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The Rainbow Nightmare universe is divided into various short stories. Take on the role of Lady Libra as she goes above and beyond to help her friend find a cure for his disease. Along with her trusted friends they must sneak into the robotic Neon Empire. Unfortunately for them, it's not that simple.


RN LIBRA has move to Twitter! Checks it outz yo~
WIP approved!




Welcome to the Neon Empire!


Greetings visitor. Welcome to the future of Sarahelm, the Neon Empire. If you're a machine returning from the front lines, please let our scanners fully process you, so you may return into the arms of our beloved and slightly bloated Machine King!

If your data has been removed previously from the Neon Empire authorities, you will be disassembled and destroyed immediately and return to the junk heap where you belong. Traitors to the cause will not be tolerated.

If you're a human, the inferior to machines, you will need to show your ID clearance card to the Sebuta Security Police Force. Without your personalized card you will be eliminated on sight. We here at Neon Empire despite crushing the human and demi-human resistance know the value of select few humans who wish to explore their talents in the field of machinery and scientific progress for the sake of our industrious that will soon sweep across the continent and beyond.

If you have further concerns with security please contact Captain Marlwulf of the Sebuta Security Police Force.

If this is your first time inside the glorious Neon Empire and are still getting yourself situated as a human, you must proceed to the Neon Capital and allow Lt. Corxx to confirm which sector you will be living in. Do not mind the death machinery being constructed and designed on the way to the capital, they're being tested, designed, or approved by our highest scientific mind in Neon Empire, leader of the Science and Robotics division High Engineer Boss.

As a second class citizen human, we understand the value of having "off time" when you have worked your full day in our humid factories. It is required that you rejuvenate yourselves often to allow you to work at 100% capacity. We understand your limitless human flaws. This is why the Development District was created. It is lined with the finest oil and cogs available on the continent, as well as human delights.

With your help the Neon Empire will rise high into the sky with the billboards of robo babes on the side. Welcome to the Neon Empire.


Features!


  • Experience an RPG like no other. The game itself will focus on a small band of friends entering a robotroplis. Guide them through this dangerous and exciting robot world!

  • Class dancing based battle system allowing you to switch classes on the fly to utilize all of your special abilities and skills to formulate your own devastating strategies to crush all machinery standing in your way!
  • Get your retro on with some of Neon Empires finest jams!

  • Branching story lines allowing you to choose different characters with their own special stories, routes, bosses and much much more!

  • Traditional overhead exploration teamed up with side view platforming scenarios!


Vidcon Updates!

  • Aware of intro pacing issues. Will be fixed next release. 6/16/2014

  • Intro released!(early prototype)Expect lot's of text in first build. Feedback appreciated. 6/14/2014

Latest Blog

Can a mod plz delete this website. #trust



Hi. Hello. I hope people have not forgot who I am. M y friends call me Darkbby. How are all of my internet friends doing??? Jhave u all aged gracefully??? Please leave ur life story in comment box so I can exploit you in the future.

Gerberbaby page

Pages have been updated with some information. There are some robro's and robabes. I added a music page a while back but I never promoted it. If you want to hear a few sample tunes you can check that out. Don't miss out on some wicked phat beetz. It is like, a sweet release for ur ear-mushrooms. A personal favorite is Cargo.

Sadly, I had contacted the composer a while back and he has literally dropped off the face of the planet. If you're a composer who can create wicked "chumptunez" get in contact with me through pm with sample work so I can shower you with american dollar bills!

Really, if u got the chups I got the change. Do u have what it takes to carry on the mantle of a fallen hero???

The struggle is real when you cut content!

Dude, this is so true. I always feel torn having 100 ideas and for the sake of yourself and time you get to use possibly 2 or 3 of them. Knowing when to cut things and accepting that it can exist is very difficult when you design things and I believe it clutches a lot of "developers".

Originally I had planned for Rainbow Nightmare to have 9 characters for people to play as. I did not take into account battle mechanics, pacing, bloat issues, etc. The concept I had was to allow players branching character stories similar to FF6.

FF6 is a fantastic game in many ways, but my favorite part was the ability to choose a set of characters and experience their story arcs. My favorite was Celes and Locke, and I totally felt the entire game could be carried on that side story alone. I would argue that I got more out of the struggle these two characters had over the rest of the game. It felt more personal.


This entire scenario felt amazing and I wish it did not end.

