From Cloud Manga: Light Warrior:Yuji the Fighter

[Kumo Shinagi]

I've posted this about a thousand times at the RPGMPav boards, now it's time for these boards to get this as well.

Story/Character Info:
www.freewebs.com/cloudmangainc/gamesinfonews.htm

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Quote:

Story:

I am working on a story called Light Warrior:Yuji the Fighter. The story takes place in my version of China. This China is an archelpelago far away from the mainlands. A young boy named Yuji Koseken lives a peaceful life on an island in China with his mother and father. His father was the great savior of China, he played a key role in defeating an mysterious army of demons and villianous humans known as the Xiang-Kai.
Well, one night, Yuji couldn't sleep and decided to take a walk outside. He then discovers a a weird twister just standing there outside hs home. The moment he went to tell his parents, the twister struck and blew him and his mother to a different part of China. The following morning, Yuji and his mother can't find Yuji's Father. Yuji then begins a journey to find his Father and uncover the misteries of China.
The story is an action based one, as numerous battles using Martial-Arts and Chi Magic unfold.



Characters:

Yuji Koseken
Age:15-18
Chi Innate:Fire
Personality:Hot headed, angry, calm, and passionate.

He is the main character of the story.
Yuji is a boy who just wants to relax and enjoy life.
Until recent events, he enbarks on an adventure that will affect him, the people he meets, and his family line for eons to come. He posesses a bright hot potential that if unlocked could help destroy the darkness plaguing his world, or help destroy it. Yuji's Martial Arts techniques are a mix of every fighting style known in his time. His lightning quick fists and his powerful legs can bash and and stomp out his foes.

Famiku Na-Ming
Age:13-16
Chi Innate:Wood
Personality:Cheerful, scary

Famiku is a mysterious girl Yuji met on the begining of his journey. Not much is known about Famiku, nor how she and Yuji met on that day.
Perhaps it was fate that brought them together?
Famiku uses Bow and Arrow type weapons to pick off her enemies one, by one.

Aya Fuji
Age:17
Chi Innate:Water
Personality:Tough, self-doubting, helpful.

Aya is and orphaned child raised by Sholin Monks to protect the famous Akenai Tree of
Mt. Sarakugai. Aya uses Tonfas to smash in her enemies.

Katsuya Mairanai
Age:25
Chi Innate:Metal
Personality:Brash, honorable

Katsuya is a Japanese swordsman tought by the great Master Qui. Katsuya's sister, Mishi, was kidnapped by demons. He now searches the China to look for her. Katsuya's sword skills makes him a well feared opponent.

Sara Kim
Age:22
Chi Innate:Earth
Personality:Bright, angry, sad

Sara is the leader of the rebel group known as the Shi. Nothing else, neither what she does is known.

Shinzo Koseken
Age:35
Chi Innate:Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, and Wood.
Personality:Playful

Shinzo is Yuji's Father. Shinzo Koseken came into China to expand his horizons and see the world.
Little did Shinzo know, he walked into China during the middle of a war gone wrong.
And he never even knew of his strange Chi Innate.
One day, he took care of some demons that were about to destory the last of China's forces and helped China to victory. Shinzo tought Yuji his strange Martial Arts style.

Mari Koseken
Age:26
Chi Innate:Water
Personality:Helpful

Mari is Yuji's Mother. She helped Shinzo during his darkest hours during the War.




Features:

A difficult adventure with lots of action!
Battle over 50 Types of demon spawn!
High action sequences using the Dai-Sho-Don system which needs reflexes to master!
Battle switches to various forms!
5 Elements of Chi Magic with spell mastering up to Level 5!
Each character has their own Special Techniques to learn!
Over 100 E.X. Missions that range from character training to hostage situations to battles!
Minigames ranging from Battle Arenas, to Fishing, to Drinking Matches!
Based on the Story and Artwork of Kumo Shinagi!


Estimated Release:1st Quarter 2004/05

Completion:66%

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I will post special updates here.

First off:
My Dai-Sho-Don buttons system:
To make sure battles get harder and more exciting, I've now substituted fake Hp for Real Hp. I've also mapped all the possible buttons that players might push instead of the right button, or don't push a button at all.
I also note that if your controller is worn down(The shulder buttons aren't that responsive) you will miss counters most of the time.

