Enter the Vale- 2D Warriors Game (WIP)
Sept 3, 2015 18:48:03 GMT -5
Post by Silver Iridescence on Sept 3, 2015 18:48:03 GMT -5
Blue!
I've gotten the 30-day free trial for RPG Maker VX and I'm currently making a game called 'Enter the Vale', a Warriors game! I don't actually need too much help, though sprites would be appreciated. I'll talk more on that in a moment (I can make my own sprites, but more people working on one thing helps efficiency and I only have 30 days to try to make this the best I can. I might buy the actual, full version in the future, but we'll see). Enter the Vale will probably not be very good since I'm a novice, but it should be alright and you should be able to do some fun things. There's four Clans in it: DuskClan, IvyClan, HeronClan, and TundraClan. You'll be able to choose your own name, gender, pelt color, and Clan. There will be unlockables, like one or two pelts, and maybe even a few extra Clans if I have the time. There will be the option to be a loner/kittypet which I will add in later. I like mapping, so there will be a lot of exploration possible. This is just a little project I thought would be fun, so yeah, just telling you guys about it. I started it today (9/3/15), so there isn't much to say yet, but I'll add a screenshot from the earliest part of the game development.
MAJOR CHANGES:
VX has expired, or will in a moment, so I've moved all the important stuffies to VX Ace Lite which I'll have forever. Sometime in the future when I get time management for my life worked out, I can get the VX Ace full version trial and even later actually buy it. I'll be working on it in VX Ace Lite for the time being, so watch out for more screenshots!
Forum: enterthevale.freeforums.net/
Estimation of time until demo is released:Saturday the 17th at the earliest, Saturday the 24th at the latest. (October 2015)
Official Trailer: link
Here's the cat sprite template. Recolor with any realistic cat pelt you'd like to see in the game and think others would appreciate. Tell me if you want it to be locked.
VX Screenshots (old, though I'll be basing some of my new maps off these, probably)
(figured out how to let you name your cat... Yay. Just make sure to type in your prefix, not with any suffixes)
So far, I've added a black sprite (haven't worked on finding ways to change the eyes in congruence with the pelt though) and made kit size. I have the character creation mostly finished (name, gender, pelt, and Clan), though there's only one Clan I'm working on for now- IvyClan. IvyClan already has the medicine cat den, most of the nursery, the nursery-overseer, the guards at the entrance, and I'm working on full-on kit mode.
Gotten a little farther, a few new screenshots. (On a side note, can anyone let me know how to add spoilers?)
Name Selection:
Here's the name selection! Nothing new, just wanted to show you what it was like.
Pelt Selection:
Someone's already made a light blue pelt, but I haven't implemented it just yet. I'll get to it, but as of now all the pelts are plain black and white.
Eye Selection:
Yay, there's an eye selection in correspondence to the pelt!
Clan Selection:
Yep, the representatives for the Clans are rocks. IvyClan's is the green, bushlike one that might just be a bush, the grey/silver one is DuskClan's, and the bottom left one (it's icy) is TundraClan's; the blue/purple crystals in the bottom right, right next to my character, is HeronClan's, since herons are waterbirds, I thought they'd sorta be water-themed. One thing about my Clans- they don't represent the original Clans or resemble them much. I wanted the originality factor to be high in this game.
HeronClan Nursery:
Aaand here's the first real map! HeronClan nursery! HeronClan is the second Clan I've made, and though I haven't gotten too far, I've made enough to be acceptable.
HeronClan Camp+Rain:
I have weather added in! Yay! Anyway, this is just boring old HeronClan camp. Oh wait! Look at that. See the top left corner? That's the health bar. I still need the hunger, thirst, and temperature bars, but whatever. Yay!
HeronClan Secret Tunnels+Evening (not telling where the entrance is, they're SECRET. They're fairly easy to find especially if you do a little thinking and get a little help from this specific screenshot. They're one of the only fun things you can do to pass the time until apprenticeship in HeronClan, since there's no secret exit to the territories)
Guess where the tunnels are?
HeronClan Tunnel Branch (shallow water which you can walk in looks like this)
Like the cave tint? This is deeper into the HeronClan secret tunnels. You'll see more of it later when I've finished the map and made some events that go on in it.
