Monster World RPG - THE GAME IS READY ! ! !

[maxteam01]

MAX TEAM

presents


http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/2406/titletf9.png


Visit here the website:
http://geocities.com/maxteam01
(and then go to the “DOWNLOADS” section)

Watch here the movie:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=6gh_0mRqKwc

SUMMARY
GAME NAME: Monster World RPG
DEVELOPER: MAX TEAM
TOOL USED: RpgMaker2003
RELEASE TYPE: demo
RTP NEEDED: no
CUSTOM MENU: yes
LANGUAGE: english
SIZE: 22.6 MB


About “Monster World RPG”

Monster World RPG is a fan game inspired by the Monster World (Wonder Boy in the US) series, made by SEGA and Westone for Arcade, Sega Master System and Genesis.
It’s no a sequel, prequel or remake, but a brand new game in rpg style instead of platform.

The game you can download here is only a special demo version, featuring only some minigames from the game.
The actual game is a much more complex rpg game developed with RpgMaker2003.
There are many different monsters in the full version (there’s over 50 different monsters).

Along with Max, the main hero, there’s other five characters, wich can be inserted or removed from the team as you wish,
Alsto there’s many sidequests, all are kept in a special book menu, so you won’t forget them.
The main hero also can be customized with different spells, magic weapons, and more.

There may be some english errors in the game, please forgive this as the game creator and programmer both don’t speak english as their native language.
Actually some people may not care so much, since this will remind many people of their youth, when thay used to play old videogames poorly translated from japanese.

The full version will be ready near the end of 2008.



SCREENSHOTS



http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/802/s1yl9.png http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1392/s2wz8.png


http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2060/s3hp4.png http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2958/s6md3.png


http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8484/s7ch1.png http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5708/s8hz7.png


http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4239/s9jd9.png http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9727/s11pv4.png


http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1465/s12gc9.png http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9913/s13ii4.png


http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2494/s14ym3.png http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1728/s15sr3.png


http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1222/s16qp0.png http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5339/s18ta0.png


STORY

The place is Aqua Kingdom.
The hero of this story, Max, lives in the Valley of Peace near Purapril, the capital.
Since his friend Shion left for Purapril to do his knight duties, Max life got boring.
A morning while hunting in the woods he found a strange creature he never seen before.
Unsure about the creature's "taste" he decided to avoid making it his meal, but keep it as his pet.
Now that he has a "party member" he decide that's time for him to leave the valley for a more exciting life.
He decide to go to Purapril to meet again his friend Shion but while attemping to enter into the city two guards block his way forcing him to travel somewhere else.
Where will Max go now? Will Max be able to enter in town? And what is happening there?
Unbeknowst to him his "adventurous life" has already begun . . .


CHARACTERS

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2033/maxje6.png MAX
The hero of the game. He’s a fighter, so he won’t learn new skills by leveling up. Instead, he gets new skills by learning them from other people, by equipping certain equipment or getting special items.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9324/pepeqr6.png PEPE
Pepe is a strange animal that no one knows its species or place of origin. He can only say “pepe”, so Max gave him this name. His species is unknown so he’s considered an “odd er”. Pepe starts with some skills and learn more as his level increases. He can’t use any equipment, but only attacking with his claws.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3927/priscillawe6.png PRISCILLA
Priscilla is a small fairy from Alsedo, the fairy village. She lives with Eleanora, the fairy queen. Being a fairy she mainly knows healing and assist spells.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2814/shabohq6.png SHABO
Shabo is a death god, wich is actually a species, not a deity. Shabo knows many spells, mainly attack spells but also some assist spells. If used wisely he can be a great ally.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5885/hottanw0.png HOTTA
Hotta is a dwarf from Lilypad, the dwarf village. He can’t use spells but istead uses special skills. He’s a very strong character and can greatly damage the enemies. His only weakness is that he’s the slowest character.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5640/juniorle2.png JUNIOR
Junior is a baby dragon from Begonia. He may be just a baby, but due to his dragon lineage his power is great. He’s almost as strong as Hotta and is faster, but has lower resistances and less skills.


