The 3 Legacies of Uzian

[MKRyudo281]

Well, this has been a project that I've had, and worked with on and off for the past year and a half. Nothing has really been completed other than the talking system. I'd have screenshots of the stuff I have done, but my site had to go down (spaceports went to pay-only hosting).

What it'll have:
All original graphics
Original music
I-P based battle system (similar to Grandia series, or some of the Final Fantasy games)
What I hope will be an involving storyline

Heh, I've restarted this project 3 times, twice because it stank and used ripped sprites, and another time because my computer screwed over and lost the file.

Edit: Can someone come up with a better name for this?
Edit again: Yay! New name: The 3 Legacies of Uzian

[MKRyudo281]

Update: The game revolves around 3 similar worlds, each has an artifact that keeps it from merging with the other worlds. the problem is, the source of power from these 3 artifacts has been damaged. In the case of 2 worlds of this size merging, it would be okay, but the matter of 3 compressed into that size would either implode or explode it (which doesn't really matter, either way, they're dead).
And nobody realizes this except for Jake, his alternate selves, the one professor that tell Jake what his visions/dreams/blackouts mean, and a few people that aren't suprised by it.
After a few spontaneous movements between worlds, Jake(s) gain control over their movement, and need to use this to get to certain places (like some paths aren't accessible in some worlds, and the owner of the boat only exists in this other world).
The battle system (which I will finish once I stop being lazy) will use something similar to FF X-2's garment grid, allowing Jake to switch which persona is out(one's an archer, one a swordsman, and one a amge), and of course, there's gonna be people other than Jake that help in the fight (though they can't move between worlds, or do the switchy personality thing).

Edit: The original post looked icky, so I put it into paragraphs.

[SpookyElectric]

The concept seems pretty cool, and the fact that other characters can't move between worlds. It's a good way to explore and keep the player involved with all characters, instead of dominating a game with their other choice two or three. I'm interested in some screens.

[hamalnamal]

so will you have to have different pary members for each world to help the jakes?

[MKRyudo281]

Basicly. Due to my vast laziness, the battle system only includes fire magic, enemies attacking, and party member one (Jake) attacking, and the inventory is only semi-functional. The talking system is working perfectly, though it isn't much to look at.

[MKRyudo281]

Updaty poof!

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I have now come up with in character excuses on why your friends can't have inter-universal travel. All universes have different physics. Normally, if you were to transfer between two worlds, the new physics would rip you apart. But Jake is special, in that his body forces the rules of his usiverse upon the area around him.

This also explains why the universes would obliterate themselves if the force keeping them apart is disrupted; they would collide, and the physics resulting would rip all three worlds apart.

Also, just to be different, stats will work like this:

This new disruption in the the power source for the 3 artifacts has caused many monsters to force themselves into existance from some chaotic blob that exists in on it's own. These monsters, when they die, will leave behind coins with a red glow. There are those who can use these coins to enhance the strengths of a person. Eventually, the mage Jake will gain this coin-infusion ability, and you will be able to alter stats without having to find someone to do it for you.

Ok... on to magic.

I have come up with something called a Mana Seed. These will (metaphorically) take root, and grow, taking holy water, and converting it into Mana, which is used to form matter from the earlier mention Blob of Chaos into whatever you can think of that is within the ability of your tree. These trees will grow, giving you a greater control over magic. There are also several kinds of 'trees', which can help you mold your little piece of chaos into different things, like healing magic, elemental magic, etc.

Can you tell I made up 1/4 of this stuff as I typed?

[Xenith]

a mana seed?
there was a mana seed in "secret of mana" of squaresoft/squarenix well actually 8 ( i think) which you needed to use to power up the mana sword and mana weapons

[LanceHeart]

Yeah, I'd say the coincidence is quite striking, but I think the idea is quite good, considering it's elaborated enough to be useful.

[MKRyudo281]

Gah.... Every time I think of something, it's somehow influenced.... I come up with a name: Cyndane. People point out the similarities to Cyanide and Zidane....

Pah, I'm doomed to subconcsious influences....

Oh, and the project has now officially been restarted 4 times.

[SpookyElectric]

I wouldn't worry about the name "Cyndane", that sounds fine. The "Mana Seed" though - that was a huge part of SoM.. although I did like how you actually explained it instead of something lazy like "the mana seed is the source of magic". It may work. Keep updating, please.

[Xenith]

you know you just gotta know where to draw the line between usable and non-usable names. You could use names of things like Dragon Lance, Mithril , or Katana because they weren't created by a gaming company. Although there are things that weren't created by gaming companies that they used and suddenly if you use it you are "unoriginal". Personally i think that that is total BS things like Masanume( the name of sepheroth's sword) can't be used becuz it was in one of their games, the same goes for other things like Link or Zelda which the names were used be for the Nintendo game. But since the game is so popular we can't use them. sorry if i'm going a little off topic but Mana Seed is something very big in the game but the word "mana" wasn't copyrighted or created by them so you could use the word mana( which means magic) just think of something other than mana seed.