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Lancer-X, in collaboration with 妹SOFT and as part of a community service plea bargain with the Brisbane Magistrate's Court is proud to present Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game.
Why is it so hot? Imagine this: a game utilizing the 127 board limit, a game with over 3 megabytes of great music. Imagine the game with tons of digitalized sound effects and lots of game variety. Stop imaging. I'm describing Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game.
Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game follows the epic journey of the protagonist, one Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way through space, time and antispace and antitime as she struggles to get over the messy breakup with her boyfriend, a calamitous event that divided her personality, shook the very fabric of reality and even threatens to undermine her presidential campaign.
Aboard Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way's synchrotron-powered reality scrambler and time shuffler vessel, you will visit an unlimited number of worlds, all different, across every possible frame of reference from the birth of the universe to its inevitable heat-death. Only by gathering clues from many solar systems across many different time periods will Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way be able to piece together her shattered past and understand the true colour of indigo.
The synchrotron-powered reality scrambler and time shuffler vessel runs on a very valuable, highly-prized fuel that must be found and mined or bartered for on the various planets.
This fuel affects the distance through space and time the synchrotron-powered reality scrambler and time shuffler vessel is able to travel.
In the worst case, Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way may be stuck on a planet, only able to use the synchrotron-powered reality scrambler and time shuffler vessel's limited time drive until she can find more fuel.
This will require a fair amount of planning and the game makes copious note-taking space available. This note-taking space will fill up with information both automatically gleaned from game events and as the player creates and edits custom notes.
Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game sports a highly detailed, expansive story, great in depth, breadth, volume and atmospheric pressure.
The many highly detailed worlds and time periods you will visit are filled with colourful characters of many different species'.
These characters all have their own stories, relationships, motivations, allies and enemies and successful interactions with them are necessary to complete your quest.
While many of the characters in Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game, including those most important to the storyline, have been elaborately created by hand and brought to life for the game, other characters are run with a highly realistic artificial intelligence system capable of producing extremely realistic characters that are just as in-depth and fulfilling to engage with as the hand-crafted characters.
These AI characters sport a powerful dialogue engine based on hundreds of thousands of lines of real-world text to produce the most natural sounding dialogue ever seen in a video game.
You won't believe you're not talking to a real person!
You will make friends, form alliances, join rebel groups, infiltrate political systems and even take over entire worlds in your quest to discover the true motivations behind a shadowy band of space pirates that cast a blight upon the galaxy, attacking starships and entire civilisations alike.
Command forces in large-scale pitched battles, matching your wits and tactics against those of your enemies. It will be up to you which sacrifices to make, as while the fate of the universe may rest in your hands, so do the lives of your friends and comrades. Acting indecisively now may result in adverse consequences later in the story.
You will also need to manage supply chains, profit centres and manufacturing to supply weapons and starships for your troops. While most civilised planets already have a standing army and space defence force, they may not be sufficient to win the large space battles that must be won.
Of course, even in peace your leadership skills shall not rest. Establishing trade partnerships and military alliances with other civilisations across the galaxy is key to building your power. Pooling your resources and defeating strong enemies early is key to them not becoming problematic later on in the story.
Remember, every action you make may lead to many different consequences.
On a smaller scale, you will also have to lead small tactical infiltration groups high-risk high-reward missions where every move could lead to disaster. Form and split up teams, summon eidolons to help you in battle and defeat your enemies.
Different characters all have different skills which find their use in different situations. Certain characters have skills in manipulating computer terminals to open and close doors, disable or reprogram defensive turrets, raise and lower energy barriers and photon fields and change the targeting mechanisms of security robots and assault drones.
Other characters are particularly combat-inclined, able to use a vast range of weapons and ordinance to dispatch foes quickly. There are also stealth characters, able to sneak by guards and other hostiles without raising the alarm.
Micromanaging these different characters is essential to success in this high-stakes game, where a bit of low-profile wetwork can accomplish what even an all-out war can not.
