Glad to be on board on this one...this will be a great game, I just get so caught up in the story, it has to be good. I'll do my best on those visuals you want

Thanks so much man for the support and your willingness to cooperate with us! It's gonna be really fun working together with you man

Major Update:
January has come and passed and with it, some new major development to the game! Here’s a rundown of what’s been going on:


Main Character Face Graphics
Our artist has gotten to work on the main character face graphics! So far she’s done two along with their emoticons and she’ll be sending the other two (Bryce and Damien) over the weekend. Here’s how Anito and Heather turned out:



Weapons Icons
Our Icon Artist, bamboo123 has been working hard on completing a completely unique custom icon database for “Gai’s Hunters”. However, due to some issues she had over the month, she wasn’t able to get too many icons done, but this is just to let you guys know a custom icon database is being worked on


Rockdale Theme
The Rockdale Town Theme has been completed! It’s easily one of my favorite songs from our musician Turkwise, you can listen to the track here:
http://soundcloud.com/turkwise/sets/gais-hunters/


All quests written
I’ve finished planning all in-game sidequests accessible at the Rockdale Pub. There will be 150 quests and each quest will have a “Quest Type”. There are six Quest Types: Battle, Conversation, Delivery, Search, Elimination, and Escort. Each Quest Type varies in difficulty and yields a different AP Reward. Finally, several quests are multi-part, meaning you can’t do one quest without completing the prerequisite quest, allowing for nice side-stories.


New Team Members
Xach-Crisis has officially joined as a Graphical Artist for the team!


Userbar
We finally have a userbar, thanks to my good friend Sicon/Xach-Crisis (Our new team member):

Make sure you put this in your sig!




New Title Screen
Finally, we have a new Title Screen. The old one was amazing (Thanks to Radethdart), however, since we’re not using Ragnarok Sprites anymore for the game, the title screen no longer fit and I didn’t want to bog down Radethdart with another task despite the fact that Xach-Crisis decided to join as a Graphical Artist. So, Xach-Crisis and I worked together on creating this new animated title screen. The video is a bit bad quality but I’ll fix it soon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_JJxD-AQ4


Next Time
Next update we should have all main character graphics finished along with several support character face graphics (Mr. and Mrs. Stone, Jasmine Brown, etc.) Additionally, about three new tracks should be added to the soundtrack, and all items, swords, axes, and sabre icons should be finished. The World Map should be also finished along with the scripting of it and the database should finally be complete. So stay tuned!

wow looks and sound very interesting if you need any help with music (i know you have a composer) i would like to help if not then its cool

Thanks for the comments and the interest As for the musician spot, I don't want clashing styles and I've been very content with the style our current composer has developed for the game. Additionally, there really isn't an overload of music to have two musicians and finally I'm trying to keep the team size pretty small so it can be manageable. Thank you for the interest and offer though, I really appreciate it

Looking foward to this one.

Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it

Wow this looks very well thought out. It's good to hear that people are collaborating on big projects like this. I can't wait for the demo!

I had a question about the battle system. I looked up the script you mentioned and it reminds me of Fire Emblem (which is a good thing). What kind of strategies will be necessary to master in battle? As in, are certain classes/weapons/spells better at defeating some enemies than others? Is there an element system? Fire Emblem has a cool rock/paper/scissors systems with the three weapon classes (swords beats ax, ax beats lance, lance beats sword - I think), which I always thought was cool. The story looks great and I'm excited about all of the custom work, but I'd like a little more information about enemies and battle, if you have time :-)

Hey, thank you for the response, it means a lot to me The script is actually heavily influenced by Final Fantasy Tactics though i never realized it may resemble Fire Emblem lol As for strategies, the way I scripted along with the other scripts I've pulled from the Internet, there will be a dual-class system where you have your main class and then a secondary skill slot set on any other class that's accessible for that character, which can create interesting combinations. Additionally, there are several skills, weapons, and armors that vary gameplay in unique ways. Additionally, there are several weapons classes, like swords, katanas, knuckles, etc. but I never considered a one is greater than the other, but that is definitely a nice idea. I'll try to add more information though, once I finish up with the World Map, Quest System, and Time System, I can pour all my time into the battle system which I'm thinking about adding some more interesting aspects like Support Abilities, Dual Wielding, Type Advantages, etc. Thanks again for the comments

Cool, I'm happy to see you're so quick and willing to respond to feedback :-) I've played the FF tactics games and like them too, so that's def a selling point to me. The ability to set jobs and secondary skills sounds similar to FFV. Since it sounds like a lot of the strategy for battle is in setting up your party (forgive me if I'm wrong), it might help to have specific strengths and weakness attached to each class and monster (like warriors are good at fighting X but poor at fighting Y). I thought FF tactics was a little unbalanced because I got through the game by making everyone summoners and spamming big powerful magic attacks that hit a big chunk of the field (the game still rocks though for its story). Can't wait to hear more about the project!

