Overall the rpg is 20% complete! A demo will be released shortly! IF anyone has questions about the map or ANY input please don't hesitate to tell me.
XYLAR SAGAQUOTE
UPDATES:
10/13: Another Massive Update
-Perfected the upgrade system
-Changed some of the terrain
-Demo is 90% done
-Added in a few characters
-Added and perfected a world map feature
-Added some more music to the map
-Fixed all glitches upto chapter 2
-Finished a couple of side quests
-10% of chapter 4 is done
9/30: Changed some minor things on this page.
9/29: A mini update
-Added an area (town)
-Demo is 80% completed
-Removed and changed some screenshots around
9/26: Another Massive Update
-Perfected the Dropship system for the items and spells
-Finished polishing prologue
-Renamed the World the rpg takes place in: It's now named Zaiita!
-Added some new themes and sound tracks
-Added some screenshots
-Changed alot of the backround info for the RPG
-Remodeled the theme for Gahm Town
-Removed some sidequests because of string limit
-Added in a few new areas
-Completed the Treasure Chest system
9/24: Massive Update
-Finished making the rpg upto chapter 3
-Demo almost finished
-Removed some areas due to limits in starcraft
-Changed Spell System and item system so it uses drop ship system
-Started working on the Cutscene Skip System
-Changed some character info and removed 2 characters
-Added information on the spells and items that I have so far!
9/21: Some locations removed and a name change: Xythar Saga
9/19: Story/Chapter Overview Posted
9/18: Opened Thread ; Location and Character Info Posted
Specifications:
3 Player
256X256
Jungle TerrainSCREENSHOTSSTORY OVERVIEW
"...comparable to a console rpg".
When you start the adventure, Jim Cortez and Roy Logan are preparing for a tournament. They go visit master shen at the dojo to get some last minute tips. They soon learn that the tournament has been postponed due to some "trouble with the xenos empire (the bad guys in the rpg)". Jim and Roy decide to investigate and they run into the 3rd main character Kato Devlin, a mercenary desperate to fight in the tourny. So he decides to help Jim and Roy. Evenaully the story unfolds. The RPG is split into 8 chapters. Each with different and exiciting gameplay!
SPELLS:
-Each player will learn upto 4 spells each but each CHARACTER can only learn one spell at a time. So that means each of the 3 players will have 4 units/heros join them throughout the rpg; some story important while others people are unlocked through side quests. I'll list some of the spells that I have so far!
Heal: Heals every unit near Jim Cortez
Explosion:Damages all enemies near Kato Devlin
After-image: Roy Logan moves so fast that he creates clones of himself
Mind-Control: Anybody near player one will be...well mind controlled and will join you (doesn't work on bosses)
Confusion: Prevents enemies from attacking
Invincible: Makes you...invincible for a short time
There are more spells comming...but these are the ones that I have made at the moment!
ITEMS:
You can buy HP AND MP Potions at the potion shop. You use them through the dropship system. Evenually you pick up revive potions. More potions such as a temporary strength increase potions are planned. Any more ideas for potions are appreciated!
Below are the characters and places you will go to:
CHARACTERS
GOOD GUYS
Jim Cortez
Age – 21
Origin – Taoru Villa
Description – Jim Cortez is a human born in Taoru Villa. Not much is known about his past other than the fact that the Xenos Empire has a special interest in him and nowhere is this more apparent then at the end of the tournament.
Roy Logan
Age – 23
Origin – Unknown
Description – Roy is Jim’s best friend. They grew up together and have trained together for the upcoming tournament. Roy is literally dragged into the adventure and comes to Jim’s aid…when certain events occur towards the end of the tournament!
Kato Devlin
Age – Unknown
Origin – Unknown
Description – Talk about a complete mystery man. Almost NOTHING is known about Kato Devlin. The only thing that is known is that he is a mercenary and he arrives in Tarou village to compete in the tournament and later for reasons unknown offers Roy Logan and Jim Cortez help.
Jorge Blacido
Age – 43
Origin – Rasmeer
Description – Jorge Blacido has trained for this tournament for his entire life. He is also a sworn adversary of the Xenos Empire and later he offers his services to Jim and the others to stop the evil Xenos.
Captain Rogus
Age – 57
Origin – Xaxais
Description – The captain of the Excess Express. When certain events occur later in the story, Captain Rogus decides to assist Roy and the others to defeat the Xenos. Unfortunately, being that Rogus is very old; his only skill is the ability to pilot any vehicle.
Kazar
Age – 405
Origin – Unknown
Description – This huge beast has massive power. He is also the strong silent type after Roy and others find him. Nothing is known about Kazar other than the fact that he has a score to settle with the Xenos.
Max Gendus
Age – 1034
Origin – Unknown
Description – Like Kazar, nothing is known about Max other than the fact that he despises Roy and only joins you after…a certain circumstance. It also seems Max and Kazar were born at the same place. Their origins?! Completely Unknown!
Kelly Evett
Age – 17
Origin – Deyratis
Description – The youngest member of the party but by far not the weakest. She was born on the tropical island of Desertio and she is also the only female to join your party after seeing the Xenos’s destruction power but she may have another reason for joining you!
