Dragoon Legends, Part 1

1. Introduction
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Dragoon Legends is an amateur Role Playing Game with 100% original art assets made by Polish community member Kazukeri. I (Brandon Abley) had helped him with the POlish translation and wrote the English script, and also wrote an original soundtrack for the game, so I was heavily involved with him through production. He sent me a series of betas as he worked through the project.

Unfortunately, he disappeared in June 2007 after sending me this almost complete beta. He never replied to any of my emails or went online after that and never updated his website. I have tried to contact him several times and have been unable to. Ironically, his last blog post title is: "I'm Alive!", which I am legitimately in question of.

So, I thought that since this is an excellent amateur game, and also because I put a lot of work into it myself, I should release it in his stead.

THIS IS A BETA. It is not perfect. Save often because it might crash occassionally. Everything is an almost-complete rough draft, including the game mechanics, script, and music. It is 100% playable though and I have gone through the entire thing a couple of times. It is pretty fun!



2. Game
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This is an extremely traditional role-playing game in the Japanese style. It should be pretty straightforward. There is a game manual included which, while pretty sparse, tells you which buttons to push.

This is chapter 1 of the game and is 2-3 hours long. It ends with an extremely cool boss encounter that is really a step above anything else in chapter 1. A fitting conclusion!

Key functions are as follows:

A: Action
S: Cancel, Run
Q: Menu

F5: Windowed Mode
F6: Fullscreen Mode

Esc: Close Program

DO NOT PRESS ESC UNLESS YOU WANT TO CLOSE TO PROGRAM. TRY VERY HARD NOT TO PRESS IT. There is no prompt and the game will close instantly. I have quit the game many times pressing Esc thinking it might open the menu.



3. Credits
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Kazukeri:
Game, Art, Programming, Direction, Story, Translation from Polish

Brandon Abley:
Original Soundtrack, Translation from Polish, English Script



4. Further Info
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There is more info about this game at the following sites:
www.rpgmaker.net (community site)
www.brandonabley.com (my website)
http://reonsoft.awardspace.com/ (Kazukeri's dead blog)