Elmshire Academy (working title)

[oceanblack]

*NOTE: This isn't a pokemon mod, this is going to be a completely unique project made with RMXP. If you don't like it, don't read it! If you don't like and you're an admin... Then I guess delete it, sorry x__X


CONCEPT:

Elmshire Academy is one of the most prestigious schools in England. What most don't know, however, is that Elmshire was built upon a Nexus, the intersection of two Ley Lines of mystical power. The Academy was built by Edward Elmshire I in the year 1666, as a training grounds for controlling and destroying evil spirits distorted by Ley magic. In modern times, it exists primarily as an educational facility. Nearly 350 years after the academy is built in 2013, dark times have returned to Elmshire, after news gets around about the mysterious and gruesome murder of one of its student body. Out of reckless curiosity and a sense of justice, a group of social misfits decides to take it upon themselves to investigate the murder after authorities try to close the door on the matter. What they discover is a truth more wicked than any they could have imagined...

The Idea is a game with only one major location, Elmshire Academy. It's going to be fully laid out, with every room being significant, greater campus grounds, garden, and dorm building. Beneath the academy will be an expansive, multi-layer labyrinth which is where a majority of monsters and puzzles will take place. Some inspiration in the concept is based on Persona 3, if you've played it you'll know what I mean.

The current cast is going to feature 4 playable characters, and a 5th hidden character. Each of them are going to have distinct class-like abilities (the archetypal combat character, magic character, support character, and so on)

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Right now its just a rough idea for my first personal project, and not meant to be enormous (definitely nothing like Fall of Fame sized, lol...) So, what do you think? Does it have potential? Is it garbage? Anyone here who's got anything to say about it, please do.

[Destrozone]

It sounds okay, the storyline seems pretty solid. Great idea! Good luck on it.

[Moose]

This is a really unique idea. I'd like to see where this goes.

This is an RPG, so will it have Final Fantasy style battles?

[Hall of Famer]

This is a fairly interesting idea, and I see a great deal of potential in it. You may need to further develop your concept and I'm sure more and more people will support your game in future.

[oceanblack]

Thanks, boys :]

To answer Moose, the battling will be more Final Fantasy-ish than Pokemon-ish, but I'm hoping to make it unique. I've got ideas for how I want the battles to work (which I may describe here or elsewhere at a later date, its something specific Ive always wanted to do) involving a semi real-time, semi tactics-based battle system. It all depends on how much I can learn to do with rmxp. I'm going to look into learning how to script since more than one person has suggested that as a first step.

I do have a lot more from this idea, but I'd like to avoid as many spoilers as I can, even amongst you guys. So... What would you suggest I add to the concept when I present it to others?

[Moose]

You can find custom scripts for tactical battles, but they're pretty hard to implement. You might want to experiment around with different battle systems for a while. RMXP.org has enough scripts in the repository.

[zerro]

I like the idea, I might be able to help out script wise.

[oceanblack]

Thank you sir, i appreciate that. Real life seems to be kicking a lot of our asses lately though. However, once I get some more time to work on gaming stuff, this is still what I want to do for my first real project. Like I've said Its not even meant to be anything enormous. Just a single 20 level dungeon crawl, really. Just so I can get familiar with the general process of game creation.