Night of the Living Noobyas, Comedy RPG Involving Triple R's Staff Options

[amerk]

Night of the Living Noobyas

Abstract: Since the beginning, RM communities have been forced to coexist with noobs. Now with the threat of an evil noob threatening the very existence of such forums, a band of hapless and witless heroes will rise to the challenge to bring him down... or get banned trying.
Genre: Comedy RPG
Engine:
Game Progression: Completed / Going through final Beta Testing
Average Game Time: Projected to be at around 8 hours

Feedback is very much appreciated. While this is my first project, I’ve had well over a year to work on it, and its kinks, so feel free to be as harsh as you need. The information you give me now will help me in future projects.


DOWNLOAD:
You will need the RMVX RTP for this (if you don't have it), which can be found here - make sure to choose RMVX:
RMVX RTP Download

And here is the actual game download:
NotLN Download

There is a documentation folder included with character profiles/enemy stats, a couple of bad maps, and a full walkthrough, if needed.


STORY:

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After Jonnie19 gives Nooblie Nooberson a bad gaming review, Nooblie vows revenge on the entire Triple R staff. With his Noobula Virus in hand, Nooblie plans to create an army of noobs in order to fill the community with stupid people.

Now by some sheer amount of dumb luck, X-M-O, Jonnie19, and AMerk are forced from the comfort of their tree house home in order to tread the boundaries of Shitty Island, in the vain hope that they can pwn Nooblie once and for all.

But is Nooblie’s thirst for revenge his own doing? Or is it the work of an even greater noob?

Join our hapless heroes as they race against illogical time, face idiotic foes, sort through random plot threads, and try to find answers to some of the tougher questions that have plagued wise men throughout the ages, such as:

Where did noobs originate from?
What really happens in a healing bed?
And what is the Final Fantasy paradox?

CHARACTERS:

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AMerk: Gullible and naive, this happy-go-lucky junkie is as loyal as a dumb dog, but as vicious as an Easter Bunny on steroids when put to the test. While he means well, his heroics (and lack thereof) usually results in mayhem for the rest of the group.

Jonnie19: Sarcastic and witty, though he may be, Jonnie’s skill with the lighter arts of healing will keep this team of misfits well and healthy for another day. Just don’t send him to a healing bed afterwards, or he will have your head.

X-M-O: There’s a lot of things X-M-O would rather do than be dragged around an island with AMerk. But his trip to Hawaii for a much-needed vacation will now have to wait, no thanks to the growing evil that is Nooblie Nooberson and the threat of being banned from his beloved community.

Sparrowsmith: No one knows what the bird knows! This mysterious traveler holds the secrets to some of life’s greatest mysteries; unfortunately, very few of those secrets will have any real value in their quest against noobs.

Nooblie Nooberson: The villains always get a last name! And with a name like his, you can see why. Pissed off at the world, and at RM communities especially, Nooblie is the mastermind behind the goings on around the island. Or is he?

CREDITS:

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A full list of credits will be found in documents provided with the game, as well as included at the end of the game as well. However, here is a list of the major contributors (outside of Enterbrain and Degica):

Tilesets:
First Seed Material (MACK/REFMAP)
Therapie
Titanhex
Famitsu / Tsukuru / Joy

Sprites:
Penguin
Avadan
grafikal
GrandmaDeb
MapleStory / Wizet
PinedaVX
The Welsh Paddy
Weem (aka Raith)

Battlers:
MapleStory / Wizet
Qut
Jens of Zanicuud

Audio:
Short Story
Video Game Music Archive
Reone662 / Maoudamasil
Theodoric
Music Machina
Sir Connor Anderson
Pure Pwnage

Scripts / Software:
Damian666 – for his CharCreator
BulletXT – for SwapXT
Yanfly – Y6 Core Engine; YERD Battle Display
Anaryu – AS: Antilag
EXP Fix – ZeroManArmy
KGC / Mr. Bubble – Forced Victory Stop
TDS – ToP Menu
BigEd – Level Up Display; Auto Start Option
Solstic – File Window
DiamondandPlatinum3 (DP3) – Pong

Thanks:
rpgrevolution.com
rpgmakervxace.com
sbester – beta testing
MrE, ZeroManArmy, Nate Benton, Benko, and Kelsper – tutorials

SCREENSHOTS:

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Various Scenes:

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Search everywhere! You never know when you’ll find something clever… or cleverly stupid.


The plot!


This question gets asked of AMerk quite a bit. Unfortunately, the answers he gives are true.


And you’re still a bit small.

Nooblie’s Game:

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The worst fan game ever made in the history of RM.


See? Jonnie even agrees.

Game Play and Mechanics:

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A taste for battle.


