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by RosePortal Games
Hey all~ I just registered here. ^^ This place looks like the old RMXP.net? Anyways.
This is my game. It's been in progress for over a year. I have personally done almost all graphics, and three musicians have written most of the 50 OST tracks. The game is basically done and just needs to be beta tested. There's actually a website, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a link? It hasn't got a forum at the moment. If anyone could clear this up that would be nice. :) SO, moving on.
LQ YouTube w/o sound; of some gameplay (item farming). (Very old vid.)
Storyline
Follow the story of Melrose -- an introverted girl who seems to be only unlucky with life. Seeking happiness, she one day steals a gadget that draws
her into a happy dreamworld.
But once she is there, the dreamworld is revealed to be a dangerous place instead. A mysterious fairy godmother appears and offers to help Melrose leave. Suddenly the fairy is kidnapped, and Melrose must set out on a journey to find her. This journey takes her from underwater cities and Aztec temples to the moon and even pirate coves.
Whisper of a Rose is a unique and moving game. It features a strong cast of characters that will stay with you for years, and many puzzles and quests.
Downloads
Release date May the 1st! (If not sooner!)
Original Soundtrack!
Download some tracks from the OST!
Seize The Day (game's theme song)
an army of One (tune for common battles)
Dreams (dreamworld song; by Koda Kami)
Characters
Protagonists
Melrose
An introvert teenaged girl, thrown into the role of a swordsman.
Having been raised by two incompetent parents, she's grown used to being on her own. She doesn't allow anyone to get close to her, but she isn't afraid to push someone back either.
She has a love for defenseless creatures, as she subconsciously feels attached to them. One day she tried to stop a bully from burning a ladybug, but failed.
Hellena
The loving witch daughter of an evil wizard.
When growing up, her parents tried to force her into becoming a vicious witch. She struggled over the years to resist them. Then one day, her father killed her mother. When she found out, she took her mother's pendant and ran away.
But then why is she so eager to join Melrose's journey that takes them to the Mighty Wizard, her father?
Diamond
A courageous ladybug with the task to save his entire village.
He has always been the weakest ladybug of the village. His time magic was never up to par with that of the others. He had no friends, and was unimportant. So he dreamed every day of an adventure that would allow him to prove himself. To prove himself to be important, and not dispensable.
Then one day his village was attacked by trolls, that captured all ladybugs. Diamond managed to escape, and decided that this would be his chance to prove himself once and for all
Christina
An arrogant ex-prostitute and agent seeking revenge on her previous boss.
Her mother had died when she was young, and her father had no job. Thus she had no money to pay for a high school and university on her level of intelligence. So instead of money, she sold her body to get what she wanted. Soon after finishing a criminal rights study at the university, she met a man that made her feel loved, but who also took advantage of her. This lover boy made her into a prostitute. But she became pregnant with the man, and the man threatened to take away her baby. So she fled, and started a new life as a secret agent for the government, that hired her because of her great seductive skills and intelligence. She was assigned to investigate suspicions regarding the iDream development. However, because an unknown cause, she fell into a coma while at CareTech. And she has been a coma until this day.
Antagonists
Coulroz
A sadistic clown seeking to poison Melrose's mind.
An evil character following Melrose around in the dreamworld and haunting her. This character seems to have a strange connection to Melrose's actual past.
Bubble & Mr. Purr
A mysterious girl and her cat, making opposing Melrose's goals a fun game.
Bubble is the incarnation of envy and loneliness that are within little girls. She is jealous of Melrose's powers and of Melrose making friends with Hellena and Diamond, whilst Melrose is a very unpleasant girl. Bubble feels that she deserves friendship more than Melrose, and so she hinders Melrose's journey as much as possible.
Screenshots
Gameplay
Battles
Battles are side-view. Each participant of a battle has a time bar that gradually fills. Once full, the character may make a move. Physical attacks take place instantly, but magic has a loading time which can vary from instantly to some time. This calls for strategy. An enemy flashes white when it is preparing for a magic spell. Then it is your character's turn. Will you defend? Quickly use a healing item? Or will you use time-magic to delay the enemy's magic spell?
