The Legend of Zelda: Fallen Goddess

[Joporai124]

I am working on a game called The Legend of Zelda: Fallen Goddess and am looking for talented people to help me.

Story: link is chilling in the forest where he lives laying on his back watching the stars when all of a sudden he see something that looks like a shooting star. However he soon realises it is something else. He rushes into his house to grab his binoculars and take a closer look. At this point he realises it is not a shooting star it is in fact a girl with blonde hair. he sees her land somewhere in the forest. this is where the game begins. Your first task is to head into the forest and locate the girl. When you get to where the girl landed she is unconscious so you take her back to your house. when she wakes up and learns where she is she then states that she is the goddess Pyrrah and that she was cast down to earth by the evil god Zalkar to which she gives you an amulet to where so she can stay safe and recover (She then becomes a talking necklace throughout the game who helps you sorta like Navi in OOT) and the rest of the game pans out from their and basically you must obtain the wind charm to force Zalkar down from the heavens which weakens him so you can defeat him and save the goddesses.

What I Need:

Artist (for sprites, Tiles, FaceSets and Icons etc.) FYI I have link spritesheet and Faceset.

Writers (for writing the story and Dialogue etc.)

Here is the form:

Spoiler

Position: (What Position you would like to be at)Examples: (Of iconsets, characters, facesets etc.)

Ideas: (any ideas that would further improve the game)

Areas of Expertise: (Any specific areas you excell in)

Artists: 2 slots

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Writers: 2 slots

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I am capable of many things in the way of Eventing and graphics but I have no idea where to start when it comes to character sheets, facesets, Icons, Tilesets, Scripting and Variables.

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What I can do is Title screens, Switches, Game Overs, Evented Cut scenes, some dialogue functionality.

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Also if there is anything else I need let me know.

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Characters:

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Link: Need I say more.

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Pyrrah: The Fallen Goddess.

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Zalkar: Main Bad Guy.

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Kudos: Good friend of Link and chief of the forest.

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Landdrell: King of Hyrule.

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Cathrine: Childhood love interest of Link.

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Zelda: Princess of Hyrule, Helps link a couple of times.

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[Reynard Frost]

Two things:

1) Your story would be more effective if you removed the Legend of Zelda everything from it. It can stand on its own and has little to do with the established universe as it is. You shouldn't slap existing IPs titles on your game as it actually hurts your credibility instead of helping it.

2) What do you plan on doing to help make the game? From the looks of it, you're asking people to make the game for you. NOTE: "I offer ideas and tell people what I want made" is not enough.

Not trying to attack you or anything, but all I see here is a post with a paragraph rough summary of a story idea and nothing related to how the game should play. You need to contribute more than that if you want others to take this seriously and want to help you out on it.

 

[RyanA]

What Reynard said. Adding to it though, there are more than enough resources up here and on other websites that are something similar to the legend of zelda, this includes battle systems, graphics, icons etc, for music you could take your favourite bits from legend of zelda games.

The story seems OK, as Reynard said, just take the legend of zelda off and it would stand as it's own title. Personally, I'm a bit annoyed by all of the Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda RPG Maker games, it seems to have died down a lot now, but a few years ago they were everywhere.

Last, as this project stands, I wouldn't really like to help it, it just seems like a small story and that's it. I wouldn't want to use my time and energy helping with a project that might dissapear after a week or two.

 

[Joporai124]

So what your both saying is other people are aloud to do this and request all this stuff and have people agree to it. but I'm not

also if there are a shed load of Zelda resources for RPG Maker VX/Ace then why wouldn't people make fan games of their favourite series.

also if it does sound as bad as you say it does then why was this topic approved by moderators

 

[RyanA]

That's not what we're saying at all!

 

[Joporai124]

so what are you saying then. Please elaborate

I've seen lots of project recruitments set out like this and they've got help for it.

OP updated with things I can and can't do when it comes to RPG Maker

OP updated again with characters.

 

[RyanA]

What we are trying to say, is that we think your story is good and could be nice as it's own IP, I only said I didn't like fan copies of well known IPs because I saw so many of them every day a few years ago on VX.net (and honestly, many of them turned out to be bad, it wasn't often there was a good one) I don't mean anything bad by what I'm saying and I'm sure Reynard doesn't either!

Anyway, usually it's nice to have something a bit more than just the story when your asking for help, people who would help usually like to see that the game maker is putting in a lot of effort as well, at least that's how I felt when I used to map for people's projects back in 'the day'

Edit - Somehow I have left over dinner on my fingers 'lick lick' :3

 

[Joporai124]

ok dude it's just that you didn't exactly explain what you meant so I got the wrong idea so my bad sorry.

 

[RyanA]

No no, it's ok, it's my fault for explaining it bad, I'm sorry too :3

 

[Levi]

I'm gonna burst a bubble or two here...

Scripter: 5 slotsArtists: 4 slots

Writers: 2 slots

Not sure if I'm reading this right or not... but you intend to have a team of 11 plus you? 12 whole, fully grown and functional human beings? You want 5 dedicated Scripters? Really? There are hundreds and hundreds of scripts available online, yet you want 5 dedicated people to script for you? Do you know what functionality(ies) you're looking for? And have you looked for existing scripts? If you only need a script or two, you can request them via Script Requests... but there are a bunch of HUD/Battle System scripts out there.

And what is the scope of this game? It's all fine and good to toss us a pitch and synopisis, but what is the end game? And have you fleshed out the game a bit more than what is shown in the OP? To present nothing but a basic Story, and then Request the help of 11 people... when you don't seem to have done much work yourself... is very silly. You don't even know how variables work... which shows that you haven't even bothered going through any tutorials or spent much time in RM. Yet you expect to lead 11 people in the creation of a game.

