huh, almost been a full year since the last post. Funny.
Hi, I’m PlusParsnips! And I have a few things to talk about here about Eternalland!
So, when the game was original cancelled, it wasn’t necessarily Cancelled-Cancelled. Erronwulf decided to pick me up as a programmer and see if we can get something together, revive it without the pressure of expectations on us!
Unfortunately, things still didn’t really work out as well it did. Cookie crumbles and all that jazz. There isn’t likely much in the near future for that idea to be reasonable and it’s probably better at this point for all of us involved to do our own things. At the point we were getting to, we were starting to get overwhelmed with navigating our own ideas, integrating them into the old game, and just how much we punished the MV file structure with a straight import of everything from the original Hungry Elves…
But there was still enough around to work off of and it isn’t like the original game isn’t still playable. Bare minimum, it is an engine port of a VXAce game, giving a lot of people easy creativity, and my additions did help it feel somewhat more modern.
So as an early Christmas present, we decided to just send you all the files and work we’ve already mustered together! Perhaps you have some idea of your own of how the story would continue, want to finish what was made, or just want to see more of the hard work @Erronwolf, @Cj-x4.3, @WonkyWankit, @LuLuLuFooFooo, me, and all the others that had a hand in wrangling this beast to something worth showing.
Here is a decompiled version of all the files. You will need RPGMaker MV to open and view it.
Here is a compiled version. Play this if you don’t have your own copy of RPGMaker MV. There are no guarantees this will play well, testing was far off on the horizon, but it should at least get you through the first act of the game. The end of the “demo” would be after the Accalia fight, but there’s nothing stopping you from seeing how far you can get before the game just implodes under its own weight~. Otherwise I recommend just opening the www folder and going through the images and the like.
So yeah, that’s Eternalland for you. An interesting project for many of us, warts and all.
For those still wanting a taste of Erron’s writing chops and the like, you can look up Seeds of Destiny, Royal Banquet, and many other projects around here.
As for me…well, this does free up more of my own plate to get back to making my own game. I will…try to do something with it soon, but no promises, 'kay?
See you all around!
EDIT: Quick aside, don’t try bothering asking for help on how to progress or such, most of us wish to try to move on for the time being. There is a small chance we will return like a phoenix, but for the time being respect our decision to be ashes and dust.