Unfortunetly, the entire game got very bloated at the end. The irony for me is I feel a lot of games get better as you collect more characters.


Woah! Look at all these VIDCON characters?!? Which one has LIT3 or GOKU PALM??

I wanted to have a similar arc mechanic. Players would choose and play through the entire game as a set of characters. It's something I still want to do, and I've already done it on a smaller scale, but I had to cut a lot of stuff and drop quite a few characters. Which is difficult for me, because I had worked on them individually and built these huge set pieces and scenarios around them. Some characters entire arcs were close to being finished while others were barely touched.

I felt like it was too bloated. In the end it's something I want to do, but the truth is I am not a great writer. I started to feel that I was spreading my writing too thin by writing for 9 characters and I didn't want any of them to feel weak. Eventually its going to happen. Ultimately I decided to focus more on 3 to 4 characters. This is why game design interests me greatly. Not because of the inner workings of game theory, but the fact that a person can be mediocre at a bunch of skills like writing, pixels, art, etc while these are weak seperately together they can create an enjoyable experience. DAT IS REALITY, SKIDS!


Goodbye fkers!!!

Writing wasn't the only concern, when I started to finally approach battles and mechanics for those I felt having too many characters would result in them having similar skills and abilities. I want them to all feel unique and if I focus on fewer characters I think it will be more rewarding mechanically for players in the long run.

But it is not easy to just drop characters you write, plan, design around. At the same time, you realize it's better for the game and probably the people playing it.

Mechanics like conversing, items, etc.


This is rly stupid. Please stop this.

Branching conversations.

I'm going to make an attempt to encourage players to want to converse with NPC's and important characters more often than normally. Usually NPC's in games don't evolve or have anything of value to to say beyond the iniitial conversation.

To give players more incentive I want to reward them for talking NPC's regularly. If you talk to a specific character many times, eventually new conversations will appear after you've unlocked the original set of text logs. The conversations will keep branching until you've heard everything the NPC has to say. In return you will get rewarded with items or currency.

Each character is unique and can unlock side misions that relate to who they are and their personality. This way people can learn about characters, the lore of the game through side events and character interaction without it being forced.

On one hand it is a lot of work, on the other if you're going to take the time to create a world characters should feel like they belong in it and not as just things you click for no reason. My hope is that it appeals to compulsive completionists. I also do not want people to feel obligated to constantly talk to NPC's because they feel as if they'll miss a cool reward. It's something I'm actively working on.


Conversations will be logged so you can keep track of NPC's text progression.

Rewards from item boxes will be important.


This is going to a big thing in Rainbow Nightmare. During my past experience with traditional RPG's something that has always bothered me and to an extent disappointed me were rewards that you get from treasure boxes. Often these are in cryptic areas and the spols, even by finding them aren't that exciting or rewarding.

I've played indie RPG's and commercial RPG's where the treasure boxes are so hidden that you find them on accident and you expect a spiffy reward. Instead you get a handful of potions that you end up forgetting. Another issue is having treasure everywhere so it ultimately feels less rewarding and not fun.

Rainbow Nightmare Lewt.


The Loot B.O.Y.Z

Rainbow Nightmare is designed as a semi-linear game. I am trying to design the game to encourage back-tracking to previously explored areas. Loot Machines are treasure boxes hidden throughout each area you visit. The primary goal of a Loot Machine is to give rewards based off how many NC(game currency) you want to invest into them. You're given a random chance at 3 tiers of items once you've invested CP. Whenever you find a Loot Machine, the first time opening one is free. An early example:

From ancient RN scrolls/mcdouble wrapper (googledoc)

Much like the conversation mechanic, once you've unlocked everything the Loot Machine has to offer you will be given an additional reward. Once it's tapped, it will explode. Again, this is designed to promote player empowerment and reward them for actively seeking out Loot Machines. When you see a Loot Machine, I want players to feel like it will be worth engaging in obstacles and longer routes.

If players miss the items, every chapter the item box will scale accordingly so it will always reward something relevant to them.


Plz find him a good home by donating hundreds of euros 2 swiss bank account/scam starter.

I'm going to be pretty honest and say I have worked very slowly on this, but I want to assure people that it isn't lack of desire or anything. This project spawns an infinite number of incredible and fantastic ideas that I simply just don't have the time to tackle. I get to knock on this project maybe an hour every other day because of real life. Other times I just want to turn full Potato.

