Castle Quest- An RPG

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Castle Quest- RMVX

As some of you may know, I like to work on RPG games. I don't know if many of you remember, but I posted a thread here about a year ago about Negative Space or Quazar or whatever it was called. That game is dead. I had no direction with that game. It was sort of like "Hey! A new feature! *add*" I was making no progress. At all. I started over. And again got nowhere.

After two or three failed attempts at making a complete game, I got this. Castle Quest.

Castle Quest is an RPG similar to Final Fantasy. It looks like it stepped straight out of 1980 and onto the Internet. I started working on Castle Quest on April 19, 2010, and released a demo on May 26, 2010. Enjoy.

One day, Pory takes Brun to the bridge near their hometown. She shows him the supposedly haunted dark castle and dares him to go inside with her. As soon as they go in, they're locked inside. That pretty much sucks for them.
An unseen monster captures Pory, and takes her away.
That's where the game starts.

Brun Bleu
Gender: ♂
Birthday: May 21
Age: 17
Height: 5.5 ft
Brun came from the city of Blanc with his friend Pory to go into the Dark Castle on a dare.

Kira Amane
Gender: ♀
Birthday: Jul 17
Age: 23
Height: 5.3 ft
Kira is a crazy girl that lives in Forets. She goes with Brun to help vanquish the evil Raga that was destroying the forest.

Ven Tumic
Gender: ♂
Birthday: Jan 27
Age: 18
Height: 5.7 ft
Ven lives on an island shaped like a pear. He goes with Brun because he's bored.

Pory Gonn
Gender: ♀
Birthday: Oct 31
Height: 5.2ft
Pory lived in Blanc with Brun. She dared Brun to go into the castle with her and that's how they ended up in this mess.

System Requirements:
Windows 2003 or newer.
A keyboard.
A monitor.
Hands.

Controls:
Move- Arrow keys
Talk/Confirm- Space, Enter
Cancel/Menu- X, Esc
Run- Shift
Boat/Ship (when owned)- D

To play:
Open the blue cube file once it's downloaded. Choose where you want the folder to go. it doesn't matter.

IMPORTANT:
You will not be able to see any text at all if you don't install the Apple ][ font it comes with. Just double click the font and choose install.


FEATURES:
Yanfly's redone front-view battle system
Optimize Equipment just like on Final Fantasy
Epic summon animations
Three secret bosses

portal.jpg

The Portal. It's the first room of the Dark Castle.
Dark%20Castle.jpg

Pory and Brun looking at the Dark Castle from afar.
inbattle.jpg

A fight.

Download this one if you do not own RPG Maker VX.

If you do own RPG Maker VX, download this one.

CREDITS:
System scripts:
KGC
Mthran
Modern Algebra
Yanfly

Battle Scripts:
DAIpage
SojaBird
Super Mega
Synthesize
Yanfly

Please comment and tell me if you like it. :)

EDIT: Tell me if you can find the anime references hidden in the game.

THIS IS A DEMO. :)
 
I don't mind the game but there are a few suggestions.

1) DON'T USE VX. I can forgive you this once, but that's only because of it's art style.
2) DON'T USE VX. I just can't drill this enough into your head.
3) The backgrounds are... a little bit off. If your going for 80's RPG, then go for the complete black void:
http://www.google.com/imglanding?q=earthbound%20zero&imgurl=http://content.ytmnd.com/content/a/4/a/a4a1291221ca50a693f56e24be8d989e.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ytmnd.com/keyword/HIPPIE%3FPHPSESSID%3D964e2fba5da806&usg=__jDRfdFx6Im0txdu4h8XVc6LhYHA=&h=250&w=300&sz=10&hl=en&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=oT5P1IiFD_1okM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dearthbound%2Bzero%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DX%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&safe=off&sa=X&ndsp=20&tbs=isch:1&start=10#tbnid=oT5P1IiFD_1okM&start=14
Or go for a complete background like so:
http://www.google.com/imglanding?q=Dragon%20Warrior%201%20battle&imgurl=http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20061006/dragonwarrior_01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20061006/quantum_01.shtml&usg=__49Glwor_9A4-P04swOqlthwg3CU=&h=448&w=496&sz=73&hl=en&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=pu_rsu-rwuNhFM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDragon%2BWarrior%2B1%2Bbattle%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&safe=off&tbs=isch:1&start=0#tbnid=pu_rsu-rwuNhFM&start=0
4) Your battle system is your strongest point. I enjoyed the battles but to increase the "Retro" feeling, I suggest you up the difficulty. Games like Mother 1 and Dragon Warrior were no walk in the park, why should this one be if it were of the era?
5) Smack your spriter. The snow effects should be taken out, as they wouldn't be able to be used in a NES or Famicom game. And the grey floors? That's a big no-no. You create a floor for your dungeons and you BETTER LIKE IT!
6) Take out the faces in the battle screen. It's not necessary, and detracts from your overall feeling.

As for what's good with the game...
EVERYTHING ELSE! I love what your doing with this project and pray that you continue to work on it. I'm sorry for being so critical with the game. It's a simple premise that could go far should you decide to improve upon it. Perhaps a Castle Quest V.1.1?

Oh and while playing this I took a potato chip.... AND ATE IT.
http://www.google.com/imglanding?q=Kira%20potato%20chip&imgurl=http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/DEATH%2520NOTE/DEATH%2520NOTE%2520-%252008%2520-%2520Large%252034.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.animeforum.com/showthread.php%3Fp%3D2293007&usg=__Wmadl0Rh1h3H1AKpCjgc8sTvXXE=&h=720&w=1280&sz=81&hl=en&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Ms9EvwysTtc1CM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKira%2Bpotato%2Bchip%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&safe=off&tbs=isch:1&start=0#tbnid=Ms9EvwysTtc1CM&start=0
 
This is only a sort of demo version. There is another, more complete game in the works. Since you seem to have some good knowledge of these things, perhaps you would like to help?
 
I would love to help. I cannot use VX or XP on my computer (Screen too small :p), however I can do pretty much anything else, so ask away. I can do very basic scripting and advance spriteing.
 
Thanks for your input, Setzer. And like Darth said, there is a better more complete version in the works. I have since scrapped the 80s RPG style and am just making it a modern-looking RPG. Here's a video of the new version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JauSPix7Edk

I actually like VX, and I paid the $60 for it. So I'm not about to spend another 60 on XP when I really don't like that one as much.

I had snow effects? Oh. You're talking about the star background in the portal area. I mainly did the graphics myself. *facepalm*
The faces are there just to make the battle screen a little less boring looking. :/

And the floors aren't gray. They're transparent.

I'll post the complete game here when it's completed.
 
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