I've made a training dummy as a E.X. Mission.
You'll get something special if you do that mission.
It counts for five out of the 100 missions.

It's not over:
After much thinking, I've decided to make a title screen for both parts of the game. They're really basic(Not "New Game" option when you've already saved. It's too much to go through and it takes too much mem to format EVERYTHING to new game status), but they get the job done.

Check out my website at www.freewebs.com/cloudmangainc for more info and artwork for the game drawn from me.

Hey, can you get a Max Drive from Wal-Mart? I really don't want to order online.

[Doan the Nado]

Sounds like that game gets a little better with each update, but of course it does. That's the whole point of updating, right? Good job (no sarcasm intended). The title screen sounds pretty good, too. I don't think a New Game option is really necessary, since that can be chosen from the RPGM2 Title Screen.

I believe that I have seen Max Drives at Wal-Mart for about $25-30. I've definitely seen them a little cheaper online, but I guess once you throw in the S&H, coupled with the fact that you don't want to buy online, the Wal-Mart deal isn't too bad.

[Deleted]

Cloud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You finally made it man. You been gone for like 4 or 5 months. Glad your back!!! (William0000)

Yeah, a lot of new updates have surfaced the online rpgm2 community. Make sure check out DW's edition to the DBS. (Home page, clich Most Helpful Post of the Week at the top)

Yes, your game's attracted me since I first new about it.
I'm definitely gonna play it, you done with it already?

[Kumo Shinagi]

Yeah, I'm back for now. I'm not done with this game yet, I've had other crap in my way. I had to take care of those problems first. I'm still trying to get at least a demo out to show off the games varing battles and differents mingames. I've also been thinking about and online ranking system for some of the minigames. Just for fun, you know. I could also provide the top placers with excusive copies of Light Warrior with special features and more codes/interviews and behind the scenes features. It's like getting a director's cut, but it's not(I'm saving that for RPGMXP ).

Don't worry Doan, I know when someone's being sarcastic. Thank you for being proper though(That really shows because you can go to other boards and you ask one question and they give you: off!)

[Kumo Shinagi]

Updates: (Been a while, lol)

Story:
Well, I have finished the next part of the main story.
5 E.X. Missions out of/100 have been made.
I'm now currently working on the next part.

System:
Added a basic fishing mingame(based purely on luck).
You can use the fish you cought to sell or use as healing items.

Frustrating:
I can't find a Max Drive anywhere!
I've tried the Wal-Mart near my house and nothing.
I really don't want to order online because recently I had to remove Trojans and Spyware off my PC.

Sigh...

Pray for me.

[Deleted]

It's slightly off-topic, but I found my X-Port on e-bay a while ago, so perhaps try there. I don't know where else to look, but I'm willing to bet online's your best chance, and electronic boutique (eb) stores are your next best chance. Gl, if not you can mail your memory card to Doan (or someone else, jugem did this for his video with Doan) and they'll put it up.

[Kumo Shinagi]

Dammit. It looks like I have no choice...

Well, hopefully by the end of the month or early Feb., I will release a Demo(and maybe part 1) of Light Warrior.

[Doan the Nado]

Awesome! This is great news. ;D

[Kumo Shinagi]

Guess what? I finally found it in my area!
Demo files should be ready be the end of the day!

YAY!

EDIT-DEMO 1of2 has been sent to the pavillion.
This demo will include the Dai-Sho-Don battle system.

DEMO 2 will come along soon after that.

EDIT-I have sent Doan DEMO 2 as well.
another demo to come soon.

[Deleted]

SOunds freakin' awesome dude! I'll be checkin' it out soon enough!

[Kumo Shinagi]

You are one of my testers, so I will mail it to you soon.

[Deleted]

I played both the Yuji: Light Warrior and Leon the Hero demos, and these are all my points, I guess:

(note: I'm posting this in both topics. A lot of these are pretty similar for both games)

Suggestions:

Putting the map for the player when they're walking around in town, dungeon, or world map can help them not to get lost (the town in Yuji was like that because the four corners all looked quite similar, and it could also help with navigating the very spread apart town in Leon). I don't think the dungeon or world map for each need it that much though.

Re-sizing the characters' proportions could help make things look less cutesy and such. If you'd like just ask and I'll post up the proportions I use.

