I get that a comment would alert anyone who is following this, also including it in the original thread/post could look better.

But again, it's all up to you, and what your fans want. 

I was just stating my opinion for ease of access and ease of use. 

Anyways...I cannot wait for the surprise in a few months.

 

 

[Starmage]

Wow! this looks really nice!! I love the originally made sprites and world maps!  


I will try this demo!! xDD


EDIT:


I have tried it! and I really loved the mood the game gives, firstly the graphics felt really magical and then the music, I just loved it  I'm currently at the Haleko! my impressions of the game is that it really is enjoyable and fun to follow through.

 

[orochii]

Thanks for the idea Inmento Riku. I like keeping the main post small. It needs a little update though, need to change how characters are presented and add some fresh images. So I'll do something about it.


Here is a little update!








In this video you can see the changing music. Some maps will have two versions of the same song, and they will change smoothly. This is kind of inspired by the changing instruments in Monkey Island 2, but a little more humble.Also please excuse the framerate issues and the frozen screens. Ingame it goes better. I probably need a better PC.


Thanks for reading!

 

[Emberstorm]

Graphics look great, but the cave lighting really irks me. It feels like the torch is subtractive and stacking incorrectly with the players light aura?