IvyClan Nursery:
Aha, the IvyClan nursery! This is the first map I made on this game (excluding the character creation). There's IvyClan's nursery overseer by the entrance! (basically a queen that stays even after she's had kits and oversees the nursery)
IvyClan Nursery Secret Exit:
Here's one of the only secrets I'm giving you the entrance to (some I won't mention at all). It's so you can get out of camp as a kit and explore- that's one thing there is in IvyClan to pass the time. It's kinda hard to see, look near the top mouth of the stream. That frond thing? I'm standing on it. Upward from it there's a little passage. There you go!
Mountain (DuskClan Territory):
The mountain's slightly bigger than what I can fit in one page, but it's the first map landmark I made! The second is the waterfall (my favorite).
Mountaintop:
The top of the mountain.
Small Crackland (HeronClan Territory):
I just made a wasteland thing that appears places that cats call the 'Cracklands' because of the cracks and holes in the sunbaked, rocky earth. This is a small one in the top of HeronClan territory. (yes, my IvyClan kit's infiltrating other territories. Shh. For the, uh, purpose of screenshots?)
Waterfall (HeronClan Territory):
Ah, my favorite map... If you learn how to swim (you can do it in any Clan when you become an apprentice) you can climb it. HeronClan owns the waterfall, and if I say so myself, it looks pretty good, right?
Entrance to the Cave of Harmony:
The Cave of Harmony is basically the Fourtrees of the Vale. It's a spacious cave where Gatherings are held each full moon. Not to be confused with the Timeless Cave, the Moonstone Cave of the Vale.
So, here you go, more screenshots!
Features and new updates!
New Updates
-I'm working on a trailer which I will post when I get enough screenshots! It won't be a very well-made trailer, but it'll be good enough. If anyone is interested enough in this game, you can make an actual good trailer if you want!
-I'll be giving out a demo soon-ish! It won't be very good but it'll be the basics of the game and you can explore all my newly-made maps. (just so you know, the game, when it's finished, will be totally free. Just clearing that up- it probably won't even be good enough to sell XD But there are copyright laws and such, so I can't even sell it. But I don't want to, I want to give you guys free access if it actually turns out well. So yeah)
-There is now a features list that will be updated as I go along.
-I have an awesome source for a ton of great animal sprites and also a source for good tilesets when I get the trial version of VX Ace!
-I'll be designing my own menu for the game if I can.
-I might be asking for some help later on with ideas and such (actually, ideas are open right now. Send 'em in and I'll see if they're do-able or not!)
-I'll be creating a forum when the game is finished and I'll be updating as soon as I'm able to get the full version of VX Ace, which will be much later than the finish point but it's still a time to look forward to.
Features
Current Features
-Day/Night cycle- there is a solid day and night cycle that changes a tint for sunset, dusk, and night, and also dawn. I like how I did it but I don't mean to brag and I'm not sure how you'll like it. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished!
-Weather- it was fairly easy to put in this feature along with the day/night, since I had tutorials. There is a chance there will be rain or a storm, and there's also snow during Leaf-bare. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished!
-Natural Disasters- This was fairly easy. They're not fully done yet, but there will be a flood, tornado, earthquake, fire, landslide, etc., that sometimes happen. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished the flood, but still working on the others.
-Aging System- Basically, every day a variable tracks your age, adding 1. In a Clan, one of the entrance guards can always tell you how old you are, as well as your mother. As a kittypet, you can check a clock/object (haven't gotten to making the kittypet life yet, so I'm not sure what it will be) to see how old you are. As a loner, you can go to the Timeless Cave and check how old you are. This is the only way to check age at the Timeless Cave. CURRENT PROGRESS: I've finished this with the entrance guard in IvyClan, but with nothing else. Should be fairly easy to get it working with everything else.
-Kit Life- Not entirely finished, but I'll be making various things to do as a kit. There will be: Stories from the elders which tell you about the lore of the Vale, conversing with other kits, apprentices, and sometimes warriors and elders, acquiring an escort (your mother, father, one of the guards, or a random warrior) outside the camp to explore the territory, playing with fellow kits and maybe an apprentice, elder, or family member, and special things and places unique to each Clan like a way to sneak out of camp alone or a network of tunnels underground. CURRENT PROGRESS: I've begun with the conversation and made an escort. Also begun to make one of IvyClan's special things.
