Shades of Resonance

A bit more background...

So far I’ve gotten partway through the first game, Shades of Resonance. They’re all classical type RPG’s made in RPG Maker XP.

I’ll try to give a brief preview of the first one, though I know the entire progression already.

Shades of Resonance

The story begins at the end of another story. A group of young warriors face and defeat a great evil being, only to be tossed into the past and forget all that they have done. Events begin to unfold as before, until a mysterious stranger tells them of a grave threat to their world – shadows of beings who resemble the warriors! Through the renewal of times forgotten and the alteration of future events, the world, and eventually much more, will be altered forever.

Now that the cliche ridden synopsis is done…

The main selling point of these games is the story and the way it is told. RPG Maker XP is somewhat limited as far as the visual side of things, though I plan on pushing those limits quite a bit. The story is one that spans worlds beyond the conventional, and sends the player through not only space and time, but through an entire course of the evolution of a world. I’m using alot of satire on popular gaming and culture (reminiscent of and based on Earthbound’s use of satirical humor). For starters, one of the dungeons in Shades of Resonance bears a striking resemblance to an old Zelda dungeon. Oh yeah, and Shades of Resonance is unique in the series for how you save. Let’s just say… “*Hop* Save your game?”

Characters

Ian – The main character, who starts out as the conventional RPG hero and grows to become much more by the end of the series. He is a spear-user, contrary to the usual sword-wielding main hero.

Wrath – The main antagonist of Shades of Resonance. His power is unmatched throughout this universe. This is probably because he’s not from this universe, but from another universe called Iravelon.

Locations

Shades of Resonance, which is the first one I’m going into until I get closer to its completion, occurs on a small planet called Idavoll. Let’s just say that the second game branches out a bit further than just one planet. Also, the third and fourth happen at different ages entirely.

A few screenshots:

A confrontation to start things off:

The discovery of an ancient passageway near the beginning of the game:

A bit of a nod to old school Zelda:

Status:

The project is fairly early in its life, but the good thing is that the entire storyline (minus some specifics) is laid out in my mind and roughly on paper.
I’m about a third of the way through making Shades of Resonance, and will hopefully get much more done in the coming weeks. After more of it is completed, I’ll post more about the rest of the games.

BTW:
If anyone has any nifty RPG XP spaceship sprites, I'm looking for some that I can use.