Valis Chapter 1: New demo available!

bush_monkey · Sun 29/01/2006 16:41:45

Oops, if that's the case I might have uploaded the wrong version... I'll see if I can find the later demo.

bush_monkey · Wed 01/02/2006 23:27:57

Valis has been nominated in the AGS awards for best demo!

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=24860.0

AÃ¯Â¿Â½rendyll (formerly Yurina) · Thu 02/02/2006 10:34:21

Hi,

I've played the demo by now, and I'm sure I'll love the game when finished.
But her comesthe big list:

I have a few things I didn't like:
* The text is a bit slow, and that's very irritating in the intro and in battle.
* The intro can't be skipped (the letter). I had to start overnew and watch the whole letter again, which takes 5-10 minutes. I found that pretty anoying, to be honest.

And here some mistakes I noticed:
* Sometimes a sentence isn't ended by dots. It's no big deal, but sometimes it's hard to say what belongs to which sentence.
* The game crashed when Duvall got at lvl 3 (the bug you were talking about?)
* When I entered the temple again I had the conversation which belongs to the beginning of the game again. On top of that, Senshi's portrait dissapeared after that.
* I got the Fireball Chackra-attack after I chose Water as Chakra (I didn't test fire yet).

Please note this is only for help. I still love this game!

:P

I'll post when I found out more.

~Yurina

bush_monkey · Thu 02/02/2006 18:41:59

Sorry about all that. I uploaded the wrong demo. All these bugs were fixed in V1.1... I don't have a copy of V1.1 around but I know someone who has so I'll put that right pretty soon. Thanks for your comments, though.

AÃ¯Â¿Â½rendyll (formerly Yurina) · Fri 03/02/2006 10:01:06

A nearly brilliant suggestion just came up: Why don't you make a skipable video of the intro? Of course video's take some MB's, but I don't know or you can make the intro skipable or not.

I'll look out for the correct demo!

bush_monkey · Mon 26/02/2007 18:06:33

Oh wow, its been over a year since the last update! Sorry about that guys, the game is still going if anyone wants to know. Update-wise, I dont know where to begin. there are now 5 playable characters (any 3 at any one time during the battles), 5 different powers for all 4 power types, 7 new towns, a lot of progress on the story, side-missions, fully-working shops, and a LOT of non-player characters. I reckon I am about 1/3 of the way finishing the whole game and 75% of the way towards finishing the first chapter (the game will be split into 3 manageable chapters).

I promise the next update will not take that long

Giddy Plant · Mon 26/02/2007 22:27:45

I commend your commitment!

bush_monkey · Fri 07/12/2007 20:12:13

Okay, forget about the above post. It may not have been as speedy an update as I had hoped! The good news is the first chapter of Valis is near completion. The game currently contains:

- an engrossing, epic storyline.
- over 20 types of monsters.
- 11 different towns with many different places to visit from shops to gambling dens.
- loads of NPCs to interact with.
- a fully working magic system with upgradable powers.
- a trading system between towns, Elite-style.
- a job system where you can choose side-missions ranging from easy jobs with little rewards to full-length adventures for the big gains.
- many different types of weapons, armours and life-enhancing accessories.
- a massive world map to explore with many secrets to discover.
- a tile-based dungeon system with treasures and boss fights.

Story: 100%
Graphics: 75%: some monster graphics left and backgrounds for 3 towns.
Music: 100%
Scripting: 80%: mostly inventory parameters left.
Testing: 25%: Believe or not but this will take a while :p
ETA: March 2008

CodeJunkie · Fri 07/12/2007 23:45:45

I've missed this thread until now, but I'm glad it's the OP that bumped it. This game looks awesome and you seem very committed to it. Best of luck getting it finished.

bush_monkey · Sat 08/12/2007 10:24:01

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm well on the way to finishing the first chapter and the second instalment should not take that long now that the underlying layer is complete

I'll make an announcement (hopefully in January) about beta testing, so keep your ears peeled

Ubel · Sun 09/12/2007 12:59:29

Awesome news! Great to hear you're working on it and it's so close to completion. I can hardly wait to get to play it.

Rd27 · Thu 13/12/2007 22:02:37

This really looks good. I like RPG games so this will be one that I will keep looking very closely. I hope you finish it soon.

Will the demo be back someday because I would like to try the game?

bush_monkey · Fri 14/12/2007 09:27:49

The game has evolved so much in the last year, the demo is not really representative of the game anymore which is why i decided to take it down.

But don't worry, if everything goes to plan, there should be a little surprise just in time for christmas

Supersheep · Fri 14/12/2007 16:13:00

Hey this game looks great. Can't wait for a new demo seeing as though i didn't get to try it out the last time around. Roll on March.

Oh and i'm wondering how are you going to test it?

bush_monkey · Fri 14/12/2007 17:30:04

Expect an announcement around February time where I'll probably ask for help from the community with testing as it's going to be one hell of a job! Not so much bugs-wise but with adjusting the difficulty level / amounts of experience received from kills / the quality of the trade economy / the levelling-up system and more...