-Relationships- This is mostly unfinished, but you will be able to talk to characters and preform favors and the like for them in any rank. (so far there is one kit in IvyClan, which I am currently working on, that has the makings of the first interactive NPC) As an apprentice, you're able to have an actual best friend (you can make friends as a kit, but you can't have quite as strong a connection until apprenticeship), and then as a warrior you're able to get a mate. After awhile of getting a mate, you can go through a process similar to the one in WC:UT (though not the same- I don't want to steal anything. Probably something like eating enough, upholding a strong relationship with your mate, staying hydrated, and sleeping each night) and then get a certain number of kits! As a medicine cat, it's harder to get a mate, but it's possible, as well as kits (you have to keep a secret and the person has to have a strong connection with you before there's a chance for it. I'll be making a variable system with cats so that there's a chance that a cat will fall in love with you- even without much connection- and a chance they won't. More realistic that way, though love doesn't work like that). Forbidden relationships are also a possibility. Also, you should probably keep a good bond between you and your family, but it's not like they'll turn on you if you don't. It's just nicer, and they can help you do stuff. Speaking of turning on people... There can be people that betray your Clan. And if someone dislikes you enough, they can betray specifically you. So it's best to have a good relationship or at least not a too shabby one with everyone in the Clan. CURRENT PROGRESS: One kit is almost finished, but still a long way to go.
-Dreams- You're going to like this feature. At night, since some of the settings forbid me from not filling in that part without offsetting some things, and since I don't want you to sit there, staring at a black screen while you wait for your character to wake up, you always get dreams. As a kit, you have this one recurring dream- the 'Flying Fish' dream. I'll let you find out why it's called that.
As an apprentice, there's a variety of strange or frightening dreams, and then... Sometimes... There's a StarClan or Dark Forest dream. In the Dark Forest dream, a DF cat tries to persuade you into training there. Of course you can choose your path. And in the StarClan dream, you receive information about a loved one who has passed on, a bit of information you would like to know, and/or the ability to hunt in StarClan for a night. As a warrior the dreams are the same as an apprentice's. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished the kit dream, nothing else.
-Swimming- Just what it sounds like. You can learn to swim. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished!
-Hunting- Yep, you can hunt for prey. The way it works is there's a chance after you learn how to hunt to have prey spawn from specific spawnpoints on the map. Pretty simple. I'm hoping on ways to make the chase more exciting, since it's pretty easy right now. CURRENT PROGRESS: Probably finished!
Planned Features
Coming soon!
I've gotten the 30-day free trial for RPG Maker VX and I'm currently making a game called 'Enter the Vale', a Warriors game! I don't actually need too much help, though sprites would be appreciated. I'll talk more on that in a moment (I can make my own sprites, but more people working on one thing helps efficiency and I only have 30 days to try to make this the best I can. I might buy the actual, full version in the future, but we'll see). Enter the Vale will probably not be very good since I'm a novice, but it should be alright and you should be able to do some fun things. There's four Clans in it: DuskClan, IvyClan, HeronClan, and TundraClan. You'll be able to choose your own name, gender, pelt color, and Clan. There will be unlockables, like one or two pelts, and maybe even a few extra Clans if I have the time. There will be the option to be a loner/kittypet which I will add in later. I like mapping, so there will be a lot of exploration possible. This is just a little project I thought would be fun, so yeah, just telling you guys about it. I started it today (9/3/15), so there isn't much to say yet, but I'll add a screenshot from the earliest part of the game development.
MAJOR CHANGES:
VX has expired, or will in a moment, so I've moved all the important stuffies to VX Ace Lite which I'll have forever. Sometime in the future when I get time management for my life worked out, I can get the VX Ace full version trial and even later actually buy it. I'll be working on it in VX Ace Lite for the time being, so watch out for more screenshots!
Forum: enterthevale.freeforums.net/
Estimation of time until demo is released:
Official Trailer: link
Here's the cat sprite template. Recolor with any realistic cat pelt you'd like to see in the game and think others would appreciate. Tell me if you want it to be locked.
VX Screenshots (old, though I'll be basing some of my new maps off these, probably)
(figured out how to let you name your cat... Yay. Just make sure to type in your prefix, not with any suffixes)
So far, I've added a black sprite (haven't worked on finding ways to change the eyes in congruence with the pelt though) and made kit size. I have the character creation mostly finished (name, gender, pelt, and Clan), though there's only one Clan I'm working on for now- IvyClan. IvyClan already has the medicine cat den, most of the nursery, the nursery-overseer, the guards at the entrance, and I'm working on full-on kit mode.
