Allinlia

i decided that the difficulty of the intro is unacceptable, I have never had a problem with it during tests but i shouldn't expect everyone to play in the exact same way I do and I do not intend to make a "challenging" game anyway so I'll be looking into ways to make the battles here more reasonable

a very slight nerf to enemy basic attk power, a way to insta heal at the start of the first monster area, and a few automatic starting items are things i will probably implement

the difficulty comes from not searching the starting town for all the free loot and/or trying to engage in multiple encounters without healing up like you can do in most other rpgs that are more grind oriented. (the fights here should be thought of more as just a bunch of wannabe boss battles) I'm gonna work to make the game more forgiving if players do not do these things, especially at the start

i also went to the store and got these cheeto things called "puffcorn" which were basically cheeto lumps that were supposed to be like popcorn. I really liked them because they tasted EXACTLY like "Jax" brand, a far superior cheese curls snack that you can only find around new england

probably within this week or next I will be where I want to be to get somthing ACTUALLY PLAYABLE out there

my idea of having the opening cutscene as a download to get the player pumped or whatever was a pretty dumb idea in retrospect (i didn't realize till I tried to download a game with similar filesize just how long I was making people wait for a movie) so I'm trying to get a real demo out soon.

Try to hold off downloading if you haven't already till then.

***UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!***

New Character: Gate Guardian Butterfly!

This guy is a butterfly that seems to show up in just about every dungeon in the game. He guards a door and won't let you through unless Roxalani wins a completely off the wall and nonsensical challenge. (and its just Roxalani) And you can't just beat him up for no adequetly explained reason! GGB has more than a few screws loose so that makes him like just like alot of characters in this game. He shows up more than 16 times so like it or not you'll be seeing alot of him. (I do try to make these challenges entertaining so hopefully you will enjoy them alot more than Roxalani will)

I'm not kidding when I say these things are crazy. One of them involves having to persuade a vending machine into giving you a candy bar that is dangling ever so slightly off the edge of the hook. (instead of, ya know, pushing it over) yeah, and this isn't even among the most "out there" ones I have cooked up

No clue where the idea for this guy came from, but it is one of those things that suddenly descend from heaven carried on a silver tray by two cheribs. I thought of all the challenges and I absolutely love them. After finding the most ridiculous and needlessly over the top theme song I could for GGB my excitement over working on this game is higher than ever

(anyone who recognizes the track I used will know immeadiately what to expect from the moment they hear it)

oh and before anyone says that this will prevent anyone from taking the game seriously: That's kinda the point yo. (I mean the game's hero is 7 years old)

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The Allinlians worship a human child-god called Cael, who they believe created the continent and the people who live there by tracing the outline of it with his finger and then mking it rise up out of the ocean. He is primarily seen as a deity associated with light, kindness, and mercy. Though as we all know, kids are unstable creatures so they are still careful. In complete contrast is his older brother, Yoshio (only a matter of time before I named a character after myself.) who is associated with darkenss, unempathetic destruction, and fearsome power. Yoshio wishes to destroy Allinlia and everyone on it just to spite his brother. This is sort of like where there are two small children, the younger one builds a tower of blocks or somthing similar, and the older one walks by and kicks it down, the same principle is applying here. The Allinlians don't believe that either of these deities created the entire universe which suggests that they passively believe that there are more gods, but they only name and acknowledge these two.

A couple hundred years ago, it is said that Yoshio incited a large group of thieves, and criminals who routinely hid out in Allinlia's vast grasslands to band togather and attempt to take down the two established kingdoms. Many of these people made a dark pact with the god where he gave them powerful magical abilities. These people were known as the Teppistimagia. (thug magicians) A powerful army was raised under the iron fist of the tough as nails, cold, and cruel General Gar. This army made quick work of plowing through the forces of both kingdoms and it seemed as though all hope was lost for the Allinlians, fortunately for them, Cael had seen Yoshio's mischief coming so he took on a mortal form and planted himself in the mortal world. He was born to a young, well-to-do human married couple who he had given repeated instruction using dreams to give birth to him halfway up Allinlia's tallest mountain. When Cael was old enough (the exact age depends on who you ask but it is usually around the area of 6, 7, or 8) he climbed to the top of the mountain where he filled himself with hs own divine power and prepared to take on the dark forces. Cael worked fast, he united the two kingdoms into a joint, unified empire and he led the empire's army against General Gar and the Teppistimagia. After much fighting the Allinlians were victorious and the dark army was destroyed. Cael then handed 10 objects to the former Dragon King (the human king had died in battle) which were later known as the "divine artifacts" the 10 objects Cael purposefully left in the mortal world before ascending back to the realm of the gods. Before he left, took a lock of his hair and used it to create a golden egg. It is believed that Emperor Bariton, the first emperor of unified Allinlia, was hatched from this egg. The human child being hatched from an egg (which is how dragon children are born) is heavily symbolic of the new empire and what the emperors are expected to represent. The former Dragon King served as regent for 19 years before handing the crown over to Cael's "son" on the exact day that Cael had asked him to do this. After hatching the egg and handing Bariton over to the dragon king, Cael climbed to the top of the mountain again and left the mortal world. Yoshio had started this war so he could be responsible for as much destruction to both sides and to the land itself as possible, he was a bit aggravated when Cael managed to save the day though.

Not all of the Teppistimagia were killed durning the war, but they are believed to have long since gone extinct.

It should be noted that this was a conflict between two human/dragon combination groups. The monsters, except for a rare few exceptions, refused to get involved in any way, and the goblins did not come into existence until after this time. (oh and before I forget, the green dragons went "extinct" long before this, so there weren't any of them involved either.)

Cael is worshipped among the dragon and human races, the monsters and goblins acknowledge him but neither race engages in any form of worship. Yoshio is, in general, not worshipped at all, since he is basically just out to kill everything.

Cael is depicted in many pieces of artwork either in the form of "Cael the mortal" (where he is either shown playing or as a general rallying troops or leading them into battle) ir "Cael the deity" (where he is shown towering over his creation. In both forms he is depicted as a little boy wearing white, he is shown as having light skin and golden blonde hair and blue eyes. Yoshio isn't depicted often but the artists who do decide to do it always depict him in the deity form, he bares a strong resemblance to Cael, sharing all his facial features, as wella as his blue eyes and light skin (they are supposed to be brothers after all) but Yoshio is shown with black hair and glasses, and whereas the background of deity Cael images is usualy blue skies and the ocean, Yoshio always seems to have an intimidating black, purple, and red aura. He either appears to be angry or have a sinister grin, depending on the artist. His clothes vary, but they are always in dark colors. They are both immortal gods, obviously, but Cael's physical age in all of these images can be anywhere from 3 to 8, Yoshio is depicted as being older, but still a little kid, never being shown as being above age 10.

I've put the game's opening cutscene up for download in order to drum up some hype

and to have at least SOMETHING to show for submit somthing day