News from the developer: 26/2-09

It's been a long time since the last post, and a long time since I uploaded my last video to YouTube. But I've been really busy, unfortunalety not making games but I'm trying to put some time into game development whenever I can and feel for it. To kinda get myself back in shape I've been experimenting to regain creative thoughts. The results of those days has been Boulder Quest, a puzzle-RPG fully created in VX. You've probably seen these kinds of puzzle-mechanics before, but I'm planning to use them in completely different ways.

I've released a demo, or a beta, or an alpha or whatever you may call it and a short video of the tutorial-level. You can watch the video and download the demo, with or without RTP here.

The demo is extremely short, and expect just a few minutes of play, this demo is only for response and for advertisement. It includes the tutorial-level as seen in the video and the first level. You'll also get a glimse of the Super Mario World-style world map as well, which will grow with content as development continues. Oh, and The Explorers and The Residence of Old Riddles are on pause, but not out. The Explorers, however is delayed to 2010 since it's a massive project and I need some more experience before continuing on that one. The Residence of Old Riddles is still scheduled for this fall.

First Trailer!

It's Monday, Monday, Monday and it's time for the first trailer of The Residence of Old Riddles. It's 2:12 long and contains gameplay as well as a brief look at the intro for it. The video is up on YouTube right now so check it out:

Reveal Trailer

News from the developer: 5/12-08

Hi, guys! This is JoRu here with some more news from the developer. Today the first trailer of The Residence of Old Riddles was finished. It's composed of material recorded in late November and has been edited since then. The main problem I had was the resolution that it would end up too small for you to view or if it would turn out laggy. But now the movie's running in the same resolution as the game (640x480) and only slightly laggy. It's not present in the game so it doesn't matter much. The trailer will be released on YouTube on Monday.

Also, editing the game's menus to match the new resolution has been completed. It's not perfect and further editing will probably be made but now size and position shouldn't be a problem at all. To put it this way: I could release the game today and they wouldn't complain about the menus. They'd rather complain about that it doesn't look finished. ;)

That's all I've for you today and I'll see you on Monday for the first gameplay-footage of the game. You'll get the link to the movie directly from this blog. See ya!

Screenshots: Bouganville Castle

Main Hall & Dinnner Hall: This is where the heavy stuff happens. This area of Bouganville Castle 33 years before the "real" story begins is a place for the richest of the richest. This particular day the castle is open for the public and many have come to the castle to enjoy the extremely well-cooked food to celebrate King Bougan III's 50th birthday. To the far left of this screenshot you can see the famous "Fountain of Wealth" which is said to contain a kind of magic water to ensure the rich and wealthy people that it will continue for the time to come.

Private Quarters: Welcome to the private quarters of the castle where you'll find the Prince's, the Princess' and the King & Queen's bedrooms. Only the royalties themselves, royal guards and maids are allowed here but people who gets invited to visit the Private Quarters by the royal family are of course also allowed. But it doesn't happen that often...

News from the developer: 27/11-08

This is JoRu with some great news for all of you concerning The Residence of Old Riddles: It will be running in 640x480 resolution which gets rid of the nasty black borders on the side when playing full-screen.

All the menus and windows are being edited right now to fit the new resolution and I'm not far away from getting it done. It's possible that The Explorers may get this change as well, but if I decide to do that it will be much more difficult since it's using more and different kind of menus and stuff. That's all for now, thanks for the attention.

Storyline: Bouganville

This is Bouganville. It's the main hub for The Residence of Old Riddles. It's a place crafted from scratch to be a big, central part of the game. It's a "living" place with lots of people walking the streets, doing whatever they do, but at the same time it's a lonely place where only you seem to be sane. 

Bouganville was a small city once upon a time with most people leaving the place due to poorness and high criminality. A time later Bouganville was banned from the kingdom it had been a part of for centuries, Terrano. The city got its own king, who had the belief that Bouganville could be the leading city of the world, but only if we could give it a shot. He had a plan for all of this, and step by step he and his men started to build up the city to not only its former glory but to a even bigger scale.

However, fate had begged to differ and on the king's 50:th birthday a comet striked down towards Bouganville and destroyed the castle and everything within. Only the Prince, his best friend and some soldiers had survived. The Prince intended to continue his father's plan, but as his grief over his parents' death seized him, it would take lots of time.

When your game begins, the slightly weird king is trying to get people into Bouganville. He sends out his men into the world to put up flyers teasing the people around with promises that eternal wealth awaits them in Bouganville. Adventurous as you are, you set out on a quest to find Bouganville, explore the city and uncover the secrets and mysteries of this offer. Is the promises about Bouganville true, or another scam to get people on their knees?

Welcome to the Blog!

Hi, guys! This is RPG Maker developer JoRu speaking for my as for now non-existing game company Evergames right now hard at work creating two projects for the RPG Maker VX for you all to enjoy.

This blog serves as the basis for all information, thoughts, screenshots. All of the stuff concerning either of my two projects. 

The most active project at the moment is my special little title called The Residence of Old Riddles, a shorter game meant to be a bit mysterious and to really pull you into this city of strange people and interesting tales. Everything in this game has a story, from the people in the world to...well, the world itself. The Residence of Old Riddles is due for release in 2009. For more information already today, check out site -1- or -2-, they're pretty similiar however.

My second title is The Explorers, a pretty standard RPG in a big world of both light and darkness, joy and despair. However, The Explorers is different from many other RPGs thanks to multiple storylines later on to transform into one, huge and epic that I think (hope) that you'll enjoy.

Thanks for checking out my blog and I hope to see you again soon. Stay tuned for more information concerning both games as we progress through time. Thanks!

Links:

Game Videos

The Residence of Old Riddles site 1

The Residence of Old Riddles site 2