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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Yes, I'm going to be trying to make another game.  But, unlike my previous attempt, I'm not going to work entirely from scratch.  I'm going to use the RPG Maker tool to develop the game this time.  Granted, since I am using an already developed program, I'm going to run into limitations, but I actually want to get something finished, and I would be more likely to pick something that has an ability for easier comprehension rather than something I would have forgotten how to navigate around to find what was needed for the next step.

Spoiler: Current Planned Features (Please contribute ideas to this list) (click to show/hide)

Player Mechanics
Each of the starting classes is a different species of dragon.
-Main dragon is able to switch between classes from unique ability to manipulate the element that is able to be used.  Eventually able to be done in battle.

Nonplayer Mechanics
You can be attacked anywhere except for your 'home'.
-(If possible through scripts/existing RPG maker options) Killing the city's resident dragon slayer commander and talking to the ruler, convincing them to become loyal to you causes it to become under your rule and combat is nonexistant in that city.
--(If possible through scripts/existing RPG maker options) Missives will be sent from the city to defend from dragon slayers, forcing you to have to kill another commander.  If you ignore the missive, the city falls, becoming hostile until you 'liberate' it again.

Plot
Start as a hatchling.  Minor tutorial through narrated thoughts.
First boss is a low rank Dragon Slayer Officer.
-Assisted by a Dragon Slayer who refuses to kill a hatchling(?)
Short stint of years passing as dragon ages from Demure Wyrmling unable to speak to Human-sized Juvenile able to speak the land's language.
-Slayer who assisted dies during this time.
Second boss is a Dragon Slayer Commander of a city.
-Get a human revolutionary (Class: rogue(?)) as a companion slightly earlier
--Revolutionary becomes local commander.  Offers a soldier (Class: rogue(?)) to assist you from there on out.  Offer may be accepted or denied.
Minibosses One through Three are optional city Commanders.
-In each a revolutionary joins the party and becomes your resident commander.
Third boss is a 'Loyalist' Commander to an Opposing Dragon
-One enemy (Class: warrior(?)) survives.  Can choose to fight and kill or spare and have join the party.
Minibosses Four through Eight are 'Loyalist' Commanders of the enemy dragon.
-As before, in each a revolutionary joins the party and becomes your resident commander.
Fourth boss is an opposing dragon you have to defeat to have total claim over the territory.
-Option to either kill or spare.  Latter option could cause enemy to become another member of the party.  Former kills, but grants ability to adapt to use the same element as the dragon used.

At some point you will leave the first continent, discovering that the one you are upon is in an enforced medieval stasis from a forgotten experiment of using a continent wide attempt to replicate magic, which had a slight bleed out of reducing the max technological capabilities of the rest of the world.  World outside is primarily divided between two societies, one fiercely religious and the other a strict militant state.  Both want to hold onto massive power stations, the religious viewing the places as gifts from their god, the militant wanting their strategic value.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Just so there is proof that I am actually working on this, here is the finished first area's world map. (Bosses 1-3 and minibosses 1-3.)

[darkpaladin109]

Sounds interesting and looks good so far. What program are you using to make this, might I ask?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Sounds interesting and looks good so far. What program are you using to make this, might I ask?

RPG Maker VX Ace Lite.  It has some features apparently restricted, but I am going to get those for use in the game when it (the game) is being finalized and polished.

[Parsely]

Plot halp! I am here to halp!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Plot halp! I am here to halp!

Current plot I have is inside the spoiler in the OP.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

As said in the thread title.  I need someone who can work on graphics, because hell will freeze over before I manage to be able to create a faceset or spriteset for a dragon in the game's style:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Edit: Also, should I use the default battle mode of RPG maker:

Spoiler: Example (click to show/hide)

or use a script and use a side view with sprites?

Spoiler: Example (click to show/hide)

[Parsely]

Plot halp! I am here to halp!

Current plot I have is inside the spoiler in the OP.

*peruse* So you would like me to script the story and write scenes?

[Trapezohedron]

You could perhaps find some use for this revamped Elona portrait sheet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Plot halp! I am here to halp!

Current plot I have is inside the spoiler in the OP.

*peruse* So you would like me to script the story and write scenes?

Scenes and script I can write.  Where I go after that point is what I need.  For example, I have no idea what events to use to connect the 'after you beat your rival' to 'off continent', what to do 'off continent', then how/why an orb needs to be gotten to unlock this place to go to the final level:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You could perhaps find some use for this revamped Elona portrait sheet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Two problems.  Main character is a dragon (managed to scrounge up a temporary one, though I'll eventually want it replaced so that what is not in the basic RPG maker stuff is all original), and face sheets are 98 pixel x 98 pixel squares since that is what the selection grid is in the utility.

[Parsely]

Scenes and script I can write.  Where I go after that point is what I need.  For example, I have no idea what events to use to connect the 'after you beat your rival' to 'off continent', what to do 'off continent', then how/why an orb needs to be gotten to unlock this place to go to the final level:

Okay. Can you PM me the deets of the plot so far? I can help with the whole thing, I just need a clearer idea of the characters and the more specific landmark events.