Put more stuff in the towns. I assume you'll do this and it was only like this because they were demos.

To make All Targeting abilities' VFX go once (Yuji), go to the abilities' direct effects and change the VFX script from the Success Slot to the Group Slot.

It'd be nice if you put more messages for the party members to say when different things happen in battle (Yuji), and speed it up so there isn't a pause before as well.

Both world maps were very plain and boring, but that could be because these are demos.

The enemies (Yuji) were too strong and magic was too weak.

In the Dai-Sho-Don mini game, it seemed like you had less time to hit L1 and R1 than you did /_\ and less time to hit /_\ than square. I think it'd be better to make them all be the same time and instead of cutting the time add more buttons in. I'd say it'd be good if the first time was just square and /_\, the next added in O and X, and the next added in L1 and R1. It's harder to distinguish between L1 and R1 on the screen than any other buttons so perhaps try it just saying L and R and see if it's easier (tell the player L means L1 and R means R1 before the game starts).

The sword animation for Leon is out of his hand (and the boss's axe animation), though I do know this is a very hard thing to perfect.

The enemies before the boss (Leon) do move too fast. It's probably good for the enemies to never run at 2x player speed (which is what I think it was). It'd be good to start the player out fighting enemies at half speed probably.

The collision detection's not very good in Leon either. Wouldn't it work to find the X distance and Y distance of the enemies and party, sort by party direction, then based on the party's direction find the values for player X - enemy X and player Y - enemy Y? Then, if say the party is facing northwest and the player X - enemy X = 1 and the player Y - enemy Y = 1, the player is facing the right way and the enemy is right in front of them. I think that would take care of the collision detection. You could also do the same, but reverse it and do it for enemies' attacking collision detection. If you need more help on how to do this more specifically just say so, I don't mind at all.

It'd be nicer if the mushrooms were automatic (Leon). This really only is because RPGM2 takes the player out of the menu when they use an item everytime.

I think both games could benefit from a custom camera system like Doan's. It's really not hard at all to do. I could give you the password to my game so you can look at my scripts (I'd tell you which ones) and explain them.

I think the battling in Yuji'd look better if the camera wasn't so far away from the enemies, but that would make you have to edit the VFX accordingly. You can also make the enemies bigger by making all their animations be 150% or 200% size while leaving the actual value of room they take up whatever it's at (I have not tried this myself but I don't see why it wouldn't work) to simulate a closer camera.

It'd probably help your caves look less blocky if you used the map editor. It'd save you money and allow all your rooms to be bigger and more expansive too, and square per square the map editor is much more memory efficient.

Compliments:

Some of the townspeople were quite funny and caught me off guard and made me smile like the wizard girl and cowboy girl in Leon and the guy in Yuji that randomly says he has to go to the bathroom. The wizard girl was my favorite. This is what I like most in townspeople. Examining the well was also funny.

The two suits for Leon to wear is cool.

The tail on Leon is good looking and livens things up some.

I liked how Leon talked to the townspeople too.

The title screens and intro credits for both are awesome, no questions asked.

Your great use of music all the time is one big thing I noticed. It definitely adds to the game.

The Dai-Sho-Don game was fun the first few times, till I lost so often. I think it'd be perfect if the player was eased into it a little, and some of the later ones that are harder could be optional too.

It was funny how AFTER the Dai-Sho-Don mini game Yuji said they weren't after the fruit and were just passing by. It made me laugh. The rock that fell on him and the way he fell flat on his face was really funny too. That little part was probably the highlight for me.

I also like how you masked the back of the screen when the player went into the shop menu a lot, which I'd never thought of even (though should've probably).

I like the color you changed the windows to. You've inspired me to change mine to something others than transparant! (or try, we'll see how it goes)

Definitely a very good demo overall.

[Kumo Shinagi]

Light Warrior:

Remember (I might of forgot to mention this), this demo is of Part(Game File)2 of Light Warrior. Game File 1 has Dai-Sho-Don at an easier level that you can adjust to (instead of using the face buttons you use the Directional Pad).

I'm trying to go for the Anime look with this game (ergo the cute chibi characters)

I'm not really good with making Maps. The map in Leon the Hero was the one taken from the original RPGM1 version, just beefed up.

Getting lost in the towns wasn't something I expected.
Maybe Leon but not LW. I'll see what I can do.

