Kingdom of Secrets

[ObtrusiveWhale]

Kingdom of Secrets

This game contains dark themes and adult language. Please be aware of that before downloading. Consider yourself warned.

• Made using the RPG Maker VX Ace System.
• Includes nine playable characters.
• Features a "back-view" battle system that includes sprite battlers.
• Wide array of classes.
• Includes a detailed main plot as well as side plots and quests.
• Will include an Alchemy system for synthesizing items, weapons, and armor.
• Current Release: Kingdom of Secrets 0.2 (Demo) was released. Several flaws and bugs were fixed.

Contact Information
Have a question, have noticed something that needs crediting, or just want to chat with the developers? Please, feel free to email us!

AMVKingdomofSecretsVKD@gmail.com

Update From The Developers

8/1/2013

A new demo is on its way! There have been some big changes made, here are some things to look for.

- Completely revamped Aveline. 

- Completely revamped Esper system for Nuri.

- Edits to the story and maps.

- More complete skill sets.

- Primary and Secondary classes.

- Functional alchemy system.

- New Side-View animated battle system.

- New mobs.

- Expanded story and character development. 

- Side quests and new challenges.

There will be even more, but you'll just have to download the new demo and find out for yourself!

Projected Demo Release Date: Some time during September ~ October 2013

Story Synopsis

Spoiler

King Edgar, the King of Terra, has been dead for over a year. As the new Monarchy takes over, the winds of change began to sweep across the land of Terra. With the new King, Harold, in place, bonds of loyalty and understanding begin to deteriorate as wave of Tyranny swells on the horizon.

King Herald's domination seems unstoppable until the last living War Mage, Aveline, is discovered living in the Southern Desert. Having been raised within the palace walls by the late General of the King's army, her vast knowledge of the past poses as the ultimate threat to Herald. The King orders Aveline's arrest and the destruction of the town in which she resides which may end up being his greatest mistake yet.

The Kingdom of Secrets takes you on Aveline's adventure through the three kingdoms to stop King Herald's nefarious plan. What is King Herald ultimately after? Can Aveline find the strength within her to take on the army she was meant to lead? What other secrets lie within the Kingdom of Terra?

World Development

Spoiler

The world of Kingdom of Secrets contains three known kingdoms and one hidden kingdom. The Kingdoms are Terra, the overworld kingdom, Caelus, the sky kingdom, and Loreley, the underwater kingdom. There is little information known about the fourth kingdom. Terra, the largest kingdom, is home to most of the world's different kinds. From humans to centaurs to spirits, the Kingdom of Terra is vast and diverse in its populous. Second in size comes Loreley, the kingdom underwater, home of the mer-people and other aquatic inhabitants. Although more isolated then the other kingdoms, Loreley faces constant civil feuds. Finally, Caelus, the sky kingdom, is the smallest of the three kingdoms. Although the people of Caelus are genuinely calm and peaceful, they are not afraid to summon their Guardian Espers to defend their kingdom.

Screenshots

Spoiler

Character Bios

Spoiler

Disclaimer: We will not be releasing full bios for all of the playable characters as we do not want to take away from the gameplay.

Aveline
Age: 22
Class: War Mage / Blood Mage
Female
Bio: Aveline was an orphaned child who was placed in the guardianship of the late General of the King's Army. Through the years, the General took her as his apprentice and taught her the ways of the War Mage. After his death, Aveline became appointed as General but quickly lost the title when she refused to swear her allegiance to the new King Harold. She ultimately fled the Kingdom and took residence in a small desert town in the south of Terra.

Kailyn
Age: 16
Class: Gun Mage / Thief
Female
Bio: Kailyn is a fiery Gun Mage from the Port town of Beryl. Her parents recently went missing and her drive to find them often causes her to break into King Herald's palace. With her parents gone, Kailyn relies on her thievery to survive.

Nuri
Age: 19
Class: Evoker / Time Mage
Female
Bio: Nuri is the Princess of Caelus and the daughter of Cyrus and Catherine. She has been raised with a love for her people that pushes her to venture away from her Kingdom.

Nirav
Age: 25
Class: Dragoon / Fallen Soldier
Male
Bio: Childhood friends with Nuri. After leaving the Sky Kingdom for several years, Nirav returned orphaned and alone but was taken in by the King and Queen. He was offered the job as Nuri's guard and quickly accepted. He's been by her side every since.

Cael
Age: 10
Class: Devout / Scholar
Male
Bio: Undisclosed

Tanith
Age: 13
Class: Illusionist / Mancer
Female
Bio: Undisclosed

Savion
Age: 28
Class: Green Mage / Templar
Male
Bio: Undisclosed

Hawke
Age: 18
Class: Dancer / Gambler
Male
Bio: Undisclosed

Rayna
Age: 29
Class: Alchemist / Minstrel
Female
Bio: Undisclosed

Credits

Spoiler

There is no way we could have made this game without all of the kick-ass people out there that create and share various resources for the RPG Maker systems. We can not thank you enough for putting in the work you have, and for allowing others to use it. What follows is the list of credits for everything we used, complied to the best of our ability. Please, if you notice any resource in our game that we somehow failed to give credit for, let us know! We want to give credit where credit is due!

