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Chaos Prophecy: Abstract: A lengthy RPG adventure of magic, chaos, and the apocalypse. Genre: High Fantasy RPG Game Progression: Prelude Act complete. ETA Unknown. Recruitment: Scripter for one script, and one modification. Music, and possibly sprite assistance. Average Demo time: Once it's ready, the demo is to encompass the whole first act as one of the main characters. This ought to be about 5 hours of play. This does not include side quests... or dialog skipping. Required: Story / Setting / Purpose: Chaos Prophecy is about a pair of characters who were brought together by the intervention of some jerk from the future who thought he could end some crazy prophecy by killing them. The main characters, a pugilist and a mage apprentice, end up needing to adventure due to this jerk's intervention. At the beginning of the game, the player gets to choose between the two (a la Star Ocean 2,) and the course of the story varies quite a bit depending on who is chosen. During Act 1, the pair must dispel the jerk's magic that has swapped their souls, making them control one another's bodies. They must travel across the continent, either by way of deadly spider caves, or by meandering around through three different towns in order to reach the temples of the goddess of order, whose powers can restore their souls. Trouble is on every step of the way, as monsters become more active and the temple becomes overrun with the undead. They must battle the forces against them in order to restore themselves, only to then get pulled deeper and deeper into the clutches of the chaos lords who are desperately trying to stop them. Over the course of this lengthy tale, the main bulk takes place on a world inhabited by 4 main species, humans being one of these. The others are the ri'pado, the dodeeja, and the eikarians. Respectively humanoid rabbits, rats, and monitor lizards. At the end of most of the acts, the party is pulled into another world by one chaos lord or another where they attempt to thwart the party on their own ground. The game's climactic act occurs during the apocalypse, where after obtaining the ultimate weapon from Death, they must face off against the deity of chaos mid-resurrection. Character Bios: This game gives the player the opportunity to recruit up to 8 characters along their quest. Some of these only available depending on which one you choose to play as, and some of them requiring certain side quests. The current list has 12 characters of different lands, backgrounds, and personalities. Kreyshi Tholdon - A pugilist guardian of Springvale, the starting town. She is stoic, but usually does the right thing. Often she responds to injustice with her strong ri'pado legs. Aramil Moonbrook the 12th - A mage apprentice. He is the 12th in a long line of ri'pado sons who were given the name of their bloodline, then sent off to learn the secrets of magical absolution. He's shy, but as the game goes on, he comes further and further out of his shell. Padlan Hemlock - A monster hunting ranger. The only way to get him is to agree to slay a psychic boss giant spider. Having him increases money gain greatly, as he's able to retrieve body parts and valuable goods from fallen enemies a lot easier. Mareanne Windsong - A priestess who joins the pair in order to help them with the ritual. She's the only character you're forced to have in your group for most of the game. She is, however, silently judging the team and their actions the whole way. Tozo Ironhand - A goodly knight who leaves his land in order to investigate the chaos cultists, (if you convince him to.) He's a tank. A spear and shield and heavy armor tank. He's also annoyingly noble at times. Todoza - An inquisitor who's already investigating the chaos. The resurrection of the chaos deity would not fall in with the plans of her own religion, and would get in the way of Uzzadujoza's reign. She is likely to follow along with the group with her own agenda... and more in following acts... Credits: Currently I'm using quite a few of YanFly's scripts. I'm also using one of Galv's. (The character animations script.) One of DreamX's (random augments.) I'm looking for at least one more script... for more control over SV_Actor images. I'm doing most of the sprite re-working. Making fighting-game style SV battlers. I'm looking to furnish the game with more music and sound. Currently not top priority. Screenshots: Features: Story! Characters who feel a little more realistic in personality than the anime-style thinking of most RPG characters. Multiple game arcs, depending on who is chosen, and what choices the player makes. (Because I... love Dragon Age. So inspiring.) Fighting game inspired SV Battlers. (Now, if only I could figure out how the get more frames and more flexibility of what battlers show.) Humanoid animal people! (Four species populate the main world. Humans are one of them, and no traditional fantasy species were used... unless you count skaven and lizardmen, which two of the game's species resemble.) In depth combat and monster AI design. You won't be getting away with simply attacking everything to death. Known Issues: No demo yet.

I should have posted this as "Serious or Silly" to more accurately describe what I had in mind, which were silly, like Sis RPGs. Have you ever seen them? They are wacky. But the original question remains do you think it is better to focus solely on making one type of game or another? Like, if I want to make a bunch of silly games, and then produce one with a more serious tone, would the silliness have already tainted people's perceptions? Or would it be a better option to use a Nom Du Jeu (Game Name), and produce them under 2 different aliases? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxDN2xPe_E <---Emily's Big Adventure (Sis RPG)