Collision detection in Leon is hard, I know.
The new battle system was a last minute change.
I could use some help with it though.

Things I'll address:

LW:
-Make Battles faster
-Tweak Dai-Sho-Don

LTH:
-Tweak the ABS
-Fix some effects


LW battles system reguarding magic and stats:
I accidently boosted the enemies stats and sent the demo in. I was doing testing with game overs.
Magic and Skills are still being tweaked as we speak.



Whew. I hope I addressed everything.

Sorry it took me so long to answer, damn school and damn computer being in the room my Dad sleeps.

[Kumo Shinagi]

Got to my boards at the pav for complete updates and info:

www.pavilionboards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58

[Kumo Shinagi]

Yo, it's me again with an important annoucement.

LW:YtF is going Cel-Shade thanks to messing with the shadows and light effects of dungeons and fields.

www.pavilionboards.com/forum/showthread.php?p=21466#post21466

EDIT- The demo of the story has been sent to the pav, I'm gonna mail it to Doan right after this post.

[Kumo Shinagi]

^Look at above post^ *Sorry for the bump.*

[Draygone]

Dude, I figured out the cell-shading quite some time ago. I only posted it at the Agetec forum and the old Pavilion, so my post is probably long gone by now.

[Kumo Shinagi]

I know I didn't find out this.

I'm just the first to use it.

I never said I found the way to Cel-Shade.

But thank you for telling me that you are the one who told everyone about Cel-Shade.

I will include you in the special thanks section (If I already haven't, I probably did though.)

[Deleted]

Cool. I'm curious to see how it turns out. I'll be checking out the new demo soon.

[WarDragon]

cell shading in rpg maker 2 or rpg maker 1

[Kumo Shinagi]

RPGM2.

I don't think you can do that in RPGM1.

The pav still hasn't updated for my game yet, post your e-mail if you want to check it out before Doan or the Pav releases it (*directed at everyone*).

[vespuleth]

kumo, you should email it to me if you want it put up here. doan is on haitus. i am doing updates tomorrow, i think...

[Kumo Shinagi]

I'll probably get it to you today, if not, you can take the copy at the pav (They got it up, check it out!).

[Deleted]

I played the newest one and I'm very impressed. The cell-shading graphics actually look really cool, and the story is quite good up to where I'm at. I'll try to list all my compliments and suggestions:

Story's good, and well told. The camera's often still during cutscenes, but the dialogue's very good and makes up for it. The animations you do on the characters during them helps too.

The volcano looks a lot better this time around. I noticed the distortion's turned up (which is good), and the red lighting makes it look more like a volcano. The spots of lava with smoke were probably the best though. It might help to round out the corners with those triangular blocks as well.

The character battle dialogues are cool and add to the game, like before. It seems as though there are very few and they repeat a lot, and they almost always say something (so after a while it starts to lose its appeal) (but it is still cool).

Please put a nicer song on the map. The map music should be peaceful and relaxing.

I really like your selection of BGM for random battles, but it would be better if there were more than just one song. I believe someone posted how to do this in the Common Script Database topic.

As always, it could benefit from a custom camera system (I think so at least). If you use Doan's Walkthrough for doing it it shouldn't take long at all to make (and pretty cheap memory-wise).

The towns and dungeons were pretty sparse without much going on, although everything seemed to be placed properly. You did hide treasure chests and those HP/CP item things around though, which was good. I also like how those items gave the player a little control in how the characters grew.

The flee formula let me run 100% of the time. While this would normally be a bad thing, I liked it because on the map and the volcano there was only one unit in each of them, and the enemies seemed to mostly only do normal attacks. This is also compounded by only having one normal battle music. I like what you've done the enemy models so far though.

You can resize objects by making them events and shrinking them down, or shrink down some things that are already events like the treasure chests. I think the treasure chests'd look better if they weren't bigger than people.

I like the color you've made the windows too. It matches with the cell-shade look.

The biographies for the characters are nice too.

I like how this is the story of Yuji when he's a boy and the next'll be him as a young man later. That seems cool to me, but I don't know why.

Overall, I enjoyed the demo quite a bit and am more interested in the game. If I think of anything else I'll come post more.

[doyleman]

I've about played every game/demo out there, but I know I haven't played this one yet...
I'll get to it this weekend and give feedback