MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

I submitted my description last night. Well, technically, early this morning, arounds 3am. Depends what time zone you're in. Did you guys somehow not receive it?

This is done purely in the spirit of Release Something, because my semi-abandoned rm2k3 project, Shadowrun: Missions, is really a something! It's not a proper demo, certainly not a full game, and has none of the hype generating shininess of a "trailer". Instead, it's just the beginning- a beginning which, incidentally, took longer than all of Mage Duel- of an unfinished project that will probably never be finished.

So, Shadowrun fans, curiosity seekers, come one, come all, and enjoy!

And if you don't know what Shadowrun is, or you're thinking of the sub-par multiplayer only XBOX-360 Counterstrike clone, SHAME ON YOU!


Admittedly shitastic title screen.

Perfunctory Descripcione!

The project was called Shadowrun: Missions, and the idea was it would have an episodic structure, where each game/episode would be a new mission, with a new story. The hope was that if it became popular at all, then other people could make their own missions. The game's features included the ability to choose and hire up to three out of nine VERY DIFFERENT Shadowrunners (read: mercenaries) with very different skillsets and capabilities, inside of combat and also OUTSIDE OF COMBAT. Outside of combat abilities could be as simple as picking locks, as complex as an in-depth matrix-hacking minigame, or as unorthodox as casting a spell to make your party invisible, hence avoiding encounters/security. Depending on the shadowrunners you choose, you can go about doing the mission in dozens of different ways, including stealth, combat, hacking, magic, and infiltration; and generally you can mix and match and combine these approaches, and even in those five broad categories there were going to be a lot of options.

IN fact....TOO MANY options. So many that the game was never even close to completed. The only piece of the gameplay that is done, besides the sexy intro, is the hiring/outfitting/planning sequence, which is ludicrously in depth. None of the actual shadowrunning, i.e. the meat of the gameplay, is complete at all. Perhaps the first 5% of each of 3/10 possible approaches is complete, and hasn't been balanced/polished. Basically, the "demo" would "end" after you hired shadowrunners, but you could keep playing and mess around with the game's loose ends after that. Maybe if for some reason there was a SUDDEN OUTPOURING OF INTEREST I might actually finish the game, or maybe someone else who's a Shadowrun fan might want to pick up the ball where I dropped it, since there is a lot of work done in the project, even if it never got very far gameplay wise. Anyway, if this kind of thing interests for you for any reason, MAKE YOURSELVES HEARD EN MASSE...

Obligatory (OVER NINE THOUSAND) Sceeninjas


Meet the runners!


The incredibly in depth Matrix Hacking minigame!

Seriously, I spent more time perfecting this unfinished aspect of an unfinished project than it has taken me to make ENTIRE COMPLETE GAMES. This is probably the most tedious coding I have ever done. Play it you rotten bastards! Here's more screens:



Obligatory battle screens!


And more, more, more screens!

Very little of the actual game is available.



The planning phase/cutscene is different depending on who's in your party.
Ideally, your strategy would need to be different too.


DOWNLOAD (SAUSAGE) LINK: RIGHT HERE, CHUMMER!

My first of more than one and less than four somethings is released!
Enjoy!!

I think like 90% of RPG Maker games that are actually completed are completed by one person, whereas 90% of vaporware RM games are developed by teams of two and "larger", that's all I was saying.

Of course, some say that 42% of all statistics are made up on the spot...


At least, I know from experience that my solo projects have seen release and my team projects, however promising they looked, have not.

So basically, I was just impressed to see a game made by more than two people fully completed and released. And still am.

Well, it's a far larger team than most projects that actually get done get done by.

And I read some of them, which comment do you mean?

Holy fuck, Azn, that's a long list of projects!

12. Ender's Game (RM 2003). Based off of the book. I put tons of time into this, and I got a working TBS/CBS. (Bahumut Lagoon) I lost the system and scrapped the project. I still have the remnants of this game. This is probably my favorite game that I have ever made.

I <3 Ender's Game! Make this your first priority!

22. Akira RM. Based off of the manga/film. Never really got anywhere, except a cool menu.

Scratch that, this is like my DREAM project, make this your priority. Dude, you scrapped/ditched more awesome project ideas than most people even come up with.

Anyway, I'm seeing a LOT of nostalgia for Ghostlight in that post, surprisingly enough.

I made a complete Cyberpunk RPG on the PSX Rpg Maker before even TOUCHING rm2k. It was called Fires of Freedom and it had a lot of patriotic themes. It was largely about the future of America, in a world where America was more like a company, with a board of directors of its wealthiest citizens. The main character was a former bodyguard/elite mercenary for the President, who he and his group of rebels were now fighting against...once he broke out of prison. The final battle took place between the hero and main villain ON THE FACE OF A GIANT BIG-BEN STYLE CLOCK, BALANCED ON THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK, which I think is pretty epic, although really, I only did it because that was one of the default "special" maps available with the PSX RPG Maker.

Anyway, it is probably FAR, FAR WORSE than I remember it being, and I don't remember it being all that good, although I thought it was a masterpiece at the time. It is now lost to the far reaches of time, space, and playstation 1 memory cards.

One of my first four or five failed RM2k projects I never released was a failed sequel to it similarly titled Fires of Freedom. I was (technically, still am) writing a novel (technically still in progress) of the same name. They all have different iterations of the same plot. So as you can see, I've tried to express this idea in a lot of ways, never really with all that much success.

Oh, uh, possibly before RM2k but after PSX RPG Maker, at some point I made a couple of "wildly successful" Text Adventure games with the Quest engine. Well, at least, they were wildly successful by the standards of the Quest engine. Pretty impressive since i was probably like 13 at the time.

although pictures variables took me quite a while to get.

I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS EIGHT YEARS AND I STILL DON'T GET THESE LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL CAN YOU SPELL MENTAL BLOCK LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.