User blog comment:Sir Areis Lionheart/ALPHA 1.0.0 of "Warriors of Guardias" an RPG I created, RELEASED!/@comment-6470295-20130416040601/@comment-6061247-20130416042943

Well, it's extremely easy to create the custom maps.

If I had access to B/W's maps, which I can't find, I would just say "fuck it" and build OBSIDIAN Black on RPG Maker (my trial is running up though, I'll have to create a new email and redownload), and/or GameMaker.

But I need the sprites (Back, Fore, and Overhead). As well as the maps, the battle system, etc. So yes, it's much easier to develop a game, rather than hacking an already existing one, at least, in my experience. I really hope to hear what you have to say concerning the game. I know one of the Twitch mods (BioHazard, he's a new one) has downloaded the game, confirmed it worked, and is going to play it for me.

Mutahar himself has also expressed interest in playing the game, he even showed my trailer during his Twitch stream last Tuesday. I gave him the link, and I sincerely hope to see him upload an LP of it. It's still in Alpha Mode, little more than a demo, but already the demo (which encompasses all of Act I, as well as a slim part of Act II) is twice as long as Megaman Sprite Game. I played through it, took me 2 hours to beat, and that's with full knowledge of where to go.

Act II is by far the longest Act in the game.

Then Act I

Act III

and finally, Act IV.

All in all, I'm estimating it will take about 6-8 hours to play through the finished game entirely. The demo only has Act I, as previously mentioned, and only one available campaign (the DOLPHIN), I gave instructions on how to trigger the available campaign in the game's ReadMe document. However, once you play the game, you will see why I have been rather inactive here lately, as well as absent on every other site...all my freetime has been dedicated to this game, so I can hope to complete it (or at least finish as much as I can) within the 30 day trial, because I can't afford to buy RPG Maker XP outright. I only hope that it lets me install the trial once again on my computer, and that the project files transfer over so I can continue progress on another 30 days.

Also, the game has a few...easter eggs.

HINT: "Talk" to every Piano you see.

HINT HINT: Talk to the two men in Amity Cemetary...I guarantee you will laugh at their identities.

HINT HINT HINT: Read every gravestone nearest the road in Amity Cemetary...get a shitton of little "nods".