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@Retro Wolf: I'll stand here and wait patiently in line for my turn if my name is in the cards.

Good point, I was thinking about that hard at the start. I was thinking maybe it would bring over some people who do like to read but the amount it would bring over to not so known game is quite small. I mean I love Halo but I can't say I've read a single one of their books even though they've been right in front of me from time to time.

It's a lot to think about and I think the book would be nice to released but it doesn't quite capture the same feeling that my mind is trying to convey, however the comic does a better job at this easily.

I totally see where you're coming from Andail, but it's not something new that I'm always working on more than one thing at once. And what I mean buy that is that these books where supposed to help bring people into world of my games so starting small is too time consuming unless I make finish the comic. They may be hard to read now (however others have read it and said it was good but was clear enough like you guys what needed to be fixed) but once my friend fixes things up it will be way better. It's almost like he's going to rewrite everything. These books are not long, really only like 8 chapters.
I post from my phone because it's another platform that I can use to communicate on the go. Lol I mean think about, shit isn't a spelling error or an auto correct error. I was just talking to someone while posting XD.

On the bright side atleast now I know where I stand as a writer  , but once I finish the stories and they get fixed up I'm surr it'll all make sense.

@Ghost: hahah maybe if I can find the PSD file I'll try to finish up this comic and release it next to this god forsaken book XD

but I do sadly still need the practice and I need to find a way that to not lose momentum with making these things. Maybe I'll try to get webcomic out once a month. Depends which is shorter and easier.

It does sound like what I was told before with starting small then working your way up. I guess I'm just stuck in a point where I gotta keep pushing stuff forward in a big way and just learning as I go along. But I still think the bigger reason why I suck at writing books is due to my lack of reading books through the years. Unless it was school related I just don't like books but I'll read comics/mangas and well interesting articles but I just struggle to enjoy reading books.

I really wanted to do a light novel for these 3 books but maybe (I can't start over now) when I do other stories which I do have another 1 on the side to do then I think I'll just break the whole thing down into short stories and just post them up for download.

Also I was gonna drop these in here earlier but I didn't have the pics on my phone.
This is what this book was supposed to be as a comic.

@Ghost: Noted 

@Retro Wold: to be honest,  book writing is just not for me as I prefer to make comics. A few months ago I decided to do a comic in place of these books but that was just going to take too much of my time and I needed to conserve drawing energy for working on our games. So I decided to just give the book ago. I kinda want to just finished these stories and then let him edit them. But I alost wanted to see what other people (not to public) thought so I can see what's the best way of going about editing things myself so I won't have to annoy others.

Damn it this is why I hate talking to people while I type from my phone.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KiobMbaXMZGfhmykUQnVZSRiZHfR465nsi2EqPLqIGw/edit?usp=docslist_api

Hello friends, recently been working on 1 out of 3 books that tell the tale of the story prior to my Pub Master Quest games. To be honest I haven't wrote books since middle school and even then my I never felt I could present a story in text form at the same degree of which it played out in my mind...

Point is I stopped but I want to give it another try for future fans to come to be able to understand what they're getting involved with.

I'm really interested in hearing what you guys think. I do have a friend who's going to go through the things and edit things and what not so we can release the book along side our PMQ portable Knight (AGS version) cause I know there are typos and stuff.

[You will collect summons upon defeating the main bosses of the 4 main dungeons.]

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And now for a total long list of updates



Summons are always an interesting part of battle, not just in RPGs but in any genre. When you played super smash bros brawl a Assist Trophy would appear and the fight could use that summon one of various Nintendo characters to assist the fighter in battle.
Some trophies were a lot better than others but none the less it was a nice addition to the game next to the pokeballs.

Here's how were doing things in this game..



The current battler or the Caster was going to use a card to summon to summon monster like creatures to the battle field but I thought well this has obviously been done plenty of times before,
So I figure why not make it where instead the caster summons other characters of the Carrot Knights team.




There are a total of 13 Carrot Knights but in this game only 4 are playable. So I figured that left 9 unique summonable characters for players to use in battles. And again, like with brawl, each character has their own ups and downs but that only makes them the more cause there maybe one who attacks multiple targets while there is one who is stronger but only hits one. Or even the one that has a 50/50 chance of given a finishing blow on all targets.

