Recalcitrant (title may change)

[Meiscool-2]

Alright, I edited the DBS greatly, but I still found it horridly boring, so I quit.
I also tried the tactics system, but found some trouble in making enemy movement, so I just desided not to do that as well.
As you all know, my last game was Pact, which many of you would've wished to see completed, but I wouldn't put out a demo because of bugs. As Pact was my first non-RTP game and non-DBS game, I probally should've worked my coding out a bit better before I actually posted a game, but **** happens. Because of Pact though, I can now make nearly flawless ABS scripts, and so I intend to make another ABS game.

Recalcitrant (meaning rebellious and resisting), is about a young girl (whom you get to name) and her tragic epic. I don't want to give away to much of the plot at the moment (i'll tell you it's sorta like FF2), but I will give you the intro:

In the begining, your mother has chores that you and your brothers must do. These "chores" teach you the ways of the game, from using your sword, to using magic, and to using special sword skills. They also teach you about puzzles and interactive things in the game. Once your tutorial "chores" are complete, your mother will ask you and one of your brothers to go out and pick some herbs for her at are at the bottom of the mountain. To get to the bottom, you'll have to go through a cave, which is filled with rather easy beginer monsters. Your brother will deside to take a different path, leaving you by yourself to fight.
Once you collect the herbs, you'll hear the town bells, and ZOMG (cliche, I know, but I but a large twist to this to make it less cliche) it's under attackzors! You get there to find the greatest portion of the town eradicated, and most of the towns people killed. You, a weaponsmith named Dent (whom you had to do a chore for), your brother, your friend Rhea, and a few other people of no importance to the game live. Dent's son (Derik, who had a mad crush over your character, but you think he's icky) was killed in the raid, and Dent swares revenge. More to find your brother then to help Dent, you and Rhea leave with him....

Your story will revolve around these four characters:

You (age 17)
Weapon: Rapier
Weapon Skill: Long Stab
Strengths: Moderate stats. Auto active weapon skill. Attacks two spaces away instead of one.
Weaknesses: Requires an orb to use magic.

Dent (age 35)
Weapon: Sword
Weapon Skill: Blade Beam
Strengths: High attack power, has double swings, and has two sets of weapon types. Also, has a distance attack.
Weaknesses: Requires an orb to use magic, slightly slower swings then the other players.

Rhea (age 16)
Weapon: Spear
Weapon Skill: Javalin
Strengths: Best weapon skill. Needs no orb to use magic.
Weaknesses: Low stats, less useful lvl3 magic.

Brother (age 25)
Weapon: Axe
Weapon Skill: Heavy Swing
Strengths: Good melee stats. Double swings.
Weaknesses:Requires an orb to use magic, least useful weapon skill.

Explantion of orbs:
This is an outright copy of FF:CC. In fact, the whole magic system is a copy of FF:CC. Orbs can be found in dungeons. By picking one up, you can use it's power. There are three lvls of magic, and 4 types of magic that YOU can use (meaning there's more types of magic that enemies can use). Magic lvls can be switched by pressing the 1,2,or 3 buttons while the orb is equipt.
Lvl 1 Magic: Effects only the square it's on. More powerful then a lvl2 attack, but less effect radius.
Lvl 2 Magic: Depending on the orb type, this will have a large or small radius. It will always have a bigger radius then lvl1 magic though.
Lvl 3 Magic: Effects all enemies on screen for high damage. After the attack, the orb breaks.

Orb types:
Fire
Water
Earth
Wind

Rhea doesn't need to use orbs, so her lvl 3 magic will be timed. If you use lvl3 with Rhea, then you'll have to wait a few minutes before you can use it again.

More info will be posted very shortly, but I just wanted to post this right now to see what you guys thought of the plot. I hope it doesn't sound to cliche.

[MSlash67]

This sounds like a pretty good plot so far..just as long as you can keep it going from there. I'd like to see the orb-magic-system work in this. and one more question: Is the main character a male or female?

Edit: Nvm....I just read that one line. skimming a story isnt the greatest idea.

[Meiscool-2]

Oh, Female. I thought people would get that from "Her tragic epic" but that could mean a princess of anything. So yeah, girl.

[MSlash67]

I didnt notice that. Good name too!

[Hell Angel]

Kick *ss, Meiscool. Kick *ss.

Can't wait for new and exciting screenshots.

[coasterkrazy]

Originally posted by Hell Angel
Can't wait for new and exciting screenshots.

Well, to be honest, I'm not. I'm looking forward to an actual release of something. I mean, I've seen many screenshots already, but I still haven't gotten anything hands-on. So, I can't really compliment this time around like I already have until I get to play something though. I'm sure it'll turn out really cool though when I do get to play it.

[Zeigue]

Vey nice. I look forward to to a demo release or some screenshots in the future

[coasterkrazy]

Zeigue: Screenshots - http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=15395&forumid=11&catid=4&page=1

Well, old ones anyway...

[Zeigue]

MY GOODNESS SCOTTY, THIS IS SIMPLY DIVINE!

eh..erm, sorry..impressive Meiscool, impressive indeed.

[Meiscool-2]

Your main character's stab. As you can see, it hits two spaces.



Dent's weapon skill, which is the blade beam:



Rhea casting magic:



Brother casting magic:



I know they kinda look meh because there's no HUD and ect, but I'm doin my best to bring you screens of the action.

You all remember my old first town right? Well, I redid some of it. Some might think it's to over detailed now and looked better before, others might like it. I like it.

(and yes, the water in the map does move up and down. I used three different tile sets to make that happen)

[Zeigue]

F*ckin sweet!

[ZeroKirbyX]

Story seems pretty cool, but its way cliche. I wanna see you make a story game instead of a "Lookit what I can do!" game. I'll be honest. At first your mapping and coding made me think WOW THAT'S COOL! But now, its lost its appeal. Sort of like eating a cheeseburger. Its great at first, but after you eat 12 you start to consider them meh.

[drenrin2120]

Originally posted by ZeroKirbyX
Story seems pretty cool, but its way cliche. I wanna see you make a story game instead of a "Lookit what I can do!" game. I'll be honest. At first your mapping and coding made me think WOW THAT'S COOL! But now, its lost its appeal. Sort of like eating a cheeseburger. Its great at first, but after you eat 12 you start to consider them meh.

Yeah dude, I agree. But you did say there was a a twist, so maybe just the beginning is cliche. I don't really know until I play a demo or something.

So far, not bad, for Meiscool anyway.
One thing, that town map looks sorta familiar. :p

[Meiscool-2]

I will seriously try me hardest to get a demo out this time. So far I've coded most of the battles and ect, so I have no bugs to complain about

[DragonBlaze]

Yeah, I really want to see a demo, you always brag (well not really) about your abs, so I'm interested to see how it'll work in action. :p

Yeah, the begining is cliche, I don't see how you can twist something and make it less cliche. At least you're not going off for revenge, so thats a plus. Overall, the story seems like it could develope nicely

As for maps, they're good, but they need more variety. Not as in variety in the actual maps, but all your maps (or at least the ones I've seen) are build the same style with jagged landscape. You need to make some more smoothed and regular looking. Sure its cool, but  when that style is over used again and again, it makes the world look totally unrealistic. A lot of areas are naturally flat, and you have to make sure you desing areas like that too and hopefully are able to make them just as appealing to look at.