About MAX TEAM

MAX TEAM is a two men team composed by:
Massimo a.k.a. Zaqquaya at DeviantArt: author, storyboarder, chara designer, final tester, main advertiser;
Fernando a.k.a. Nilesnake at DeviantArt: main programmer, tiles & faceset designer, music & sound, beta tester, final scripter;

MAX TEAM has also many friends who gave help:
Furanku Leone, Dark Designer , Christian Viana ,Alex BG87, Viiper, Ryan914, Badassbill.

Do you want to help too and be credited in the game?
Then feel free to contact us (by the e-mail address you will find in our website) for any comments or questions.


FINAL WORDS: READ PLEASE !!! IT'S IMPORTANT !!!

Due to my study & workd duties I won't be able to reply you daily, but weekly on sundays.
I ask you only a favour: please before asking something about the game check the FAQS on my website and be sure that the answer isn't there (please also avoid to make the same questions another forum user did).

Thanks in advance and see you soon – MAX TEAM

[The_question]

Oh my god, Wonder Boy is one of my favourite games since my beginning of playing video-games.
I beg you to finish this. :D

The story's typical for Wonder Boy, and it also fits perfectly into the scene, I think.
Will there be other known places besides Purapril?
I think so, because you're using the helping-out characters from Wonder Boy like Priscilla and Shabo.

The screenshots are good. Not the best, but very good indeed.
You used the graphics from wonderboy in the right way. Go on. :A

I will not download the demo, for I will wait for the Full Version.
I don't wan't to ruin the surprise to me. ;)

I wish you the best to finish it!

[Saoru]

Mhm

The Graphik-Style looks good, but anywise it didn't looks good :rolleyes:

The story is okay ^^

Take it easy :)

[maxteam01]

Oh my god, Wonder Boy is one of my favourite games since my beginning of playing video-games.
I beg you to finish this. :D

The story's typical for Wonder Boy, and it also fits perfectly into the scene, I think.
Will there be other known places besides Purapril?
I think so, because you're using the helping-out characters from Wonder Boy like Priscilla and Shabo.

The screenshots are good. Not the best, but very good indeed.
You used the graphics from wonderboy in the right way. Go on. :A

I will not download the demo, for I will wait for the Full Version.
I don't wan't to ruin the surprise to me. ;)

I wish you the best to finish it!

Thank you.
Don't worry: I will finish this.
In the game will appear all places, characters, monsters that appeared in the original game, in portas, fangames, hacks, unreleased title and more.

The demo won't spoil anything: you can dowload it and play (it is only a minigame compilation).

[The_question]

Thank you.
Don't worry: I will finish this.
In the game will appear all places, characters, monsters that appeared in the original game, in portas, fangames, hacks, unreleased title and more.

The demo won't spoil anything: you can dowload it and play (it is only a minigame compilation).

Ah, I see. Well then, I will download it and play it as soon as possible.
Thank you! ;)

And good to know the good old places will be in your game.
Reminds me a little bit of my good old times with that game, hehe. :D

[maxteam01]

UPDATES:

One thing that I hate of rpgmaker games are the charasets: thery are to small and so the characters looks too much unexpressive.
So I used the characters slots at their limits and sometimes for bigger characters I used more than a slot. Look this image and compare to the left a common rtp from rpgmaker and the ones I create for my game.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1585/charaen3.png

In rpg usually you got experience point or buy equipement in order to increase your party stats. This can be entertaining at the beginning, but later it becomes repetitive.
For this reaseon, even if I kept the experience and equipment system, I decided to put in the game a way to customize your hero to give him different skills and map abilities in order to reach different zones (like castlevania or metroid).
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1323/customhw9.png

Another weak points of rpgmaker videogames is that being them "free games" there's no manual or other things. Plus they lacks menu that usually are present in professional games. MWRPG has an online guide.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8319/bookvw4.png

Last, a common rpg game engine will become rapidly repetitive and unappealing.
Due to this MWRPG has many platform elements and minigames.
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8563/platformwo1.png

Last:
- I preferred to create small maps and dungeons in order for the players to not have to travel hours and hours to reach the boss rooms;
- in order to advance in the game is more important to find secrets and upgrade items more than levelling up: in this way you have not to waste an entire day in fighting monsters.