Summons don't have stats however some of them do depend on the casters stats such as for example their MGK(Magic attack) stat.

You will collect summons upon defeating the main bosses of the 4 main dungeons.

Something else I would like to add is...
The reason why I went with the Carrot Knights over the monsters for summons is cause I felt it tied into the story quite nicely. The heroes of the story can call upon the souls of their living siblings.

I'm gonna skip Update 2 cause all it focuses on is the graphic style choice which I already touched based on not to many comments above.



So I've done my reseach and seen that a lot of people like to see towns in their RPG, for whatever reason it is, I personally think it helps bring the game to life by adding a sense that it's not just the good guys and the bad guys with a bunch of monsters in the middle.
I mean where are all the people at, am I right?

The world of Purgatory is filled with souls waiting to for the goddess to come and take them on to the afterlife.





(town concept art)
meaning theres a bunch of people just living their life here as they wait for her return.

The main town you will first visit is called Halfside Market, theres not much for dead people to do once their dead but these people try to stay lively as possilbe. But the thing is, Halfside is only so big and theres more out if you complete other dungeons!



Upon completing a dungeon it will be transformed into a new small town where new residents will come to live. In these new towns you can find mini games and also side quest to accept to get a little more juice out of the story.



In Halfside market you'll come across these 4 who will be quite vital to how your battles turn out.
The way this game works is that there are no items such as potions and ethers so instead you'll be relying on the full use of Cards throughout battles.

The marks above their heads indicate what types of cards they will be selling to you.

Sword Symbol: He will sell you ability cards
Wizard Symbol: He will sell you Black Magic cards
Mythic symbol: She will sell you White Magic Cards
Excalibur Symbol: He will sell you special cards(I.e. Limit cards)

I was thinking of making a sort of relationship score for the 4 venvers. You see when you purchase a lot from 1 of the 4 stores the (CCM) Consistent Customer Meter starts to build.There will be 4 levels and upon reaching a new level the price of things at that store start to decrease. Thus making easier to come back and purchase more.

I think what I might even do is make it where new cards start to become available once you reach another level.



The Card System is a nice addition to the series but if you thought I was gonna send you off to dual the king of games with these cards you thought wrong.
The Excalibur Cards allow the users of Purgatory to utilize Magic and Abilities. There a  4 different categories that Cards fall into so you can use things like Cure and Pyro, or Strike and Summon.


However Cards are not forever as once you use one you lose it and have to have another one in stock to use that same action.
You can also take cards in place them in special Chest that will save the cards in a subinventory only available in dungeons.
This will be helpful as the game goes on cause during some battles if you're too under level you'll definitely be blowing through some cards if you're not strong enough for your target.
(The thing is, yes I'm sure you would be gain more EXP from fighting a stronger monster but don't risk wasting the good cards you may need later on, even if there are some cards that don't expire)



However, you have 4 characters to play with and seeing they can hold a max of x99 Cards for each card that shouldn't be a lot of cards that you are actually dishing out that fast.
All you have to do is figure out who should use what during battle and then hopefully you'll make more in the end then what you lose in battle.

You need money to purchase more cards so hopefully you don't run out of the good ones before you can buy some more

Just try to be strategical about how your handle your cards is the best advice the Developer can give to the player.


The Nintendo Wii U has a lot of lovely features that just make it, well, the Wii U. And one of those neat features is known as SpotPass(Also on the 3DS).

the SpotPass feature on Wii U allows the system to automatically download available content via the Internet in the background, while the system is in use or in sleep mode. When the system is transmitting while in sleep mode, the system light will turn orange. Content that can be downloaded via SpotPass includes full game and application downloads, firmware updates, patches, and specific in-game content. Content currently being downloaded can be viewed in the Download Manager, accessed via the Wii U's HOME Menu.

The Coliseum will update with a different super boss once every 2 weeks (Said time frame is not set in stone so don't quote me on it)

I'm looking into what to reward the player with for the defeating the boss but we will see in the near feature where we take this idea.

For you see it is a possible feature but we want to make sure we are adding it with purpose and not just to throw it in there.



When you play most RPGs you're usually looked to a specif path way or basically not free to fully go about traveling like you would do in some action game or even a super hero game.