It's good to hear someone else is a fan of FFT It was one of my favorites. Oh yea, and now that I think about it FFV did have that feature with setting secondary skills and what not, one of the reasons why I really liked that game. And yes, there is a lot of strategy in setting up the team, but thanks to you I'm realizing I'll need to add more strategy components "in-battle". I also agree FFT was unbalanced, you could easily beat the game with a couple classes. So once I finish everything else scripted-related, I'll get back into the battle and start adding more in-battle strategy components, like class advantages, monster advantages, unique perks, etc. Thanks again man

Ooh and terrain can be used for strategy too. I think in the Fire Emblem games if your character is on a bush or tree tile it heightens their accuracy and lowers target's evasion (like your character is hiding/doing a sneak attack). Not to overload with ideas

UPDATE!!!

Loss of Icon Artist
We’ve lost our icon artist, bamboo123, due to issues in her personal life, we thank her for all she’s done up to this point I’ve also decided that we won’t be having a custom icon set unless someone really wants to join or bamboo123 decides to come back if she can. With that said, I’ll continue using the icons I picked up around the internet which are still pretty good quality.


Database Complete!
The database is finally complete!! Well, basically, at least. All animations have been settled with (further editing will take place later when more animation resources are available), and all weapons, skills, armors, and items have been configured. So that’s great because now serious game development can get under way.


Main Character Face Graphics!
Our amazing artist has finished the main character face graphics and their emoticons! Here’s a little something I put together to showcase them:



Quest-Time-Map Integration System
I’m busily working my but off trying to combine the quest, world map, and time systems into a combined system. There will be twelve months in a year with 25 days per month. Every time you move one space on the world map, a day passes. Quest time limits are based on these days. There are several more features to this but I still have a couple more things here and there to code so when I’m completely done, I’ll make a video. So stay tuned on this!



Sorry for the late response But I just wanted to say that that is an AMAZING idea, I’ll definitely try to incorporate that, that’ll had some real nice flavor to battle. Thanks again for these awesome ideas man, I’ll definitely credit you

I feel like playing final fantasy tatics for GBA now.... cause i saw the Quest system and the Shopping menu lol.

I like all of the scripts and unique stuff... But hows the battle system.
Is there a demo for this game?

Hey thanks for the comment, I'm still working on the Map-Quest-Time System, so after I finish that (which should occur very soon) I'll spend all my time into enhancing the battle system. As of now there are a few cool features such as secondary skills but I plan on adding many more tactical advancements. (and lol FFTA was major inspiration for the game)

And unfortunately there is no demo yet, I planned on the demo to be released on 4/5/12 which is about a month from now, but I don't know if that's possible. Definitely there should be a demo before the summer is over.

MAJOR UPDATE

Hey everyone, progress is being made quickly on this game! Unfortunately though, the original release date for the demo, which was 4/5/12, has to be pushed back. Now, were making a smaller demo which we call a “Teaser Demo” that contains a small portion of Act One. This will hopefully be released on 4/26/12. However, our musician already has all but two songs left for ALL of Act One, you can listen to the 18 tracks here (I just realized it isn’t completely updated, but I’ll tell him about it and it should have all 18 within a couple days):

http://soundcloud.com/turkwise/sets/gais-hunters/

With that said, I don’t want to give any other displays of our progress as I’d like to show all that through the “Teaser Demo”. In the mean time, I’d love some feedback and thanks for your patience and support!

Major Update

Introduction
Hey everyone, it’s been a looooong time lol. Well, today was supposed to be the release date for the demo, and sadly that won’t be happening This is due to complications in the team where they have some person issues going on in their lives, but most of it has been resolved On the up side, a lot of progress was made despite this which I’ll be going over in this update!

