RMMV River Lord [IGMC 2018]

[l8rose]

River Lord on Itch.io​

River Lord is a Fantasy RPG set on a chain of islands. Take on the role of Koi, a young orphan on the cup of adulthood, as they discover secrets of their past and journey into an uncertain future. Starting out, they are accompanied by a set of twins but their party may grow depending on their choices.

Spoiler: Main Characters

Koi

Koi is the main character of our story. An individual on the cusp of adulthood, they have lived most of their life in the quiet village of Kelos. Ten years prior to the beginning of River Lord, Koi was found clinging to life on the banks of the Accades River. Koi does remember the life before but the memories have become distorted with time.
Koi’s personality is determined by the actions of the player.
Koi begins the game as a warrior class with a simple knife as their main weapon. Throughout the gameplay, Koi will unlock new abilities and powers.
Changeable Name and Gender

Sorcha

Sorcha is the younger sister of a set of twins. She has lived her entire life in Kelos Village but dreams of one day moving to somewhere more exciting. Sorcha prefers to be sitting out on the mountain paths or in hard to reach places.
Sorcha, with her twin brother Nial, have been friends with Koi since they were children. Sorcha is the friend instigating trouble for the trio. If it’s against the rules then even better. Somehow, she manages to get them all out of trouble once she gets them in.
Sorcha begins the game as a warrior class with a bow as her main weapon.
Recruitable & Quest Giver

Nial

Nial is the elder brother of a set of twins. He has lived his entire life in Kelos Village with the occasional trip to one of the larger villages with this Father. He has taken up apprenticeship to Hunter Irgaz and is often found either in the forest or working with the older Villager.
Nial, with his twin sister Sorcha, have been friends with Koi since they were children. Nial is the more dependable twin, often doing what is expected of him instead of what he’d want to do. That being said, he tends to go along with whatever Koi suggests but will always be the friend advocating common sense.
Nial begins the game as a warrior class with a sword as their main weapon.
Recruitable & Quest Giver

Spoiler: Setting

River Lord takes place on a series of islands, beginning in the village of Kelos. A small village, it houses several NPCs that offer quests as well as vendors. The main story revolves around Koi and discovering new changes as they become an adult. Along the way, Koi discovers that there is a problem affecting the islands and those who live there.
Magic exists in the game but the initial characters will all start out as basic villagers. The player will get to change their class as well as have them learn additional abilities. The world itself is a mix of fantasy and medieval.

Spoiler: To Do List

• Finish maps
• Update busts
• Continue storyline
• Update quest journal

Spoiler: Screenshots

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Spoiler: Videos

Spoiler: Additional Art

Monsters​

Additional Character designs​

Spoiler: Credits

Art - Avery, Pandamaru, Hiddenone, Sythian Bard, Indrah, Whtdragon, FSM Town & Forest
Plugins - Huddel, Yanfly
Music - Murray Atkinson, Jukebox, Wonderland Music Pack, Fantasy Music

If I forgot someone here, please let me know. I will be adding in the proper music credits once I've selected all the appropriate music.

 

[l8rose]

Time crunch is on for the IGMC 2018 deadline but progressing quite well with this.
Longer storyline (working on getting the main quest closer to that hour length) and potentially adjusting the sprites to larger form over the next two days before submitting.
Temporarily disabled the Gender Choice to allow for more content on at least one story path (less time working on alternate routes/images to focus on the main storyline). Removed a plugin that didn't fit with my final view of the game. While adjusted the menu layout to remove a few options.
Going to have a demo up on this thread once the Judging for IGMC 2018 is done.

Plan for December is to at least work on my own Class and Skill training Plugin as right now, can't find one to quite fit what I want and my events look pretty gross with how they're laid out right now. Too many nested IF loops on too many event pages. I'm also going to design a different window instead of the one from the MV plugin (I like it but I want it more "water" like).

 

[l8rose]

It's now up on IGMC and the rating system has opened.

River Lord on itch.io

 

[l8rose]

Working on some more art for the game before getting back to playing more IGMC 2018 submissions.

Spoiler: Blighted version of Toad sketch

Spoiler: Kirun's ingame image Sketch

I'll probably start more heavily working on the game beyond art once finals are over but already fixing a few of the problems people let me know about.

 

[l8rose]

Been working steadily on this (when I wasn't studying) but most of the updates are on the itch.io devlogs so to sum it up:
Art: Started making larger sprites, started the extra characters that weren't in the IGMC demo, started to edit a few character images (both to design them a little better and to fix some mistakes), finished a few other maps.

Technical-ish: Started working on a HUD, updated the save file system, fixed the map that was utterly broken in the demo, fixed the festival restart. also increased the size of the Festival map so that the "shake" animation doesn't show black borders.

Decided this week to change Koi's "dialogue" image to be more similar to a VN style to allow more room for other character images and to display sprite events better. They'll be smaller then the others but I feel that'd give it a clearer division between who's being interacted with and who's the main character. Here's the preliminary redesign for both:



And that's about it for this mid-December update.

 

[l8rose]

Still chugging away on art for the game.

I've done a few monsters who's sketches have been posted on my art thread here so I won't repost but that means I'm swapping out the default RPGMaker monster artwork for new stuff. I'll also need to create new sprites for those (or get someone else to do them) to better fit the change in the artwork.

Also redoing the HUD I was working on but may end up completely removing that as I don't really like the way it looks. I may just change the HUD to reflect some stats in the game (like the in game time, amount of River Stones and such).

Decided to do a bit of an update to the battle sprites before I continue on the storyline. Different characters will have a different amount of sprites based on their available classes in the game.

Nial's wip Sprites:

 

[l8rose]

Please close this thread as this game has been combined with my other one.
Thank you!