Gotten a little farther, a few new screenshots. (On a side note, can anyone let me know how to add spoilers?)
Name Selection:
Here's the name selection! Nothing new, just wanted to show you what it was like.
Pelt Selection:
Someone's already made a light blue pelt, but I haven't implemented it just yet. I'll get to it, but as of now all the pelts are plain black and white.
Eye Selection:
Yay, there's an eye selection in correspondence to the pelt!
Clan Selection:
Yep, the representatives for the Clans are rocks. IvyClan's is the green, bushlike one that might just be a bush, the grey/silver one is DuskClan's, and the bottom left one (it's icy) is TundraClan's; the blue/purple crystals in the bottom right, right next to my character, is HeronClan's, since herons are waterbirds, I thought they'd sorta be water-themed. One thing about my Clans- they don't represent the original Clans or resemble them much. I wanted the originality factor to be high in this game.
HeronClan Nursery:
Aaand here's the first real map! HeronClan nursery! HeronClan is the second Clan I've made, and though I haven't gotten too far, I've made enough to be acceptable.
HeronClan Camp+Rain:
I have weather added in! Yay! Anyway, this is just boring old HeronClan camp. Oh wait! Look at that. See the top left corner? That's the health bar. I still need the hunger, thirst, and temperature bars, but whatever. Yay!
HeronClan Secret Tunnels+Evening (not telling where the entrance is, they're SECRET. They're fairly easy to find especially if you do a little thinking and get a little help from this specific screenshot. They're one of the only fun things you can do to pass the time until apprenticeship in HeronClan, since there's no secret exit to the territories)
Guess where the tunnels are?
HeronClan Tunnel Branch (shallow water which you can walk in looks like this)
Like the cave tint? This is deeper into the HeronClan secret tunnels. You'll see more of it later when I've finished the map and made some events that go on in it.
IvyClan Nursery:
Aha, the IvyClan nursery! This is the first map I made on this game (excluding the character creation). There's IvyClan's nursery overseer by the entrance! (basically a queen that stays even after she's had kits and oversees the nursery)
IvyClan Nursery Secret Exit:
Here's one of the only secrets I'm giving you the entrance to (some I won't mention at all). It's so you can get out of camp as a kit and explore- that's one thing there is in IvyClan to pass the time. It's kinda hard to see, look near the top mouth of the stream. That frond thing? I'm standing on it. Upward from it there's a little passage. There you go!
Mountain (DuskClan Territory):
The mountain's slightly bigger than what I can fit in one page, but it's the first map landmark I made! The second is the waterfall (my favorite).
Mountaintop:
The top of the mountain.
Small Crackland (HeronClan Territory):
I just made a wasteland thing that appears places that cats call the 'Cracklands' because of the cracks and holes in the sunbaked, rocky earth. This is a small one in the top of HeronClan territory. (yes, my IvyClan kit's infiltrating other territories. Shh. For the, uh, purpose of screenshots?)
Waterfall (HeronClan Territory):
Ah, my favorite map... If you learn how to swim (you can do it in any Clan when you become an apprentice) you can climb it. HeronClan owns the waterfall, and if I say so myself, it looks pretty good, right?
Entrance to the Cave of Harmony:
The Cave of Harmony is basically the Fourtrees of the Vale. It's a spacious cave where Gatherings are held each full moon. Not to be confused with the Timeless Cave, the Moonstone Cave of the Vale.
So, here you go, more screenshots!
Features and new updates!
New Updates
-I'm working on a trailer which I will post when I get enough screenshots! It won't be a very well-made trailer, but it'll be good enough. If anyone is interested enough in this game, you can make an actual good trailer if you want!
-I'll be giving out a demo soon-ish! It won't be very good but it'll be the basics of the game and you can explore all my newly-made maps. (just so you know, the game, when it's finished, will be totally free. Just clearing that up- it probably won't even be good enough to sell XD But there are copyright laws and such, so I can't even sell it. But I don't want to, I want to give you guys free access if it actually turns out well. So yeah)
-There is now a features list that will be updated as I go along.
-I have an awesome source for a ton of great animal sprites and also a source for good tilesets when I get the trial version of VX Ace!
-I'll be designing my own menu for the game if I can.
-I might be asking for some help later on with ideas and such (actually, ideas are open right now. Send 'em in and I'll see if they're do-able or not!)
