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old 4/2011 video of first 10 mins sorry i couldnt be bothered to make a new one, new version is the same except it has the in-battle graph equip system etc



The Oathguard series primarily follows the life of Myunh Yala, an Oathguard who is accused of subversive activity in her home country of Sinolor. Knowing she is indeed partially culpable, and fearing the punishment she faces if convicted, Myunh reluctantly flees to the neighboring Thassadia at the behest of Alrion Yala, her mysterious cousin.

Four years later, the machinations of ambitious men in every nation have caused the continent’s political climate to shift drastically for the worse, and Myunh’s connection to Alrion—perhaps the most ambitious man of all—will take her back to Sinolor, the stage for the upcoming conflict. There, she will confront her past choices, reunite with old friends and foes alike, and find herself becoming more than just a witness to history in the making as she fights to repel a relentless invasion.

While she is initially more or less only along for the ride thanks to her sibling-like relationship with Alrion, various meetings, happenings, and revelations during the course of the series will lead Myunh to take a more active role as a leader.

But whether she finds herself to be a hero by the story’s end is another matter entirely.

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This Prologue takes place 23 years before Myunh’s return to her homeland, during the height of what would later be called the Fortnight War.

While skirmishes rage elsewhere, a veteran Oathguard of Sinolor has embarked on a mission to apprehend several “Compremised” Oathguards who appear to be defecting to the enemy nation, Heiml, via the treacherous Banda mountain range that forms a natural border between the countries.

Sinolor’s military leadership, preoccupied with the main war effort, issues this otherwise-critical mission with indifference. However, it is of great personal importance to one they have dispatched to complete it—for the most powerful of the targets she relentlessly pursues is also her husband, and she has resolved to end his life if he really is a traitor, in order to protect their daughter. More than anything, though, she seeks the truth.

She is Ordinator Gela Yala. The fugitive is former Ordinator Bocheul Yala. Their daughter Myunh is yet an infant, but the events that follow her parents’ confrontation at Banda Pass will shape the course of her life, among many others’.

The year is 781 S.A., and the continent quietly teeters on the end of an era.

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Designed in RM2k3, Oathguard's Prologue features:
* A traditional turn-based battle system that uses a unique "Demon Transformation" system similar to those in the Shadow Hearts or Persona series
* Ability to equip skills on the fly in battle in order to combat enemies of a certain type more effectively
* Various types of weapons, graphs, and coins available to equip that grant different types of basic attacks in battle, or passive abilities
* Customizaiton of Gela's stats to fit the player's gameplay stye by using "Remnants" gained from leveling up
* Several unique gameplay touches, such as the "Magis Eye", which keeps the player aware of important events or battles up ahead (as a handy reminder to save his/her game); and the "Converse" option, which updates the player on the current situation while also adding to the game's narrative


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Designer and Producer
mellytan

Portrait Artist
Ghost

Primary QA Testers
Ocean
Ciel
Eike
PentagonBuddy
ElectricalKat
alterego
argh
Dyhalto

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Project Oathguard
March 2007 - Present

Prologue
November 2009 - November 2012

Latest Blog

a bedraggled figure with incongruously great hair emerges

ey yooo

i was originally going to post this update as a comment, but it of course ballooned naturally into a full-length post. so here we go.

a fog-veiled cave stands before you. its depths are obscured by darkness but you hear a faint voice calling out from within, slowly growing in strength until your eyes adjust and recognize a bedraggled figure with incongruously great hair emerge from the cave, as if born from the blackness...




..oo.....he...o...Hel..lo.....Hello!

Yes, hello, dear reader! I'm so glad to see you! I've been wanting to tell someone:...I've decided what I will do with Oathguard!

For the foreseeable future (likely about a year or so), I will be focusing on developing my skill as an artist, while writing the novel for Oathguard on the side.

Art (in terms of the actual skill of drawing/painting; ie the mechanical skill, recognizing and using value and shapes, not drawing awful Saturday morning anime figures with horrifically incorrect anatomy, etc) in general has always been my weak point, and has always limited me in what I could do. When it came to RM2k3, the solution was always to use rips, others' works, and anything else I could frankenstein together; and when I did sprite/draw something on my own, it took forever because I had no idea what I was doing. I had no basic artistic skill, but impatiently insisted on trying to do advanced things in order to create what I had envisioned (just like many others here on RMN and in the RPG Maker community over the years who, in our vain pursuit of making the JRPG of our childhood dreams, consistently and predictably overextend ourselves).

I've finally faced the music and realized that if I want to ever develop Oathguard into something bigger (yes, probably a game in the end) that I can really be satisfied with, I have to build myself up a bit first. So I am focusing on learning how to draw and paint, from the ground up. I am sure that this is the best route to take; despite how long the process is bound to be, I know that it's the only way. In the end, even if I still can't get to where I want to be artistically, I'm sure the journey will leave me with something I can work with.