X-M-O shows off his merchandise. RRR Staff, beware!


Pac-Man’s Nightmare!

FEATURES:

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Uh, well – visible encounters, minimal grinding, lots of side quests (for loot, dungeons, and monsters), mini-games (do they count even when they are required to play?).

OPEN SOURCE – WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR YOU?

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The game is open source. What that means for you, as a VX owner, is that you have access to pull up my game in the editor and study all of my flaws. If you wish to view my maps, however, you will need to check out the credits spreadsheet to see which swaps go with which maps and apply them through SwapXT. I won’t take the time to explain how to use SwapXT, though, since there are already plenty of tutorials available on its use.

However, please avoid taking the resources from my own project. All the resources I’ve used can be easily found on the internet as freeware, and some sites (First Seed Material and Short Story, for example) request that you visit their sites for the resources.

KNOWN ISSUES (NOTHING GAME BREAKING, JUST MINOR NUISANCES):

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• The script for the Pong game doesn’t track variables outside of the mini-game, so it doesn’t matter if you win or lose.
• The swap in tilesets between the Default and Spooky Crypt gets a bit wonky, for some reason. It doesn’t impact the game in anyway, though. It just makes it so that one moment a stool might be passable, and then in another area not passable, or little trival things like that.
• Using Yanfly’s script, the quantity of items has a box and a squiggly line next to the quantity. I haven’t discovered the fix as of yet.
• TDS’s ToP Menu is a tad off-center.

DISCLAIMERS, COMMENTS, NOTES, AND WHATEVER ELSE:

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• This game was made in good faith against some of the staff (and members) I’ve worked with in the past. It is not meant as an insult of any sort against their true character.
• The game features crude references, some political satire, and brief instances of profanity, but nothing R-rated. In fact, I’d rate this game PG-13, if I cared enough to.
• There is a bit of gender confusion, especially with kaz and X-M-O’s character, whom I thought were guys when I initially started the game. X-M-O (wherever she may now be) thought it would be funny to see her character portrayed as a guy, and so I left them as is. I have to admit, knowing them as ladies and creating/playing them as guys was quite entertaining.
• AMerk (meaning me, and not the game character) is not a junkie, nor has he ever been associated with drugs before, although he is a bit addicted to caffeine. Nor does he endorse the use of drugs, except maybe caffeine.
• No noobs or staff members were hurt (too much) in the creation of this game.
• The stunts that you see performed in this game are done so by non-professionals. You should not attempt these stunts yourself… except maybe in the privacy of your own home when nobody is watching.

[Jens of Zanicuud]

...
What kind of words should I spend to describe this?! 0.o
Cheers for AMerk
When the download link will be available, I'll probably give it a try!
Just watch your back, because Jonnie19, X-M-O and Sparrowsmith could be on the hunt... and you could be the prey

Okay, okay, I've read that everyone was amused by your idea, I was just joking... but, anyway, I can't understand why Nooblie Nooberson's game gained a bad review: I've always desired to begin my game in a useless, squared map with my character still on a rooftop

I really do think this will be an enjoyable, funny game.

Jens

P.S. What about Darth Vader?! 0.o

[amerk]

Part of the game is throwing in odd bits and ends, movie quotes, and other scenarios. There is an area in the final dungeon sort of dedicated to some Star Wars humor.

Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm sure most of the RRR staff will find it in their hearts to forgive me.

[Ratty524]

W-wait a minute! XMO is a girl! O_o

But either way I can't wait to play this.

[amerk]

W-wait a minute! XMO is a girl! O_o

But either way I can't wait to play this.

•There is a bit of gender confusion, especially with kaz and X-M-O’s character, whom I thought were guys when I initially started the game. X-M-O (wherever she may now be) thought it would be funny to see her character portrayed as a guy, and so I left them as is. I have to admit, knowing them as ladies and creating/playing them as guys was quite entertaining.

Blame on Penguin for the sprite, and my own failure to look at profiles. But last I heard, X was happy to see how she would be protrayed if she was a guy.

[amerk]

For some odd reason, everytime I update my topic, the images get screwy. I think it has something to do with the BBC code. Anyways, if it looked funky, the screenshots have now been fixed.

Also, one of my testers pointed out how heavy on the grind it felt.

Personally, I thought it was fairly well balanced, but I failed to take into consideration the one thing I'm always critiquing on, and that is that the game developer is usually a master of his own creation. I knew all the secrets, shortcuts, and strategies, so naturally I felt the game was well balanced, but understanding the nature of the standard player, on top of the declining interest in level grinding, I've gone back to make adjustments.

