Here is my profile for Trinon. I've got the profile on <a href='
http://www.toolkitzone.com/game.php?game=974' target='_blank'>toolkitzone</a>. I just wanted some feedback here.
Graphics:I'm using the RPG Maker XP tilesets and the shao-rmxp character sets. Here is a nice little screenshot. This particular board isn't going to be in the final version, but it's a nice little sample of what I want:
I'll skip over
sound, for the person writing it hasn't given me a sample yet...
Story:Most people know the legends of Hyrule during the time of Link I, or the Hero of Time. What most people don't know is that a side story was going on at the time. A squadron of soldiers, with the permission of their king, and their families left to find a vast land to the east. They had no proof that this land existed except for the word of a psychic, who had predicted that they would find it.
After many months of sailing, the adventurers were about to give up. But just as they were about to turn back, a small child looked over the side of the ship and saw the land. Hearing his yell, his parents quickly ran over and alerted the watchman. "Land ho!" was heard and greeted with great celebration. Almost as if their excitement sped them on, they got to the island quickly.
When they landed, they immediantly established a small town, just large enough to hold all of the occupants of the ship, and built a giant wooden wall around it. They called this city "Fort Star" in honor of the leader of the project. During the following years, Ft. Star expanded quite quickly, and before long was a large city bordering all the way from the ocean, where they had established a port, to the mountains, where they were working on tunneling through. They had found mines nearby, and had a very nice supply of materials.
When Fort Star was large enough to keep itself running without a lot of people, three groups were sent off to map the land and find places that could support towns. One group was led once again by Stargazer, the leader of the original project. This group would search the northern region. Another was led by Vagabond, one of the most trusted of Stargazer's generals. This one would search the southern reaches. And the last was led by Shurto the Wolf, as he was also greatly trusted. His group would search the center of the land.
The northern group did not find much to report back about. They continued north until they found a small gap in the mountains, just about 25 feet wide. They followed the northern river, which was frozen over, until they came to a tundra-like area. This was dangerous, and they had to get through it quickly. They moved very quickly and eventually came to the other side. Located here was a very large clearing in the snow, and to quote one of the people in the team, a "winter wonderland". This person later became one of the co-owners of the city built there.
The southern group didn't have much of a time either. They went south until they found water, then started to go east. They found a desert-like area. About two miles into the desert, they started drilling into the ground for water, found it, and built a little campsite around it. The campsite consisted of three small cabins, a well, and couple of campfire circles. After spending a night at the campsite, the group moved on. They exited the desert two days later and entered a grassland. They followed the grassland until getting to the opposite ocean. To the north, they could see a huge shadow, though nothing to cast it.
The middle group, though, found many things to speak of. They found the easiest way through the mountains. The clearing was a couple of miles wide. That is where they broke off with the southern group. They continued east and ended up in a harsh grassland. The wind here was insanely rough and it was hard to get any kind of tent up. The wind never let up, not for a moment, at least until they left the grassland. They kept walking and after a few days, the wind started to let up and the ground started softening a little bit.
The group ended up at a forest. The forest extended for miles north and south. It was very dark inside and nobody wanted to go. After a couple of contests, a small group of people were chosen. They went inside the forest for about fifty feet. One soldier started to turn around to yell out, but stopped in the middle of whatever he was going to say. He couldn't see anybody. In fact, he couldn't see out of the forest. He motioned toward the rest of his group and started walking back. They never got out.
The next day, the main group decided to try and go around. They went south about a mile, and saw a skeleton, a sword still in it's hand, next to an almost decayed corpse of an animal that the group could not identify. This strengthened their thoughts and worries about their comrade's fates. They continued south, until they came to the end of the forest three days later, then continued east.
Though the losses saddened the rest of the group, they continued on. The last thing they saw before the ocean was a large shadowed area. The funny thing about this area was that there was no object casting the large shadow. They explored this area, and eventually found a very nice place for a town. The area was on a cliff, and was big enough for a town, though who would want to live there, nobody knows.
After everybody met back up in Fort Star, they all combined their drawings and drew up a rough map of their new land. In the next few years, towns and cities were built all over Trinon. Though some were in higher quality than others, all the towns grew successfully.
Now, ten years later, a successful government has been established, and it has worked very well. Recently though, people who shouldn't know things are knowing things. Confidential things. And the government can't seem to figure out who it is.
Sure, it isn't perfect, but I'm still improving on it...
Miscellaneous(sp?):I should also say that you will only control one character, Therin, who hails from the Forest of Death ("Aokaringa" (a working name)), and I'm modifying the Zelda real-time battle system for it.
I'm using the Spiffy Menu, which I downloaded from the main site here.
If you want any more information, just ask for it and I'll post it later, if I'm at liberty to say, that is...