Also... clearly, since you're using trademarked and copywrited Canon/characters/graphics, this won't be a commercial game... so you just want 11 entire human beings to make this game with you (rather, for you) for ****s and giggles? Good luck.

I don't mean to be rude... I just want to be realistic here. The synopsis seems solid, and I'm sure the game would be fun... but your expectations are a bit off in my opinion.

 

[Joporai124]

I'm gonna burst a bubble or two here...

Not sure if I'm reading this right or not... but you intend to have a team of 11 plus you? 12 whole, fully grown and functional human beings? You want 5 dedicated Scripters? Really? There are hundreds and hundreds of scripts available online, yet you want 5 dedicated people to script for you? Do you know what functionality(ies) you're looking for? And have you looked for existing scripts? If you only need a script or two, you can request them via Script Requests... but there are a bunch of HUD/Battle System scripts out there.

And what is the scope of this game? It's all fine and good to toss us a pitch and synopisis, but what is the end game? And have you fleshed out the game a bit more than what is shown in the OP? To present nothing but a basic Story, and then Request the help of 11 people... when you don't seem to have done much work yourself... is very silly. You don't even know how variables work... which shows that you haven't even bothered going through any tutorials or spent much time in RM. Yet you expect to lead 11 people in the creation of a game.

Also... clearly, since you're using trademarked and copywrited Canon/characters/graphics, this won't be a commercial game... so you just want 11 entire human beings to make this game with you (rather, for you) for ****s and giggles? Good luck.

I don't mean to be rude... I just want to be realistic here. The synopsis seems solid, and I'm sure the game would be fun... but your expectations are a bit off in my opinion.

Good point I'll update and elaborate when I sorted through.

 

[Joporai124]

I ask for help and all I get is problems and shoot downs.

no one takes into account that maybe This is my first attempt and I don't know all that's needed of RPG Maker VX Ace to make this sort of game.

 

[Levi]

In fact can someone close this topic down I'll do it all myself. if it comes out bad then S*** happens I ask for help and all I get is problems and shoot downs if this is how you want the community to work then feel free.

I did not intend to offend, my friend. [Edit: I'm a rhyme machine!! *CHEAYAH*]

Just because we're a "community" doesn't mean that we'll volunteer ourselves to take part in the creation of 1/10th thought out, plagiaristic games while the Master mind sits back making Title Screens and "switches". Just put a bit more though into it. It'd be a shame to get people involved and invested in this game, only for the gimmick/novelty to wear off and have you abandon the whole deal. Games are a challenge... especially when you're dealing with 11 different folks, each with different strokes, who aren't being paid...

 

[Reynard Frost]

In fact can someone close this topic down I'll do it all myself. if it comes out bad then S*** happens I ask for help and all I get is problems and shoot downs if this is how you want the community to work then feel free.

Stop acting like a victim. The things we mention apply to ALL people who try to do this, not just you. We're pointing out why you will find your current plan difficult. You have offered very little, and you are asking for quite a bit. All you have done is said "Here's an idea, make this for me." All we're saying is you need to do more than that, do some research, do some work.

You may see other topics like this as well, but they're just as bad. You were just lucky/unfortunate enough to have us notice yours and say something about it. You can either rage and leave, or you can LISTEN and work with our advice so both your story idea and your future as a game developer can be better.

 

[Joporai124]

I didn't intend to offend my friend.

Just because we're a "community" doesn't mean that we'll volunteer ourselves to take part in the creation of 1/10th thought out, plagiaristic games while the Master mind sits back making Title Screens and "switches".

if you haven't noticed I scrapped that post and changed it.

 

[Levi]

if you haven't noticed I scrapped that post and changed it.

I hadn't noticed. Thanks for the heads up.

no one takes into account that maybe This is my first attempt and I don't know all that's needed of RPG Maker VX Ace to make this sort of game.

That's no excuse.

Ask questions... make a few practice games. I got through 17 maps, many dozens of events, and many lines of dialogue before I even asked a question here. I figured out 90% of what I know now on my own in RM.

Practice, learn... make a few small games before trying to make a big game.

To jump right to a development team with bodies in the double digits is outrageous. Start by making a game that can be beaten in 20 minutes, and put it up in these forum for critique. Don't go balls out from the start... or you'll trip on 'em!

 

[Joporai124]

All I really need is for someone to help me. I apologize for that out burst it's not like me and it doesn't help also tell me exactly what the problem is and I'll sort it.

or ask for help if I can't instead of coming in here and shooting me down then leaving without telling me exactly what I need to sort out.

 

[RyanA]

But...we have told you, many times now! I wouldn't say we are 'shooting you down' either, we're just giving you a bit of advice is all. 3:

 

[Levi]

All I really need is for someone to help me.

Help with what?

I apologize for that out burst it's not like me and it doesn't help also tell me exactly what the problem is and I'll sort it.

No worries.

And I believe that we've explained the problem rather well. You're expect much from us, but provide nothing yourself. That's not to say we won't answer questions and help as best we can when fair.... it just means that you came to this forum asking for 11 people to make a game for/with you, while you admit to not knowing how variables work, and that is hardly fair.

or ask for help if I can't instead of coming in here and shooting me down then leaving without telling me exactly what I need to sort out.

Who is leaving? We're not "shooting" you down.... we're calling you out.

 

[Joporai124]

ok ok. right I'm asking for help as there is much I cannot do on my own I have changed the OP so their is no need for scripters I will find scripts myself. I have also said what things I am and am not capable of doing.

what are you expecting me to know I've tried several tutorials on Variables even downloading Celiana's Beginners guide to variables but I still don't understand how to use them.

so what am I suppose to do.