Freeware User Made Indie Game Non-Combat RPG: Haven Version 0.4.1 "Little Inkling"

Rated M (Rated by me, not the ESRB)

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIsIjIs_SRE

Soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...ven+Soundtrack

Not all songs are in the soundtrack. Some are from a composer, Mr. Bosa, and some are from a player. I do not use these songs in my game, I use MIDIs (synthesized) versions. MIDIs are like SNES music and do not contain vocals.

Well, I suppose you could consider me an Indie developer. This is my first game. I'm making it with RPG Maker VX. Right now it's around 3 hours long, through one playthrough without doing any side quests!

Here's the whole spiel:

Story Synopsis:

 

You play the game as Cleril, a bard who has been asked to help the economy of the isle of Haven. The mayor actually requested Cleril's help to stimulate the slouching economy. Cleril is fairly known within the world as a genuine bard of his own class. Although many claim his work as crude and unusual, most find it enthralling and sometimes overly effective.

While helping the town is Cleril's motive, he is bound to be distracted,� without a doubt. After all, Haven has its cast of characters and dark history. But then it also has its pleasure and gleeful laughter about as well, or that could just be the drunken fools in the lowly pub. Perhaps even the graveyard is alive with dead or the Jester is showing much more than some cheap parlor trick...

Haven, is like a spring day in winter...as Cleril has told me once before. But his story has yet to be told.

World Development:

 

Haven, the name doesn't live up to its location. The first site I saw after arriving was the graveyard. The shrill tone of the wind brought a sad melody to my ears. I see a child here, why would such a thing be there? Children belong with tedious innocence and cursed joyfulness.

Then I found the local bar, full of poison. I never had a taste for liquor, it does nobody good. The owner seemed interesting to say the least, with his flicking tongue spouting sarcasm left and right. When I left, the smell stayed.

I arrived at the castle soon enough. A statue of a dragon imposed its splendor drinking from the water below. The guard laid nicely in the scenery of green grass. The dog reminded me of myself. What I saw inside was sadly nothing more than man made posh architecture.

And yet, still I did not see everything in Haven. I wonder when I will.

Screenshots:

These are kind of old

ImageShack -

And yes, I drew that picture myself ;)

Download and install instructions are here:

Instruction link: Haven V 0.4.7 Characterization by ~Cleril on deviantART

The password is: Cleril

It's case sensitive, meaning the C must be capital.

Thank you for reading! :)

Oh, and multiple playthroughs are encouraged!

The game is and always will be free but I would appreciate any feedback you could give me. Please message me this feedback or post it in this topic.

Additional Stuff:

This is the bonus "disc" download and is currently V 0.4.5 compared to the game. I suggest playing the game first as much through as you can before downloading this as it does contain spoilers.

Download link: Haven Bonus Content.exe

Password: Cleril

Case sensitive.

[spoiler=What does this have in it?] The bonus content includes as of now:

Music Hall- Listen to all songs and sounds used in Haven, even at varying pitches of your choosing.

Gallery- See the graphics and body pictures or all characters in color or in a grey hue. Even see images I drew by hand and other images such as the title screen. Oh, and you can dress up as any character from the game.

Factoid Fun House- Random bits of information about Haven and me, the developer. No Easter Eggs here but you're sure to get a laugh out of it.

Remember, this content contains spoilers and it is recommended that you play the latest version if you don't want to spoil anything.[/spoiler]

Reminds me of Pokemon - Looks pretty good. I might try it out during my winter break if I have the time for it.

Good work and good luck :) Wish you Great success with this game and future projects.

Give it at least 30 minutes, then you should be able to decide if you like it or not.

It's Non-Combat, not fighting involving the player. There are fights which indirectly involve the player and the player does have indirect participation in the fights but other than that the game has nothing similar to pokemon, zelda, etc. Just going down the list what people have said before.

Hope you enjoy it if you do play. I will updated this topic when updates are released, which they are on a weekly basis.

The pokemon vibe came from the screenshots and parts of the trailer. I'll give it a try later on when I can. Feel free to use this thread as your official updates thread.

Well, I do prefer to keep my players on a list and message them updates. Meaning those who I know will give FF (Feedback Food) on a regular basis get updates first. But eh...I'll just put up the bonus "disc" and everything else up here soon enough.

Thanks Linux, the one site where I don't get bashed for advertising my game, let alone keeping the topic updated to stay on the first page for more than 5 minutes.

*glares at The Escapist*

Next update adds:

A park for Frostbite, the second isle you go to in the game.

More dialogue, extensive dialogue, for Luna.

Make your personal guard show up, if you have one when going to Frostbite.

Questions, comments, please quote this message.

This version adds:

Extensive dialogue for Luna, after you complete her quest anyway you see fit.

Frostbite Park.

Haven isle was re-mapped and most of the fences were removed, a river runs through Haven now as well.

reminds me of pokemon as well. But honestly doesnt look to interesting.

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Originally Posted by El3mentGamer

reminds me of pokemon as well. But honestly doesnt look to interesting.

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Nothing to do with pokemon at all. There is no leveling, no stats, no combat. However, there is a grand story of which you have nearly full input on the story.

For example, one of the first side quests you can do (Greg's Golden Grief) has 9 different endings, 5 different maps you get based on the ending (maps = environments).

That's just a side quest, one of 20 something quests total so far. ;)

V 0.4.3 "Jestris has been released.

A new quest regarding The Jester.

Graveyard for Frostbite.