Mapping
All the maps for the “Teaser Demo” have been created, this includes Rockdale Town, the Rockdale Woods, the Hollow Woods, the Rocky Plains, and Bern (these are all the locations in the Tenth District). Here are some screenshots:



Eventing
All of the main story cut scenes have been evented and all dialogue has been inputted (as I pre-writed all the dialogue of Act One to make sure all the grammar was right). However, there are some non-story quests that can be picked up from the Pub that still need to be evented. There will be approximately 17 available Pub Quests in this demo.

Music
Turkwise, our musician, has been refining the songs (as he’s completed all but three songs for all of Act One which is already way more than needed for just this “Teaser Demo”), so check out his soundcloud, which is linked too from the first post of this thread, and from there you will be able to listen to the OST.

Graphics
Face Graphics
Our face graphics artist (Mahomagic) is in the process of creating the last Support Character graphic needed for this demo (Jonas, the geologist that will be accompanying the party for most of Act One) and also Mahomagic will be creating some more Job Classes face graphics for the demo.
Character Graphics
Our character artist was having some personal issues within her life, but most of it is now resolved. However, we be switching back to the default RMXP character style graphics with some refinement to make it look nicer. This will also speed up the generation of these graphics as I’ll be able to make some character graphics that are non-important (like civilians) with a generator I downloaded.
Tileset Design
Our Tileset Designer also ran into some problems when his computer crashed. If his files are still okay, then he’ll be able to send me the Cave Tileset in the Medieval style that the rest of the game is in.
Graphical Art
Our graphical artist has done a lot, including making completely custom Battle System graphics. Here they are:


Scripting
I have a little bit left to do on the scripting side. The first priority is to get battle processing more smooth and the battle results page looking less “weird”. And next is to get the Relationship System up and running so that you can recruit people in-game for your Hunter Group.

Conclusion
So essentially, things are looking good, if all goes according to plan, we should have a demo available to the public by late May. So keep watch everyone and thanks for the continuous support!

Hey guys the "Teaser Demo" is just around the corner, all we have to do is get another test run in which will be done by today, and gather the remaining character sprites needed from our new character artist. So get ready to check out this game guys, I'd love comments and feedback on it when it's released!

The teaser demo is FINALLY available! Thanks to all that helped make this happen! You can find the download link on the first page.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated

I got this error trying to play your game.

Yea someone else told me about the error so I've been trying to re upload as fast as possible. The fix should be here in about 20 minutes, it's just taking a while to upload, sorry

EDIT: FINALLY...it's fixed lol

A few bugs I found:
Stack level error in the first battle...maybe because I reset the game in the intro?
I also got another stack error when travelling to Bern from Rockdale, but I didn’t reset this time!
Then when I tried to reload to a save I made in Rockdale I got "Undefined method ‘forcing_battler’" for nil class.

The introduction scene was hard to read in places because of the names in the backgroudn appearing behind text.
Supercontinent needs only to be one word.
Not sure about “use it to their benefit”...I think “for their benefit” would sound better.
The stone tablets kind of looked like paper, they were a bit too yellow.
The assassination didn’t look like much of an assassination with the guards just running up. Maybe, a murder?
I don’t think there needs to be punctuation after “the hunt for the “forbidden tablettes”.
I was impressed by the spelling in most of the game, but some of the English seemed a bit off. Not quite natural, so here are some of the bigger things I picked up:
“afoot”'s a real word, but it did seem a bit wierd considering the other noraml English you used. I don’t think you can use “forestry” in that way in the forest either because it's refering to a science not the actual locale..

On to the good stuff:
I thought the story was pretty fun as far as I got trying to leave Rockdale. It seemed like a sterdy storyline and I loved the introduction of the geologist and the setting, all very exciting and interesting. The World Map was also gorgeous, especially the travelling. Maybe, a tad slow though.
The recruiting was a cool idea and the dialogue bubbles is really cool. I failed at it though, I jut could never get anyone above 4! I'd always choose a wrong response.
I love that this is a strategy battle system and I havn't seen much of it so far but it's looing good. I did notice a Chemist use an antidote on an uninjured Vagrant which seemed weird.

