This game actually has a rpgmaker.net page if you'd like to view the informaton there (I also have a fairly short demo up in case you want to look over the gameplay in that, though some features have already changed slightly, just as a warning). Basically I've been finding as I continue working on it that I don't actually have all the skills needed to work on it alone but would extremely like to finish it
Though just in case you'd rather read it here instead, here's the synopsis:
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“There is a way that appears right, but in the end it leads to death.” – Proverbs 14:12
Genre: Dark Paranormal Mystery Adventure
~Features (so far)~
The International Division is the leading global power in the world, one that many don’t trust. The information that this global leader has only gotten to such a high place of power has long since been leaked, mostly due to journalists from countries still outside of its control.
This is only a small part of that story…
Celia, a fairly young woman hired on to work at a side organization for the International Division has been on the search for the truth behind her past; a shattered story in itself that seems just as hard to piece together as the missions the team she works with go on. All she can wonder is will her marginal skills and questionable history be enough to shed the needed light on this mystery?
If not, she could always practice more on her computer hacking…
Genre: Dark Paranormal Mystery Adventure
~Features (so far)~
- A very simple lockpicking system with leveling (not entirely implemented yet, but there is a door you can test it on in the demo)
- A hacking minigame with very little to do with actual hacking
- A hopefully fairly simple puzzle (more complex ones to come later)
- Two security officers to try to avoid (or not, it's not really that big of a deal... yet)
- A gallery to look back over information and profiles collected over the course of the game
- Extremely simple item menu just consisting of a name and short description (I've been thinking about attaching some kind of common event to each item as well, but for now this seems fine)
- Two different ending depending on choices (this will be a lot more dynamic of a system when the game gets closer to completed; I promise)
- And a few dropped story hints that make no sense yet (... sorry...)
The International Division is the leading global power in the world, one that many don’t trust. The information that this global leader has only gotten to such a high place of power has long since been leaked, mostly due to journalists from countries still outside of its control.
This is only a small part of that story…
Celia, a fairly young woman hired on to work at a side organization for the International Division has been on the search for the truth behind her past; a shattered story in itself that seems just as hard to piece together as the missions the team she works with go on. All she can wonder is will her marginal skills and questionable history be enough to shed the needed light on this mystery?
If not, she could always practice more on her computer hacking…
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What I need is an artist (and I'm okay with changing to whatever style you use as of right now; I might not be so willing as the game progresses) and possibly a better eventer, though I'm starting to think it would be better to have another writer I could possibly bounce ideas off of and could possibly help with writing/eventing out the various choice prompts (it doesn't have to be in-game; you could just send me a word document and I'll event it, and if you need anything on any of the characters I can give it to you)
I'm also open to trading my meager skills (you can see my mapping skills in either the screenshots section on here or the image section on RMN; there's also some in the demo as well that aren't shown, but they're all mostly interior, though. As for writing, I suppose my game demo up on RMN is enough of a sample, though if you do need more here's my fanfiction.net account [a lot on here is really old though, and somewhat bad] and a more recent piece:
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The young man struggled on the cold edge of what he guessed was death, or had to be. His lungs, or more possibly lung as it seemed to feel like, struggled more than it ever had not that it seemed to actually be working. At least his heart was still pumping, though to where was anyone's guess.
It actually felt somewhat calming, which seemed like an odd feeling to have at the time, but maybe that was just due to his lack of oxygen and blood loss. He certainly wasn't ready to die; he hadn't really done much yet, or at least anything he'd planned on.
One thing he remembered, or at least it vaguely floated into his mind for the moment, was how people always said that death came in different forms to different people, though it never escaped him that the ones saying this were still alive so it was hard to say how they knew…
A voice floated though his mind, one that was most certainly not his own, “What do you want?”
He didn’t even think on the answer, though he did choke trying to say it. “… want… live…”
A pain shot through him, mostly in his chest. His eyes snapped open as he took a breath, a deep actual breath filling both of his lungs. Then quite a few more frantic breaths followed as he tried to sit up.
A beautiful woman was nearly sprawled out in front of him. She let out a sigh and gave a light smile. "... Good, you're okay..."
He might have blushed if it didn't feel like his blood was so thin... or maybe he was; it was hard to tell with the different sensations almost seeming to mess up everything.
She stood, only carefully glancing over her shoulder after she was a fair distance away. "I suppose I should warn you; life always comes at a very high price. "
The woman continued on towards the spring, her dress flowing out in an elegant trail behind. She stopped at the edge and looked down at the probably near endless water source there.
He stood quickly teetering slightly from the speed. "... W-wait! ... I... I don't even know your name..."
She glanced back, another smile playing across her face for a moment before she faced to the spring again. "I believe your people call me Hope... before they really know me."