I love the game, love the possibilites, but dat shiitake just ain't going to fall in my lap. Maybe there will be a second demo at the end of winter. I'm really not sure. I had pretty high expectations for the Rm2k3 updates and for what it's worth they're great, but I don't think it's enough.


Here is a cool image if Rainbow Nightmare had a budget above 0 dollar bills. There will be a Rainbow Nightmare Arcade Machine in Octopus City Blues. Let's pray I can finish before it is released!

I barely post here, sometimes once a year I feel like updating people on the game situation. I don't like to shit post when it comes to game development blogs, because I think it's a waste of people time who are legitimately interested in your work. If you enjoy hearing about the development and progress of the game and want to see more posts. Feel free to subscribe to the page, maybe if I see a boost in subs I'll feel obligated to post more content. Honestly, I just think the traffic here doesn't exist. But it is good to drop poop in webblog 1 earth year.

I do have other posts saved, but I am close to my limit space for this webzone(givem e more locker space 4 existing txs)

You can also follow my work on Twitter. That's where I socialize and network with other developers now. I like 2slam Hideo on it. May we meet next time when the cherry blossoms bloom. Is tat wha t anime kids say now???
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I on the other hand want to see not only the story but the gameplay too. At the screens, I've noticed this game is not only a pretty face ;P (Laaady Liiibraaaaaahhh! <3 <3).
Yes, we need more of Lady Libra!
Draw moar!
TFT
WHOA wow wow. two tails? that is a sexy idea...
445
more games need libra. fact.
(also, thank you. this is really cool of you. i remember when craze had a character i made in one of his games 100 years ago)
I'm sorry you had a tough time on kick-starter but I'm glad you've decided to trudge on anyway. You have a neat & original art style so don't let that talent go to waste,ace!
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7874
Demo was intense! I could barely keep my eyes open!
What's this, activity? And a download, no less? So excited! This blew my mind years ago when I first played it. Can't wait to have another go!
I mis-clicked (no, really) RMN today and I saw a download.

You are still working on RN after all these years.
Also still in Rm2k3.

F*cking Amazing, TFT.
author=s_w
I mis-clicked (no, really) RMN today and I saw a download.
because I was like "whoa it's sleeping wind! haven't seen him in a dog's age"
BurningTyger
Hm i Wonder if i can pul somethi goff here/
1289
of course wiht the open rpg maker thingine you might be bale to prt it.
author=kentona
because I was like "whoa it's sleeping wind! haven't seen him in a dog's age"

Capitalism (and playing video games) got me!
One day you just decide to take a break, and suddenly two years had gone by without working on a project.

Good to see you too, man.
TFT
WHOA wow wow. two tails? that is a sexy idea...
445
author=Corfaisus
Demo was intense! I could barely keep my eyes open!


yeah. i've taken steps in the next build to drop a lot of text and give people more to explore. rmn is a good website to establish what errors the game suffers without being biased.
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7874
author=TFT
author=Corfaisus
Demo was intense! I could barely keep my eyes open!
yeah. i've taken steps in the next build to drop a lot of text and give people more to explore. rmn is a good website to establish what errors the game suffers without being biased.


I pray you aren't being facetious.
TFT
WHOA wow wow. two tails? that is a sexy idea...
445
no, not at all. like i said in my blog, i'm taking careful consideration to the feedback that people give me in order to alter the game so people get a better experience in the future.

rmn is the perfect tool to get unbiased feedback.

i am being 100% serious.
Oh my, I remember seeing screenshots from this back from the Gaming World days, I always thought the artwork was pretty cool.

I guess that means I'll be playing the demo then.
"the rpg run-time 2003 package is not present or not registered" what is this about? no,really,i dont know what this means,most games i download just need to execute them and thats it,could someone help me?
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7874
Where's this shit? I know the kickstarter was a big bust, but you should have some new content done by now.
TFT
WHOA wow wow. two tails? that is a sexy idea...
445
ya, def agree. priority has changed 4 now and focusing on super s.e.x.r.e.t game project with local internet helldump "nightblade" creator of the demon legacy series.

twitter is best place to see updates for rainbow nightmare when i have time for it. (i am adult virgin so i have no time)
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7874
When is this going back into production? $9,000 wasn't worth a cancellation and I'm gonna reappear once every five years to ask you what's up.