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An update for AW...? What could it mean?

Wow, it's been more than 8 months since I wrapped up this game. 0_o

But--
I'm wondering if I should expand on Accelerated World and turn it into a commercial romp one day. I loved Phantasy Star ( IV was my first foray into the RPG genre, and I never looked back ). While I can touch up the pixel art and keep things minimalist for that retro-feel, I've been thinking about expanding the storyline and maybe even porting the whole game over to VXAce, using Luna Engine and YF Engine Ace/Battle Engine Ace.

The two-week time constraint in which I made this game left little room for innovation and proper testing. And I really liked writing the character of Ayla, since she's so different from my more serious female protagonists ( Laine and Tristian ). Also, her blue longcoat and platinum blonde hair is just bad-ass. <3 Of course, my slight yuri tendencies will probably lead me to replacing Hyke with another female character...

But it will scream Phantasy Star, like the lovechild of Phantasy Star II ( 1989 ) and Phantasy Star IV ( 1994 ), but unrelated to the beloved Algo Solar System. And for those of you would didn't play II, it tackled social commentary/Big Brother/environ issues and the tragic-death of a female MC a good EIGHT years before FF7. The only difference is AW will be nowhere near as tedious to play ( Phantasy Star II was notoriously Nintendo Hard ).

As for going commercial, the target market would definitely be those players who yearn for the RPGs of yester-year ( late 80s - mid 90s; aka the 'Golden Age' ) or simply the player base on Steam who is tired of seeing these generic-looking VXAce games being sold for more money than they're actually worth.

But I still need to finish Tristian before taking on my commercial dream-game. XD But I think with two large completed games under my belt and the upcoming Transcend and LoA, I should stand a good chance of being Greenlit when this game takes that route. After it is completed, that is.

And here I thought this game was done and dusted when the MOG event ended... I just thought I'd post it because it was on my mind.

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orochii
6740
08/27/2015 01:11 PM
Accelerated World has some Phantasy Start vibe, and as such I can imagine it being expanded. Space travels, missions to get back the order of something, and all that. It's something very expandable.

So, I think it's a nice idea. You can always leave this "lite version", and make something like a second episode.
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
08/27/2015 01:30 PM
I'd totally buy a full game for Accelerated World (even more so if it had yuri, but everyone knows that XD)
polarcactus
Formerly Luchi.
6515
09/09/2015 10:43 AM
The game certainly is marketable enough, I'm thinking. And I would have had enough experience under my belt, unlike those steaming piles of turds on Steam that screams 'my first RPGMaker game'. Maybe I'll expand the towns to something like this



rather than leaving them as 'hub areas' with little to no NPCs. The pixel art style is also less simplified than Tristian's ( which is quite detailed with lots of organic shapes; AW's style is more simplified, with the exception of natural objects like trees ). Though I am happy with the way that palm tree came out.

But I first need to pull myself out of development hell with Tristian before my first commercial game even becomes a reality.
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