Skills
Each character has two to three category of skills, varying between 6-9 skills. Each skill is unique and has its own purpose. You can upgrade a skill's power / lower the cost of usage / increase casting speed by collecting points from NPCs and spending them in a tree-shaped grid. Will you split your points up to be ready for any situation, on focus on a particular strategy, such as weakening an enemy's magic defense and then pummeling it with torrents and geysers?
Summonings
Melrose, the main character, is able to summon allies to aid the party in battle. Once summoned, the allies will enter the battlefield and cast magic and use attacks on his or her own. Their power automatically increases with the party's experience level. Also, Melrose may learn skills to make her summonings stronger in battle, such as a skill to increase their speed. Summonings slowly drain Magic Points, however, and should thus be used wisely. Each Summoning has a unique set of skills and all are fantastical creatures. These include: unicorns, Humpty Dumpty, baby dragons and more!
Glitters
99% original graphics (aside from a few RTP things).
50 unique and beautiful music tracks.
30+ hours of gameplay.
Mouse control.
Summon dream creatures!
Classic character customization system.
A story involving clowns and prostitutes.
Holy shit. I love custom graphics, and that is seriously amazing. I'll be keeping a close eye on this!
Yeah, this looks pretty great; I saw it on... RRR, I want to say, before here. I'm still quite impressed! You should probably post that screen in the toy factory, though. That one is really cool, although the dragon might beat it. =D
Are you going to be redoing the facesets, though? They're more than suitable as they are currently, but your large image at the top of the topic looks more appealing with its smoother shading and lack of thick borders.
Normally I am actually turned off by custom graphics games, but this seems to have both a soul and decent grammar. Mad propz, yo'.
Oh and yeah, post the link!
MODIFY: Cool, toy factory screen is up (...was it always there?).
Are you going to be redoing the facesets, though? They're more than suitable as they are currently, but your large image at the top of the topic looks more appealing with its smoother shading and lack of thick borders.
Normally I am actually turned off by custom graphics games, but this seems to have both a soul and decent grammar. Mad propz, yo'.
Oh and yeah, post the link!
MODIFY: Cool, toy factory screen is up (...was it always there?).
Thanks for your replies. ^^
@Jakester: Yea, I love the whole dreams theme, too.
@captainregal: Actually, that has been on my mind but I don't want to make any final decision until the game is done.
@TooManyT.: Thank you! : D
@Craze: RRR? I don't remember posting a topic there. Just screenshots..right? Haha, amazing that you remembered that toy factory. I added it to the topic. If English was my native language I could improve dialog, but, I hope this will do. I could always pop up Thesaurus and look up random difficult words!
(No, just kidding. :P)
I'll post the link in a bit. Just want to update some pictures and such.
@Fallen-Griever: It's a pretty basic RTAB battle system, but with all the wait modes on. :) And then some things added, like the Summonings. Haha, Toad? Now that you mention it, I see the resemblance. I can assure you, though, Toad wasn't even 0.0001% on my mind when I designed him.
@dragonheartman: Yep. ^^ Thank you!
@Jakester: Yea, I love the whole dreams theme, too.
@captainregal: Actually, that has been on my mind but I don't want to make any final decision until the game is done.
@TooManyT.: Thank you! : D
@Craze: RRR? I don't remember posting a topic there. Just screenshots..right? Haha, amazing that you remembered that toy factory. I added it to the topic. If English was my native language I could improve dialog, but, I hope this will do. I could always pop up Thesaurus and look up random difficult words!
(No, just kidding. :P)
I'll post the link in a bit. Just want to update some pictures and such.