He was about to ask more, but she moved to step over the spring. Letting out a shout, the young man tried to dash over, or would have if he weren't still recovering. Instead, he collapsed back to the ground, watching her instantly disappear beneath the surface.
The young man collapsed fully to the ground with a low moan before noticing an intricate and delicate flower floating just slightly in the air only a few inches from himself. He took a breath, then tried to snatch it from the air only to feel a sharp pain in his finger. Quickly taking his hand away, he examined his finger but there wasn't a scratch, there wasn't even a sign of one. There were small thorns on the flower, but they hardly seemed capable of causing the pain he felt. Still, he glanced around then tore a small bit of cloth off of his sleeve to rap around the thorns, then he pocketed the flower.
It actually felt somewhat calming, which seemed like an odd feeling to have at the time, but maybe that was just due to his lack of oxygen and blood loss. He certainly wasn't ready to die; he hadn't really done much yet, or at least anything he'd planned on.
One thing he remembered, or at least it vaguely floated into his mind for the moment, was how people always said that death came in different forms to different people, though it never escaped him that the ones saying this were still alive so it was hard to say how they knew…
A voice floated though his mind, one that was most certainly not his own, “What do you want?”
He didn’t even think on the answer, though he did choke trying to say it. “… want… live…”
A pain shot through him, mostly in his chest. His eyes snapped open as he took a breath, a deep actual breath filling both of his lungs. Then quite a few more frantic breaths followed as he tried to sit up.
A beautiful woman was nearly sprawled out in front of him. She let out a sigh and gave a light smile. "... Good, you're okay..."
He might have blushed if it didn't feel like his blood was so thin... or maybe he was; it was hard to tell with the different sensations almost seeming to mess up everything.
She stood, only carefully glancing over her shoulder after she was a fair distance away. "I suppose I should warn you; life always comes at a very high price. "
The woman continued on towards the spring, her dress flowing out in an elegant trail behind. She stopped at the edge and looked down at the probably near endless water source there.
He stood quickly teetering slightly from the speed. "... W-wait! ... I... I don't even know your name..."
She glanced back, another smile playing across her face for a moment before she faced to the spring again. "I believe your people call me Hope... before they really know me."
He was about to ask more, but she moved to step over the spring. Letting out a shout, the young man tried to dash over, or would have if he weren't still recovering. Instead, he collapsed back to the ground, watching her instantly disappear beneath the surface.
The young man collapsed fully to the ground with a low moan before noticing an intricate and delicate flower floating just slightly in the air only a few inches from himself. He took a breath, then tried to snatch it from the air only to feel a sharp pain in his finger. Quickly taking his hand away, he examined his finger but there wasn't a scratch, there wasn't even a sign of one. There were small thorns on the flower, but they hardly seemed capable of causing the pain he felt. Still, he glanced around then tore a small bit of cloth off of his sleeve to rap around the thorns, then he pocketed the flower.
For the artist, it'd be more whatever you're comfortable with; at least for now unless I feel I get to some point where there's no way I can change styles easily. As of right now I'm just using mostly RTP busts and ones from the DS Plus resource pack, along with tiles from... pretty much all over that fit the general overall feel (but I can at least edit most tiles on my own, now) If you want I can send you everything I currently have and you can make a decision from that.
The scripter/eventer would mainly just be there to supplement my (crappy) skills with RGSS3 and help to set up evented sections better (I have cutscenes down... I just need to really start keeping a cheat sheet for everything else)
For the writer, just basicly what I said above; I just need a bit of help seeing if my ideas work and possibly some help writing it out (if you do want to help out with this I'll be seriously indebted to you because I've been having a bit of writer's block for this game for about a week now and I really don't want to just push it aside)
I don't really mind much if anyone else cares to join as well, as long as the team doesn't become some huge mess (I'd like to keep it to a fairly small group, please)
So, just to recap:
Artist: oakkin (possibly; at least for making busts, which is great enough on its own)
Scripter: Serenity Crystal
Eventer: Open (and as I look back over my own work, I would probably prefer somebody a bit better than me helping with this)
Story/Writing: lemongreen
Mapping: me as well (though if somebody wants to help and feels they can stay close to the same style I'd be happy to send descriptions of areas needed)
(Just so you know, if you sign on I'll consider this game automaticly partly your intellectual property; that means all major decisions about the project would be made by everyone on said team as a whole. I'm also not beyond going commercial and splitting the gains, but as of right now that's really not a feasible goal)
Obviously you can reach me either through this thread or by pming me; after that I don't really mind sharing details from other messaging services (I do have Skype, and don't really mind staying signed into it if there's a reason to)
Thank you for at least your time reading this, and hopefully we can work together (if not on this project, then maybe sometime in the future)