PROTEUS'S PROFILE

author=orcaproductions
a guide to the sidequests of each part?

If someone reviews the game I will do a strategy guide for the game. That way I know people are interested!

There is a secret in the woods shop in Basileus's campaign....

author=orcaproductions
when i defeat a character to obtaing the soul pearl.... the scene freeze the moment the daughter threats to kill me and my party witk a cooking knife....i gonna try the version of the game with rtp

Ok I uploaded version 8 which should have fixed the bug. The game shouldn't freeze at that scene any more.

author=orcaproductions
how i can find the code anyways?

You're supposed to read the graves for a significant date. The date is the code.

author=orcaproductions
for example sometime i can´t left sarmatia village

I think I know what you're talking about. You're playing Ainia, right? You have to train in the Amazon dungeon after you meet Cyme. But you can get stuck if you sell the Clay Shield afterward, so I will fix that when I release version 8. I will also make it clearer where you need to go. Please let me know if you find any other problems.

author=Jess24
Expanding on what Desertopa said, a good idea would be to build the sidequest depending on how well respected your character is on that town, starting with a very minor and relatively easy sidequest (ex: find a lost toy for a child)and gradually move towards more complicated sidequest from more respected NPC (an herbalist asking for plants, the blacksmith for metal, and eventually the major!). If you really want to be coy, add a line like "I heard you helped 'X', could you help me too please?". That way you give the illusion to the player that their choices actually chain together, and you can use the same variable and everything!

Also, try it would be great to have "dialogue challenges", where instead of fighting, you are given a dialogue tree and you have to select the "right" choice to get what you want. You can base them on the INT, LUCK or STR stats (or your game equivalent), so the more intelligent your character is the more options they get (or less options they get, so they have a higher chance to get the right choice). EX: you have to get certain item from an NPC known to be a coward. You can Intimidate it (STR), Bluff him (LUCK) or reason with him (INT).

These are all interesting ideas! It's obvious that a reputation rating could open up quests (or close them!) and add replay value to game. That's what I'm about, is the replay value, added to the story, combat, and everything else. Though producing all this content could defintely get time consuming, especially with the sort of dialogue challenges you describe.

That kind of reminds me of similar mechanics in Heavy Rain, and, more recently, The Wolf Among Us. It's a lot of fun to play, but when I think more on it, dialogue challenges might not exactly fit the theme of my game. Though if someone made like a detective/horror game or something, it could be fit really well. (I figure amazons might always resort to beating answers out of someone.)

This got me thinking about a reputation system more. I don't want it to become like a "good or evil" kind of thing, like in Infamous, but you could add that axis to add more options. For example, you're not very well known, but are known for doing good, which could open more options to you than if you're more well established and have a mixed record. Also I was thinking you could add to reputaition just by entering and exiting a town (raising it by a small amount), or talking to key figures. Getting well known could make shop owners want to give you bargains (or sell to you at all...), but could close options in quests, such as sneaking into a pub unnoticed.

Also Desertopa: Marauding Gorilla-Dragon! That's awesome, lmao!