*NOTE* Up to 4-5 additional people will join you throughout the RPG but for spoiler sake I won’t list them here
NEUTRAL PEOPLE
Master Shen
Age – 84
Origin – Tarou Villa
Description – Master Shen is in charge of the town dojo. He has trained Roy and Jim since they were kids and when the adventure starts out he also teaches them their first spells! It also seems that Master Shen know something about Jim Cortez’s mysterious past since he takes a special interest in him from the very beginning.
Announcer
Age – 30
Origin – Rasmeer
Description – The announcer for the Zaiita World Tournament. He loves to hear the sound of his own voice and has a knack for saying the wrongs things at the wrong time. After you rescue the announcer in the prologue, he seems to act very strange afterwards.
*NOTE* The characters below can be unlocked and/or can give you rewards and such. Each of these characters serves no purpose in the main story and is only there for the purpose of doing some side quests!
Marcus Galdus
Age – 7
Origin – Unknown
Description – A little boy looking for his lost pet in Tarou Village! Everything else about this boy is a mystery.
Sigus
Age – Unknown
Origin – Unknown
Description – Marcus’s lost pet. It seems the Xenos Empire has kidnapped him for some weird tests and such. Once Marcus learns this, he begs you to rescue him and promises a big reward if you do so.
Zonzez (“Z”)
Age – 34
Origin – Yahils
Description – Jorge’s rival from when he was a kid. Zonzez or just “Z” isn’t on the good side or the bad side. He just looks for chests and money and will do anything to show Jorge up! Whenever you see him on your adventure, he’ll dare you to do something and if you accomplish all his goals each time you run into him on the adventure, you’ll get something good!
BAD GUYS
Admiral Dillen (3rd Commander of the Empire)
Age – 45
Origin – Xaxias
Description – An admiral of the Xenos army and one of the five sub-leaders of the Xenos Empire. He is the weakest of the sub-leaders but ironically he is ranked higher than most of the others! Dillen has many spells and when you fight him he won’t go down easy!
Jerec Isk
Age – 38
Origin – Unknown
Description – The most powerful bounty hunter in all of Zagorn. He is hired by the Xenos Empire to find and kill Jim Cortez and to capture his friends. He is a lot more powerful than Admiral Dillen but he lacks in the spell department.
Lieutenant Gordon (4th Commander of the Empire)
Age – Unknown
Origin – Xaxias
Description – Gordon is one of the more powerful sub-leaders out of the bunch! Gordon may not pack that much of a punch but his skills/spells more than make up for it. Get ready for a headache when you fight this guy!
Lord Magmus (5th Commander of the Empire)
Age – 58
Origin – Deyratis
Description – Lord Magmus does all the dirty work for the Xenos Empire. He has a magma shield that protects him from ALL harm. When the Xenos want to take over a town or island, they will almost always send Lord Magmus to plow down any defenses the opposition has! Is there anyway to damage him?!
Rear-Admiral Xavier (2nd Commander of the Empire)
Age – Deceased?!
Origin – Unknown
Description – This rear Admiral was ranked the 2nd highest of the sub-leaders a long time ago but he rebelled against the Xenos Empire; he wanted the world for himself. No one knows what happened to this guy but rumor has it that he is still alive and more powerful than ever.
General Tokis (1st Commander of the Empire)
Age – 50
Origin – Xaxias
Description – General Tokis is ranked the highest of the sub-leaders and also is the most powerful. General Tokis is always by Emperor Venom’s side and orders the other sub-leaders what to do. His strength is incredible and his skills/spells could level an island! General Tokis also controls the command ship named “The Phantom”. This ship’s cannon could destroy a part of the world if fully powered! You don’t wanna mess with this guy or his ship!
Emperor Venom
Age – 406
Origin – Unknown
Description – The leader of the entire Xenos Empire. His intentions are unknown and so are his stats. No body knows how strong Emperor Venom is…not even his sub-leader!
THE WORLD OF ZAIITA
*NOTE* The way you travel the world of Zaiita is by traveling across the world map! The world map is split into 3 sections; a forest section, a desert type area and a military section!
Forest Section
Taoru Villa
-The area where you start the adventure. Taoru Villa is nice peaceful town! It’s also home to the Zagorn World Tournament and houses the Master of marital art’s dojo (Master Shen).
Effreal Forest
-This forest covers all of the “forest section” of the world map! The only area of interest in this forest is where Admiral Dillen’s fortress lies!
Admiral Dillen’s Fortress
-Hidden in the depths of Effreal forest, this fortress’s only defense is its isolated location. Once inside the fortress, people wanting to reach Admiral Dillen will need to figure our Dillen’s witty traps and puzzles!
Yahlis
-This town is set up high up in the skies above Zaiita. This town is in alliance with Rasmeer and has such an impressive air force that even the Xenos Empire don’t dare try to attack the town.
Desert Section
Zagorn Air Terminal
-This place houses the Excess Express. This plane takes people to where they want to go in the world of Zagorn. Jim and the others take this plane to reach the city of Rasmeer later in the adventure.
