Iravelon: Iravelon

Well, I've finally started a development blog.

Okay, overview.

Iravelon is a game series that I'm working on. I'm using RPG Maker XP to make it. I'm currently in the middle of making part 1, titled "Shades of Resonance."

A bit of project background -
The project really started at first as an attempt to make a game version of a story that a friend and I have been working on. As I started getting into it, I realized that the software didn't really suit the story idea, and began to mess around with a few other ideas. Eventually, a basic story came into being.

At that point, the game had the same name as the story - Oblivion.

A while passed, and a few issues presented themselves. The most obvious was that was a title already used in a game, and it led to some confusion. I hadn't planned on selling the game, so that wasn't the issue. It was simply the fact that a few people said "Oblivion, isn't that already a game?" Additionally, the name didn't really go with the story. So I endeavored to figure out a new name - not because it was that important at the time, but because it would make the game a bit more personal if I could come up with an original title.

That led to the next title - Resonant Shadows.

I liked that title well enough. Though I wasn't exactly satisfied with my Photoshop work for that one.

As development progressed, I found some add-on materials for RPG Maker. I had been toying around with the idea of making the game into a multi-part series before, and the new material made me sure of it. After doing some thinking, the project suddenly expanded radically. I came up with a ton of new ideas that reshaped the storyline, and the project grew from one game to four. Because of the way the games worked, the name had to be changed. Plus... I just wasn't really satisfied with Resonant Shadows anyways.

So the series came to be called Iravelon. Iravelon is the fusion of a few words, such as "Ira," which is latin for "wrath" (the name of the main villian).