Epic of Serinor, the game whose construction is currently devouring my free time, has been made available in early beta form and uploaded to verge-rpg.com.

By early I do mean early. Only a fraction of the game is playable at the moment, but Grue wanted demos, so demos Gure will get. Enough of the system base is done to make it function as one might expect a completed game to function, and I'm comfortable enough with it to allow friends and strangers alike a chance to tear it to shreds.

Which is actually what I'd like. I need to know if anything doesn't work, and I'd like to know what does work or what anybody thinks might be handled better or more clearly. I'd say and ask for more but it's 5:15 AM and I haven't gone to bed yet. So I'm done. Enjoy.

Rocking. That's fantastic. Complete system, and when I went outside and hit a battle system as well... There are various minor improvements I might suggest, but I'm not gonna spoil my congratulations with them. Drop me an email if you want a list. :)

Zip

This is hell of sex. I look forward to seeing more!
I lolled when I saw the studio logo, though.

OK, some actual criticism now. it'd be nice if there were an option to equip stuff that you buy, since you have to stick it in the guy's inventory anyhow. Just a 'equip now?' option or something to that effect.
I can't decide how I feel about the way attack targets are selected. On the one hand, it allows a finer control of attacks, but on the other it's a touch distracting since it feels like you're doubling the number of input points in the fight, even though you aren't.
There is no way to say this politely, but you might consider having someone else do enemy graphics. Still, that can easily be changed after a full release, so...
An overview of the stats in the README would be useful, since you're expected to assign them immediately.

Also, please PLEASE give the character's eyes. They just need to be two pixels each, or even one! They're all creepy mannequins!

Oh, and:

1) When do you anticipate you'll put out the next release?

2) Will our current version savegames be compatible with it?

First off, thanks to everybody who had overly kind things to say about the game. It's all very appreciated. Especially you, McGrue. Dragon Warrior is the most awesome series ever, and you, sir, have made my week. And Zip, you'll be receiving an email. Now. On to concerns.

An 'equip on buy' option never really even occured to me until I actually started to buy things (shops are a relatively recent addition) at which point having to go through the item menu every time began to annoy me more and more. It's on my list.

Selecting targets is a total cop-out on my part. It makes it so I don't have to write code to intelligently select another target if the thing you try to attack dies in the interim. I will grant that it's kind of cheating, but I'll point out that I'm probably not going to change it. I might, but not until a post-final release cleanup.

I'll be the first to tell you that I suck at art. Unfortunately, I also suck at recruitment. If anybody wants to volunteer to do enemy graphics or other artsy things, I'd be more than happy to talk with you.

There's a full HTML manual coming. I will, however, add a box to the character creation/level up screen that details what the selected statistic does for you.

As long as I have to do character graphics, people will not have eyes. The problem enters when you start meeting races that are smaller than humans and really don't have space on their head for eyes. Heck, a fairy's head is only one pixel.

Healing is something I fixed in battle but not in menu. And the issue you're seeing is that chr files aren't updated until a map change or the party order changes.

Another bug nobody's noticed yet but I saw with further playtesting is that hate isn't being cleared for party slots 2 and 4. So after a while of playing, enemies will only attack these two characters. This is easy to fix; change the part of line 979 of battle.vc that reads:

if(!x%5)

to:

if(!x%2)

Whoops.

I might release a quick bugfix of glaring issues that people have brought up, and I hope that people bring up more. Otherwise, the next release that actually adds to world size will be out whenever I finish the entire Amin Continent. Open up worldmap.png; it's the one on the right that looks like a head. This demo includes a tiny sliver at the bottom around Gelaham.

I took great pains to make sure saved games will be forwards compatible. Yes, all saved games will transfer.

Again, thanks, and keep letting me know what you'd like to see or what you see that's broken.

Hrm, you wouldn't mind an artist, eh? And only last night I was emailed by someone looking for a stable project to make art for.

Don't you love happy coincidences?

This artist has a very iconic style. I would say best for an Earthbound or Dragon Warrior look'n'feel.

Crap. Now I have to be suspicious... whenever things like this happen, it just means god's gearing up to be a huge dick in some other regard. Oh well, that's my concern. ;D

I'll get you yet, YHWH!

I'm actually really happy to see a game that not only has aggro, but has abilities designed specifically to manipulate it. Also, I expect good things from that faction system!

By the way, defaulting to a new target is retardo easy. All you need is a function that returns a random living member of a given party!

Afterthought: Serinor should have a "HealMoar" spell.

The artist has already been contacted.

End of Line.

Quote:Originally posted by Gayo

Christ. I hope you're going to have a lot of hostel slots.

110. Five per city where you can recruit characters.