At the same time, like I said, I'm working on a novel(la?) on the side. Writing is my thing, so it's not too hard to punch out a few hundred words on most days. It's probably not going to be great, though, since a) I've probably never completed anything over 10k words in my life, and b) it's basically a novel about anime JRPG people doing anime JRPG things (hey at least that would qualify as a "light novel" in Japan). But like I said, I'm sure just trying to do this will do great things for myself and Oathguard in the future. And if the novel turns out to be pretty good in the end, that's cool, too.

On that note, I actually finished a sort of prologue chapter (which may or may not show up in the finaly product, since nobody likes prologues, after all) that covers Gela's last moments. If you want to read it, drop me a message and I'll send you the ~secret link~

Well, that's all for now. Who knows when I will emerge from my cave next...but rest assured that I will always be working on Oathguard. And always have great hair.

Thanks for reading, and don't be a stranger. See ya around!

Posts

gentlemen gentlemen
the oats will be in your bowls before tuesday eventide

(i will pm the link to u tonight or tomorrow afternoon)

edit: hehhhEhehh you should know im on filipino/hawaiian/silly goose time by now...ie 5pm = 5:30pm, tomorrow afternoon=tomorrow night...
im uploading now and will be back after dinner..
i sent out a pm with the link to the download






... but reportedly the game is very buggy and broken i changed stuff after my playthrough LMAO





please kill me
dragonheartman
Developer, Starless Umbra / Heroes of Umbra
2966
changing things after a playthrough!! melly, have a seat. Let me talk to you about quality assurance...
author=dragonheartman
changing things after a playthrough!! melly, have a seat. Let me talk to you about quality assurance...

lmao i know dude this happened after the first beta last year too, i'll never learn..........
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
It's worth the wait at least! go go mellytan you can do it!
yes i am very excited and grateful after receiving a lot of pleasing reports/feedback/sexts from those who played this beta

i will post a blag post about what i am gonna focus on developing/fixing (mainly bug crushing and battle balancing) before releasing a public version, based on the feedback i received

stay tuned
(By the way, you still need to fix that showstopping bug before we can continue testing.)
author=argh
(By the way, you still need to fix that showstopping bug before we can continue testing.)


?argh did you get my pm? i mentioned how to get around it...do you have rm2k3, and can change the passability? if not the middle block should be passable; most of the other testers got through so i know it's possible. sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your help
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
author=mellytan
author=argh
(By the way, you still need to fix that showstopping bug before we can continue testing.)
?argh did you get my pm? i mentioned how to get around it...do you have rm2k3, and can change the passability? if not the middle block should be passable; most of the other testers got through so i know it's possible. sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your help

You can go through if you press control while walking, otherwise you will be blocked.
Ah, thank you. I do have rm2k3, but I'm not very experienced in it, so I don't know how to edit tile passability. Thanks for the tip Ocean, I can continue now.
author=mellytan
gentlemen gentlemen
the oats will be in your bowls before tuesday eventide

lol oats
author=alterego
author=mellytan
gentlemen gentlemen
the oats will be in your bowls before tuesday eventide
lol oats

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"myunh tis up to thou....thou must guard the oats in mine stead...."

you know ive never considered getting a tattoo but

edit: THOSE HEELS
Tau
RMN sex symbol
3293
I wish I was on that testers list. Btw how's it coming along?
author=Tau
I wish I was on that testers list. Btw how's it coming along?


nah you dont want to play the old version.....so buggyyyy

it's going well thank you for asking, i wrote up a blog post about this and never posted it (lolll) but in short the last 2% is still taking like 98% of the effort. i even retooled the battle systen and probably messed everything up but

i just want to get this done so hopefully public beta is out early august!!
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
early august.. of 2013
dragonheartman
Developer, Starless Umbra / Heroes of Umbra
2966
20013!

Melly I implore you to use DynRPG.
author=Ocean
early august.. of 2013


you know me too well...........

author=dragonheartman
20013!

Melly I implore you to use DynRPG.


i just saw the screen on su.com of what you've been doing with it and was like

:o

actually for a while i've been thinking that after this chapter's final release im going to see what dynrpg can do since i can deal with c++, though my main plan was to move to vx for the next chapter.

first things first though, gotta put this first chapter to bed ._.
hello i had all these cool post about my post-closed-beta exploits but ultimately i axed them because they were taking away from development time

so i just wrote a quick update on the tumblr http://ogrpg.tumblr.com/ pls follow if you like

i just.....want to......fly
benos
My mind is full of fuck.
624
Why is the Illuser so hard to kill?