We're not dealing with superheroes here but these certainly aren't your ordinary people. They are dead and they are trapped in Purgatory. But shouldn't that mean they should be able to use some ghostly powers?

In Portable Knights I thought it would be fun to allow the player to unlock Ghost like abilities to use in levels & in battle.

These abilities are called Phantom Abilities

Here is a list of the current planned Phantom Abilities
(Sorry for the sucky mini images)


Phantom Dash
See a platform out of reach? try using Phantom dash to quickly sprent the air over to it.
This move can also be used to just simply run faster as well.

Manipulate/Possession
Got a horde of enemies to deal with? Why not take control over a possessable statue and deal with them that way!
Or got a switch spot that requires two people to stand on it to active something, just move the statue to that location and then simply go stand on the other one, easy enough right?

Faze
You might come across hidden entry ways but you just can't see them.
Why not just try to Faze right through the way.

Obscured Eye
The name may be a little odd, just trying to keep things ghostly, what this ability allows is for you to be able to detect how many treasure chest you left to open. This ability won't drain any Phantom Energy so once you unlock it you're good to go.

Warp
Feeling like the levels a bit much for you? like you just need to get a little stronger cause you maybe a bit under leveled. Or for any other reason possible you might just have the need to leave and to do something else.
Well what the Warp ability does is lets you teleport all the way back to the entrance of the current dungeon.


Despite what has been shown these might not be all the Phantom Abilities however if I figure out anymore useful ones without over doing it then I'll think about adding it. Not every ability uses PE(Phantom Energy) but right now 3/5 of them will.

We are still trying to figure out what PAs would be good to use in battles but I will have a update on that later after we get some gameplay going so hopefully soon.



Card Evolution or Card Synthesises is a s cool tool that lets you mix 2 - 4 cards into some that's hopefully just what you were looking for. Almost every card in the game can be obtained by mixing but there are a few that can only unlocked using this tool so mix wisely.



(Concept menu design)

I would like to create a sort of mixing chart to help players figure out what to mix together so you can get what you need so long as you have to cards to mix.
Cause lets be honest, no one likes to waste time

@Nailez: Glad to hear it :3

I'm gonna try to do what I ever I can when it comes time to release to see that this game can have a release in as many places as possible

Everyone wants to be powerful, and they want to be able to use be the best at what they do best, especially when it comes to battle.

Phantom Overdrive is a limit mode that allows the play to consume their Assault gauge in order to gain boost in stats for a short period of time as it the gauge will now start to deplete during battle. The user gets stronger and faster and are truly able to get the best out of their cards.


p.s (Background found on google, I'm trying to find the user who originally did it -.-)
p.s.s (This is not the graphic style we're going with anymore, the game is in 3D and does not play like a beat'em up anymore)

This is a picture I put together a while ago but point is, if you look to the left, the character with the Blue aura around him is using Phantom Overdrive or what was first called Fury.



When coming up with the monsters for the game I wanted to aim for something a bit...off, sorta mario/pokemon blended with designs from other JRPGs. But I felt like it would be cool if I could have two types of monster types in the game. For why you will see later when you play the game.

Point is, I spoke with one of my good friends whos also working on something and I was saying what if we was to sorta link our stories worlds but first starting with the monsters of histories. This is where the claims come from.

These designs all come from him and though some might not be used I still thought it'd be nice to show them off.

I JUST NOTICED THAT THESE PICTURES ARE HUGE!!! RIGHT-CLICK ON ONE THAT YOU WANT TO FULLY SEE AND CLICK OPEN IMAGE IN NEW TAB



He has drawn a bunch more stuff than this but this seems to be a fair amount to show off as I still need to figure out how many of these monster types are we gonna use and then actually which ones we're gonna use.



Everyone will want to be able to use the powerfullest cards from the start. But even though you can purchase the top cards from the start you should have to go through some hard work first to get to use them first. Cards have level rating from 1 - 10.
10 being the strongest, I'm not saying that getting to use Lv.10 cards will be quick and easy but I'm sure you won't even notice it much cause the more you battle the faster you get Crowns.


Seems simple enough right? I mean you'll be battling every now and then so it shouldn't be to hard to pull off



Every game that involes a experience system handles it. I sorta have the battle system figured out but I want to create a more engaging way for the player to level up and not get so much as mad but have some fun doing it.

