.hack//Refresh Vol. 1

[Fortet]

So here's the lowdown on the new Character Creation system:



Taking a note from the game .hack//fragment, I have created a new way to create your own personalized character! You start by choosing your class from the above screen. After that, a new sub-screen appears, prompting you to choose your gender, followed by you Elite Character Type. Each class has three Elite Character Types; think of it as a secondary class that only affects the kind of weapons your character can equip (i.e., a Wandering Wavemaster equips wands, a Monk Wavemaster equips staffs, and a Scholar Wavemaster equips spellbooks). Next, you're asked to choose between four waves: Earth, Fire, Water, and Dark. That makes for 144 different possible playable characters!

(Note: As I complete spriting all available options, the rest of the class buttons will have their own silhouettes previewing a possible E.C.T.)

[Fortet]

NEW CHARACTER REVEALED:


Name: Shiruba
Gender: Female
Class: Twinblade
Age: Unknown
Player Info: Shiruba is a player with no recollection of her recent past. She has a hard time remembering events from her real life as well, and she can not log out due to not being in front of a terminal. It is assumed that her consciousness is trapped within "The World." She tends to be very distant and cold due to this.

EDIT: Here's a WIP of her character art
http://fortet.deviantart.com/art/Shiruba-Character-Art-WIP-171991300

[Fortet]

Name: Akio
Gender: Male
Class: Longarm
Age: 17
Player Info: Akio is your long-time best friend. He invited you to play "The World." Akio loves adventure and is always ready to explore. He's extremely curious of the going-ons in "The World," and wants to get to the bottom of its mysteries.

Any sort of C+C is welcome

[Fisherson]

Wel now! This is looking most promising!...Like it ever stoped XD Nice sprites man, keep up the good work and I'm very much looking forward to dissecting that character creation system as I've always wanted to see if it'd work in RPG maker 2003.

[Fortet]

So I'm not dead! I've been working on this like crazy!
I'm waiting for Prpl_Mage to give me a diagnostics on the Chaos Gate menu, and I've been busy spriting for Theta Server (Dun Loireag), other party members (whom will soon be made known), and setting up various in-game systems (in-game menu for "The World," which includes the invite party menu).

Look forward to lots of screenshots soon!

[Fortet]

Alright, so no screenshots just yet, but loads of fun party members! Here we go:


Name: Eir
Gender: Female
Class: Wavemaster
Age: 14
Player Info: Eir is a gossiper. She loves to know the how-and-when of everything, and is always the player to turn to if you want to know about the latest rumor. Unfortunately, she is also known to lie, and charges a high price for the truth. She prefers to play alone and doesn't have any true friends. She gets her jollies from putting other players down as well.


Name: Tatu
Gender: Male
Class: Blademaster
Age: 23
Player Info: Tatu is a well-known and well-respected player in "The World." A high-level rare item hunter, he's known to hardly ever be found in a root town unless he's holding one of his famous in-game auctions. He derives his name from his aspired career in the real world, and he loves to help out new adventurers from time to time.


Name: Sox
Gender: Male
Class: Twinblade
Age: 10
Player Info: Always rearing and ready to go, Sox is very adventurous for his age. He tends to get carried away too quickly, and because of this tends to get in a lot of trouble. In the real world, he's very intelligent and has skipped grades four through seven.


Name: Lynne
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Class: Heavyaxe
Player Info: Lynne is a player from France who enjoys playing on the American servers from time to time. An English teacher in her native country, her speech is fluent, and she can pull off a rather convincing accent. She's a great strategist and can be very manipulative if necessary. She never acts on impulse and always carries a great sense of tact around herself.

[Fortet]

Dear Charas,

.hack//Refrfesh has been such a large work of mine for the past few years.

It has never seen a true demo release.  It has gone through various changes (graphics, story, systems, etc...).  So much has been created for this project.  So much was scrapped from this project.  So much was learned for this project.

And now, I am sad to say that this project, just like all of my projects, will never be completed.

I know no one is truly disappointed.  Sure, you might be a little upset, but did any of you really think I was going to ACTUALLY finish it?

All of that aside, I only have one question for you, Charas: do you want a release of what I have at this point?  Before you answer, this is what a "release" would include:

-A SEVERELY incomplete desktop
-Non-functional Character Creation Menu
-Fully-mapped Mac Anu
-Partially-mapped Dun Loireag
-Partially-functioning Chaos Gate

If anyone is interested, simply post here.  I will zip up a copy and post it here for anybody interested.  It will be in your best interest to open it up as a project in RPG Maker 2003 so you can go in and edit variables/switches as need while running in test play.  This will also give interested people a chance to look at any of the coding or graphics.

I will also be glad to answer any questions regarding any aspect of the project here.  This includes coding, graphics, etc...

Great Love,
-Fortet

[Prpl_Mage]

Aw... What a bummer. Here I thought you'd update about another cool system in the game and you say that it's over.

And I'm very interested in the project and would love to take part of your hard work. This game is one of those projects that made me seek a deeper knowledge of RPGM programming either way.

[Fortet]

Well, if you are interested, I'd be more than happy to zip it up and share it. I haven't done much since you looked at it last, Prpl, but there's still some nifty stuff. I also may share how the various systems would have worked at some point

[Brieg]

for sure post it.

i for one followed your attempts from as early as .hack//RESURRECTION, and i was never really into it. Playing as a wave master was a bad idea. Completely custom characters was another.

There is so much potential in your ideas. Perhaps take this somewhere else. The best games are former fangames, so who knows.

its upsetting hat this coincides the end of the real .hack series.

godspeed

[zuhane]

Everything will be okay. Zip it and put it on here. I'd like to try it!!

[Fortet]

omg wuts dis?

.hack//Refresh

Finally got around to zipping this up.
Enjoy

[drenrin2120]

downloading.

[drenrin2120]

It was cool, but there was like five minutes of stuff. :/ I know you said there wasn't much, its too bad you couldn't do more with this. I'm gonna roam around the maps later tonight.