Acre-age Development Blog

Ixzion · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 11:50 am

Howdy, gang. This is the blog to work on Studio Mag's RPG Maker 1 epic, Acre-age! This game is the only Farm Sim/Traditional RPG for RPG Maker and is a pirate-based epic.

1/13/09
I'm in the process of the 2nd big scene of Acre-age, which I believe will end up being 5 scenes instead of the 4 I predicted a while back. I need the extra space to make the story make sense.

Guarionex · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 11:59 am

EDIT: Darn it, now that you edited your post, mine doesn't make any sense!

Ixzion · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 12:35 pm

Yeah, I was at work when I was posting, but didn't want to lose the main thing I was talking about.

TheGnasher · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 12:35 pm

Excellent to see progress! Good job, Ix

1ce · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 12:55 pm

Quote:

This game is the only Farm Sim/Traditional RPG for RPG Maker

Um, I believe there's Farm Life on the RPGM2.

But nonetheless, it's good to see some work being done.

Ixzion · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 12:57 pm

1ce wrote:

Quote:

This game is the only Farm Sim/Traditional RPG for RPG Maker

Um, I believe there's Farm Life on the RPGM2.

But nonetheless, it's good to see some work being done.

For RPG Maker (1), it is. Which is what I was referring to.

Duel · **Posted:** January 14th, 2009, 3:54 am

Finish it soon, I crave to play.

Ixzion · **Posted:** January 19th, 2009, 5:54 pm

1/19/2009:
I've read over my past notes and have really gotten a frame of mind going on for the game. I still do not know how I want to end the game, but I do know what events will be happening.

Should I really care about the game making sense? To tie up every plot point? Do villains have to have a background or can they just come out of nowhere?

Answers that I have to find out as I'm working.

As far as the aquatic-based town, I'm wondering if I should expend the efforts to have them say different things to you after you've done most of what you can there or not, like in the main town. I'm leaning towards yes, but it would be a lot of work. I might not do that.

What do you think?

AnonymousBo · **Posted:** January 19th, 2009, 6:08 pm

Ixzion wrote:

Should I really care about the game making sense? To tie up every plot point? Do villains have to have a background or can they just come out of nowhere?

Answers that I have to find out as I'm working.

I think that is the best approach. See where it leads you.

Guarionex · **Posted:** January 19th, 2009, 7:33 pm

Ixzion wrote:

Should I really care about the game making sense? To tie up every plot point? Do villains have to have a background or can they just come out of nowhere?

Well, there were times, where things that didn't made sense prevented me from working on the story. did try to figure it out while working, but there were times, where I had to stop and think.

Ixzion wrote:

As far as the aquatic-based town, I'm wondering if I should expend the efforts to have them say different things to you after you've done most of what you can there or not, like in the main town. I'm leaning towards yes, but it would be a lot of work. I might not do that.

What do you think?

I think that if it were me, I would have opted to add the extra dialog. In ine hand, it does take time, but on the other, I'd get that feeling of satisfaction for giving the town a bit more life.

ErikaFuzzbottom · **Posted:** January 21st, 2009, 8:44 am

I say try to do what memory allows.

Ixzion · **Posted:** February 9th, 2009, 1:28 pm

2/09:
I've decided to go ahead and go all out for this game. I will make them say different things each day. That means that Acre-age will be a freaking massive game. It should be fitting as a magnum opus.

And I've also announced that I'm stopping Mag activity to finish the game. I hope to release it first of the Trifecta games.

Duel · **Posted:** February 9th, 2009, 8:43 pm

Can't wait! I really want to play ^ ^

Ixzion · **Posted:** May 3rd, 2009, 1:42 pm

5/3/09

Since I have finally abandoned the site to work on this game full-time, I've realized that:

1. Controller typing makes it so that my brain has ideas faster than my hands can type.
2. I need to have big, complicated events with lots of takeovers which take a good time to get working.
3. I'm still having fun doing it.

1ce · **Posted:** May 8th, 2009, 1:49 pm

Quote:

3. I'm still having fun doing it.

Which is easily the most important thing you can have going for you.

Ixzion · **Posted:** May 27th, 2009, 7:31 pm

5/27/09

I've finally frameworked the entirety of the rest of the story on paper. I have a story that I think I can do competently and it should work with all the fantasy and farming themes I have.

Heavy spoilers within. I mean it. This is the entire plot of Acre-age, plus or minus a few details.

Ixzion · **Posted:** September 9th, 2009, 8:52 pm

9/9/09

I've been working on Acre-age and I've decided to remove the entire world map from the game. I have created the area that connects a few of the previous areas together and will need to make another one to bridge another gap. The first area which connects Malonia Village to the rest of Malonia is something I'm proud of. It looks pretty nice.

I'm already working on converting the previous memory card so that it accepts the new changes. Good thing I made it early!

I've also decided to create every area in the game first, then create the events for it. My reasoning is that I want to keep this game confined to 1 SYS card, and it's impossible if I don't limit the scope. You can expect 3 towns, enemy base, and other stuff I mentioned in the story-spoiling post above.

This is proof I'm working on the game.

ErikaFuzzbottom · **Posted:** September 9th, 2009, 10:29 pm

Weren't you planning on finishing this by the end of June or July or something?

Ixzion · **Posted:** September 9th, 2009, 11:15 pm

Yes, but I didn't plan on having my world turned upside down for 3 months, either.

At least I'm working on mine, ass.

ErikaFuzzbottom · **Posted:** September 10th, 2009, 6:17 am

Yeah... well... at least I've collectively worked on mine more...
:rlh

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