Our biggest credit goes out to Enterbrain, the creators of the RPG Maker series. We could not have made this game without them, so thank you. Check out the Official RPG Maker website!

Scripts

All of our scripts (I believe) we found on the Master Script List. Check it out!

Notes:
- All of the following scripts might not be evident in the Demo, but will (most likely) be used in the final version release of the game.
- We got our wonderful battle system by combining the Ace Battle System by Yanfly with the Behind-View Battle System by Jet and Efeberk, incase anyone was wondering.

Yanfly - We used a lot of their scripts. They are truly amazing, thank you.
- Party System
- Ace Battle Engine
- Steal Items
- Steal Skill
- Element Reflect
- Element Absorb
- Random Skill Invoke
- Party System Add On: Command Party
- Yanfly Engine Ace - Ace Core Engine
- Ace Menu Engine

Formar0153 - Another one of whose scripts we used many. A special thank you to you as well.
- Equipment Skills System Script
- Equipment Requirements
- Multiple Inventories
- Additional Equipment Slots
- Custom Equipment Slots


Jet and Efeberk
- Behind-View Battle System

Khas
- Khas Awesome Light Effects

Kread-EX
- Conditioned Traits
- Traits Namer
- Go Go Totori (Alchemy System Script)



Graphics

DISCLAIMER: We had been compiling a credits list of our graphics as we obtained them but lost most of the list due to a power outage. If you notice any graphics in our game that are not credited PLEASE let us know and we will update the credits list appropriately ASAP. Thank you so much!

Notes: As with our scripts, not all of our graphics have been used yet in the playable Demo, but will most likely be used in the final release of our game.

Special Shout Out: GrandmaDeb! You are a very awesome lady, all of the compilations and lists you have posted on various sites made resource hunting much easier and we REALLY appreciate it. Thank you for all of the work you do! To anyone else out there trying to make a good RPG maker game, you really need to google her. Here, I'll do it for you! GrandmaDeb

We looked all over the internet for the resources we used in our game, and found them in many different places, but the RPG Maker VX Ace Forum and RPG Maker VX Community are the websites at which we found most of our graphics.

Character Generators
- Famitsu Character Generator
- Junk Hunt Character and Face Set Creator

Tile Sets
- Lunarea (Huge thanks, we used MANY of Lunarea's tile sets.)
- Celianna (Another one of whose tilesets we used a lot. Gorgeous work.)
- Hanzo
- FBU's Tileset Package
- Raith
- Indra
Note: Many of the tileset files we have in our game are unmarked so we were unable to re-trace them to their original makers. Again, PLEASE let us know if you know who we need to credit for these. Thank you.

Face Sets and Portraits
- Old Crusty Polygon
- Tpasmall
- Jalen (We edited some of these Portraits down to face-set size. If this is a problem please let us know so we can come to a solution.)
- Lunarea (We edited some of these Portraits down to face-set size. If this is a problem please let us know so we can come to a solution.)
- Avadan
- Kimaila

Character Sets
- Emmych
- Liberty's Edits (Love the ghosts!)
- Tpasmall
- Jalen
- Lunara
- LordBagardo
- Avadan
- Jessie
- Antares
- Cocodoku (Japanese Source)
- zeRobuRn
- FenixFyreX
- Nagomi
- EB/Tsukuru
- Popoyan
- Yoshino
- Tatanya
- Deeb
- Kirtash
- Kaduki (Japanese Source)
- Closet's (Japanese Source and Compilation)
- Ehima & Arita
- Makapri

Animations
- Timmah
- LexusX
- Wondertouch

Battlers
- Thalzon (Shout out here. These are some of our favorite battlers on the web.)
- Old Crusty Polygon (Your name makes me lol every time.)
- Liberty's Edits
- Tpasmall


Audio
- Carf (We cute puppies love you. Great music, don't stop creating.) Listen Here
- Aaron Krogh
- Edward Baquet
- Freedy Frame
- Durnik

Download!

Demo 0.3

Demo 0.3 Changes
-Pass-ability errors in the first town and the Sewers
-Kingdom Dungeon Crash Error
- Missing Title Screen BGM
- Missing Overworld map BGM

Demo 0.2 Changes
-Alchemist Gregory immortal bug fixed
-File size minimized from 558 MB to 393 MB
-Continuity errors fixed
-World Map has more details although not all areas are accessible

Our Website

Kingdom of Secrets Website

 

[Archeia]

I will approve this but you have 48 hours to read the Tagging Guide and modify your topic. Please follow the keywords exactly, especially the first BOLDED part about the checking first tag as prefix. Thank you.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

Thank you for approving the post. We fixed the tagging error. I'm sorry I skipped over that thread the first time.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

Respectful bump after 72 hours.