There are a huge variety of different locations to explore across the many galaxies, solar systems and planets in Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game, from the ruins of ancient civilisations to futuristic alien labs created by advanced beings to enigmatic structures that do not seem to obey even the rules of Euclidean space in their design.
Everything, from fearsome mutated monsters to valuable treasures and high technologies can be found in the many caves, dungeons, alien factories, labs and underground cities spread across the vast expanses of space. Places to explore are not just found on planets, either- discover vast starships, long abandoned, sitting dormant in the depths of space, filled with untold riches or great danger.
Some of these locations will be out in the open, some hidden so well that even once you know exactly where they are, just getting in will be an effort. Ship- and hand-portable scanners will allow you to survey vast areas from a distance and people, ancient data records and alien archives provide clues to the locations of other areas of note but some particularly enigmatic places may even be hidden even from that.
Exploring these places will allow you to find valuables to trade, technology to research and equipment to use and help you on your mission. Some even contain information and clues to expand your knowledge of the universe.
The many areas to explore in the game feature a combination of hand-created and procedurally generated layouts, based on actual architectural designs used by humanity throughout history, with subtle and not-so-subtle modifications for the architecture of alien races.
Some places are small enough that they can be cleared in half an hour; others are so expansive it may take weeks to explore them entirely. The automated in-game note-taking system will produce maps as you explore, so you'll always be able to find your way back.
Beware; while many of the abandoned labs throughout the game may simply have fallen into natural disuse, others may have been abandoned for less pleasant reasons. Extreme caution is necessary when you risk unleashing unknown horrors upon the universe.
Explore rich 3D environments from a first-person perspective that throws you right in the action. These photorealistic and perspective-correct environments will immerse you in the action like nothing else in video games, allowing you to truly become lost in the experience as you gaze upon the world through Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way's eyes. Don't worry about system requirements! The game's highly optimised rendering engine scales to many platforms, allowing you to play the game at full speed on anything from a 16384-core i7 cluster to a 486DX and you'll barely notice the difference.
Gaze upon beautiful vistas in Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG Game's viewport system, representing majestic oceans, radiant waterfalls and ominous mountains through a window roughly the size of a postage stamp.
Explore not only billions and billions of richly detailed planets that make up the universe in Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG, but also the many time periods available as well. Actions you undertake on a particular planet in one time frame may affect the universe far into the future, even as far away as other planets and solar systems. As such you will have to carefully determine which course of action to take.
Other beings in the galaxy have their own synchrotron-powered reality scrambler and time shuffler vessels and your actions in the past may affect them in the future, giving them a reason to travel to the past and make changes themselves. Thus your actions in one time period may even affect earlier time periods. Unravelling this complex web of causality is necessary for the completion of your quest. While Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way has a hand-held computer that is able to predict many of the likely outcomes from a particular, time-changing course of action, it is not perfect and events may arise that even it cannot predict.
Explore the many planets both on foot and in a variety of vehicles. Certain planets may have particular atmospheric conditions that require additional precautions to be make. Ensure you check your ship's computer before making a landing and sure you have what you need to survive.
While some planets can be interacted with entirely from orbit, to gain all the information, resources and technology necessary, Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way will have to land on the planets to explore them fully.
Ensure that your vehicles do not get too damaged - while Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way has the equipment to make basic field repairs, if this is insufficient it may be a long walk back to the ship.
Powerful alien technology will allow Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way to raise her physical and mental attributes in addition to expertise gained through exploration, fighting and tactical warfare.
Her own professional and emotional development is essential to successful completion of the quest, so neglect these aspects of the game at your own peril.
Fight frantic, active time battles against fierce foes across the many galaxies in Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG. Equipment, abilities and strategy alike are all necessary in these high-stakes battles as Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way does not have allies to call on when stranded on an alien planet!
Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG uses a highly complex active time battle system requiring you to make tradeoffs between attacks that connect immediately and those that require preparation, abilities that are free to use and those that use up energy etc.
