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Flight of the Eagle
The Story
It is the 259th year of the Galactic Empire, approx 800 years after the invention of the W-Drive and humanity first journeyed to the stars.
The aging Emporer and his daughter are attending a Navy award ceremony when disaster strikes, the Emporer is murdered by one of his most trusted admirals. But before he is able to complete his uprising the Princess escapes and boards the only ship left that is loyal to the Empire, the Eagle.
Follow the Eagle as it takes its final flight, a mission to deliver the Princess to one of the only remaining worlds where she will truly be safe.
The Project
This is going to be Sci Fi RPG based around the idea of a space ships final mission. You will play different members of the crew, each with their own style of gameplay, as the game takes the ship ever closer to its final goal.
This is a free game that is being built on the VX ACE engine.
The game will be based around multiple different battle systems that all use a similar backbone of an ATB engine. There will be 3 distinct types of combat. Actor based, Spaceship based, and Bridge based.
Actor and spaceships will use the same ATB engine and HUD, with the ship combat having a few extra features. A very early concept of the layout and HUD is in this video. All the graphics were done in paint to just test the layout and animations.
The Bridge based combat will take place on the ships bridge. You take on the roll of the captain and you issue orders to your crew who will then perform actions, at its heart it will use the same ATB system as before but with a strategic feel to it as many of the actions will have a delay to them. For example to may order missiles to be fired but it will take several turns for them to actually hit their target and cause damage.
The game itself will use a fairly traditional style but in a sci fi setting, the combat i plan on using the layout from pokemon as a rough guide, with the player in the foreground and the enemies over their shoulder. For the maps I plan on doing parallax overlay but that may change. An old project of mine shows my mapping style as well as an early ship combat script - http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/31423-beyond-the-storm-now-with-demo/
The Future
I am planning on this game to be around 2-3 hours long split into around 5-8 sections each with a different crew member as its lead. The game will have multiple paths and several endings.
Once this is finished I plan on building a much larger game set several years later. It will be a much more open world game using many of the concepts from this one.
Roles
As you can see from the video I am in dire need of graphics artists, although I also need help with other aspects too. I prefer the technical aspects so the artistic side is completely open to anyone who wants to put their style on it.
Project Lead - me
Story - Me
Scripting - Me
Mapping - Me, but others welcome
Graphics - Open, I need all kinds of Artists
Music - Open
SFX - Open
Testers - EliteKilljoy, Prince of Sarcasm, still Open
As the game will be free i expect you to be work for free, but for those who contribute I am willing to offer my help in return.
I expect everyone to act mature and work as a team.
PM me or post in here if you are interested or want further information.
The Story
It is the 259th year of the Galactic Empire, approx 800 years after the invention of the W-Drive and humanity first journeyed to the stars.
The aging Emporer and his daughter are attending a Navy award ceremony when disaster strikes, the Emporer is murdered by one of his most trusted admirals. But before he is able to complete his uprising the Princess escapes and boards the only ship left that is loyal to the Empire, the Eagle.
Follow the Eagle as it takes its final flight, a mission to deliver the Princess to one of the only remaining worlds where she will truly be safe.
The Project
This is going to be Sci Fi RPG based around the idea of a space ships final mission. You will play different members of the crew, each with their own style of gameplay, as the game takes the ship ever closer to its final goal.
This is a free game that is being built on the VX ACE engine.
The game will be based around multiple different battle systems that all use a similar backbone of an ATB engine. There will be 3 distinct types of combat. Actor based, Spaceship based, and Bridge based.
Actor and spaceships will use the same ATB engine and HUD, with the ship combat having a few extra features. A very early concept of the layout and HUD is in this video. All the graphics were done in paint to just test the layout and animations.
The Bridge based combat will take place on the ships bridge. You take on the roll of the captain and you issue orders to your crew who will then perform actions, at its heart it will use the same ATB system as before but with a strategic feel to it as many of the actions will have a delay to them. For example to may order missiles to be fired but it will take several turns for them to actually hit their target and cause damage.
The game itself will use a fairly traditional style but in a sci fi setting, the combat i plan on using the layout from pokemon as a rough guide, with the player in the foreground and the enemies over their shoulder. For the maps I plan on doing parallax overlay but that may change. An old project of mine shows my mapping style as well as an early ship combat script - http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/31423-beyond-the-storm-now-with-demo/
The Future
I am planning on this game to be around 2-3 hours long split into around 5-8 sections each with a different crew member as its lead. The game will have multiple paths and several endings.
Once this is finished I plan on building a much larger game set several years later. It will be a much more open world game using many of the concepts from this one.
Roles
As you can see from the video I am in dire need of graphics artists, although I also need help with other aspects too. I prefer the technical aspects so the artistic side is completely open to anyone who wants to put their style on it.
Project Lead - me
Story - Me
Scripting - Me
Mapping - Me, but others welcome
Graphics - Open, I need all kinds of Artists
Music - Open
SFX - Open
Testers - EliteKilljoy, Prince of Sarcasm, still Open
As the game will be free i expect you to be work for free, but for those who contribute I am willing to offer my help in return.
I expect everyone to act mature and work as a team.
PM me or post in here if you are interested or want further information.
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