Gahm Town
-This village is very bizarre. All the buildings seem to be infested with bugs and weird other things. There is also a huge infested castle in the middle! Rumor has it that the infested castle belongs to one of the sub-leaders of the Xenos Empire!
Dessait
-A huge island with an abundance of life. It is also believed that an ancient tribe lives there! Everything else about the island is a mystery.
Evaset Temple
-An ancient temple believed to be the very first object that was created over a million years ago. Rumor has it that this place houses mummies and ghosts and other ancient creatures!
Military Section
Xaxias City
-The home of the Xenos Empire! It is a huge city with thousands of security cameras. A steel wall and mana cannons that can blast any ship to pieces surround the city! Only certified ships can enter the city and there is no other way in.
Xenos Palace
-This palace lies in Xaxias City and is guarded by Imperial scouts. These scouts have immense power and these guards prevent any normal persons from entering! However people with special powers like Jim and the others won’t have too much trouble with these foes…but much stronger adversaries await inside!
Rasmeer
-Jorge Blacido’s hometown! This town has a huge military and thus they rebel against the Xenos Empire. Later, Jim and the others decide to head here and assist in the rebellion. The people of this town also supposedly known the location of the Rasmeer Mines!
Rasmeer Mines
-Rumor has it that these mines house an ancient secret. Only one person knows the secrets of this mine…the only problem is…who is the person?!Hmm i remember this did you change the name? hehe looks like you have all details ready. w00t can't wait for full version Inferno good luck man.
\\Moogle
thanks for your input moogle and yes this rpg was orignally called xenos saga but i decided to change it to this!
QUOTE(Ice-Inferno-X3 @ Sep 19 2005, 09:20 AM)
thanks for your input moogle and yes this rpg was orignally called xenos saga but i decided to change it to this!
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Looks intresting, I'm longing for a screenshot or a demo on this. Looks like you got all the places and details figured out, but I'm not sure why we should enjoy want to know about this map? Just a lil more side info stuff and a demo would be perfect! Can't wait to see a lil more, goodluck!
-Tdnfthe1
look great. can't wait for demo and... (hint hint) screenshots
I have updated the information a bit. Due to the limits in starcraft I had to remove some towns and some characters/side quests!
I just finished making all the way upto chapter 3. I'm going to take a day or so and polish all the way up to that point then I'll show some screenies and release the demo for the first three chapters!
oo i like the characters..
overall it sounds nice but its missing a details
(screenies)
I added the screenies for the prologue/first town. I'll take some more later but that will give you a good taste of what to expect. I did make more updates. Refer to first post for other updates!
QUOTE(Ice-Inferno-X3 @ Sep 28 2005, 01:41 PM)
I added the screenies for the prologue/first town. I'll take some more later but that will give you a good taste of what to expect. I did make more updates. Refer to first post for other updates!
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Looks much better, and the screenies give a good example of the gameplay and style. Only thing I didn't like was there wern't any screenies of the fighting, but that's no big issue. All the info gives a real visual and it looks like this game will actually get completed. If you want more attention I just suggest you finish up that demo and let people play the game a bit. Besides that all looks good so far, keep up the good work.
P.S. You can pm an admin to change the title for u
-Tdnfthe1
The screenshots discourage me from playing this map.
^ can you be more specific?! this map is in it's early stages! Did you look at all the screenies?! some are better than others. please give me input then..."your terrain sucks" or w/e!
edit the first post to edit the topic title
No extended terrain
Looks good, Make the text go half way across the screen instead of all the way, looks better.
QUOTE(WoodenFire @ Sep 30 2005, 06:56 AM)
The screenshots discourage me from playing this map.
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Just because not extended terrain doesnt mean map sucks, sheese give better reasont hen discourage me from playing it, what about them? give more info that way he can improve his map. Wasteful post w/o any help.
\\Moogle
QUOTE(Busion @ Sep 30 2005, 09:59 AM)
Just because not extended terrain doesnt mean map sucks, sheese give better reasont hen discourage me from playing it, what about them? give more info that way he can improve his map. Wasteful post w/o any help.
\\Moogle
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my words exactly moogle. thanks for backing me up!
ADDITION:
Sorry for the long update. ive been busy! Refer to the first post for the updates but after receiving some input from some people who have played the demo I'm changing some minor stuff around.
The demo is 90% done! Hopefully ill have it done within the next few days!
~Ice-Inferno-X3
added another massive update check it out. demo to come out within the next few days (for sure)
Yeah screen shots look bad.
I bet you 100 sen Mins that you wont even come close to finishing this due to all the characters you have to put in.
Maybe give him more specific info as to why they look bad. Instead of flaming, give constructive criticism.
I am actually looking forward to the demo... :D
if it doesn't have good terrain, wooden won't look at it...
And, plz make this better than that crap Mario RPG...
It sort of looked like the combat isn't going to be very fun.
terrain seems pretty good to me did you see the screen shots i mean its not bad for sure
and btw whats mario rpg is bad???
also i gotta agree wow i counted like 20 heros... can you fit all that into the game??? i hope your not missing out in the game jsut trying to add 20 characters...
and i think that you will be able to finish it i mean if you run out becuase of character you can always take out some characters...
looking good