Mutant aliens have no concept of fairness and will happily team up against you. Be careful and make sure you don't get backed into a corner!
While it is not the principal purpose of the ship, Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way's synchrotron-powered reality scrambler and time shuffler vessel is equipped for combat and in certain circumstances she will have no choice but to use it in that way. Fight high-octane pitched battles against powerful enemy fleets both in the depths of space and against the shattered skies of war-torn planets.
Your ship's weapons, armour, shields, generators and batteries are all upgradeable and replaceable and throughout the game it is necessary to keep your armaments up to date to ensure that Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way comes away from these encounters with a working ship, because otherwise your game will be over if you are unable to acquire a new one. Weapons are a tradeoff, with laser beams and fighter drones capable of attacking from a long range while the more limited missiles and cannons do far more damage.
Save at any point in the game with Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG's innovative and completely unique save slot system, where you are given a limited number of slots and saving into a particular slot will overwrite any save game already present in that slot. This will reduce the stress involved with coming up with a name for a saved game every time you want to save.
Keeping a number of save slots will allow you to go back and reverse decisions made earlier that may cause the game to become unwinnable later. Careful use of the save slot system will allow you to recover from any mistakes you make, regardless of how catastrophic.
The behind-the-scenes coding powering Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG is just as expansive and detailed as the game itself. With every loop unrolled, you'll never have to wait that eternity between the 'loop for #' and 'loop start' statements ever again. Three gigabytes of the game's filesize goes towards program code alone and you can feel the difference as the game runs just as smoothly on the poorest calculator-watch as it does on the fastest Cray.
Sophisticated random number generation algorithms are present, producing unpredictable results across a variety of ranges. With everything down to the universe's entropy in the game simulated, high quality random numbers provide the smoothest possible experience for players.
In addition to everything else, Infinite Sky -Shooting Stars Fall Like Winter Snowflakes-, a MegaZeux Sci-Fi Role-Playing RPG is also extremely configurable. You can make the palette as garish as you like and set the game difficulty to anything from 'plays the game for you' to 'starts on the Game Over screen'.
However, while focusing on the external aspects of the game and universe, neglect Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way's mental state to your own peril. Her mental condition is key to gaining the best possible ending in the game and you will need to pay attention to her mental health. Based on input from a noted psychologist, this game features the most realistic depiction of a dissociative-identity-disorder-afflicted bipolar schizophrenic sociopathic tranny housewife in any video game ever.
Interactions with different characters will have various effects on Alicis Serina Elise Amelia Raven-Way's psychological state and paying attention to the triggers that affect her in a positive way and the triggers that affect her in a negative way are key to understanding her mental condition and eventually helping her to rehabilitate. The fate of the universe depends on it.
However, even with my vast ability, I can't complete this game by myself. I need your help. These are some of the various positions I need people to fill for me to have this game completed by the deadline. I need:
- a skilled Robotic programmer or programmers, capable of programming the many detailed engines described here and others necessary for the game to be completed
- talent MegaZeux artist or artists, able to work with a variety of graphical modes and styles, creating the rich, detailed artwork behind the game
- a script and story writer to write the game's story
- level designers to create the many levels behind the game
Interested applicants should collaborate amongst eachother and work to complete the game. On completion, the game should be sent to me. I will then put my name on it and release it for all to enjoy. Note that, due to complexities with intellectual property laws and trademark legislation I will be unable to give you credit for your work on this game- you will, however, have my heartfelt thanks as well as a unique, personally hand-archived ZIP of the game for your trouble.
With your help, this will undoubtably be the definitive MegaZeux release, and likely one of the most powerful gaming experiences of all time. After its 2012 release, design work will begin on the sequel, likely to be even greater in scope than this game! Look forward to it.
and I was really looking forward to it
I wish I had a completed pre-2000 MZX RPG. That'd be pretty sweet. I've always admired your talents for game design and ability to crank out so much content, even if a lot of it didn't end up used.
