Dragon Kingdoms: Birth of a Legend

The game title is now Dragon Kingdoms: A Legend Begins. I will post some of the new information soon. For now, why not play Dragon Kingdoms IV and V to celebrate RPG Maker 2000's official release?

There was an event called Mock Down on another site, and I had drawn up something for it. Unfortunately, they chose not to use it (it was actually posted for a couple days but later removed).


No, that's not exactly what it would look like in-game (it's called MOCK down for a reason), but it's close. There's plenty of rough edges, but that's to be expected when you only have a couple hours to make something that was supposed to take two weeks- which I wasn't told.

I then found this

but it was made before the start of the event (by three days :P), and thus not eligible for Mock Down :( It's a fairly close render of what the game's starting island would look like in modern 3D graphics, without buildings or trees.

First off, my condolences to those who have interests in or live in Japan. The trifecta of a 9.0 earthquake, a 30-foot tsunami and partial nuclear meltdown can bring ANY nation to its knees.

Considering the circumstances, Japan is handling this fairly well. There are still impacts, such as major companies such as Sony, Toyota and Square Enix shutting down operations for some time.

Onward to Dragon Kingdoms news. I've started making the second map out of about 10-15 for the first world. The second world will have about the same amount. So about 10% of the maps will have been made by the end of this month!

EDIT: It turns out that Holbert has cancelled the site shutdown that was to occur.

Anyway, I should have some screens up before long in the new era at RMN.

In between blog updates, check the game out at http://dragonkingdoms.tumblr.com - on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DragonKingdoms - on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoWizard2006 and also on Meridian Dance.

Actually, I was busy making changes on some of my maps, as well as figuring out how to make the mini-maps more useful. Also, icons return! They give your characters powers such as leapfrogging over a pond, walking through a phantom wall, or perhaps even turning into a dragon for a short while!

I've also been working on trying to get a comic set up, that will tell a bit about what happened in the world before and after some of the games in the series take place.