All in all, I really loved the presentation (the title screen was amazing!) and thought that the story points were pretty well presented. Some of the dialogue could use some rewording and I hope to play again at some point, but the bugs I ran into were a little annoying so I hope there arn't more.

Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking about taking down this demo because a few people have already told me about several you've told me about, and I already fixed them, but a few of the stuff you've stated I haven't heard about :/ (Things I don't quote in your post are things that I've already fixed before from other people)




This is probably due to how I scripted the Map System, however, I've changed it around and now it's a lot more efficient and it won't "slow" like you mentioned later and this stack error shouldn't come up.




Hm, that didn't happen to other people that saved in Rockdale...hm...I'll check that out.




That's weird, yea, because you reset the game in the intro, I'll look into this.




*Opens editor and fixes*




They more more like representations, they aren't the actual things, but I know what you mean, I'll talk to our artist about this.




Alright just fixed that too lol!




Thanks I'm glad you thought that And as I said earlier, the tad slow part has now been eliminated because I wrote some of the code not very efficiently so it was producing lag, but no more!




Thanks! That's a big thing and I wanted to make sure people thought it was a good idea. However, you may be dissapointed to hear the points are given randomly, that's the only method I could think of to have some many questions and answers. So I'm gonna try to find a system to make it not random and therefore people will find it easier to recruit these NPCs.




Yea lol the Chemist's skills are based on how strong she is (since she's at level one she can only do one skill) but for some reason she never likes attacking even in all the test runs I've done. So I'm gonna try to make her attack more and use the antidote only if her team needs it. At the same time she kinda has the "dumb" mentality since she's at a low level lol




Thanks a lot for the comments and critique, really appreciate it! And one of my team members already made a list for me a few days ago will that weirdly put dialog and it's all fixed now, but some of the stuff you said weren't included so I fixed that too. So either I'll upload a "fixed" Teaser Demo or wait until Act One is done. Thanks again!

I don't remember quite what I played, but I shall try my best to give my opinion. ^^;

I LOVE turned-based strategy RPGs. Such as Final Fantasy Tactics (the original only), Heroes of Might and Magic III, Tactics Ogre, Shining Force, etc. So having an RM game with that kind of battle system instead of a typical side-view made me sooooo happy! I think, though, it would be GREAT if they had more animation. It looks like you were using Gubid's system, and and I know it comes with a way to do that. I also know your a good coder, so you could figure something out.

Animation meaning... Showing them swing a sword, or casting magic, etc. It would bring it so much more life!

I also hope that you're also going to give the Abilities command an icon.

When I got to the world map, it lagged so horribly I had to turn it off. I blame my netbook. Lols.

Thanks for the comment! First of all, yea I was thinking about adding animation but it would require so much extra work for our character artist (who left the team actually ) that the only possible way is like you said, find a way to animate a weapon icon through scripting but the character them-self wont be animated unless more sprites are made. Oh and for abilities, that's supposed to be the name of your class skillset (like for White Mages, that would be White Magic or do you think it would better if I just had a universal icon for that primary skills in general?). Also, yea, the world map doesn't lag anymore, just fixed that the other day lol thanks again!

The skill name may seem out of place with the other icons listed there, so I think an icon would be great!

You don't have to add animations, but maybe you could put that on a "maybe" list for the future.

Ok! I'll place an icon that represents primary skills and then another icon that represents secondary skills (as when you equip a secondary skill set you'll have the option of using those skills in battle). And yea, I'll definitely try to see if I can add animations, I mean originally that was the plan but it just never worked out lol

Hrrm, I'm not sure if I'm the only one getting this error in the very first battle, but: if you try to move your cursor over an enemy Vagrant and try to check their stats; this happens,

http://s426.photobucket.com/albums/pp341/X...urrent=Gai1.jpg

And it basically shuts down the entire client afterwards. I've tested this a second time (Skipping the intro this time) and I've gotten the same results. Am I going to have to refrain from checking my opponents stats? Or is there something wrong on my end?

Yes that's an error that shouldn't be happening, I just checked the script editor and I found out what the problem is. It's fixed so it has nothing to do on your end, if you're still up to playing, you're going to have to refrain from checking opponent stats Thanks for the find though!

Alright! The Official Teaser Demo is out, no more errors, all possible pub quests available, no lag on the world map, and renewed dialogue. Try it out when you get the chance!