Veritas

My first game I submitted to this site is now officially cancelled.



Something happened the other day. I have two computers, a big one and a lil' one. The lil' one, a laptop, is fine. On the laptop, I have all of my RPG Maker VX Ace titles. On my big computer, a desktop, I had my RPG Maker MV titles. The screen resolution is nice and big and allows me to put in a lot of work in its pixel art. Unfortunately, the big one had a hard drive failure, and I had to do a complete reformat and restore in order to get it working again.

Now thankfully I had several games backed up, so I still have data to pull from in case I ever return to developing. However, this was one of the games that was lost.

I didn't back up Veritas, and I think a part of the reason is that I was never particularly proud of it. The gameplay was lackluster, I overreached for an epic saga without a valid scope, and eventually the project entered the graveyard, never to be heard from again. It was my first project. I hadn't yet learned how to make pixel art, so there was no custom artwork. I hadn't read a single article or played other combat-focused RPG Maker games, so the gameplay left a lot to be desired. I did have custom music, and I'm still happy with it, but there's far better music out there I'd use in the future (Newgrounds has a surprisingly large number of great tracks for games, some of which are non-commercially licensed).

I haven't been around lately, and I don't think I have any time to return to game development, but I thought it would only be fair to mention that this game is cancelled, for the few people who may have had their eye on it.

To those who were subscribed and looking forward to the complete game: I'm sorry, it's gone. At least there's a demo that will remain on this page.

Got some big things going on in Veritas!

1. Improved Maps!

Since the game now has a much larger resolution, this calls for much larger maps! I've been going through the maps and updating the tiny maps, which may have been fitting for the smaller resolution, and making them, well, much more impressive because there's a whole lot more screen to cover! Hidden below is the old image of this realm. But directly beneath that, the new and improved!




Much better! Don't ask me how long it took me to craft this.

Who would have thought mapping would be so time consuming? But, in the end, it will be worth it. I want this game to be memorable, so I'm willing to put as much time as possible into this world for you to enjoy. Speaking of this game's world, there's a very important feature that is now available which affects the game's atmosphere...

2. ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE!

Along with this comes the additional musical talents of SteinmannMusic who has crafted the main battle theme of this game. More of his music will be available in the main game! I have also added my own musical efforts to the game. I kid you not: when this game is complete, all of the music will be fully customized!

And if you want a taste of it, look no further that...

3. DEMO VERSION 2 released!

The big one! I went straight to version 2 because a lot has been changed. Good changes! The demo now uses all new scripts from Yanfly, I've dropped the RTP title picture and made one of my own, and of course, a new original musical score! Check out the new demo! Let me know what you think. Production is underway and there's a lot more to share about Veritas!

The Walkthrough for the Veritas Game Demo is now available!

The Emerald City is not a very kind place for its inhabitants! Having a little trouble navigating the headquarters? Deimos' men getting you down? Some bosses proving a little too difficult? Well don't worry!

With this walkthrough, available at the top of the game page under "Veritas Game Demo Walkthrough," you'll be able to find out recommended strategies for the boss fights, as well as find all of the items in the environment! Also, you may get some hints towards both the super secret bonus item, and the even more rare, hidden cutscene, which I know you haven't found yet (and if you have found it, send me a screenshot of it in a message!).

Be sure to download version 1.1 if you haven't gotten it yet: it's the entire game demo reworked with plenty of bugs and errors corrected. Also, you can see the notes for version 1.1 in another blog entry on this page.

Hope you're enjoying the game! The story will continue soon.

The demo has successfully launched! I hope you all have enjoyed it so far. I intend to release a patched version correcting some of the mistakes I found on it (there's always something).

Enjoyed it? Were the enemies over-tuned or under-tuned? Positive feedback or negative feedback, I'm open to all!