[Dawn Hill2]

not bad it´s very good, but the style looks like gba^^

[maxteam01]

01/11/2008 UPDATES

Hello everyone,
First of all: thanks for your support through all this period.

Now the news:
- the new release will be ready in December (around the 15);
- this means that this one will be probably the last major update for this demo;
- if this forum hosts any kind of gaming developing contest I would like to join if I will be able to release the game before the expiry date;
- important: when I will release the new game I will open a new thread and stop posting here (to avoid confusion to new readers).

Last: some screenshots of the last levels we added.
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9066/shotssm4.png

See you soon guys, even if I will open a new thread when the new release will be ready, please continue posting here until then, because I always read your comments and questions.
Bye!

[MacKinzie]

Looks very well. I will w8 for the full version.

My orgin country was russia. My father can both speak, german and russia. I never understand why he hates to look german movies/read books and german music. But I get the think. Russia was his orgin language. For me its now German. And so I "hate" english... well, I will play ur game anyway. I will hope its not a heavy story game =)

I would pay u and ur work more attention but I hate to write in english. Only one think: that "big" charaktersets are very, very good! Keep on workin'. I love the way it is.

[Fenrir]

I remember that i saw it on an other page...

It looks great, because of the own style.
Sadly few maps looks too linear and they're not enough details.

But i like the alternation and the many colours of that game. I hope you will finish it, good luck!

[maxteam01]

I remember that i saw it on an other page...
It looks great, because of the own style.
Sadly few maps looks too linear and they're not enough details.
But i like the alternation and the many colours of that game. I hope you will finish it, good luck!Thanks.
I've pormoted the game in many forums, so probably you've seen it there.
Don't worry, dungeons are full of "stuff" to avoid too much linearity.
Wait until december for the "real" release.



Looks very well. I will w8 for the full version. My orgin country was russia. My father can both speak, german and russia. I never understand why he hates to look german movies/read books and german music. But I get the think. Russia was his orgin language. For me its now German. And so I "hate" english... well, I will play ur game anyway. I will hope its not a heavy story game =)
I would pay u and ur work more attention but I hate to write in english. Only one think: that "big" charaktersets are very, very good! Keep on workin'. I love the way it is.
I'm glad you like the nig charaset: it was my better idea when I started doing this game.
I hope you will like it that much that it will make you want to learn even more english (at lease I learned english due to the rpg "breath of fire III").
In any case don't worry: dialoguse are simple and both me and the programmer aren't from an english speaking country.

[Riku11]

Cool...
Ich kann kein Englisch deswegen sag ichs auf Deutsch...
(KANN DAS DANN BITTE JEMAND AUF ENGLISCH ÜBERSETZEN?)
Ich finde die Grafik is ja mal der Hammer schön snes mäßig ich werds mir auf jeden Fall ziehen.
Naja ... lob an das MAX TEAM

[Varnhagen]

Cool...
Ich kann kein Englisch deswegen sag ichs auf Deutsch...
(KANN DAS DANN BITTE JEMAND AUF ENGLISCH ÜBERSETZEN?)
Ich finde die Grafik is ja mal der Hammer schön snes mäßig ich werds mir auf jeden Fall ziehen.
Naja ... lob an das MAX TEAM

In English: Awesome Graphics! They're like the older ones on SNES. I will
download it! Some Praise for MAX TEAM!

Now my own Opinion:

What a great Idea! Wonder Boy! Really good!
Finish it!
These Graphics made me remember to all those Games.

[maxteam01]

Hello guys.

Be prepared: on December 6 the real thing will be available for download with at least 15 hours of playing (and if you consider that in this new release less than 2/6 of the story will be told, the final release will be at least 100 hours).

This time it isn't a minigame compilation but a full playable j-rpg videogame.

I will post the new thread about it in the section this forum dedicate to complete project or project bigger than short demos.

Bye!

[maxteam01]

THE GAME IS READY ! ! !

You can download it by visiting its official website:
http://www.geocities.com/maxteam01/

Have fun ! ! !

- - -

As soon as I can, when I will be done with my work & study duties, I will create a new thread for this demo in order to avoid people from confusing it with the old "mini-games only" demo.