Dragon Quest I Remake (by GethN7)

[GethN7]

So just ran through the castle before bed, and its very well put together. The music and quite a few faces are familiar, but I play a lot of RPG Maker games so that's to be expected. A few of the problems I noted:

Second floor barracks, crates/barrels can be walked over.
Castle gardens, trees can be walked over.
Staircase in the mages library goes nowhere/does not activate.

And yes I tried to activate everything I could.

Found:
4x Medicinal Herb
2x Antidote Herb
1x Seed of Luck
6x Small medal
1x Traveling clothes
35 gold

I noted that the medals seemed to be concentrated on the lower right side of the castle. Is this by design, or have you not populated more in other areas?

Oh, and a list of stuff I saw and liked:

The mage library, with the two bookshelves of spell information.... now I want the rest of the books to have info
The soldier's pressed clothes and shined boots.
Bob, the Castle librarian.
Arcane Numerology... Algebra.
The language of Perl. Running a 'Web Server'. Yep. Sounds boring.
"Nora, are you drooling on the cookbook again?"/ -Blushes, slides NoL back- /Wah! You just had to remind me of him!
There's a pub in the castle? Of course there's a pub in the castle.
...Damnit Yang...

Looking forward to more of this!

 

First off, yeah, this is an early alpha, glad you like it so far. I'm adding some DQ music (in high quality MIDI, for that old school flavor) soon, relying on stock music assets for now. As for faces, will add custom faces here and there, but I like the stock faces included with VX Ace for most ordinary people.

As for the bugs, thanks, all will be fixed in the next alpha.

Some of the interior sections weren't complete yet, so some of the stairs led nowhere on purpose, this weill also be fixed in the next alpha.

Also, there are more items than that

Some game code went haywire before release, had to remove some of the custom scripting to fix, will be re added in next alpha.

As for the item placement, yeah, need to spread Small Medals out more, but I also plan to make them rare item drops when I flesh out the battle mechanics more. I will be adding more books (a few were broke because I forgot to set their priority correctly, will be fixed).

By next alpha I plan to have the following:

* The castle will be finished. Not all characters will have additional scripts attached until I sketch out the other ares of the game that tie into quests related to them, but they will all work as generally intended. All areas will be added as well.

* I will add Dragon Quest style music in MIDI format and the menu/interface will much more closely resemble the DQ games.

* There will be some stuff to fight on the world map and more equipment will be available. It was broken in this release, but next alpha will have some accessories for the ladies.

* I'll try to get started on the nearby town.

* Will be adding some other cool features as well, like an in game encyclopedia and achievements system (with rewards), may or may not be included in next alpha.

* Will add more witty dialouge and amusing text, feel free to message me suggestions. Also, I threw in a Hyperdimension Neptunia reference and a reference to the trope codifier of lesbian vampire literature, props if you spot where both are.