@Fallen-Griever: It's a pretty basic RTAB battle system, but with all the wait modes on. :) And then some things added, like the Summonings. Haha, Toad? Now that you mention it, I see the resemblance. I can assure you, though, Toad wasn't even 0.0001% on my mind when I designed him.
@dragonheartman: Yep. ^^ Thank you!
This is amazingly unique and wonderful in a lot of ways.
As six or seven people have already pointed out. However...because I must play devil's advocate though, it seems as though this will be QUITE a drain on system resources for an RPG Maker game. I am speaking about the 50 OST TRACKS, yes, that will be quite a lot of disk space, but more importantly, some of those screens I can't imagine running (at least on my computer) without some serious lag.
So what I'm wondering about this game is, how does it run?
Also this is a pretty terrible character bio...no offense meant.
As six or seven people have already pointed out. However...because I must play devil's advocate though, it seems as though this will be QUITE a drain on system resources for an RPG Maker game. I am speaking about the 50 OST TRACKS, yes, that will be quite a lot of disk space, but more importantly, some of those screens I can't imagine running (at least on my computer) without some serious lag.
So what I'm wondering about this game is, how does it run?
Her mother had died when she was young, and her father had no job. Thus she had no money to pay for a high school and university on her level of intelligence. So instead of money, she sold her body to get what she wanted. Soon after finishing a criminal rights study at the university, she met a man that made her feel loved, but who also took advantage of her. This lover boy made her into a prostitute. But she became pregnant with the man, and the man threatened to take away her baby. So she fled, and started a new life as a secret agent for the government, that hired her because of her great seductive skills and intelligence. She was assigned to investigate suspicions regarding the iDream development. However, because an unknown cause, she fell into a coma while at CareTech. And she has been a coma until this day.
Also this is a pretty terrible character bio...no offense meant.
Thank you for your feedback!
Also this is a pretty terrible character bio...no offense meant.None taken. How can I improve?
50 OST TRACKSThe game has a lot of different areas and scenes, which warrants for a lot of great music~. The OST is currently around 45 mb. I'll get to cutting useless tracks out and shortening tracks before the release.
how does it run?On my computer, not so well. But interestingly I have received no word about lag whatsoever from anyone who has played the demo. Nor is there lag on my laptop. So, I believe it will run fine. Actually, there is a little compatibility issue. Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox when having over 50 pages open causes the game to lag terribly. :S
What kind of madman would have over 50 tabs open? /offtopic
Anyway, I will go into more detail on the character bio when I am not at work, I know my feedback was not very helpful! :-*
Anyway, I will go into more detail on the character bio when I am not at work, I know my feedback was not very helpful! :-*
Neophyte
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Where have I heard your name before, Twin Matrix?
Anyway, I posted on GW about this and saw this on a few other forums. I adore the art and music, I messed with an army of one when I heard it on newgrounds to see if it fit my music style but it didn't. I'm waiting to see what other tracks you've got in here. And (asking again) the art on the banner up top, did you do that?
Also I hope you get some success with this! I won't miss this one. =)
Anyway, I posted on GW about this and saw this on a few other forums. I adore the art and music, I messed with an army of one when I heard it on newgrounds to see if it fit my music style but it didn't. I'm waiting to see what other tracks you've got in here. And (asking again) the art on the banner up top, did you do that?
Also I hope you get some success with this! I won't miss this one. =)
Anaryu
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Good to see this posted here!
Twin has been displaying this project on rmxp.org for at least a year now I think, the amount of effort for those custom tilesets and characters must be staggering.
(I'm jealous!)
Twin has been displaying this project on rmxp.org for at least a year now I think, the amount of effort for those custom tilesets and characters must be staggering.
(I'm jealous!)
@Max: All right. :) By the way! I made a mistake on the OST size before. It's 23 MB, not 45. I forgot that I had a zip file in the folder that contained all the tracks. I also deleted a superfluously long track and now it's only 21 MB. I think the whole game will be around 40.
