VXAce - Eternity Tales (The First Journey) - Released for Download!

Finally the game is complete and ready for download!

I expect people will complete the game within 5-7 hours.

Over 1000 personal hours in to game development, spread over 3 years along with some capital investment in the resources used! I do hope people find some enjoyment in playing and hopefully someone completes it!


Artwork from Cecillia Lacroix (character design) and Hirei (motion videos)

I will be here to help out if anyone gets stuck but I tried to make it somewhat straight forward yet still challenging to complete the game!

Here is the link to download Eternity Tales - The First Journey.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t2ain7n9eidsh60/EternityTales.exe?dl=0



Fight to prevent the return of a malevolent group bent on world domination as you fight to discover the truth behind an ancient prophecy and your role in it.


Story:


Gameplay and Features;

• Fully animated and voiced Character Battlers and partly voiced character stories.
• Find and collect unique and valuable "Keepsakes" for each of your party members!
• Story driven game-play, challenging battles.
• Enjoy a fully original soundtrack, each song created to suit themes of your character environment.
• Whether you're traversing cliff edges or relaxing on the beaches of Bletch, we’ve worked hard to create environments that offer something special in each area you visit.

Features;

- Featuring beautiful Artwork and CG from celebrated RPGM Artists "Cecillia Lacroix" "Allen Leighton" and "Hirei".

- Unlock the clues behind the fate of our world, work to change the future of this seemingly doomed civilization.

- Make friends on your way to discover the mystery behind several legendary weapons and the role they play in shaping the future of the world.

- Enjoy a fully original soundtrack, each song created to suit themes of your character environment.


Through this project I have worked with many, many artists, all providing something unique and fantastic to the project, here I show case some of their work. You will find credits in the "credits" section below.

Credits


Project Support

I’m always keen to meet new people, share ideas and connect and discuss RPG’s, RPGM and any other ideas that you have for your own games, as well as mine!


Note:

All images and resources above are not for re-use, they are owned and protected by their respective owners/creators/artists.


Here is the link to download Eternity Tales - The First Journey!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t2ain7n9eidsh60/EternityTales.exe?dl=0

This looks beautiful and well thought out. I love your characters! <3 Artwork is my weakness, and Kuro TOTALLY reminds me of Jin from Samurai Champloo. Your mapping could be spruced up a bit, but, looks alright for the EPR phase.

Thanks for taking a look Ruby! ;)

Just one small hint.

I know the screenshots are a work in progress but remember to never mix the DS styled sprites with the ACE ones, they don't match each other at all. Besides this, everything looks pretty awesome and promising...also the artwork is lovely, I especially like Haven among your characters (he looks cool).

Good luck with your game, I'll follow the thread.

Thanks Dalph, I got to say, i never really felt like the DS and ACE sprites clashed at all. But I will look at that a bit closer, now you mention it!

Thanks for having a look and following the thread! Thanks

Just uploaded some new screenshots to showcase our Samurai village, along with a new tech demo (in the video section), showcasing some of our animated battlers!

Enjoy.

Cecillia's art style is so easy to spot.


Seems that she has gotten better with character art for non-dark scenes.

She certainly does have a talent, Allen Leighton too! ;)

Nice to see some of my work up there :)

Its amazing how much more the voice acting enhances the game. Nice job keep at it looking forward to a demo.

@Kwerty


Impressed so far by what I've seen of this project: very nice character art, the announcement video's first 1:45 lead-in with its animations, montages, transitions SFX is excellent (however I feel the next 5 minutes of in-game footage can be tightened a bit to give the overall trailer more oomph), VO's are effective and enhance the game/video. Looking forward to the demo, keep up the good work!

Thanks for your comments and for following the project VoxPopuli!

Demo is some time away yet, but i will be making adjustments to the trailer very soon. ;)

Thanks

I dig the art style. I am definitely going to try the demo once you get it out.

UPDATE;~

Been a bit quiet, but i thought I'd use to this time to give a quick update on the game development.

First off, thanks for the guys who have already taken time to view the trailers and or to share a comment on this thread.

In terms of the game itself, I've nearly completed the story for Eternity Tales (The First Journey), 90% of the script is in place, as

are 90% of the areas (in a basic mapping style),

I also have around 90% of the resources in my possession now, including all of the voices, battlers, artwork and music.

I still have a good long way to go however, but thankfully it is my favorite part, mapping.

I've just finished mapping a somewhat large Samurai Town, with blossom trees and the like, it's been one of my favorite maps to create in

this game so far and I'm looking forward to cracking on to creating more maps.

My next map, I'm moving back to complete a large forest, one of the early phases of the game, after that I'm on to another town!

I'm hoping to really get my head down in the coming months and get some more screenshots, a new trailer and some more little bits and

pieces up in to this thread for you guys to see and hopefully comment on.

again, thanks for your support!

Kwerty

Added a couple more screenshots for maps I've been working on! :)

Added new screenshots and making good progress.

Working demo should be available soon .... ish.

Comments welcome!

Kwerty

In my opinion, most of those maps have some serious perspective problems due how the sprites own perspective is.


It just somehow looks off. Like they weren't standing straight but everything was on a cliff or something that goes downhill.


This makes houses also feel kind off etc in terms of perspective.

Those maps do have perspective problems. I can see the intention of what you're trying to do, but when you get towards the back, everything isn't positioned the same way as the things toward the front.


This is kinda rough, but if you see everything against perspective lines, you'll see that so many things aren't aligned to it, especially the stone walls, the tent, the barrel pyramids, and the alignment of the tiles. Everything has to be adjust accordingly to the perspective when you make these kinds of maps.

I see the point of what mean sai 

they seem not follow the Perspective line of sight....

but 

the game is really awesome...but please D:  why the game don't have a beautifull gui for battler ;_; ? 

I mean awesome character!  and all

but but....no awesome gui! 

Hello, I see what you mean on the beach screenshot, but when you say "most" of the maps have serious perspective problems", which others do you mean?

Or is it just the beach S/c that stands out?