TOPIC EDIT: I decided to turn this into a kind of update blog so that if there was anyone interested in my game they could follow how far in production I am. (Hope that didn't come off as egotistical.)

3/20/07

I didn't get anything done for the game today. See my newest post for reasons.

Here's to hoping this turns out well!

Storyline:
Kathleen Howsen is your typical girl. She has a good home, a loving family, friends, and is financially secured. The only problem she has, is she suffers from repetitive nightmares.

For three months now, she has had the same set of dreams every week, and she doesn't know if they are just dreams, or if they mean something more.

That is, until the day she met Julius Colbert. He is new in town, but he becomes a good friend of Kathleen's rather quickly. However, she begins to see several things that are out of the ordinary. People executing amazing abilities, people saying strange things, and people she has never met before seem to know her.

Eventually, Kathleen decides to find out if she is just imangining things, or if something really is going on. But what begins as a thirst for knowledge escalates into a heated rivalry, a battle for the future, and a journey to find one's true self...

Current Game Features:
A story filled with action, adventure, mystery, love, and philosophy.

The Victory Token side-quest! Collect Victory Tokens and trade them at the Hunter's Club for rare items!

Pre-Set battles! Seek out and defeat all the enemies to earn prizes!

Side-Quests gallore! Find ultimate weapons, armor, accsesories, and magic!

Made on the RPG Maker 3 system.

Sounds like an interesting game so far. "Heroes" meets the Middle Ages.

The storyteller can be used to make some cool-looking nightmare scenes.

I really like the idea of having lots of items to find. The more the better, in my book. Of course, most of them will have to be treasure items if you're going to be holding on to them for a while.

Thanks for the comments, Page. I appreciate it.

I like the whole Dream=Tutorial. That's alot better than "I know you have lived in this town for 18 years but let me give you a tour/ tell you about the world" crap. It's just always so out of place. Nice work getting around it.

When are you hoping to have the game completed?

I'm posting under RetnuhZX because my other account got screwed up.

@ Bo: I haven't thought of a completion time for the game. But If I work on it consistantly, it should be finished around late fall/early winter.

I look forward to it.

I have a quick question: Is there anyway to change the text sfx that plays when a character is speaking in a storyteller?

See page 37 of the instruction booklet in the section“*Msgâ€

Thanks for the tips.

By the way, I'd like to mention that Sumisem fixed my account, so from now on, I'll be posting as RetnuhX.

RetnuhX, it sounds like you're making some good progress on your game. Cool.

Regarding the different "voice" sounds in the storyteller:

Choose "Conversation" and select the Character that you want to speak..A, B, or C.

As far as I know,
These models:
Pop Art
Anime
Drawn 1
Drawn 2
Drawn 3
(for males - sound like the teacher in Charlie Brown specials)
(for females - higher pitch sound than males)
(for animals - the highest pitch sound)

These models:
Drawn 4
Drawn 5
(for all models - sound like a typewriter)

Also, regarding #2 in your first post. You can also just make a regular event and use the save point graphic. That will save you memory, which later on, can be a big issue if one isn't careful.

If I use the savepoint graphic to heal the party, then can I also set it up to allow the player to save?

I don't know what I was thinking. I, for some crazy reason, thought that there was a "save" option in the event codes. I've looked and looked in the game and in the manual, and I'm wrong. Sorry about that. I made a mistake. Your way of having an invisible event is the best way to go here.

Lol. That's okay, at least you were helpful.

Man do I feel stupid.

For at least 15 minutes, I had been trying to figure out why a character's event code wasn't doing what I told it to do. I checked it, and it was all set up the right way, and I just couldn't figure out why the event wasn't happening.

And then it dawned on me.

I had the event code written for daytime, but he was put on a map that was set in nighttime!

So, I copied his day code into the night code, and checked if that worked, and it did!

And I felt like a HUGE retard, too.

That's fine, though, because now if someone else has a similar problem, you'll know exactly what to recommend.

I once posted a whole thread explaining my problem (asking people for help) and the end result was that I had done the same thing as you. Figuring it out by yourself in 15 minutes is a good sign.

Well, today was really crazy. My family and I spent the whole day painting the front and back of our house to prepare it for marketing. But our offer was denied for the house that we wanted. (We offered over 600,000 US dollars, and the owners of the house said that the offer was so low it was insulting.) So our entire reason for selling our house was destroyed, and we basically fixed up the house all day (and the past week) for nothing!

So I didn't get to work on the game because I spent all day painting the house, only to find out that we aren't getting the house we want, so there is no reason to sell our house.

And when I say all day, I mean all day! From 9AM to 7:45PM!

I feel bad for my mom because she really wantted it too.

Yeah, that's a long back-breaking day.

Well, now you guys have a freshly-painted house. Are any other people in your family game players?

Yes. I have four younger brothers and a younger sister, and we're all gamers.