I recently brought FFX HD remaster and I remember how frustrated I was with trying to use the Sphere Grid when I was younger but now I'm older I love the freedom I have with the system and how I'm able to make my party the best at what they do.

I was thinking how could I make something as cool as this but maybe a bit more fun. And then it hit me, I wanted to make the leveling system that seemed like a mini game, you know, to make things fun.

Your basic stats are:
HP
(B)ATK
(B)MGK
SPD
Luck
Faith

When moving in the tower you'll see many panels upon the ground have symbols that will correspond to the 6 stat types. EXP you get in battle will add up into MP(Move Point). You will use MP to walk around in the tower in order to activate the panels you need. There will also be treasure chest in the tower that you can open once in front of it. Although there might not be many special cards that you come across in the tower I'm sure what you'll find will still be quite useful on your journey.



Finally!!! I've been trying to sit down and finish this for like 2 weeks now. I wanted to fully think about what would be the right types of abilities to put in the game and now it's finally done.

Green - "White Magic" Cards
Blue - "Black Magic" Cards
Orange - Human only Cards
Yellow - Special Cards
Red - Monster abilities (Human can also learn 3/4 of these)


(Right Click > Open img in new tab)

As you can see that's a total of 110 cards, that's a lot of cards and most likely 100 - 105 of those cards you are able to unlock in the game. The remaining are cards only enemies can use.



The overall thing that people are interested in any JRPG is the battle system. What will it be like, will it be like this game or that game or will it be something totally brand new. I can admit that what we're doing is totally not brand new but overall it's different, interesting, and fun.

The Cross Assault Battle System is something I've been working on for the past 5 years. I think this would be version 8 if I'm correct but I feel it's so different that I should simply call it CABS U, or Cross Assault Battle System Unlimited

A silly name right? Well of course there will be limits just as every battle system has, but coming from the past CABS versions this is by far the best one yet seeing how you have the Phantom Abilities and the cards this time around.

Before I start let me one thing
..We...don't have any actual in game shots this time around for the battle system so we have to make do with shots from games that help inspire the battle system and whatever else I can fix up.

Basic Play

Battling is as simple as it can be. You will use the left thumbstick to move around and the right one to move the camera around.
Dpad up/down: not specified yet
Dpad left and right will change the player to the next available party member.

. ABXY will be used for:

A: attack with weapon
B: Jump
Y:Use card
X:Charge Phantom Overdrive

L/R Bumpers are for shifting through target set.

The Wii U tablet features. Let's talk about some of the cool things you can do with the Wii U tablet.
When using most features like BP's, the battle will pause so you have some time to think things over.

Battle Plays

When I was younger my cousin used to play a lot of Madden, I'm not a huge sports fan but one thing I thought was interesting and little odd was the PLaybooks. I couldn't really understand them and how they really worked honestly but I figured that maybe I could use something like that to my advantage in making the battle system more interesting. I'll call them: Battle Plays



See how Dave is fighting in that Red ring, if he stays in that ring after that gauge above the enemy is filled he will be hit by the targets big attack.
If you feel like you can't escape it in time and need to prepare to heal yourself or get a raise going you can do so easily with a Battle Play.



FIrst you just tap Make Play



Next a Play Map will come up, the Purple colors are the enemies and the other colors are your party members.



Click a party member to their target, then chose one of the cards you'd like for them to use in the next turn.
Here I chose a Cure Card, which is a Cleric Card so the line color will be green. I also made my other two fighters on the left gang up on enemy 2 by using action cards so their line color is red.



Once everything is set just double tap out of that menu and tap What this will do is fire up the BP and the actions you've set will start to happen. So to bring back things back to the point, Dave will now be healed after that big enemy attack.

BP Blitz

Now if you take a look a FF XIII you have your paradigms.
"Each party member is assigned an offensive, defensive, or healing role. Executing a Paradigm Shift will allow the player to change each character's role. Using different paradigms for different situations is key to winning these real-time battles. Quick thinking and smart tactics keep the battles intense and enjoyable."
—UK XIII-2 Official Website



If you look to the first grey tabs under Paradigm Deck you will see that each Paradigm has a name based on the 3 roles chosen for the preset.