@Neophyte: Haha, where have I heard -your- name before? ;) Yea, I'm posting it here and there as most people frequent only one forum. Wow, how did you find an army of One? It is indeed from NewsGrounds, from ze fabulous NemesisTheory who has written all battle tracks and a couple more. She's REALLY good. ^_^
@Anaryu: Yea, at least a year! Thank you Anaryu.~ Outlaw City is still one of my favorite RMXP games, by the way. xD Loved the characters and gameplay.
@Neophyte: Haha, where have I heard -your- name before? ;) Yea, I'm posting it here and there as most people frequent only one forum. Wow, how did you find an army of One? It is indeed from NewsGrounds, from ze fabulous NemesisTheory who has written all battle tracks and a couple more. She's REALLY good. ^_^
@Anaryu: Yea, at least a year! Thank you Anaryu.~ Outlaw City is still one of my favorite RMXP games, by the way. xD Loved the characters and gameplay.
Whisper of a Rose released!
Hi!
I'm sorry for the lack of updates. After posting this topic, I made the decision to make it a commercial game, and you can imagine what kind of work comes with that. But WHISPER OF A ROSE IS RELEASED! ^_^
You can get it here: RosePortalGames.com. You can play for one hour FREE.
For support, etc. you can go to the forum. Am I allowed to post that forum link? If not I'll remove it. ^^
Oh, and thank you for your feedback and support cause it really kept me motivated. So, yea, thank you. ^^
I hope you enjoy it!
Hi!
I'm sorry for the lack of updates. After posting this topic, I made the decision to make it a commercial game, and you can imagine what kind of work comes with that. But WHISPER OF A ROSE IS RELEASED! ^_^
You can get it here: RosePortalGames.com. You can play for one hour FREE.
For support, etc. you can go to the forum. Am I allowed to post that forum link? If not I'll remove it. ^^
Oh, and thank you for your feedback and support cause it really kept me motivated. So, yea, thank you. ^^
I hope you enjoy it!
Oh, you absolute whoremaster, forcing me to put my money where my mouth is, when I've been saying for years I'd buy a commercial RPG Maker game if it looked good enough, but never thought it would happen, eh?
(Do you have any idea how broke I am, man?)
Fine. IT'S ON. (This better be cheap you fucker. Oh, and this is assuming the demo is any good.)
:)
Edit/Advice Upon Discovering The Cost:
I think $20 is slightly too much (people complained about Braid getting priced at $15 instead of $10, and I can guarantee you that your game is no Braid, no matter how good it is) but then again, I have no idea what your overhead was. I would really like to know what your costs were putting this together; if you spent hundreds or thousands of dollars hiring artists, composers, etcetera, you might even not be charging enough. In spite of the (whimisical) profanity above, I would actually love to enter into a non-pejorative, friendly discussion of selling RPG Maker games right here in this thread. I promise it won't overwhelm the discussion of your game itself (I'm staff and I won't let it).
-Max
P.S. If this is good, like...really, really good...hmm...I wonder...you probably won't be interested because you don't know me from adam, but...(trails off cryptically)
(Do you have any idea how broke I am, man?)
Fine. IT'S ON. (This better be cheap you fucker. Oh, and this is assuming the demo is any good.)
:)
Edit/Advice Upon Discovering The Cost:
I think $20 is slightly too much (people complained about Braid getting priced at $15 instead of $10, and I can guarantee you that your game is no Braid, no matter how good it is) but then again, I have no idea what your overhead was. I would really like to know what your costs were putting this together; if you spent hundreds or thousands of dollars hiring artists, composers, etcetera, you might even not be charging enough. In spite of the (whimisical) profanity above, I would actually love to enter into a non-pejorative, friendly discussion of selling RPG Maker games right here in this thread. I promise it won't overwhelm the discussion of your game itself (I'm staff and I won't let it).
-Max
P.S. If this is good, like...really, really good...hmm...I wonder...you probably won't be interested because you don't know me from adam, but...(trails off cryptically)