The end result is a game that starts off fairly balanced, gets a bit challenging around the middle, but can ultimately end rather easy (especially if you complete some of the side quests and power up your characters). I could go back and make the final area much more difficult, but I decided against it for the simple reason that it's a comedy, and the focus of the game is more on the story and its humor, and to interrupt that flow anymore than it is would not be a good idea.

Essentially, you can breeze through the game and do the minimum number of things, fight just enough enemies to have a challenge with the boss fights, and still win, or you can take your time, do a bit of level grinding (although not much is required), take on the side quests, and be able to power your way through some of the later areas.

The 8 hours I've estimated (down from the 10-12 before) assumes that you take your time, explore everywhere, and complete all the side quests.

[zacheatscrackers]

Oh god, this looks hilarious.

Can't wait to give it a go. You have no idea how hard I lol'd when I saw the FF fangame screenshot; it really does speak the truth.

This post has been edited by zacheatscrackers: Mar 27 2013, 01:36 PM

[amerk]

I'm hoping real soon. My beta tester is more than halfway through, and he's found a few bugs (one of them that was a potential game breaker because I forgot to apply a condition for a certain path), in addition to some minor typo's, so it's best to have these caught now and fixed.

[zacheatscrackers]

Mmmm.

Good luck with all that.

[amerk]

The game is now complete!!!!

You will need the RMVX RTP for this (if you don't have it), which can be found here - make sure to choose RMVX:
RMVX RTP Download

And here is the actual game download:
NotLN Download

There is a documentation folder included with character profiles/enemy stats, a couple of bad maps, and a full walkthrough, if needed.

[Ratty524]

YEEEEEES DOWNLOADING!

[amerk]

LOL! Hopefully the excitement carries through the game and you find enjoyment with it. Also, if anybody happens across any bugs that was missed by my testers, please let me know.

Thanks1

[Clord]

LOL! Hopefully the excitement carries through the game and you find enjoyment with it. Also, if anybody happens across any bugs that was missed by my testers, please let me know.

Thanks1

Nothing like getting stuck in the game due not being a properly playtested.

Edit: This game is seriously odd and good.

This post has been edited by Clord: Apr 12 2013, 01:15 PM

[amerk]

While that's true, a tester can only playtest through so many scenarios. One example of a bug that was caught: in one of the optional scenes you can win or lose; winning grants you a prize. Now, I always won when I played, so I never noticed the bug you get when you lose, which forgets to turn off "through" for your character. Had he not gone down the route of losing, I would never have caught it.

I'm fairly confident in the game's overall balance and any major issues thanks to sbester's testing, but I also know enough not to claim it's completely perfect, especially since it's my first game and some of the mistakes I've chided others about before I caught myself doing as well.

In any case, I hope you guys enjoy it, and feel free to share your thoughts. Now if only I can get my wife to sit still for a moment and play it.

[zacheatscrackers]

My day just got even better.

Downloading now.

EDIT: Just finished it up. HILARIOUS stuff, man; huge props for spending the time needed to make this game. Some comments:

-Bit shorter than I expected, but that isn't a big deal; a 6-8 hour length is suitable for this type of game, in my opinion
-A few minor grammar errors here and there. Again, though, nothing major at all
-As I mentioned before, the entire game is hysterical; I could go on for a while describing everything I found funny about the game, but all the little jabs X-M-O made at amerk cracked me up, and I found the "dropped on head" running gag to be particularly funny as well. The funniest part of the game, though, for me, was:

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Finding out that the final boss was George Bush. My lord, I had to minimize the game for 5 minutes and laugh until I was out of breath. That was just... gold, haha. Either that or the fangame at the beginning; seeing that scene in action instead of just in a single screenshot is 10x more hilarious.

-Combat's pretty fun for the most part; no noticeable issues or anything, either, which is certainly a plus
-Nice music choices
-Maps are pretty nicely designed for the most part, no major complaints
-The walkthrough was a big help in some places, like the Random Forest; got stuck at a few points, though that's because I tend to be dumb when it comes to puzzles, lol

Overall, great stuff! Just as entertaining as I expected. Especially good for your first game if you ask me.

This post has been edited by zacheatscrackers: Apr 14 2013, 01:48 PM

[amerk]

Awesome, and thanks for all the feedback. I'll admit, it took me awhile to figure out who the final boss would be, and when I did I think everything else fell into place. I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and I'm really thankful I waited on releasing it because of all the adjustments sbester suggested, which definitely paid off.

Btw, the dropped head jokes actually happened to me, not all at once though. It's a wonder I'm still alive.

[zacheatscrackers]

Aaaah.

It's funny 'cus I got dropped on my head around infant-hood as well, yet the majority of my intelligence is intact somehow. Heh.

[MEands]

Oh my gosh how did I miss this. Okay, time to play.