We will be doing something like this but not entirely. We create our own presets that utilize in battle and let you save your own with custom names too. There will be a maximum of 8 you can blitz through in battle but all you have to do before you get into a battle is just select 8 from the list of your previous saved plays.

Battle Log

A detailed battlelog can be displayed on the bottom screen. It will give a drop down list of actions that are currently taking place between you and your target.

Target Info

Once you targeted an enemy you'll be able view it's weaknesses and other information. However this wont work unless you first use Scan on the enemy atleast one time during your play through.

Customize

Forgot to change your weapon or something before battle? No worries, just click the customize tab, fix yourself up and get back in the battle!

There's only so many hours left so I'd like to leave you all with the latest song by the composer! Enjoy

Thanks man and it's cool, things we'll only get better from here. I'm gonna try contacting Nintendo tomorrow to see if we can maybe work out some sort of deal together.
On the bright side, even though they're not helping us with getting the funds we need for the game I was still able to make my mark on Square Enix. Even if it's smaller than I thought, it still means a lot too me to see PMQ legally associated with Square in a good way. :3

Well enough of that, I'll be updating soon again

Oh I almost forgot to update on the status of things, I add more information tomorrow but for now I'll say this, we lost....however, for some reason there was no winner. PMQ was right behind another by 2% and after going over how the processing system works to see who won I thought I had a clear view how things will work out but after seeing this I really don't know how things are running on that site. I got this email earlier...


we had 241 yeses and 109 noes, we had 27 comments and each of them we supportive. Some where the put it on PS4 and vita comments but still each one showed interest. It makes no sense at all, but I've spoken with my team and I had the idea of reaching out to the games that fail Collective in hopes that we can set a sort of collaboration where we try to pull off our own collective without the need of voting. Everyone of our games gets attention and people can still comment and stuff.

Thanks cat. I think we're in second place still so hopefully things make a turn around soon.

It's official, only 9 days to go. 2 more updates and then the big post on Siliconera. Hopefully we hit the highest votes but if not that won't be the end of things.

Here is some recent artwork.

Hello everyone, me and my team thought we should begin seeking out 3D modelers for our project which you can find out about here if you already don't know: http://collective.square-enix.com/projects/16/pub-master-quest-portable-knights



We're looking for someone or 2 people who can help create the characters and monsters for the game.
The style of which we are going for is like this



This is indeed a very serious project as you can see and we want to ensure we can make it our best. This is a paying position, once we gain the funds programmers and modelers will be the first to be payed but first we need to successfully complete our Square Enix Collective campaign as seen in the link.

But we would really like to have some modelers on the team as soon as possible as it will give us a greater advantage and hopefully some stuff to show in-game wise.
If you'd like to join us and take part in this grand adventure then please post a comment/ or PM me some of you stuff or even a demo reel as that'll better show me who I should hire but images are just as fine too.

Oh so that's what's going on, ok that makes a hell of a lot more sense now, I was a bit confused at how they were handling things.
One minute I heard they would fully back the game and the next was that they would send it to indiegogo if we get enough upvotes.

[UPDATE April 13/14]

UPDATE April 13/14 

At long last, our pitch page on the Collective site has gone live!
Check out the page and vote here!!! :3

[UPDATE Mar 22/13]

UPDATE Mar 22/13 

Hey everyone, so finally was able to put together what I call a progression trailer which shows off a look at Mythical Gambit and both Pub Master quest games

http://youtu.be/JduiIjpkdZk

ThaI just really like Japanese symbols/characters. But for my most recent game was planning on toning it down a bit as it's a medieval game and it's not currently set modern times like before. I only plan to set them in places like on covers or just in titles.

Which reminds me....

This title was so bland and I really don't even think all the JPN text is correct(thank you google translate)



So I decided to go with something more...Nintendo like I think or rather something that stands out XD

This is the portable version - Android, Iphone, Win8


And then lastly the Wii U version

Thanks Dualnames, and you raise a good point. But I've always seen it like this, despite how much you guys discouraged me I still seen it as motivation. It was hard but even though I wanted to get far I still wanted to impress all you guys with that one AGS game, that one game that worked like it was supposed to with little to no errors. That one game that might even earn me a AGS award. But I hope that Mythical Gambit can be that game. My one AGS game that truly shows that all of that help over the years wasn't for nothing