 

[tpasmall]

There is an error with your audio file- "160-B - Lilith's Rage (1)" should be named "160-B - Lilith's Rage". Haven't gotten into the game yet, I just figured I'd note that since the game can't be started without renaming that file.

Edit:

Noticed a few other bugs right off the bat, if you go all the way north in the opening town you can walk over the pile of rubble, not triggering the event that lets you leave. Then in the dungeon, when the one girl unlocks the door, if you are pressing a directional button as she's walking out, it freezes the game.

 

[Clord]

Checking it out.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

There is an error with your audio file- "160-B - Lilith's Rage (1)" should be named "160-B - Lilith's Rage". Haven't gotten into the game yet, I just figured I'd note that since the game can't be started without renaming that file.

Edit:

Noticed a few other bugs right off the bat, if you go all the way north in the opening town you can walk over the pile of rubble, not triggering the event that lets you leave. Then in the dungeon, when the one girl unlocks the door, if you are pressing a directional button as she's walking out, it freezes the game.

We have fixed the bugs you mentioned and will be putting out an updated demo soon. Please let us know if you encounter any more problems, thanks!

 

[tpasmall]

I found it online, but I do make stuff with perler beads. I have a blue chocobo with a moogle rider on my fridge right now, ha.

PS I also found a passability error in the sewer. It's right above the guy you follow with the healing spring to the left (you can walk right out into all the black space).

Edit: When trying to leave the sewers I get the error "unable to find file: audio/bgm/310- world map", the file isn't in the demo

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

I found it online, but I do make stuff with perler beads. I have a blue chocobo with a moogle rider on my fridge right now, ha.

PS I also found a passability error in the sewer. It's right above the guy you follow with the healing spring to the left (you can walk right out into all the black space).

Edit: When trying to leave the sewers I get the error "unable to find file: audio/bgm/310- world map", the file isn't in the demo

Haha okay we'll fix those bugs as well. We down-sized the project file by getting rid of un-used music and apparently accidentally got rid of some used music as well. Thanks for helping us find all of these errors.

Edit: Bugs should all be fixed now, and the new download link added. Let us know if you find anything else!

 

[Archduke]

This interests me, but make sure your maps aren't too big with a bunch of empty space; that really detracts from the overall quality.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

This interests me, but make sure your maps aren't too big with a bunch of empty space; that really detracts from the overall quality.

Were you referring to any maps in particular? We simply haven't finished our over-world map completely yet, that's a work in progress, but as for the smaller maps that are accessible in the demo I can't think of any that fit that description. Thanks.

 

[Archduke]

Were you referring to any maps in particular? We simply haven't finished our over-world map completely yet, that's a work in progress, but as for the smaller maps that are accessible in the demo I can't think of any that fit that description. Thanks.

Hm? Oh, I meant the maps in your Screenshots spoiler. I haven't downloaded anything particular just yet.

 

[Clord]

Hm? Oh, I meant the maps in your Screenshots spoiler. I haven't downloaded anything particular just yet.

I kind of like how his maps are not so claustrophobic. Then again it is just a personal reference to rather make terrain look varied than make pathways to feel like mazes instead of how they would be built in the real world with some room for more than one person to pass by at time.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

I kind of like how his maps are not so claustrophobic. Then again it is just a personal reference to rather make terrain look varied than make pathways to feel like mazes instead of how they would be built in the real world with some room for more than one person to pass by at time.

I kind of like how his maps are not so claustrophobic. Then again it is just a personal reference to rather make terrain look varied than make pathways to feel like mazes instead of how they would be built in the real world with some room for more than one person to pass by at time.

thank you! Yeah, we were sort of going for more of a 'real world' feel when it came to how places would be laid out. This IS a fantasy game, but for example in the bar/inn, we figured though there would be a lot of people and things going on in the bar area, in the inn "lobby" it wouldn't be packed. There would be room to move around and for guests to get up the stairs without having to weave through a crowded bar.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

Hello! Just wanted to let everyone know that we took a brief hiatus from production due to school and work and what not, but we are again working hard on this project. Expect to see some updates in the near future. (We will hopefully have a very substantial update finished by Christmas.) Thanks!

~Kingdom of Secrets Team.

 

[ObtrusiveWhale]

Hello again! So it's been almost a year since we last tackled this project. After having our apartment burn down, adjusting to the new place and getting everything going again, we are finally back at work with this project. We have been for a while now, taking things slow but steady. As reflected in the first post of this topic, a new demo is on its way with a lot of exciting changes. We look forward to sharing this with you when it's ready!