-I'll be creating a forum when the game is finished and I'll be updating as soon as I'm able to get the full version of VX Ace, which will be much later than the finish point but it's still a time to look forward to.
Features
Current Features
-Day/Night cycle- there is a solid day and night cycle that changes a tint for sunset, dusk, and night, and also dawn. I like how I did it but I don't mean to brag and I'm not sure how you'll like it. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished!
-Weather- it was fairly easy to put in this feature along with the day/night, since I had tutorials. There is a chance there will be rain or a storm, and there's also snow during Leaf-bare. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished!
-Natural Disasters- This was fairly easy. They're not fully done yet, but there will be a flood, tornado, earthquake, fire, landslide, etc., that sometimes happen. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished the flood, but still working on the others.
-Aging System- Basically, every day a variable tracks your age, adding 1. In a Clan, one of the entrance guards can always tell you how old you are, as well as your mother. As a kittypet, you can check a clock/object (haven't gotten to making the kittypet life yet, so I'm not sure what it will be) to see how old you are. As a loner, you can go to the Timeless Cave and check how old you are. This is the only way to check age at the Timeless Cave. CURRENT PROGRESS: I've finished this with the entrance guard in IvyClan, but with nothing else. Should be fairly easy to get it working with everything else.
-Kit Life- Not entirely finished, but I'll be making various things to do as a kit. There will be: Stories from the elders which tell you about the lore of the Vale, conversing with other kits, apprentices, and sometimes warriors and elders, acquiring an escort (your mother, father, one of the guards, or a random warrior) outside the camp to explore the territory, playing with fellow kits and maybe an apprentice, elder, or family member, and special things and places unique to each Clan like a way to sneak out of camp alone or a network of tunnels underground. CURRENT PROGRESS: I've begun with the conversation and made an escort. Also begun to make one of IvyClan's special things.
-Relationships- This is mostly unfinished, but you will be able to talk to characters and preform favors and the like for them in any rank. (so far there is one kit in IvyClan, which I am currently working on, that has the makings of the first interactive NPC) As an apprentice, you're able to have an actual best friend (you can make friends as a kit, but you can't have quite as strong a connection until apprenticeship), and then as a warrior you're able to get a mate. After awhile of getting a mate, you can go through a process similar to the one in WC:UT (though not the same- I don't want to steal anything. Probably something like eating enough, upholding a strong relationship with your mate, staying hydrated, and sleeping each night) and then get a certain number of kits! As a medicine cat, it's harder to get a mate, but it's possible, as well as kits (you have to keep a secret and the person has to have a strong connection with you before there's a chance for it. I'll be making a variable system with cats so that there's a chance that a cat will fall in love with you- even without much connection- and a chance they won't. More realistic that way, though love doesn't work like that). Forbidden relationships are also a possibility. Also, you should probably keep a good bond between you and your family, but it's not like they'll turn on you if you don't. It's just nicer, and they can help you do stuff. Speaking of turning on people... There can be people that betray your Clan. And if someone dislikes you enough, they can betray specifically you. So it's best to have a good relationship or at least not a too shabby one with everyone in the Clan. CURRENT PROGRESS: One kit is almost finished, but still a long way to go.
-Dreams- You're going to like this feature. At night, since some of the settings forbid me from not filling in that part without offsetting some things, and since I don't want you to sit there, staring at a black screen while you wait for your character to wake up, you always get dreams. As a kit, you have this one recurring dream- the 'Flying Fish' dream. I'll let you find out why it's called that.
As an apprentice, there's a variety of strange or frightening dreams, and then... Sometimes... There's a StarClan or Dark Forest dream. In the Dark Forest dream, a DF cat tries to persuade you into training there. Of course you can choose your path. And in the StarClan dream, you receive information about a loved one who has passed on, a bit of information you would like to know, and/or the ability to hunt in StarClan for a night. As a warrior the dreams are the same as an apprentice's. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished the kit dream, nothing else.-Swimming- Just what it sounds like. You can learn to swim. CURRENT PROGRESS: Finished!
-Hunting- Yep, you can hunt for prey. The way it works is there's a chance after you learn how to hunt to have prey spawn from specific spawnpoints on the map. Pretty simple. I'm hoping on ways to make the chase more exciting, since it's pretty easy right now. CURRENT PROGRESS: Probably finished!
Planned Features
Coming soon!
